Stephen Tobolowsky Stars In ‘Poolman’

More news about strangers I missed last year! Actor and writer Stephen Tobolowsky, perhaps best known as Ned Ryerson in “Groundhog Day,” continues to be one of the most prolific character actors working today. We met in October 2014 at an LA diner for the 66th interview, spending more than…

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Tired Old Queen At The Movies Hits 21K+

I’ll be doing the 131st and 132nd dinner interviews — the first in almost five years — next week in London. If you’d like to be featured on this site, simply click here to book a dinner and we’ll take it from there. In the meantime, I’ve been checking up…

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Michelin Recommends Atlanta’s Twisted Soul

Even when this site was on hold for the last few years, I’ve kept up on news from the strangers I met. And today’s update is about the last interview before pausing Dining With Strangers due to the pandemic and other things. Deborah VanTrece, the 130th stranger I dined with,…

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Seeking Strangers In Several Places

Wishing everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year. I’m lining up interviews for restarting Dining With Strangers in 2025, with two hopefully taking place in London during my current trip back to the UK. From late January on, I’m looking for people in the United States — and…

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Trespassers At The Golden Gate

Author Gary Krist — the 70th dinner interviewee back in 2015 — specializes in writing historical non-fiction about key moments in relatively recent U.S. history, including early 20th century New Orleans, Hollywood and more. I met the New York Times-bestselling writer to discuss Empire Of Sin, his book about the…

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Looking For Strangers To Interview

Want a free meal and to share your life story? Get in touch. I keep threatening this, but in 2025 Dining With Strangers will finally resume. I paused the site during the pandemic and then life intervened in the years since. Now I’m trying to sort out the first few…

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Charles Cecil Reforges Broken Sword

Revolution Studios, the software company co-founded by 127th dinner interviewee Charles Cecil, is getting plaudits for the recently released Broken Sword: Reforged — an update to a landmark adventure game first released in 1996. The new version features remastered graphics, improved audio, reworked scenes and more to provide a fresh…

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Rest In Peace Matt Yee

Far too late in posting this sad news but I still wanted to pay tribute to the memory of singer and performer Matt Yee. Matt, the 96th stranger featured on this site, was diagnosed with liver cancer at the start of last year and unfortunately passed in December in his…

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Quiz The Tired Old Queen At The Movies

Steve Hayes, also known as the “Tired Old Queen At The Movies,” has a one-man show next month in New York. He’ll be performing “Quiz The Queen” which promises to be “an evening of hilarity, surprises and unexpected anecdotes as we try and stump [Steve] by showing him various clips…

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