So. Was seated next to Robert Duvall the other night at a northern Virginia-area restaurant

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51. The cast of Dallas, now that the show is being revived

I used to go to a Chinese restaurant in LA where occasionally Larry Hagman would come in on lunch break pulling various members of the Dallas cast with him.

Robin Williams used to run at the same track as I behind Fairfax High School; I had a brief conversation with him about "Moscow on the Hudson". We also admired some escaped cockatoos in the local palm trees next to the track.

David Brenner almost had a fit trying to avoid eye contact with me in an elevator. I saw Jeff Bridges and Clint Eastwood up close at a political event. I saw Martin Balsam walk off a set a few feet away from me.

I attended a church popular with certain celebrities in Los Angeles. The most important person I met was actually Rosa Parks, who visited one Martin Luther King day. She was very gracious and very tiny! Other people I saw there included Dyan Cannon, her daughter whose name I forget, the daughter of Dyan and Cary Grant, Alfre Woodard, Laurence Fishburne, Barry Bostwick, Veronica Porsche, ex-wife of Muhammed Ali, and her sullen teenage daughter Laila Ali. I also saw Nancy Wilson there several times. Our choir got to sing with some great visiting soloists, including Ben Vereen, and Carl Anderson, the original Lazurus in Jesus Christ Superstar, and the best live singer I have ever heard.

One Sunday, working as an usher, I escorted Jenny Garth down the aisle, arm-in-arm. This was during the height of popularity of Beverly Hills 90210, and I had no idea who she was, though up close she was completely gorgeous. I had to be told of her "importance'.

and, of course, I went to art school with some people who became famous later. The Talking Heads, Gus Van Sant, and art dealer Mary Boone, and children's book illustrator Chris Van Allsburg. Dale Chihuly was teaching glass there then, too.