{"id":85,"date":"2006-09-25T19:47:39","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T18:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2006-09-25T19:47:39","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T18:47:39","slug":"meeting-famous-people-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/09\/meeting-famous-people-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting famous people…"},"content":{"rendered":"

My brother David has just become a US citizen<\/a> and met George Bush Sr.<\/a> – all in the same week.<\/p>\n

\"Brother<\/p>\n

He poses an intriguing question: what would you say if you met George Bush Sr.?<\/p>\n

Thinking back to the odd occasion when I have unexpectedly met famous people, I tend to have been struck dumb (Kofi Annan, Vaclav Havel) or not realised that I had just met someone famous (Scarlett Johanssen).<\/p>\n

Admittedly in the case of Scarlett Johanssen, we were sharing a lift with several other people, and she had her back to me, and we were in the Chateau Marmont<\/a> where it’s seen as decidedly uncool to get starstruck and even acknowledge that you are in a lift with a Hollywood superstar. <\/p>\n

The bizarre thing about that particular encounter was that it was shortly after Lost in Translation<\/a> had come out, and Michaela and I were, unwittingly, having a discussion about the merits and demerits (mainly demerits) of my only having eaten Kobe beef<\/a> cooked shabu shabu<\/a> during previous trips to Kobe.<\/p>\n

The consequence of all this is that, while Michaela (who did<\/em> spot who we were sharing a lift with) and I may not have actually spoken to<\/em> Scarlett Johanssen, our overheard conversation did appear to make her laugh as she stepped out of the lift!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My brother David has just become a US citizen and met George Bush Sr. – all in the same week. He poses an intriguing question: what would you say if you met George Bush Sr.? Thinking back to the odd occasion when I have unexpectedly met famous people, I tend to have been struck dumb … Continue reading “Meeting famous people…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,2,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-politics","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martintod.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}