Somewhere Out There Joel Achenbach examines stories of alien abduction in a captivating, funny book Screen Dreams A look back at the 10 best movies of the 1990s. He just seemed like a good way to make somebody else jealous. I had just interviewed a famous actress, exactly my age. We have the same first initial and a shared love of Paul Westerberg and Holden Caulfield. I left her hotel feeling like shit.
Movie stars look weird in the flesh.
This is something you hear all your life, but it's not fully realized until you comes across that singular, eerie product up close. She caught all the light in the room like a prism. I expected that. They tell you that famous people glow. But what they don't tell you is how awful you feel about yourself once you return to your own lowly, little sphere.