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Gene Hackman - My wife and I were tired newlyweds after a flight from San Francisco to John Wayne Airport in LA. We waited outside the terminal for a shuttle bus to take us to our hotel near Disneyland. I don't know why, but there was no one else around in the area we were waiting. It was amazingly devoid of people. I was standing sleepily at a curb as a bus pulled up. It wasn't ours, but just then a man and woman walked within inches of my face. He was so close that he stepped on part of my shoe. I almost yelled at the guy for being so rude until I looked at the man sitting down in the bus all to himself and his pretty Asian significant other. Gene Hackman! I love him! I figured he'd be picked up in a limo instead of some stinky old shuttle bus. Well, I always rolled my eyes when I heard my friends talk about being starstruck, thought they were fawning idiots. But: "Did you see who that was!" I whispered excitedly to my wife. "Gene Hackman!" "No way," my wife said. I motioned for her to take a peek into the bus. "Oh, my God, it's him!" "Yeah, he just walked in front of me, and I was going to tell him what a jerk he was, but then...blah, blah, blah..." So I had become a starstruck idiot, too. I almost bothered him for an autograph but I chickened out because he gave me a look as if he wanted to be left alone. I always wondered, though, why he got into my space so I'd notice him. Actors!
Jimmy S. - Posted: August 23, 2007
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