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Posted by Nathaniel.
Tim and I were talking about peeps the other day in tea. Not marshmallow peeps, but rather the entourage type.
Kirsten and I were trying to get upgraded into first class for the trip out to Alaska but it seems that first class on the Boston to Seattle flight was unusually full. We were 3rd and 4th on the list for two open seats.
It wasn’t until I got on the plane that I realized why we hadn’t gotten upgraded…
Me: “Isn’t that Matt Damon?”
Kirsten: “I wonder if he’d let me sit on his lap?”
Of course, it wasn’t only Matt. It was his girlfriend and her daughter and his two peeps. Axe the two peeps and I could have flown cross-country in style.
It was kind of interesting that once we got to Seattle no one noticed him. He walked to his next flight without a single person noticing him. Well, except for Kirsten who kept glancing over her shoulder.
That’s celebrity number 3 for me. I sat next to Jerry Springer waiting for a flight at LAX in 2000 and physically ran into Natalie Portman in Cambridge a few years ago. Now I can say that I was on the same plane with Matt Damon.
July 8th, 2005 at 5:42 pm Using
Well, you’ve got me whupped several times over on the celebrity encounters.
1. I was once on the same plane out of Mobile, AL (of all places) with Mark Harmon (of “NCIS” and brief guest run on “West Wing” fame). His charity baseball team was in town to play the local minor league club (Go Baybears!) in some sort fundraiser game event. The most important information you should take away from this factoid is that Mobile did the minor league thing right by naming the stadium (locally, “The Hank”) after hometown hero Hank Aaron and renaming the road that runs past it after our other local baseball hero, Satchel Paige.
2. Back in high school, while volunteering at our local hospital, I once delivered hemorrhoid medication to the nurses’ station for Winston Groom, resident of my hometown and author of “Forrest Gump”, the barely tolerable novel that Hollywood did such a nice job adapting.
3. I used to work out with the San Antonio Spurs, since they would use Trinity’s weight room (the only one in town equipped for their style of powerlifting) during my weight training class senior year of undergrad. Tim Duncan is a very tall, very strong, soft-spoken honestly nice guy.