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Ten-Word Tuesday.

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By the way—do you know who this is?

On Sunday morning in a diner in San Francisco, this man was interrupted while eating, and he was asked to stand and pose in a photograph with three artsy types in their mid-twenties.

This excited Bossy to no end, since she is something of a celebrity whore. And as luck would have it, Bossy was seated only one table away from this famous person and watched the whole thing unfold.

Bossy happened to be in the perfect place at the perfect time because she was in the middle of consuming a plate of grease with some grease on the side. She had gone out to eat with several blogger friends, such as Mocha Momma and her daughter and Her Bad Mother and Redneck Mommy and Assertagirl and Mimi on the Breach and Motherbumper and Dirt to Dish.

BlogHer-Grrlz

Which is what today’s ten-word challenge is all about: In exactly ten words, can you please tell Bossy about a celebrity encounter you had—or someone you thought was a celebrity but wasn’t?

Because the man pictured here? He wasn’t anyone famous. The artsy twenty-somethings asked him to pose because they thought he looked like Jimmy Fallon if Jimmy Fallon were playing a man in a diner eating a burger with a fork.

Yeah.

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  2. A two-fer, Ritz Carleton, best friend’s bridal shower: Sean Penn & Tim Robbins.

    (Sean Penn is really tiny and Tim Robbins is really really tall. I think they were filming Mystic River at the time. And a certain someone who I won’t name had her jaw on the floor after seeing them.)

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  6. At Cesars in Lake Tahoe – a friend and I were playing slots and Bruce Willis was playing blackjack not even 10 feet away from us. Casino security wouldn’t let us get any closer than that though

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  7. Little Richard went by me on one of those golf carts at the airport once. By the time I thought, “I think that is Little Richard,” he was gone.

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  12. Universal Studios Orlando, OH WOW, YOU’RE HIM – um, The Commish!

    You know, one of those really awkward moments when you know you know him, but his name will not come out? Michael Chiklis.

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  26. Yelled at Dr. 90210. Met Dr. Baily from Grey’s same day.

    (Dr. 90210 was an ass. He kept standing right in front of me… not a good idea when I am the lifeguard at the pool. Dr. Baily was super nice and smaller than she looks on tv)

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  27. Too many to list! A sampling:

    Spalding Gray
    Michael J. Fox
    Billy Dee Williams
    Harry Belafonte
    Robert Redford
    Julie Harris
    Bob Dylan
    John Gotti (for realz)

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  29. Art Linkletter said my folks
    would know who he is.

    (I was a Brownie, on a trip to Hersheypark, and he was there for some reason, signing autographs. We were all, whatever, the grown-ups say he’s famous, here, please sign this!)

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  35. Me: nobody
    Hubby: lots (he worked security for Clinton’s inaugeral party in LR and had the misfortune of having to deal with Barbra Streisand)

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  50. Garth Broks, Troy Aikman(danced with him at a bar), Clint Black, Brooks and Dunn (Dunn licked my friend’s face. Gross.) And, no, I’m not a country music fan. Go figure.

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  56. Live in LA so way too many but some good ones:

    Julia Roberts (2X)
    Dustin Hoffman (2X)
    Courtney Cox
    Ashley Simpson, Pete (whatever his name is)
    David Arquette
    Nicole Kidman
    Eddie Murphy
    Ringo Starr (last three in the same restaurant at once!)

    Btw, those people in the diner needed glasses – JImmy Fallon? Jeez.

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  58. Only ten words?! I live in Los Angeles so I can’t play this game today. BOSSY would check her comments and I’d still be answering three days from now. Celebrities are everywhere out here.

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  63. Patricia and Rosanna Arquette at Billy Bragg concert, very petite.*

    *This was about 20 something years ago, and I was a smallish zygote smuggled in my cousin’s pocket, as I was soooooo under age (maybe). Those two sisters were so petite, I swear they were pixie chicks. Oh, and oh so beautiful….

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  64. Watched Don Dokken concert with hair band Warrant when 13.

    Found Kiss’s hotel at 13 and got autographs.

    Played remote race cars with Morbid Angel, same day.

    On Oprah at 19, telling teens to wait for parenthood.

    Photo taken with Ron Jeremy; met some less famous pornstars, too.

    Met Blue October a few months ago with my son.

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  66. Waiting at intersection, made eye contact with TINY Patrick Swayze.

    AND…

    Richard Simmons. LAX. Fro? Check. Tiny shorts? Check. Tanktop? Check.

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  74. NYC…stopped to buy bandaids in drugstore…saw Smokey Robinson.

    Chicago…went to Oprah taping…front row seat…within inches.

    LA…Rod Stewart…parking lot..I waved…he waved back.

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  75. I think the guy in the photo is Sammy Pep, son of Moe Pep who is the middle guy in the pep boys ad. As for famous people, the only ones I met that I really liked were,
    Robin Zander from Cheap trick who let me put my beers on his tab in 1977 in a philly bar, and DR J (julius Erving) who paid me the biggest compliment on my honeymoon by telling me he liked my black Chuck Taylors.

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  76. Steven Tyler( we got our one year chip together) and the rest of Arosmith. Angelina Jolie ( I knew who she was but yelled hi Julia and She gave me the finger.)
    Ted Kennedy at my uncles party on Cape Cod (no he didn’t leave with any young women)Bill Clinton on the golf course on Marthas Vinyard(He was shooting 200 under par). Gordon Clap from Hill street blues( I dated his sister) Danny Del Rossi a famous DJ from Texas. Babe Ruth( no wait that was an acid flshback) Never mind…

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  77. Chicago…Oprah taping…front row seat…she stood by me.

    LA…Rod Stewart…parking lot..I waved…he waved back.

    NYC…stopped in drugstore to buy bandaid…saw Smoky Robinson.

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  78. I waited on Jerome Bettis. He’s on my laminated list.

    One summer at Telluride Bluegrass festival I met:
    Johnny Cash
    Lyle Lovette
    David Crosby

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  85. Joe Theisman bought me a drink in LA last weekend. But I didn’t realize it was he until I was flipping channels in my hotel room at midnight and saw him on an infomercial.

    True story! And he was a guest at the same hotel. I checked.

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  90. Bill Murray, on a flight to Minneapolis. Don Ameche, Scott Valentine, Easy E in LAX. Sat next to Jesse Ventura on the night he was elected Gov of MN.

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  93. I met this blogger once who looked just like me.

    (But with better skin. And skinny arms.)

    (The extra words don’t count when they are in parenthesis.)

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  94. Seated by Kelly McGillis in her restaurant in Key West.

    Sat on Billy Joel’s lap when I was only twelve.

    Melissa Etheridge, NYC backstage after her show at the Beacon.

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  95. Skeet Ulrich dropped off his twins in person every morning.

    Al Pacino’s too old to have a kid that young.

    Kate Beckinsdale is not quite as pretty in real life.

    Michael Chiklis is as tall as he seems on tv.

    (I worked at a camp that catered to kids of rich people, could you tell?)

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  97. Brought Hootie & the Blowfish beers during local gigs-before they were super famous (I was 14)

    Partied for a week in the FL keys with Mr Jimmy Buffet (college buddy lived next door)BEST SPRING BREAK EVER!

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  99. Ha! I totally see it. Jimmy Fallon, with a receding hairline and mustache. What ten words? Oh right.

    Saw Lorie Morgan flashed her panties, but we didn’t meet.

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  102. Was extra in movie with Robert Forrester and Richard Roundtree.

    (In Ref: Mike Delfino’s dad on Desperate Housewives and Charles Deveaux on Heroes respectively, as well as a very long list of movies.)

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  103. Madness dad knows Arnold Swartzenhoweveryouspellit .. and Bossy has commented at the MadLands.
    P.S. Thank you for the HAIR SHOT FINALLY.
    Love,
    Madness

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  112. Adam Sandler at country club where I used to work.

    (His parents were members so he was there now and then…)

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  115. Brian Keith ran up to me asking what flight I just got off in MIA.

    Sat next to Dick Enburg on a CLE-DFW flight in the early 1990’s…he got drunk, very entertaining to watch.

    George Strait when I was young and immature!

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  116. Captain Kangaroo,signed autograph, Fabio, signed autograph, Jason Gedrick, nothing!

    (Captain Kangaroo when I was six, in Minneapolis, Fabio in LAX, leather jacket, no shirt, 10 years ago – ugh, but my friend Ray almost died – Jason Gedrick in a car on Wilshire, he revved his engine while looking over at us – exciting!! 🙂 And then he turned…rats.)

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  118. I kissed Jimmy Osmond on the cheek at a concert.
    We saw Carrot Top in LAX. He’s cut. Who knew?
    Met Chris Matthews at my old job. No different IRL.

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  123. (I’ve got a million of these. I will never win the lottery, but if someone is destined to make an ass out of themselves in front of celebrity…it is me)

    Crosby, Stills, Nash, Bob Weir, Ziggy Marly, Johnny Rotten: Music

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  127. boy from “Once,” nyc cafe, checked me out.

    (as if)

    /count
    glad to have an url to put with all the fab ladies from breakfast. there were big IQ points at that table and plenty of stick-to-your-ribs conversation. 🙂

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  131. Sang with Dicky Barrett of the Bosstones in Asbury Park. (that was awesome)
    Waited on Jack Palance at Olive Garden in W-B Pa. (he was very nice and liked to drink tomato juice)
    Jimmy Buffett waved to me and my husband before concert. (I would rather have partied with him 🙂 like Jan)
    Went to high school with Ron Powlus former Notre Dame quarterback. (nice guy)

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  134. Have done phone interviews with Linda Ronstadt (unbelievably smart), Emmylou Harris (sweet as the day is long), Pat Morita (a delight, and I met him in person here in Hawai`i in 2002).

    Met the amazing Yvonne Elliman here, too. Richard Grieco flirted with me in a Honolulu club ten years and a million pounds ago.

    My dad’s celeb encounters are way more interesting. His parents did a lot of sailing at Catalina and were friends with Humphrey Bogart. Dad remembers the bloody fights between Bogie and his first wife, Mayo Methot, and then being a tongue-tied teenager around Lauren Bacall, who was most amused.

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  136. I have several
    #1. Almost had THE JORDANAIRES convinced to come to our house for chocolate cake after seeing them perform with ELVIS. I was in the 6th grade at the time. It got nixed because my brothers had the mumps.
    #2 (the best) On vacation in Mexcio staying at a high end hotel. I was very fit, tanned, and at my peak. Arnold Schwarsenager(how do you spell that??) and his wife Maria were staying at the same hotel. It was during the filming of Conan. I walked by him while he was in the pool and he CHECKED OUT MY BUTT the whole time. I like to remember that in my current pale and jiggly state.

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  139. OH! and i stood next to Ty Pennington and this gay guy who now has this show how to look good naked. both were at the MCO airport.

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  147. I shared a plane ride with John Corbett from SATC.

    ***************
    Ok, for me it’s 10 word Tuesday twice.
    ******************

    I also took his picture in his bar in Seattle.

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  149. Matt Damon’s sweaty tatoo on treadmill. Google? It’s not him.

    (those are my 10 words of celeb sighting I thought was him but wasn’t – I could go on and on about actual sightings and meetings with real celebs, but that wasn’t the point, right?)

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  152. Gary Busey – or was it Nick Nolte? – SLC hotel elevator.

    I think it was Nick Nolte – but I often get them confused. Even after that freaky Being Gary Busey reality show. Sorry Nick.

    Also:

    Shook hands with Nelson Rockefeller at 17th & JFK, 1980ish.

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  162. On set of “American Flyers” — Kevin Costner, Rae Dawn Chong.

    Turned to find John Amos standing behind me. Dude’s built!

    Young newlyweds Kirk Cameron and Chelsea Noble at Buffalo-area TGIFridays.

    Katee Sackhoff at O’Hare. “Starbuck” is gorgeous. Didn’t tell her.

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  163. Almost fished Paul Newman and race car from gravel trap. (Long story.)(Parenthesis don’t count, do they??)
    ~~~~~
    Posed for picture with driver’s-suit clad Patrick Dempsey. Yummy.
    ~~~~~
    Hung out with Sha-Na-Na on Martha’s Vineyard.

    Shade and Sweetwater,
    K (No, I can’t follow the rules, not one little bit.)

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  167. Can’t do it in 10 words.
    Keri Russell
    Dennis Quaid
    Sarah Jessica Parker
    Justin Timberlake
    Tara Reed
    Gwyneth Paltrow & mom
    Sean Combs
    Heather Graham
    Glenn Close
    Samuel L. Jackson
    Charlize Theron
    Dennis Hopper
    Christina Ricci
    Thomas Haden Church
    Felicity Huffman
    Patricia Clarkson
    Phelicia Rasad
    Oh there’s more…I’m such a bragger!
    I love Sundance Film Festival!!

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  168. Ran with the cast of “Dallas”, summer after high school.

    (because my mom worked for the Dept of the Treasury and was teaching auditing classes in Dallas at the time. I went up and stayed at her hotel for about a month. Oh, we also met Red Fox, Billy Crystal, Kris Kristofferson, and Air Supply-I was in the pool with them!! It was a fun summer.)

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  181. Kevin Bacon walked by me (and gave me a hello nod) in Central Park. Bonnie Raitt and Bruce Hornsby sat at the same table as me and ate their dinner.

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  183. I could make a very long list, too, because I live in LA and I have a family member in the biz…but since this is only supposed to be 10 words and I’ve already maxed out, I’m only going to tell about two:
    1. Met Jackson Browne and was so excited that I couldn’t speak. I’m sure he though I was retarded.
    2. Met George Clooney in the pre-sound stage room on the ER set. No one could leave the closet size room until the red light went off. What a tragedy. (Noah Wiley was in the room, too.)

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  186. An actor friend lives in the same building as Al Pacino in midtown Manhattan.
    We shared an elevator with AP, who I am nuts about. I didn’t recognize him – he had long hair for a stage role.

    My friend laughed at me for a solid hour because I was SO pissed off about it.

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  187. Used to design opera in Aspen – Jack Nicholson brought his 3-year old to Madama Butterfly and got mobbed during intermission, so the stage manager let him hang out with us in the booth.

    We were drinking Patron, he didn’t want any.

    PS: Uma Thurman looks totally different in person.
    Henry Winkler is super tiny.
    John DeLancie is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet.

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  206. Emperor Hirohito in Tokyo 1971, waving from palace balcony…Banzai!

    Last month walked behind Usher pushing baby carriage on 5th Avenue.

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  208. Sat in front of Elton John on a flight – atl to la – when we boarded he was messing with some luggage looking down, and I thought he was an old woman at first..

    Difficult to describe and encounter in 10 words…
    Cheers,
    NGG

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  212. 3 weeks ago we met Dick Cheney at a small Republican Party gathering. I have pics to prove it. He took pics with my kids.

    Also, I took care of Dustin Hoffman’s dad in the hospital. Dustin came often. 🙂
    Kelly S.

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  227. Ya, I’ve pretty much never seen or talked to anyone famous up close. Unless you count the lead singer from the 1980’s Christian rock band “Whiteheart”… I was hugged by him and his bandmates, they gave me a tee shirt, and I got to sing on stage with them. The ironic thing was that I had barely even heard of them before that night. I just went to the concert with a friend. Why couldn’t that have happened with U2?

    I gave you an award today (which you can feel free to completely ignore :)) at http://tarasviewoftheworld.blogspot.com/2008/07/linky-love.html

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  228. I thought the Jimmy Fallon guy looks like Dov Charney, the creepy guy who runs American Apparel. **shivers** (That wasn’t a good shiver.)

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  233. Henry Winkler ASKED to sit next to me for lunch.

    The Fonz had been the keynote speaker at USC when my daughter got her Masters.
    Got the pictures…lots of them.

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  236. DMC of Run DMC (down to earth)
    Phyllis Diller (nice)
    Maury Povich (way tall)(very rude)
    Drew Carey (super nice)
    Roberta Flack (killing Me Softly) I told her to sit down~ (very gracious)
    David Copperfield, magician (had someone talk for him)
    Nick Nolte (great smile, but drunk)
    and I could go on and on. 10 LINES Tuesday

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  244. James Earl Jones gave us directions to a PA mall.

    (he was standing outside a restaurant, and it totally didn’t hit us it was him until after we had driven away. This was way back, before The Lion King and the verizon ads came out)

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  250. In 2002 I met Jackie Mason at a penthouse cocktail party in Toronto…even got a photo with him. Later his body guard came up to me and asked me for my name & # b/c he said Jackie Mason loves me. 🙂 of course, he never called…still playin’ the field, I supppose. hehehehehe

    also…celbrity once removed…sat next to Tim Allen’s brother on an air plane in 2002. Did you know that “allen” is Tim’s middle name…their family name is “dick” so most of the sons go by their middle names for their last names. Huh?

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  251. i met jackie mason (and posed for a photo with him) at a penthouse cocktail party in toronto in 2002. later his body guard came up to me and got my info…he said that jackie said he loves me. but, just like a guy, he never called! hahahaha

    also…celeb once removed…i sat next to tim allen’s brother on a plane also in 2002. did you know that allen is tim’s middle name…his family name is ‘dick’ but he and all go by their middle names for their last. huh, who knew?

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  259. This is going to be longer than 10 words:
    Waited in line at bookstore to get “Growing Up Brady” signed by Barry “Greg Brady” Williams. Signed my book “You’re groovier than Marcia.”
    Bill Clinton spoke at my college commencement (was president at time). Front row seat! Snipers everywhere.
    Met “Luke Duke” (Tom Wopat) when he was performing in “Chicago” the musical. At intermission was selling his CDs and he signed my program. He also said I looked “lovely.”

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  265. Las Vegas airport, me about 7 months pregnant. Mike Tyson sits down next to me and says he wants ‘to send a special blessing to that baby’ Creepy as hell

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  266. The year was 1983..I was at a play on Melrose Ave in L.A….who is this very short man seated next to me? Well YEAH it was William Shatner!! Again..it was 1983 and he was sort of in celeb-purgatory not so famous anymore and before he became the Priceline Negotiator!

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  272. You had brunch with my girls! Sob. I was already half way home by then.

    Nice chatting with you! (I’m the baby-faced one that still gets CARDED)

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  275. Sold Gladys Knight(minus Pips)restaurant lights at Home Depot. (in Atlanta-more than 10 words, drat!!!)

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  281. Ummmm….is that Pee Wee Herman???

    My brother met Rob Lowe (yeah, I could have killed him for not kidnapping him and bringing him home) in a resurant in Fayetteville, AR when Mr. Lowe was there filming “Frank and Jesse”. Does that count?

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  296. Elisabeth Shue-waited on her at a restaurant. Lou Diamond Phillips-came into my bar. Liv Tyler-street. James Garner-in hotel lobby where I was at a stop smoking hypnosis thing.

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