Who's the best actor?

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(02-05-2016, 07:18 AM)Wyche Wrote: Good call.....

Weird little story about Dennis Hopper--

Quite a few years ago, I was kind of hooked up with this couple who had been working in movies for years.  He was a transportation captain and she was in production design.

They really like one of my scripts, a comedy.  So, they were shopping it around Hollywood.  They had worked with Hopper a couple times and had a pretty good relationship with him.  They sent him the script.  At the time, if I remember right, he was more interested in producing and directing than in acting.

He like the script, wanted to buy an option on it.

A date was set up for Hopper to come to Cincy and do the deal.  I almost lost my job taking the day off work to go meet him at Lunken airport.  He was only going to be here long enough to sign the deal and then leave.

Needless to say, I was on cloud nine.   It was never more than a glorified hobby with me, but I got pretty damned pumped about this development.

So, the couple picks me up and we ride out to the airport.   We get there just about the time his plane landed.  One of those Lear jet kind of planes.

We're parked a couple hundred feet from where his plane landed.  The guy, Mario, has me wait there with his wife while he trots out to the plane.  He goes up into the plane, stays there about five minutes, then comes trotting back to the car.  Hopper steps into the doorway of the plane, waves in our direction.  The door closes just as Mario gets back to us.

What's up, I ask.  The plane starts to taxi away.
Mario says Hopper is on his way to NY to sign a big deal, just stopped by to tell us he was out of our deal.

Me--WTF?
Mario--That's Dennis.

Me--Can't he do it later?
Mario--That's not Dennis.

So, he sort of waved at me from a distance and that was my brush with fame.  At least, I think it was him.  Could have been a guy in a Dennis Hopper mask, for all I know.  He was pretty far away.