He told me to call him Bobby. Too diminishing for an acting titan? Bobby didn’t think so. He wore his legend lightly and liked the modest familiarity of it, unless a stiffer formality was called for. Example: Mr. Duvall once sent me a letter, handwritten with a stamp on the envelope, about a magazine profile I did with him that wasn’t the cover story he thought the occasion warranted. You could feel the thunderclaps between the words, lightning between the syllables. I still do.
RIP Robert Duvall
The man I knew and the acting legend