He had one of the best lines in Almost Famous.
“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we’re uncool.”
A very good line.

K

Hoffman is a brilliant actor. It’s about time he started to receive some recognition. As for Tom Cruise….sheesh! I used to like him as a person because there was always something mysterious about him. He was very private then he exploded on the scene with that awful fake laff, those “I’m in love” antics and Scientology crap. I think he should have become a priest like he originally wanted and spared us all the fakery. But I do hear from old colleagues that he is a nice guy. Hah! What priest isn’t?

I wonder if he is back at home now thinking “wow, I met THE Bob Gentry” I bet he is

That reminds me of a story that happened many years ago. I was having lunch with Barry Bostwick and seated across the room was a man who looked like Marlon Brando. When the waitress came to take our order Barry asked her if that was Marlon Brando. She started to laff and said, “Yes it is.” Barry asked why she was laffing. She said, ” …cause he asked me if you were Barry Bostwick.”

okay….dumb story. ya had to have been there.

Here’s my, met a famous person story. This was 1996 I think, but I can’t remember dates, anyway our family was driving around the US on a 9 week camping trip for our vacation. I was reading a newspaper article about Rush Limbaugh dating a liberal. I thought this was too good not to make fun of in a poem. So I wrote it and since we were in NY that day I told my husband to take the kids to the statue of liberty and I was going to try and get this to Rush. I thought, I’ll just hang around and meet him when he gets here. But I had to walk 9 blocks on a rainy NY day. Bear in mind that we had already been camping 6 weeks so I already looked kinda scruffy. I ran up to the next intersection and everyone was standing back from the curb, (I had no idea why being the country girl I am) and I thought good, I’ll run up to the edge and get accross first. Well first NY lesson learned is being close to curb is not good idea as cars peel around corner sending a sheet of curb rainwater right on top of you. I heard snickers behind me but headed on as the light turned. Now I really looked like a drowned rat but wasn’t thinking about that yet. I got to the EIB floor was met by a very serious looking, burly, (body guard) who wouldn’t let me in. Can’t imagine why. I explaind who what why, and asked if he would at least give this poem and cartoon to Rush. He said he would and I left. Thinking I had blown my chance, and having time to kill now I hung around the nice downstairs door guard who turned out to be CoCo the famous Clown in his off time. Showed me pics too. I told him what I had tried and he said, Well you just stand right over there and he’ll come through that door in 5 mins! When he came through all I could say was “Dittos from Oregon” I was dumbstruck! He looked at me kind of oddly, (Can’t imagine why) but smiled very sweetly and shook my hand. Then he disappeared into the elevator. Months later family members and one complete stranger I had a conversation with about this, said they had heard him read my poem over the air and was laughing hysterically over it. Dang, I wished I could a heard it, and recorded it.

dude, i haven’t heard from you in forever and find you hiding out here on your personal blog. i saw mi3 the other night and thought it was okay. nothing great. hoffman was good though.