The Hollywood Starlet

I show up for lunch. The first thing she says to me is, "You've lost a lot of weight."

I have to admit, I am a bit taken aback by how quintessentially Hollywood this greeting is.

"Good weight or bad weight?" I ask. She laughs.

I encourage to try the porkwich. She is hesitant, but relents. Then it arrives, and she pronounces it "really good!"

We talk careers, because that's obligatory in Hollywood. The news for both of us is good. She's planning to move to New York for the summer, "just to get away". She mentions some television stars she knows personally, proclaming them "fabulous".

Just to prove the point, our conversation is interrupted by a text message from a well-known actor and celebrity, inviting her out to celebrate the cancellation of their television show.

She invites me to a charity fundraiser she's organizing.

We also talk love lives, because that's obligatory too. Again, good news all around.

Then we talk tarot readers for a bit, as she is the only other person I know who regularly consults one of her own. She asks for Judy's number, and I give it to her.

(Including her, I will have two relatives and a mom who have sat with Judy. I am working my way through my entire family.)

Then the check comes, and she tells me she has an audition. We hug, and I ask her to tell me what Judy says, if it's not too personal.

She says she totally will.