By Michael Weinreb

Monday, January 19, 2009

AUSTIN, Texas -- It is not every man who commissions an ice sculpture for a party commemorating the silver anniversary of his own sobriety, but Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson is not now, nor has he ever been, a typical representative of the gender. Let us begin by taking a good long look at him, for even in this crowd, he is not particularly difficult to identify -- dressed, as he is, in a black suit, black snakeskin boots and a black shirt unbuttoned halfway down his prodigious torso; and adorned, as he is, with varied precious metal accessories (watch, necklace, ring) that glitter like junebugs in the chintzy light of a hotel ballroom.

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