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anybody else. seems like the community embraced him here. we spoke to the restaurant owner. he came in, spoke to the staff members, sometimes had friends who didn t seem to have an entourage with him. i never saw him with an entourage of people. i see him mostly walking around the neighborhood, walking his kids to the same school my kids went to. he was with his kids. the paparazzi didn t bother him. they knew they couldn t. he was just the kind of guy, i m with my kids going to school. people knew him well, they would come over to play with the kids, he would come over. you forget quickly he was a hollywood actor. the one time i saw him and thought, wow, you re a big deal. right after he won the oscar. i remember a couple days later walking to school people were high-fiving, way to go, way to go. still, wasn t like an unusual amount of attention even though it was such a big deal.
about where it was developing. you wouldn t expect a list to be involved in the commune, put his children in the local school. what role did he play in the school? was he there often? did you see him participating with other parents? he has three children in the school. there are a lot of celebrities in the neighborhood, big hollywood actors who put their kids in private schools. rarely do you see them hanging out locally forming relationships with people next door. that wasn t him at all. he was a friendly guy, neighborhood guy, he was a father. you didn t need to know him very well to know what a terrific father he was. a lot of dads didn t have time to drop them off at school. i m told he was in a christmas play at a community event to raise money for a charity. just this past christmas, he was involved in a movement to have zoning changed in the neighborhood. you would have thought he was