Lyle has a LOT of cinematic experience! 
Heh!
Now, Lyle, you cannot drop these things without clarifying if we have to take them literally!
Well, it veers from the thread topic, doesn't it? And you know I babble a lot when that happens. But since you asked!
Winona...when I worked at Virgin Megastore on Sunset Blvd. she used to come in pretty frequently and so I waited on her a few times, so there was small talk. I was good friends with the night manager and she liked to talk to him about various things a lot for whatever reason and so she'd hang around awhile.
A whole lot of celebrities frequented that place. I only worked there less than a year, because it was when Virgin started closing down these places and the one on Sunset they did not own the property so that was one of the biggest to go when it happened, before they all fell. (Sad...I used to frequent the place over the years myself
before I worked there. I miss bookstores and video stores and music stores--the megastore was all three--three huge separate areas on two floors. It was located on the site of where the famous Schwab's Drugstore was located right before where the Sunset Strip begins. It can be seen in a couple movies, too, one being a Doris Day musical, but I can't recall the name, and the other: Sunset Blvd.
As for celebrities, I wish I'd worked there a lot longer! One day I spent what seemed like an hour looking for something specific that Louis Jourdan wanted! The names may not mean so much to some of you, but one busy night I got a call and the person wanted to put a film book on hold to pick up if we had it. I wrote the name on the slip. So in my mind I was waiting for this famous enough person to come in. Sometime later I looked up and it was a famous face and I said, "Oh, I have something for you!" I took the book out and put it in front of him and he looked confused and said, "What are you giving me this for?" In my defense, it was very busy and I just had in mind "famous person coming in" and famous person comes in and so on automatic I take out the book to give to him. However, the person who put the book on hold was former actor and uber-producer from Paramount, Robert Evans (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, The Godfather). But the person who came in I'd "offered" it to was Peter Bogdanovich! Now I know Peter is not Robert Evans. Peter Bogdanovich directed several of my favorite all time films: The Last Picture Show, What's Up, Doc? and Paper Moon. You could throw Mask in there, too. I was quite embarrassed.
The Laugh Factory was across the street from us and a lot of the comedians from there would stop by. The most frustrating thing is when you'd come to work and someone would say, "Guess who came in five minutes after you left last night?" The worst one like that for me was one really hot Friday night in--I'm forgetting the month now, but shortly after I left on a very slow Friday evening with very few customers in the store, in walked Heath Ledger and spent a long time looking for various movies and chatting with the employees and being very friendly. They surmise he walked over from the Chateau Marmont Hotel, which is a block or two away from there. If only I'd been there! The saving grace is that I did get to see him in person once, for a screening of BBM that he and Michelle were there for and did a Q&A afterwards. Two others I recall "missing by that much" were Wentworth Miller and Ryan Gosling.
Taye Diggs brother worked there at the time, in the music section. When Taye visited him one time his brother took him around and introduced him to everyone. I worked a lot with the handsomest young guy--Zachary Whitford. We had the best times working together. (He was straight.
) I found out at some point his father was an original member of Aerosmith! (Brad Whitford.)
