Sam Shepard Revealed He Was Engaged to Jessica Lange — and How His 'Bad Behaviors' Ruined The Romance — in Letters Inside Sam Shepard's Final Years and Why He Kept His ALS Battle Private ...

By the time the lights went out ... Yet none of them can claim Shepard’s fire. The man had something. He gnawed that bone until it broke. Sam Shepard, dead at 73. Long may he live in repertory.