The IDIOT Mike Moore

[Botafogo]

Quick Sean Connery story:

Fifteen years ago when I was running a restaurant popular with celebs in West Hollywood, Mr & Mrs Connery and Michael and Shakira Caine came in dressed to the nines for an early, pre-theatre dinner to celebrate Mrs Connery's Birthday.

Still sitting in the dining room from lunch was a large table with, among others, fighter Mike Tyson, Rappers Tone Loc and Heavy D, soul crooners Al B Sure and Mary J Blige and maybe six or eight mixed race hotties of the type you see in Hip Hop videos or on Soul Train (whose offices were upstairs). Immedeately they start whooping it up with "Licensed to Kill!", "Bond, James Bond" and "Where's Octopussy?"

Sean hands off Micheline to me and tells me to seat the party in their usual corner table and walks up to the table of admiring but out of context fans. You should know that even now I would not want him to hit me and then he was in tip top shape and that, being a lifelong student of dialect, idiom and accents, he was not baffled by their Hip Hop expressions.


So, he walks right up to the table and is towering over the Champ's big ol' head and just letting them take in his imposing presence which shuts them completely up. Then he says very curtly in a crisp command voice, "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Mrs and I be chillin' in the corner...THANK you!", turns slowly and walks to his table. The gang of young entertainers was hushed for the next fifteen minutes then Al B Sure had the class to buy a bottle of our best bubbly for the birthday party and the whole crew left.

Roberto



[This message has been edited by Botafogo (edited 03-24-2003).]