OK...

...this is the Sally Field Story. In 1977 I was living in Petaluma California and I had a neighbor named Kristy. The town we lived in had been used as the setting for American Graffiti. When they were filming that movie in Petaluma, Kristy dated Harrison Ford. I didn't live there then and I didn't know until recently that he was a married man at the time.

When I lived there, they used the town to film another movie called Heroes, with Harrison Ford, Fonzie and Sally Field. The cast was having a party at The Adobe Inn and Harrison had called Kristy when he got to town and invited her to the party. She asked me if I wanted to go. Of course, I did. Harrison and Fonzie were there, Sally wasn't. I was so young and it was 1977 so I was excited to meet the Fonz...I had never even heard of Harrison Ford so I was NOT impressed with him.

Anyway, I got to chatting with a few of the folks there and they told me that I could come to the Sonoma County Fairgrounds the next day and watch them film. So, I did.

They were filming a race car scene. They had this one car that was full of cameras and had one seat for the driver. That car was used to drive around the track and film the cars in the scene as they drove around the track.

When the production broke for lunch, it started raining and I ended up hanging out in one of the trailers with a chick I had met that day and some of the crew. It took a while before they were able to film again and when they were getting set up to begin again, I walked over to that camera car to look at it. All of a sudden, a crowd began forming around the car. The driver hopped up into the seat and a lady standing next to me asked him, "Can I ride with you?" That was supposed to be funny because there was only one seat. I thought it was lame. I looked at the woman who had said that and it was Sally Field. I asked her, "Are you Sally Field?" She answered me, "If I'm not, all these people are surrounding the wrong person." She said it in such a snooty way that I was kinda disgusted. I said, "Oh. Well, I was looking at the car." And I turned around and walked away.

That made me dislike her and then her acceptance speech at the Oscars shortly after that, "You like me...you really, really like me!"...made me gag. So, I don't like her.

I did meet the Fonz and Harrison, but as I said, I didn't care about the Harrison dude. I remember that Fonzie smoked Vantage cigarettes at the time and that Harrison was cute...but I hadn't seen Star Wars and I had no clue who he was. If I had known he was a married man...I wouldn't have been as nice as I was.

I was watching Biography one day last year...it was Harrison's Bio...and they said that he and his wife got divorced in 1979...shortly after he had been dating my friend Kristy. I'm sure she wasn't the only one he cheated with...but she was one of them. I was kinda shocked that she would date a married man.

Anyway, that's my Sally Field story.

Meg