Farmer Hoggett

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This last weekend, D and I both had the WHOLE weekend off!  What a concept!  One day, we too shall lead our lives filled with weekends off, but in the mean time, we'll deal with the sporadic few that do happen.  I bought us tickets to go see the play "Elevator" in a small theater in West Hollywood. We intended to grab dinner ahead of time and just happened to stumble across Hugo's while parking our car.  As we sat down at our cozy table for two inside the restaurant, I looked at the menu and became instantly concerned. We had just stepped into the stereotypical Socal hippy/sustainable/organic/vegetarian/vegan restaurant. Although I'm open to several of those items, D tends to be little bit more skeptical in experimenting in that arena. Luckily, we agreed to stay and give it a try.  Always fun to try something new!  I took a sip of my water and gazed casually around the restaurant before locking my eyes on an elderly gentleman sitting at a booth by himself.  I slowly turned to D and whispered "That's the guy from 'Babe'!"  On a side note, I am fairly talented in remembering and placing actors from different movies, but I don't always remember their real names.  After a quick search on his smart phone, D whispered to me, "His name is James Cromwell," and then proceeded to tell me a quick recap of Mr.Cromwell's theatrical career. He has an extensive past in movies and it is rather silly that my first connection of Mr.Cromwell was of his role as Farmer Hoggett in the mid-90s family movie called "Babe."  You know . . . the one about the pig, who wants to be a sheep herding dog?  Haven't seen it?  Oh well, nevermind then.  He was the warden in "Green Mile," does that ring a bell at all?  Well, either way, we had a delicious meal and enjoyed our first "star" sighting together.  The play was a lot of fun too!  Perhaps D and I need to start hanging out more in West Hollywood?