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. I asked our server to send him a beer, and Bourdain came over to say hello and thank you. I got to gush to him about how I was using his book as part of my senior thesis. He was very nice about it and took my fangirling in stride, even though you could see he’d kind of been hoping to not be recognized, as we were in a pretty remote area in a small restaurant. RIP, Anthony Bourdain.""I ran into Matthew McConaughey at a restaurant in Austin.
"He was super sweet, signed my autograph book, and wrote a message to me in his cookbook, which he gave to me for free. "I used to have pictures of us cooking together in my locker at school, and people would always come to look at them, and some said it wasn't real because they didn't believe me.""In the late 1990s, I was an angst-ridden preteen traveling through Europe with my family when we checked into the Hilton in Rome. Upon checking in, we were told we couldn’t speak to a blonde American actress if we saw her. Which was just a strange thing to tell kids.
"There was some sort of terror attack at an embassy, so Americans were told they had to stay in the hotel . My brothers and I spent a few days goofing around at the pool making three young guys laugh, mowing down cheesy pasta, and chatting them up. Turns out those three guys were Matt Damon, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Jude Law, and they were taking a break from filming10."I came into the New Orleans Airport on a really late flight.