Celebrity sightings are not a big deal in Livingston, since everyone from Dennis Quaid to Tom Brokaw have vacation homes nearby and movies filming is not uncommon. The nonchalance I'm supposed to feign is also left over from Prague, where people like Matt Damon and Anthony Hopkins were forever coming to town. Still, I never did have any significant international superstar sightings while I lived there. Karel Gott doesn't count, and Vaclav Klaus, even though he's now the president, doesn't count either, at least not in my book. Leave it to my non-celebrity karma to see him twice and never ever run into Jackie Chan. I used up a great deal of it the day we saw Tony Bennett AND Al Franken in New York on the same day.
But I digress.
Livingston's most visible celebrity is Margot Kidder--most famous as Lois Lane to Christopher Reeve's Superman--who is simultaneously so well known and so completely unnoticed as to prompt no particular fuss at any time. Still, one is never ready to become naked with any celebrity, no matter how "local", in the gym locker room. But there I was, exchanging witty banter about the state of the hot tub, so nonchalant. Yeah, I'm cool. Still, I couldn't stop myself from thinking, "You're naked with someone who kissed Christopher Reeve!"
Real cool, all right.