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You have some cool stories about meeting famous people. I remember your post about the difference in meeting Denzel Washington and Tom Hanks when they were filming "Philadelphia." Maybe Hanks was never the nice guy people believe he is.

All I remember about "Homicide: Life on the Streets" is that the show was well-written and the actors were great. Andre and Yaphet were perfect in their roles. All the actors were. I think Giancarlo Esposito was on the show at one point.

I guess Yaphet and André are up there comparing notes now

I hope they're having a party with Richard Belzer, who I see also died this year, and the other cast members who've passed on.

Too bad about Andre. He was only 61. I hate cancer.

I do have a knack for running into famous people. I've met scads of them without going out of my way—it is uncanny. Hanks and Washington were filming Philadelphia a block from my regular stomping grounds. My daydream is to be in an elevator and have Bob Dylan walk in, alone, but I'm running out of time.

There was a news story a couple of years ago about Bob Dylan wandering around a residential area at the Jersey shore the afternoon before his concert, having gotten off his tour bus without his ID or phone, and wearing a hoodie. He was arrested by a young female cop who had never heard of him and didn't believe whatever he said to her. Of course he often looks bedraggled. When she walked him into the station, the older cops went out of their minds—LOL! I imagine Bob just totally went along and grooved on it. I also guess he didn't have any weed on him.

But I digress. Yes, I remember Esposito so well from Homicide, and of course Richard Belzer, also from Law & Ordure (it has become unwatchably woke.)

There have been a lot of people with latent cancers or in remission who have had it return after the jab. A pox on that entire thing.