…who passed away earlier this month at age 76, was one of the perennial fringe figures on the Seattle entertainment/journalism scenes. The former editor of the freebie tabloid Fun Weekly, Goldman established and kept his name on movie publicists’ lists. He kept getting onto studios’ press junkets to NY and LA even in his latter years, when Goldman’s only outlet for his always-positive reviews was a cable access show.

Goldman was like the fictional reviewer in the old Spy magazine, billed as “the publicist’s best friend,” who could be counted upon to call any piece of Hollywood tripe the next surefire Oscar hit. It can now be told that Goldman particularly loved junkets if they involved an opportunity to interview a hot young male starlet.

But at his center he knew he was on the periphery of a multi-billion-buck industry, and he knew his self-appointed place was to say and do what the studios wanted him to. It was his unbridled enthusiasm-for-sale that made him the colorful character he was.