‘Snakes on a Plane’ Changed His Life. Then It All Fell Apart.
It was November 2021, deep COVID time, and I had unmasked to have a drink with Kiki Benzon at The Surly Goat, a bar in West Hollywood. I hadn’t seen her in 30 years. In the early 1990s, Kiki and I had been rivals on the über-geeky North American private- …