The waiter arrived, and at Ben's prompting, Catherine ordered a couple of bottles of good wine.

"As our guests, dinner's on me," Ben said as he smiled at the actor and his friend.

"Oh!" Phil traded a look across the table, but Eric just smiled happily. "Thank you!" He leaned a little closer to Ben. "I feel like we should be treating you as you're getting the lion's share of attention in the media these days."

Ben sighed wearily. "Yeah, no matter how hard I try to stay out of the damn spotlight."

Phil snorted. "You're in the wrong town for maintaining anonymity." He looked around at the surrounding tables...