Topic: Woods in a Jeep

[chrisfranklin]

Was coming back from work today at about 3:30pm, driving down Sunset Blvd in LA.  I drive by Le Dome Restaurant which is one of these places that's super-pricey and has outdoor seating.  The valets do the usual park-the-cheese-up-front deal, so you have red ferraris and neon lamborghinis lined up. 

As I am driving past this restaurant I hit a stop light and a short line of cars.  I see a Metallic Grey Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.7 V8 that is starting to edge out in to my lane.  I take a look at the guy - who has just come out of Le Dome - driving and its James Woods, a big time character guy in a bunch of films over the last 30 years and whose current show, Shark, is doing well.  He looks at my Jeep, smiles and I let him in the lane.  He gives kind of a reverse Jeep wave after he edges in front of me. 

Not a CJ/YJ/TJ/JK, but at least the guy has ok taste in rides    Not that it matters but his Ca. Tag # was "Five-E-E-F-Eight-Eight-Nine"   

     

[Jeffy]

Was coming back from work today at about 3:30pm, driving down Sunset Blvd in LA.  I drive by Le Dome Restaurant which is one of these places that's super-pricey and has outdoor seating.  The valets do the usual park-the-cheese-up-front deal, so you have red ferraris and neon lamborghinis lined up. 

As I am driving past this restaurant I hit a stop light and a short line of cars.  I see a Metallic Grey Jeep Grand Cherokee 4.7 V8 that is starting to edge out in to my lane.  I take a look at the guy - who has just come out of Le Dome - driving and its James Woods, a big time character guy in a bunch of films over the last 30 years and whose current show, Shark, is doing well.  He looks at my Jeep, smiles and I let him in the lane.  He gives kind of a reverse Jeep wave after he edges in front of me. 

Not a CJ/YJ/TJ/JK, but at least the guy has ok taste in rides    Not that it matters but his Ca. Tag # was "Five-E-E-F-Eight-Eight-Nine"   

     

What's a 'reverse' Jeep Wave?  Isn't that called the one finger salute?   

Interesting that the plates don't come up on the DMV site.

[chrisfranklin]

"James Woods just flicked me off...YESS!!!! ...Awesome!!"   

Like a wave to somebody else when that driver is behind you (to my perspective, I am seeing the typical wave out the door, but from the "reverse")

There may have been a third "E" in the tag #, as in "EEE."  I jotted it well after the fact and was pensive about whether I should or not.

[chrisfranklin]

Could also be "5EEF-889."  Forgot about the hyphen.

I am kind of a fan of James Woods.  Not really in to his latest stuff or most of the films he's been in in the last 10 years.  Liked him in the 1980s-era stuff where he was always playing a dude who was coked/stimmed up on something.  He was in flicks where he played that kind of character - The Boost (coke), Cat's Eye (nicotine), film called Best Seller  where he definitely seemed amped up. 

[Elyod]

I know his social security number but I'm not telling