When I told a friend I thought Carrie Fisher would be a cool neighbor, he told me I would like Janeane Garofalo, too. He loaned me a VHS of one of her stand-up shows and I LOVED IT! She is obviously very intelligent, liberal, cynical, hysterically funny – totally great! I don’t know how I’ve lived as long as I have and been a fairly regular television and movie viewer and haven’t seen anything this woman has done. It’s one of those puzzling situations in life when everybody seems to know something you don’t, but it seems like a basic thing everybody should know. So now I’ll look for more to fill the inexplicably vacant Garofalo part of my brain. It is something to look forward to!

As far as wanting to actually meet these people, I don’t think that’s necessary. I can love their performer personas, but maybe not really like their everyday selves. I never understood getting autographs or getting to meet someone famous for two seconds. Autograph hounds lead me to think they’d probably like even better to get a severed, preserved finger from the celebrity or something. To OWN part of the person.
If I like a person on screen, that’s where I like the person. That’s enough.