Making a Portrait of Ray Bradbury
A Whale of a Good Time
©1986 Tom Zimberoff
By Tom Zimberoff
Imagine one of America’s most admired writers encouraging you to paint scars and slather makeup all over his face, before gluing on the fake beard, of course, then dress him up in funny clothes with a stovepipe hat, holding a spear, amputate one of his legs at the knee — well, sort of — and stick him in front of a ca…