Raise your hand if you're a movie star!

Gary Lindstam, left, appeared in "Airport," the 1970 flick starring Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin. John Gerken, upper right, appeared in "Grand Prix," the 1966 movie starring James Garner. Sorta.
Tonight's Abbey Point dinner conversation revealed heretofore unexplored brushes with immortality. Remarkably, our neighborhood is represented to this very day (or late night) on the Silver Screen.

Gary, a retired airline captain for Northwest Airlines, saw a notice at the Minneapolis airport seeking extras for the filming of "Airport" and he jumped at the chance for greatness. After deductions for the Screen Actors Guild and lunch, he netted $5 for his appearance in a crowd scene and got a glimpse of Dean Martin. His madras shirt is visible . . . whenever you watch the movie. . . for about 2.5 seconds.
John Gerken was stationed in Europe during the filming of Grand Prix. He was touring France, driving a VW on some back country roads and unknowingly blundered onto a by-way being used for the famed auto race. He glimpsed James Garner. You can see John's skinny elbow sticking out a car window in the final cut of "Grand Prix."
He was paid nothing.
Wes Anderson, at right, did not make the movies, but raised his hand anyway. He claims a dramatic role in his high school senior class play, "Little Women."