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Weekly Contest #376
STUCK IN AN ELEVATOR WITH MANDY PATINKIN “Aren’t you Rube, the Grim Reaper on that TV show Dead Like Me?” As he turned to look at me, an expression of amusement spread over his face like a wave of sunshine over a cloudy field. “I’m not a grim reaper in real life,” – then he winked like it was our little secret – “but I do play one on TV!” I was stuck in a hotel elevator with the actor Mandy Patinkin. I didn’t recognize him until the elevator jerked to a stop between the eleventh and twelfth floors. It was just the two of us: me, a 20-someth...
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