CELEBRITY GOSSIP

By Paul Davidson

Two black men sat across from each other, one sipping a cup
of java, the other clutched a binder, over-filled with papers.

"That James Garner. Man, he kicks ass," the java man proclaimed.

"James Garner?" his cohort shot back. "That guy don't kick ass!"

"You ain't seen James Garner lately?" he questioned. "He's still runnin'
around, kickin' ass!"

"He's drivin' cars, man," he said with disdain. "He's drivin' cars."

[Paul Davidson is a New Yorker in Los Angeles working on screenplays and a forthcoming book called Consumer Joe (Random House/Broadway, Fall 2003)]