Hi Duoboleti!

> I apologise for my remarks on the "Where are you now, Barret?"
> slant. I still feel he made himself extraordinarily public in the
> 80's - a fact that even now brings us much enjoyment. He is now
> opting for privacy, and we should respect that. But yes -- I too
> would be pleased to know that he was OK, and thrilled if we heard
> from the man himself.

I fully agree with you. We really should respect that he left movie
industry and wants to do something different. And I think the real
fans don't want to bother him. We really only want to know, what kind
of job he is doing now and if he perhaps plan to go back to the movie
industry. And sometime I wonder what he is thinking about fans like
us.

> To do my bit in tracking news of him, I have trawled through all
the
> Group mentions of his name since 1985 (release of DARYL).
Questions
> about his whereabouts began in 1994, and have continued ever
since.
> There are absolutely no hard facts. There is rumour of 'serious
> personal and family problems', and of connections with scientology
(?
> as editor of their celebrity magazine?). Someone once claimed that
> he knew a guy who'd been hired by Barret's family to act as his
> companion. Another report says he is working with his father and
> doing well, and is living in Studio City, Ca. There are wilder
> stories (like that he's dead) which we all hope are silly rumours.
> I'm now convinced there is nothing/nobody on WWW that will help
us.

That's the biggest problem. In the internet you can find every kind
of story but which of them tells the truth? For some time I have had
contact with his father. Well, I think it was his father. His name
was Kent Oliver and he had a scientology email adress. From him and
one other guy who has contact to different agencies in LA I know that
Barret want to become a photo journalist. So we can believe this or
not. But that story sounds more realistic like the most other
stories.

> If we assume his present friends are loyal, only Barret himself can
> clarify the issue. Let's hope.
>
> But another fact emerged from this trawl. From earliest records to
> the present day, it is clear that Barret has always attracted
> enormous admiration and loyalty -- even adulation. There is only
> praise and affection for him in two billion pages of WWW, and not a
> word of criticism. I'd like to think he could draw strength from
> that fact, wherever he is.

Yes, you have never read someting negativ about him. And if I watch
one of his movies I often was amazed how professional he played his
role.

Well, let's hope the best!

Cal_Man Michael