My sole escape from five blocks of downtown Los Angeles provided the quintessential LA experience. Mickey took me to the Venice restaurance Axe (pronounced A-shay, apparently), and who should be sitting at the front table but
Anthony LaPaglia of
Lantana/
Without a Trace fame. Thanks to a little run-in with the
health department back in September (see last item), there was lots of room despite the presence of a bona fide movie star.