For all Viggo Mortensen fans…promise not to scream :-)

This is just too priceless.

Last week, the Boston Globe reported on a local taping of Howard Zinn’s book, A People’s History of the United States, with some fairly well-known performers contributing their voices, including Danny Glover, Viggo Mortensen, David Strathairn, Josh Brolin, and Marisa Tomei.

On January 11th, the Globe printed this letter from an amused Bostonian:

I was fortunate enough to be a member of the audience in Wednesday afternoon’s taping of the readings from Howard Zinn’s book “A People’s History of the United States” by some really terrific actors, among them “Lord of the Rings” star Viggo Mortensen, who comports himself completely graciously and without ego (“Actors ‘Speak’ out,” Names, Jan. 10).

Mortensen and Zinn went across the street from the theater to Dunkin’ Donuts. A woman rushed up to Zinn and started gushing about how she was a student of his 20 years ago. Zinn said that he remembered her (and he probably does), they reminisced, and then she reached into her purse, pulled out her camera, handed it to Mortensen, and asked him to take a picture of her with Zinn.

This is Boston.

It sure is…home of the bean and the cod, where university professors and authors are more highly esteemed than movie stars…and where people don’t know who Viggo Mortensen is. Poor Viggo!