{"id":898,"date":"2009-08-17T09:22:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T16:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=898"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:34:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:34:50","slug":"an-open-letter-to-john-malkovich-monday-august-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/an-open-letter-to-john-malkovich-monday-august-17\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter to John Malkovich &#8211; Monday August 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-899\" title=\"malkovich\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/malkovich.jpg\" alt=\"malkovich\" width=\"250\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/malkovich.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/malkovich-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 85vw, 250px\" \/><br \/>\nDear Mr. Malkovich,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure you remember me- I waited on you at an Italian restaurant in Chicago five years ago.\u00a0 You ordered steamed spinach and a portabello mushroom, then make fun of yourself for getting such a &#8220;Hollywood&#8221; meal.\u00a0 I laughed very very hard to indicate that I thought you were awesome.\u00a0 You left me a 100% tip.\u00a0 Especially compared to the other celebrity I waited on, Tootie from Facts of Life, you were so cool I almost exploded.\u00a0 (Tootie got her dinner comped and left me no tip.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>So last night I watched &#8220;Burn After Reading&#8221; because you are in it.\u00a0 I was reluctant because the movie didn&#8217;t get great reviews, but I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt.\u00a0 I felt like if you read the script and liked it enough to engage, it had to be great.\u00a0 And if it wasn&#8217;t great, it was only because something got mucked up in editing or the studio put it through testing or something.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Well I have to be honest, I was so mesmerized by your performance, I don&#8217;t even know what happened in the rest of the movie.\u00a0 I would stare at your during your scenes, and yell &#8220;He&#8217;s so incredible&#8221; then when you weren&#8217;t on camera I&#8217;d think about how funny you were, or what a great actor you are.\u00a0 I&#8217;d wonder what you do for fun, and if you&#8217;d ever want to get together and talk about our favorite books.\u00a0 I kept grabbing my roommate by the shoulders and screaming &#8220;Isn&#8217;t he just THE BEST&#8221;.\u00a0 My roommate stopped trying to push me away after about an hour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;d better get going now.\u00a0 I just wanted to tell you that I think you are so cool, so funny, so talented, and welcomed to have a sleepover at my house anytime.\u00a0 It can be platonic or whatever.  I&#8217;ll keep clean P.J.&#8217;s in the drawer just for you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Poor Lucky Me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Mr. Malkovich, &nbsp; I&#8217;m sure you remember me- I waited on you at an Italian restaurant in Chicago five years ago.\u00a0 You ordered steamed spinach and a portabello mushroom, then make fun of yourself for getting such a &#8220;Hollywood&#8221; meal.\u00a0 I laughed very very hard to indicate that I thought you were awesome.\u00a0 You &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/an-open-letter-to-john-malkovich-monday-august-17\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Open Letter to John Malkovich &#8211; Monday August 17&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3725,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/3725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}