1.   Celebrity encounters of the second kind are when the celebrity barely speaks to you.

2.   Celebrity encounters of the first kind involve dinner, interviews or other stretches of awkward time.

3.   I divide my celebrity encounters into three kinds.

4.   That was my first celebrity encounter.

5.   The most important category for name-dropping purposes is the celebrity encounter of the I-stood-nearby kind.

6.   We knew each celebrity encounter would end in disaster.