I should add that a personal, surprisingly durable intellectual weakness of mine is that I absolutely can't sit through live theater. I'm just too anxious for it to be fun. I'm also usually broke and it's not often a cheap pastime.

But my mom has a finely tuned radar for productions anywhere, of any quality of McDonagh plays so I've actually seen a fair amount of them. Lieutenant of Inishmore is my favorite.

>I became obsessed with McDonagh in college. When I saw this
>movie a while back, he was sitting in the row behind me taking
>notes. Took everything in my power to not geek out, interrupt
>him, and ramble incoherently to him about what his work has
>meant to me. Figured he was working, so I let him be... but I
>did wonder how often he'd been recognized as a face in the
>crowd in LA. I imagine after this film/awards season, he'll
>definitely get spotted far more frequently in the future.

This is a cool story. I actually didn't know what he looked like until I saw a photo in an article about this movie. That was cool of you to leave him alone, but yeah - that opportunity for you to be the one person who recognizes him and give him a good word might have been the last.