I have done the impossible! I met Eric Idle last Saturday at the Arclight Cinemas on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood!! Ok, I'll tell you the whole story...I was browsing the internet for Monty Python related reading material, and I came across a link that was talking about the sequel to the Rutles. So of course I clicked it, and it said The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch premieres at Arclight August 16th at 7:30 and 11:45. So I was so ecstatic because that's only like 45 minutes from my house!! So I called up my friend Erica, and we were off! We drove and drove and drove, listening to oldies the whole way! And finally we arrive! WOOHOO! So we have no idea where to park, but a nice security guard moves cones and stuff to let us turn around cause we were going the wrong way! So we park, and we bump into the same security guard (so weird!) at the front of the theatre, and we ask him where to go, and he takes us! I felt so special! But the first person I saw before I went into the theatre was none other than Kevin Nealon! If you don't know who he is, he used to be on Saturday Night Live, and I love him! I was too scared to ask for a pic with him though, so I told my friend Erica I'd ask later!So we go in, and wait in line, and while we're waiting this kid came up, he was like 14 I think, and he asked us which movie in the film festival we were going to see. I said The Rutles 2, and he then told me it had been sold out for 3 weeks! I was crushed! I couldn't believe it. I was only on the website the other day and it said nothing about being sold out! So I mope around the theatre trying to conjure up a way to make us get in! I mean we were young, pretty girls--how hard could it be?? BUT! About ten minutes later the kid comes back and says he just ran into a guy who said he had two extra tickets, and that he'd sell them to us! WOW! I ALMOST DIED! So he takes us to where he was talking to the guy, and he was gone! So the kid said he'd go look for him, and low and behold he finds him! So he gives us the tickets for 2 dollars off! Only $20 bucks instead of $22, and we go to theatre 13 where it is! Just so you know, I have started running around this theatre jumping up and down like a crazed dog in heat because I'm so excited!!!Anywho, we're sitting, and this man comes on a mic, and says, "Thanks for coming yadda yadda, and now the man you all came to see, Mr. Eric Idle!" And he walks in, and I immediately stand up clapping, and shouting, "I love you Eric!" When he saw me looking like an idiot he said, "At least one of you is glad to be here!" Ahhh! That was exciting! Then they played the movie, and after they had a little Q and A, and I really wanted to ask a question! So I pondered and came up with a really stupid one, but I thought it was quite amusing. I told my friend Erica if I should ask, "Now, in the movie how were you able to make the character of Dirk so darn adorable? I mean, was it makeup?" So I did! Everyone started laughing, and after it subsided Eric said, "I believe it was youth!" Then I was like, "Youth? Interesting." I dunno why I'm prone to acting like an idiot in public, but I'm so darn glad I asked that because I made him laugh!! So then after that was over he stayed behind and signed autographs, but before I went to get one I asked Kevin Nealon for a picture, and he said sure. I told him I was too scared to ask earlier, and he said why? I was like, "Because you're Kevin Nealon!!" Then he laughed! Next it was on to Eric!!!!!! So I wait, and I finally get up there, and I ask him to sign the back of my ticket stub, and then I asked for a picture. I told him he was my favorite, and he said I had to say that, but I said no really you are by far my favorite person in the entire world! Then he saw my purse which has the Union Jack on it, and he said he liked it. I told him I got in while I was in London, then I went on to say how much I love England, and how I wanna live there and find my husband there. So we finally take the picture, and right after I was about to walk away, I just say, "Oh my God!" Eric smiled and said that I must be his number one fan!! I said yeah, this encounter is even better than meeting Paul McCartney, which from me is saying a lot! Then he gave me a hug, and said I should be an actor because I definitely have the spunk! So I slowly, but surely walked away giggling like a little girl the whole way out! I still can't believe it happened! I really wanna post the picture of Eric and I, but I dunno how to do it!Well, I just wrote a whole novel, but I just had to tell the whole thing! Man!!
