Actor. Best known for his two-year role (1982 to 1983) as "Mickey Trotter" in the prime-time television soap opera "Dallas." Appeared in several television mini-series and movies, and had a host of guest appearances in a number of popular television shows. Appeared in two motion pictures before he succumbed to AIDS.
"1988, my third year in Los Angeles, I was working for Traffic in The Beverly Center, one of the "It" stores where fashionista's procured their slinky Alaia dresses and Z Cavaricci pants. A strikingly handsome though, unassuming Timothy Patrick Murphy strolled passed the window as our eyes met, passed from view and came again from the other direction before casually strolling in to pretend-browse the fringed leather jackets, rayon shirts and skinny ties. We exchanged numbers and though I didn't recognize him, was later excitedly reminded by a coworker that that was "Mickey Trotter, Lucy Ewing's Boyfriend from Dallas!"
Our first date was that weekend at Lawry's Prime Rib, a throwback LA treat rarely attainable on a retail/starving-artist budget. We went back to my room on North Vista, lit candles and kissed like teenagers to Belinda Carlisle, exercising tremendous restraint. I was really falling for Tim, his warmth, his quiet sex-appeal, a courtliness from another era.
We agreed not to jump into anything sexual right away, which while frustrating, made it all the more special/different/real. In the (4? 6?) or so weeks we spent together, even the nights spent at his amazing house above Sunset were, save for a lot of passionate kissing and sophomoric fumbling, otherwise chaste. We parted one morning as he was meeting friends and that was the last time we ever spoke again.
A bit shattered and lost, I moved back to Miami - a month later, to glimpse a National Enquirer in a Check-out line announcing his hospitalization with AIDS; I called and left a message on his service, but read he had died a week later. I believe he just couldn't bear to tell me after so much time had passed, worried that I'd turn away. Easier to say in distant hindsight, I wouldn't have. I still think of him often." by Jason Ascher whatisrememberedlives
Actor. Best known for his two-year role (1982 to 1983) as "Mickey Trotter" in the prime-time television soap opera "Dallas." Appeared in several television mini-series and movies, and had a host of guest appearances in a number of popular television shows. Appeared in two motion pictures before he succumbed to AIDS.
"1988, my third year in Los Angeles, I was working for Traffic in The Beverly Center, one of the "It" stores where fashionista's procured their slinky Alaia dresses and Z Cavaricci pants. A strikingly handsome though, unassuming Timothy Patrick Murphy strolled passed the window as our eyes met, passed from view and came again from the other direction before casually strolling in to pretend-browse the fringed leather jackets, rayon shirts and skinny ties. We exchanged numbers and though I didn't recognize him, was later excitedly reminded by a coworker that that was "Mickey Trotter, Lucy Ewing's Boyfriend from Dallas!"
Our first date was that weekend at Lawry's Prime Rib, a throwback LA treat rarely attainable on a retail/starving-artist budget. We went back to my room on North Vista, lit candles and kissed like teenagers to Belinda Carlisle, exercising tremendous restraint. I was really falling for Tim, his warmth, his quiet sex-appeal, a courtliness from another era.
We agreed not to jump into anything sexual right away, which while frustrating, made it all the more special/different/real. In the (4? 6?) or so weeks we spent together, even the nights spent at his amazing house above Sunset were, save for a lot of passionate kissing and sophomoric fumbling, otherwise chaste. We parted one morning as he was meeting friends and that was the last time we ever spoke again.
A bit shattered and lost, I moved back to Miami - a month later, to glimpse a National Enquirer in a Check-out line announcing his hospitalization with AIDS; I called and left a message on his service, but read he had died a week later. I believe he just couldn't bear to tell me after so much time had passed, worried that I'd turn away. Easier to say in distant hindsight, I wouldn't have. I still think of him often." by Jason Ascher whatisrememberedlives
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