Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Bob Dylan…what happened? I’ll tell you what happened. Harrelson had met Dylan once, and figured that on the strength of that plus Harrelson’s fame and reputation as a cool guy and a cannabis-appreciating alt.culture type that Dylan would automatically open his doors on the spur of the moment….”amigo!” This is the myopia of celebrity. They don’t all assume that their fame will open pretty much any door, but 95% of them do.
Speaking of Dylan, Joni Mitchell disputed her infamous Dylan quote (“Bob is not authentic at all…he’s a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake…everything about Bob is a deception”) in a June 2013 CBC Music interview. (Starting at 2:02.) She also called Matt Diehl, to whom she allegedly gave the quote in a 4.22.10 L.A. Times interview, a “moron” and a “dolt.”
