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"Breakfast" posted August 27, 2004 at 12:42 PM

I had a celebrity sighting yesterday. It was a real movie moment, too.

Mark Fox and I were having breakfast at Balthazar, as we do every Thursday morning, and we were talking about movies to see this weekend. We decided we both wanted to see The Brown Bunny--the new movie by Vincent Gallo. Mark and I always talk politics at breakfast so we quite naturally began discussing Mr. Gallo's surprising Republicanism (surprising because his movies, music, art, etc. are rather, uh, progressive). And then we talked about Mr. Gallo some more, specifically how in all the Claire Denis movies he's in his character's last name is "Brown." (Denis is really my favorite filmmaker, by the way, and I highly recommend two of her most recent movies: Beau Travail and Vendredi Soir). Anyway, we talked about Vincent Gallo for quite a while.

And then I looked up and said, "Here comes Vincent Gallo now." And there he was, walking right down the aisle, straight toward us. Mark turned and looked at him, and turned back to me with a "wow" look, and then Gallo was two feet from our table, smiled at me, and said hello. I nodded, smiled, and said hello back as he and his breakfast companion walked by and took a table far away from us.

Why he said hello, I don't know. Maybe he thought he was having a celebrity sighting himself?


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