not a high school famous-person story - but a first-year dorm semi-famous person story (and also, I've been down at Bertha's [Sarameg, Lisah, still here tomorrow...] and may have had some wine) the first time I watched Casablanca, was with the guys in the dorm room directly below me. We stayed friends throughout school... but the guy who said, in the middle of the movie (not trying to pick anyone up, mind you - no, really - seriously, this was a philosophical statement, not porn) "you'll never forget the people who you watch this movie with the first time" was [link] and I swear, every I see him now all I can say is yeah. thanks.

ps - sarameg - the wind was NASTY. and did you see the snow?

Sox, sounds like we were at UVA at the same time! Small world! I knew Jason from the theatre department.

I love Rhapsody in Blue, but I flipped over to the Brit awards for a mo and am clueless as to why they are playing it.

Tribute to Gershwin. And oddly, right before it, they honored Itzhak Perlman and Max Roach(? - jazz drummer), but they're not the ones playing it.

Sox, sounds like we were at UVA at the same time! Small world! I knew Jason from the theatre department.

I knew it. I adore Jason and all of his teethy teeth. But still, he was right - I can't watch Casablanca without him.

Were you also at Baja Bean when we were getting Dave M. tipsy and making him do open mikes?

oh I have many questions because we may know a lot of the same people,... although my people would be writers and yours would be people who actually do things.

... like act.

I mean. other than write.

Hm. So John Legend is a little hottie, then? Well, alright.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Roy Scheider, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for his role as a police chief in the blockbuster movie "Jaws," has died. He was 75.

Scheider died Sunday at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock, hospital spokesman David Robinson said. The hospital did not release a cause of death.

However, hospital spokeswoman Leslie Taylor said Scheider had been treated for multiple myeloma at the hospital's Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy for the past two years.

ps - Vortex - the worst part, for their style points, was that Jason's roomate was Romeo. Real name. He was a really nice guy, but they had a hard time starting conversations with girls the first week.

eta: ok. I'ma shut up now and forget that my realtor was buying the drinks tonight.

That's so sad about Roy Scheider--he was the best Bob Fosse who wasn't Fosse ever.

Were you also at Baja Bean when we were getting Dave M. tipsy and making him do open mikes?

I'm not sure that I was ever sober at Baja, so maybe. Were you there when my BFF and I were singing 80s theme show songs with the bartender?

oh I have many questions because we may know a lot of the same people,... although my people would be writers and yours would be people who actually do things.

Hey, I was an english major too, so maybe :) ... like act.

He was a really nice guy, but they had a hard time starting conversations with girls the first week.

Jason was such a sweetie. I didn't meet him until his second or third year, so I guess that he'd gotten his shit together. In fact, we were all very disappointed to discover that he had a girlfriend.