How To Fix A Chili Dog

“One incident that occurred at the craft service table of ‘Murder, She Wrote’ taught me something that I had never thought about. I was fixing myself a chili dog and William Windom, who plays the town doctor on the show, was in line behind me and said ‘No, no, no — put the chili, cheese, and mustard on the bun first, then the hot dog’. He explained to me that putting the other stuff in first allows one to get more in and is less likely to spill all over with the wiener on top. He had a point, and I’ve done it his way ever since. I always notice when a fast food place or coffee shop does it the old way.”
-A trip down the Internet rabbit hole lead me to Experiences of a Hollywood Extra, an unpublished memoir/guide by one Ryal Haakenson. You might particularly enjoy Chapter 9, on the filming of the movie Dave, which contains this assessment

: “People who are creative geniuses and perfectionists are often also very poor with people. Ivan Reitman falls into that category to the extent that I considered him an asshole.”

Photo by the Doctr, from Flickr.