Encounters With Celebrities/ Marisa Tomei

Marisa Tomei is one of my favorite actresses so my reaction to meeting her was not nonchalant because I was quite excited. I'm not one to jump up and down or hound for an autograph so I just admired her looks quietly but with glee. I've met her twice.

One time was in front of a Wild Oats supermarket in West Hollywood a few years back and then again a few years later in NYC during a MAC cosmetics party. She was just leaving and waved at me which I thought was cool since I don't know her personally. The MAC cosmetics event was a party that I sort of crashed but I didn't spend much time there because there wasn't much to do and I'm not a woman. There were some beautiful women there.... though.

Marisa looked fit as a fiddle when I first saw her in West Hollywood and I just looked at her but she was funny about it because she told me to keep quiet about seeing her....uh... you know how hot-blooded these Italian women are. She didn't want any attention drawn to herself so I just respected her wishes because that's the cool guy that I am. My favorite film of hers is My Cousin Vinnie because it's the film that got her an Oscar. She's gone on to do numerous roles and is currently working on a movie called The Ides Of March.

Encounters With Celebrities/Oksana Grigorieva

I met Mel Gibson's former girlfriend in Hollywood in a Subway store. I didn't recognize her at first so my reaction was subtle but there was a reaction from me because of her beauty. She was constantly in the news at that time and was holding their baby while ordering a sandwich. I held the door open for her thus encountering her..... but I would pretty much hold the door for anybody.... if I'm in a good mood and I was on that day.

It wasn't until a few minutes afterwards when I did a double take and finally recognized who she was. My immediate thought was to take a photo so that I could make a couple of hundred or thousand dollars....no... just kidding..... my immediate thought was that of sympathy rather. It's always unfortunate when a union is broken between a man and a woman with the child in the middle. Their baby's arms must be stretched out like Gumby's by now because of the tug-a-war for him.... I think the baby is a boy but I'm not sure.

I'm a fan of Mel Gibson's work and especially so ever since he came out with The Passion Of The Christ which was an incredible movie that he made a rightfully so fortune out of. Oksana Grigorieva is a musician and singer so my guess is that her career was helped by Mel Gibson since one of her songs was produced by him. She's rather tall and beautiful. If I was Mel Gibson then I wouldn't have any other way.