blind date

Instead, it was like Hollywood and the publishing world set the two up on a blind date.

The actor met the veteran of MTV’s “The Real World: New Orleans” through mutual friends in 2002 on a blind date that almost didn’t happen.

As beginnings go, the filmmaker offers up a hilarious theme-setting blind date that even a premier satirist like George Saunders would envy.

Reading the tension in the room, I told them: “Don’t worry. I’ll get out of your hair soon. I have a blind date with a girl at a vegan spot in WeHo.”

We were both about to give up New York for L.A., and so we chatted about our expectations and anxieties — a kind of friendship blind date, a meet cute.