I mentioned in passing playing ping pong with Seth Green, but the outing deserves a bit more expansion.
Kath and I wound up getting friendly with Seth and the Robot Chicken guys while hanging out in the convention green room (how appropriate). Consequently we were invited to hang out with them that evening at a nearby pub that had ping pong tables and pool tables in the lower floor.
We took them up on it, and for a while the group of us hung out, drank, played ping pong and were undisturbed. Then I heard a couple of guys at the pool table saying, “Is that Scott Evil?” I wasn’t the only one; Matt Senreich, Seth’s “Robot Chicken” co-creator, muttered, “We’ve been made.”
Over the next few minutes, word spread, and girls started leaving their dates to come over to Seth to talk to him or have their pictures taken with him. A guy sidled over to me while several girls were posing with Seth and he said, with obvious contempt for the girls’ brainpower, “They think he’s Seth Green.”
“Yeah, he gets that all the time,” I said.
The guy nodded, glad to have a voice of reason to talk to. “They don’t realize he’s just a lookalike.”
“Personally, I don’t see that much of a resemblance,” I said.
“Me neither.”
Tends to make one value one’s anonymity.
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I’m betting on “annoyed”, Rick, or at least “exasperated.” Not sure, though.
The Kirk Douglas thing is a great story, though. Similarly, Naomi Foner (a successful writer-producer in her own right, and the infamous Naomi in the Electric Company’s “and what about Naomi?”) was using her first husband’s last name (Foner) for a very long time, but as of a few years ago started using that of her current husband and children.
The last name? Gyllenhaal, which probably rings a few bells.
TWL
Stephen King has an anecdote of being in a supermarket and getting in a conversation with someone about Shawshank Redemption. The guy insisted it wasn’t written by Stephen King. “He’s that awful horror writer; he couldn’t have written it.”
I am looking for some help. I have writen a B5 novel and have no idea where to go from here. There are no local agents or publishers.
Is there any advice you can impart?
Thank you.
Dianna Butler
Dianna Butler—
Unless you had prior permission to write that novel, you will probably not find anyone to publish it. And I am guessing you did not.