People loved him precisely because he was himself, because he spoke his mind, because he lived by a code of honor, and, partly as a result of all that, because he was so much fun. “He made people comfortable with his unbelievable gimlet-eyed wit,” says Marie. “It’s a gift because it says, ‘You and I are equal and we can laugh at the folly of humanity.’”
He had mastered the art of being fun over many decades, through many changes of fashion and fortune. Being a bore was, to him,…

