You would come up for air once in a while, say, to visit your subject’s hometown or spend time with his loved ones in order to better understand him, but the magnitude of the task would have you spending countless days working underground, both literally and metaphorically. Well, if you were Lewiston author Mark Griffin writing about Hollywood film star Rock Hudson’s life, the task would be perfectly clear: You would descend into your basement writing studio for four years to arrange and weave the pieces - glittering, tattered, mysterious - into an illumination of a life that had been waiting to be examined with the degree of care and accuracy it deserved. What would you do if the life of another were in your hands - his 59 years, 66 feature films and 124 remembrances of loved ones and colleagues? And what if that life had been an iconic yet enigmatic one, knowable only through traces and tendrils of history and hearsay? Lewiston writer Mark Griffin may know the real Rock Hudson - his stardom and his pain - better than anyone on Earth.
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