john's closest friends, like dennis vaughn, would agree. dennis vaughn: i met john in 1985.e both attending the same college. and i was struck immediately by his personality. you always knew where john was at a function or at a party, usually because there was a crowd of people around him. andrea canning: maggie mccartin met john later in life, but they had a lot in common. any time you were around him, it was-- he was making you laugh. he was making you smile. he and i kind of shared that same affiliation for old tv. so we try to one-up each other on tv trivia. was we kind of old school, given his choice in tv, and-- was he kind of old fashioned? he was very old fashioned. he literally was born too late, in a lot of ways. all of his entertainment choices, movie, television, music all tended to skew towards older things. and in his personal life, he was old school, too. did not own a cell phone. up until the day he died, he didn't own one. andrea canning: john's friends became his family. and his real family? well, that was pretty small. his father died when he was just mont