I was flying to Hong Kong once after a very long and frustrating week of business in LA. At that time I had more miles than I knew what to do with so I always was able to upgrade and pick any seat in the plane. I told the ticketing agent that I wanted the first seat in 1st by the window so I could just veg out for 14 hours. I'm walking on the plane and I could see a head popping out from my seat. I get up there and there's a 20 something woman sitting in my seat and she looks at me and pleads to sit by the window because sometimes she gets claustrophobic. I say fine, put my stuff away and bury my head in a book. The plane takes off, dinner comes and finally we strike up a conversation. She asks what I do and I tell her about working overseas, etc. and of course I feel obligated to ask her what she does, and she says "I'm starting out in acting (who doesn't looking like her in LA), I'm a model and I was Miss Universe 1994." Turns out she was Sushmita Sen. We had some great conversations on the way to Hong Kong and she was very nice actually. Even invited me to her wedding which I think didn't go through or ended. Anyway, after she told me who she was, I couldn't wait to get off the plane just so I could call up my buddies and tell them who I sat next too.
Later on that same trip I saw Alex Trebek from Jeopardy on a flight from Hong Kong to Beijing and can you believe, he was actually wearing a blue Jeopardy T-Shirt. I didn't talk to him though.












