We had a great talk, and his friend, an Italian artist or director named Willy Rizzo, mentioned he was trying to get married in Aspen that weekend but had been turned down for a marriage license because he and his wife-to-be (whose name I think was Dominique) didn't have blood tests. It was a holiday weekend, probably the 4th of July or Labor Day, and I told him I had a friend who owned a blood lab in Denver, and if he could get his blood taken, I could get it analyzed and back in 24 hours.

I must have left them the phone number for the condo we were staying at, because a few hours later the phone rang. My spouse answered and announced, with a heavy emphasis on the "J" and a curious look (he hadn't joined us at the table), "It's Jack."

It was indeed "Jack" who told me Willy and his bride-to-be had had their blood samples taken and they were ready to be tested. We made arrangements for Jack's assistant Annie to get them to me. I took the samples to the Aspen airport and put them on a flight to Denver, where the lab picked them up, tested them (on a Sunday) and had them flown back to Aspen the same day, with the analysis needed for the marriage certificate. Willy got married the next day.

I ran into Jack at parties in Aspen a few times after that, but I found that unless I said "I'm the one who got Willy Rizzo's blood tested so he could get married," he didn't remember me, and I quickly tired of re-introducing myself that way.

Nonetheless, I still love his performance in Reds and the entire movie, and if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. Here's a pretty good description of it:

A superbly acted and well-crafted film, Reds chronicles the relationship between American writers John Reed (Warren Beatty) and Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton) that took place during the period 1915 to 1920. During the early part of the movie, they live together as part of a bohemian circle of intellectuals in Greenwich Village. After Bryant has a fling with playwright Eugene O'Neill (Jack Nicholson) in Provincetown, she and Reed marry. But only months later Bryant leaves Reed and goes to Paris. While still estranged, they travel to Russia together, and there they reconcile while witnessing the October Revolution.

After the film's intermission, Reed and Bryant are back in the United States, and he becomes immersed in Marxist activism. When he decides to again visit Russia, she refuses to accompany him and tells him she's not sure where she'll be when he returns. But Reed ends up imprisoned in Finland, and Bryant sets out on a difficult journey to try to help him.

Another description:

This movie tells the true story of John Reed, a radical American journalist around the time of World War I. He soon meets Louise Bryant, a respectable married woman, who dumps her husband for Reed and becomes an important feminist and radical in her own right. After involvement with labor and political disputes in the US, they go to Russia in time for the October Revolution in 1917, when the Communists siezed power. Inspired, they return to the US, hoping to lead a similar revolution. A particularly fascinating aspect of the movie is the inclusion of interviews with "witnesses", the real-life surviving participants in the events of the movie.