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what to do when Donald Sutherland comes up to you...
A bit of LA-surreal last night. The g/f and I went to dinner at a local Santa Monica seafood place. There was a wait for a table, but there were two seats at the end of the oyster bar so we sat down. Kind of an L-shaped bar, and sitting around the corner of the bar was Donald Sutherland, eating dinner with some friends. I caught him eyeing me somewhat oddly, and I wondered if I was staring or what the deal was. Next thing I know he gets up and walks over to me. Says, "I apologize if I gave you a strange look, but my friend was asking me who was going be doing the marriage ceremony for my son and I said, 'how about that guy?' I thought you were wearing a cleric collar." I was actually wearing my Sigarms turtleneck, where the logo is on the mock turtleneck. From a distance I guess it looked like a priest's collar. I laughed and said, "no problem" and then we went back to his spot at the bar and continued dinner.
I almost went over later to offer to get my Universal Life minister degree so I could help him out. 
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A priest is nothing i am likely to ever be mistaken for. Great story man.
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Didn't Letterman used to run a "Brush With Greatness" segment at one time? I think those stories are fun. Best I can do is running into Garth Brooks at Academy Sports one time. Oh well. Oklahoma doesn't compare to SoCal, I guess.
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I have a pic of Richard Simmons with one arm around my wife's shoulders and another around my mom's.
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Six degrees of separation. I sat down at my barbershop last year and Donald Sutherland was in the next chair over. We started talking. He was doing a one man show/autobiographical talk thingy that evening — and suggested I come along if I "was really bored". We went and ended up having beers with him. Charming man. Great raconteur.
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I sat next to Joe Biden in the Senate barbershop many years ago. His plugs looked bad then too.
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Dude, that's too easy. You do the Donald Sutherland invasion of the body-snatcher's thing.
That's what I would have done. Seriously. |
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I thought he was great in "Kelly's Heros"
YouTube - Negative Waves
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He meant the big blowhole on the radio.
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My favorite run-in with a celeb was the time I bowled over the dude from 'Webster' in the Atlanta airport. We were both turning a corner in a hurry (he to the gate, I from) and I had a bit of a size advantage.
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I hung out with Capt Lou at LAX once. He said he recognized my jersey accent and felt like chatting. He had lost a lot of weight but the rubber band was still in his beard!
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I prepared dinner for Joe Biden and his wife last year just after he got elected. I did a little post on it in OT and it was immediately moved to PARF. Don't think anyone gave a whoot over there.
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I almost flattened Martina McBride at a truck stop. Same thing that happened to Scott. Turned a corner, and there she was. Little bitty thing. Her eyes are really that awesome blue in person, and a smile that can melt a mere mortal man.
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