1. If you could eat dinner with and “get to know” one famous person (living or dead), who would you choose? angelina jolie, as long as you mean “get to know” in the biblical sense.
2. Has the death of a famous person ever had an effect on you? Who was it and how did you feel? yes. i remember crying when both jim henson and jimmie stewart died, and pierre trudeau, who was famous even if he was just a politician. i felt the loss of simpler, more innocent times.
3. If you could BE a famous person for 24 hours, who would you choose? billy bob thorton — guess who’d be my wife!
4. Do people ever tell you that you look like someone famous? Who? someone just told me the other day i looked like jeanane garafolo, although i think they were drunk.
5. Have you ever met anyone famous? george millar of the irish rovers.
oh yeah. jim henson. that’s the only celebrity death i ever remember making me furious. there’s a christian science church in pasadena, between my then-house and the mall, and i’d get all worked up and angry every time i went past it, for years and years after he died. in fact, i’m getting mad now. i’d better stop thinking about this now…