steven b. they both worked in a hawaii radio station back in the early days, though, she worked up her nerve -- >> i went in and asked if he'd be my date to the beach boys concert, and he turned me down, and i was, like, devastated, you know, and so i was sitting in my little sales cubicle, crying, and the general manager walks in and said, i think you need to know something. i said, what? he goes, well, if you were a boy, you would have gone, and i'm from west virginia, 18, like, what? he goes, he's gay. like, oh, okay, i can accept that then, you know, so -- >> and that very day, they began a warm lifelong friendship. many afternoons spent lingering at this coffee shop, and many memorable evenings. what were the dinners like? >> he was an amazing cook. >> if you were patient, he was good. he was a phenomenal cook, but you had to be geared to eating at 11:00 because he was the type of person that if you talk to you, you would have his undivided attention. >> so by the time we would eat, it's,