Hollywood tales

“I had a meeting with this guy, I don’t remember who he was, but he was a pretty powerful fellow. I didn’t have a car at the time; I rode a motorcycle and it was broken. So my girlfriend at the time was giving me a ride to his office on the Sony lot. We were stopped at a red light and this guy was crossing. My girlfriend, by mistake, inched out a little bit and almost hit him. He got really pissed, turned around, and called her a very nasty name. And I was nervous about this meeting and everything so I just went crazy on this guy, calling him a fucking asshole and how dare you talk to my girl this way. My girl was, like, Scott settle down, stop it. She literally drove me away from this guy cause it was going to get bloody and…you know where this story is going…she drops me off and I walk into the meeting and that’s who I’m meeting with. It was at the point where there was nothing either of us could do besides laugh. He smiled at me and I smiled at him and we had the meeting.”

 — Scott Rosenberg (TV and screenwriter, Beautiful Girls, Con Air, High Fidelity, “Life On Mars”) 

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