Great news about you guys working together again and also very cool about Into the Wild...so that film is really happening! That has potential to be a very good movie. Who is directing it and who is in it?

So, I had an "it's me" moment once but I don't think it was an ego thing.

I was at Logan Airport to pick-up my dad and it was very late at night and the place was pretty desolate. I was sitting alone reading the paper in a row of chairs by the window outside the gate he was to arrive at. These two guys emerge from the gate and one heads off in one direction and the other walks over and sits down next to me. I was not really paying attention except to notice that two people had walked out and neither was my dad. Finally, I look over at the guy next to me, there's an empty seat between us, and I think this guy looks familiar. So, I'm sort of staring at him for a couple seconds and he says without looking at me "Yes, it's me." at which point it hits me it's Al Pacino. He looks tired, unshaven, and like he'd slept in his clothes for a couple days. Now, I felt rude for staring at him but he did not sound aggravated or Sting-like when he made the comment, just tired with sort of a "let's get past who I am" vibe.

I didn't really know what to say at that point so I asked him if he wanted a piece of the paper and put it on the chair between us. This made him smile and he thanked me and I felt like I was off the hook for the staring thing. At that point I asked him what he was doing there and he said "Waiting for my car." and I said "I meant what are you doing in Boston?"

He said he was doing "American Buffalo", the Mamet play, and we talked a little about that and he vented a bit about having to fly back and forth to New York for something. He was a very nice guy...not at all Sting-like. The thing that kept going through my head while we were talking was how he did not at all seem like the kind of guy I would cast as a tough guy in a movie and yet he's got a long history playing one bad ass after another. Just goes to show what a great actor he is. I think that's one of the shitty things about being a "movie star" that people when they meet you automatically size you up and compare you to what you have played on screen. The only "movie star" I've met that was exactly like he is on screen is Jack Nicholson which made me wonder does the guy act or does he just play himself. I think he's so much of a character for real it's hard to bury that when he's acting. I gotta admit though the only Nicholson performance I had a hard time watching was in a film called "About Schmidt" which made me wonder why the hell they picked Nicholson to play that part.