Ten years ago, the reporters wrote that he lived in a "shabby bungalow whose only luxury is a radio" with a "long-suffering girlfriend." "Come back next week and I'll talk to you about it." "He kind of looks like me," said Angerer, when I knocked on the door of his little Carlisle bungalow recently. He's depicted as a bit of a good-hearted, disheveled buffoon with a thirst for booze, the kind of character Nolte has been playing for 30 years in movies. While Redford as Bryson may be a visual stretch, Nolte as Angerer works. It's now a motion picture, being released Wednesday and starring Robert Redford as Des Moines-native Bryson and Nick Nolte as Katz/Angerer. "I kind of was, to be honest," Matt Angerer said when I returned the next week, "I was going to keep my head low."Īngerer hasn't exactly been in hiding but only rarely speaks publicly about his place in the books of one of England's most famed authors.Īngerer is better known by the pseudonym Stephen Katz, Bill Bryson's hiking buddy in the 1998 best-selling book A Walk in the Woods. The last time reporters were here from London 10 years ago, he said too much. She had warned him against saying too much. He has long, thin hair and a gray goatee. His right leg was amputated a few years ago after a blood clot left his foot cold, he said. DES MOINES - He limped to his worn sofa to sit down.
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