That much of the version people tell is true.

He was by the bar and he saw Julian and he came over, and what he said, according to Julian and according to two other people who have since told me, was:

“Hey — Renner, right? Julian?”

Not a sneer.

Not a glass of scotch and a smirk.

A thirty-eight-year-old man in a blazer, slightly drunk, doing the thing you do at a reunion, which is guess.

He said, “Man, you got tall.”