Salt

Angelina's in the crowd somewhere starring in the film "Salt." Yeah, that's right. We're pretty tight, Angelina and I.

Actually, I didn't see her. There would be movement in the crowd being filmed and the paparazzi (above) would scurry and start taking pictures, but I could never see anything of note. Which is to say I didn't see her.

Pout.

However, while waiting for a glimpse at greatness, I did strike a very nice conversation with a woman from Utah now living in NYC who assured me that she's not a Mormon (what do I care??) and that her husband is a student at NYU.

FYI: Angelina genuinely is stunningly beautiful. Angelina naysayers, you're just wrong though I can't confirm this from meeting her up close and personal.



Which reminds me of a story I once heard from a woman who saw Monty Clift in NYC who said that he was....almost otherworldy beautiful. Just different. Reader, did you tell me that story? I forgot the source.

Monty Clift really was very beautiful. Stunningly so.



When I was a boy, my parents took me to see a concert of "Space Music" performed by an orchestra (The Kansas City Symphony?). Much of it, naturally, was the music of John Williams, and there was a spoken part narrated by Dirk Benedict, who played a character on the original Battlestar Gallactica series. After the show we were walking out and Mr. Benedict passed us in the hall, so I got to see him up close and beautiful, as it were. And here's what I have to say about that experience. People can talk all they want about celebrities being airbrushed and so on, but this man simply looked different than anyone I had ever seen before. Stunningly beautiful. Breathtakingly so.

In a very heterosexual way, of course.