Years ago my then girlfriend and I had dinner at a once popular Los Angeles restaurant in the hills above Sunset Boulevard. A few tables from where we were sitting I saw a muscled pygmy whose face looked annoyingly familiar, but whose name I could not recall. A little later I almost choked on my lobster ravioli because I suddenly realized that the pygmy was a very famous action movie star. Seen from a few feet away, however, this silver screen superman projected all the menacing authority of a bipedal hamster on a high protein diet. After that sighting I never could watch the guy's movies again without laughing...
