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# My Own Private Mary Stuart Masterson•
- URL: https://tombeaverbooks.ghost.io/my-own-private-mary-stuart-masterson/
- Published: 2026-10-05T20:31:49.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T01:23:19.000Z
- Author: Tom Beaver
- Tags: Book: Movies And TV, #Import 2026-10-09 17:51

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**My own private Mary Stuart Masterson *–*** At a coffee shop this morning I found myself one seat over from Mary Stuart Masterson. Do you know her? She was in some movies in the 80s—*Benny and Joon*, *Fried Green Tomatoes*, and others. A very pretty blonde with a bewitching shyness, a fetching way of looking sideways and down before making eye contact. 

I see online that she produces or directs movies now. The she is married and lives in this neighborhood. I had started a conversation with some woman about the novel she was reading, and a stranger I recognized immediately—Mary Stuart—chimed in from her stool nearby. Addressing my novel-reader, not me. But still, I got a rush. A contact high.

After awhile my book woman left (“Okay, Mary Stuart, it was nice seeing you again."). Leaving the two of us somewhat alone together.

But Mary Stuart never did address me. Or even glance at me, that I noticed. And it was a bit rude of her to insert herself into my conversation. But I let all that go. Her celebrity and good looks paid the tab.

I sat there in her orbit for an hour afterwards, both of us working—she doing some kind of poetry-formatted writing on her laptop, me reading and making margin notes in my book on iPhone programming. It charged me up to be sitting that close to a woman I’d had a crush on once, the way any infatuation can charge you up. But because she was famous, there was also a buzz of the supernatural, like sitting in the presence of Diana or Athena—with a little bit of time-travel-wonder thrown in, since Mary Stuart Masterson’s period of making movies, or anyway in movies I ever knew about, was back in the 80s and early 90s. 

It was almost like drinking caffeine. I felt golden and inspired by her. Maybe it actually was caffeine, at least in part. Because I drank about four cups of decaf in order to keep sitting there: more decafs than usual, and if you drink enough decaf, you do get a little caf.

Whatever the cause or causes, it was a fine physical and/or mental state I got into. Reminded me of the energized zone I used to enter all the time while drinking coffee and writing in coffee shops. I don’t want to go back down the caffeine road—couldn’t if I wanted to, because it gives me vertigo now—but it was wonderful to have that energized clarity again, that zest. 

If Mary Stuart had been as pretty as she was in her prime, or exactly as pretty as she is now but not married, it might have been too much. Too much desire. A compulsion to hit on her. As it was, this Mary Stuart was just stimulating enough, creating in me an enjoyable and productive excitement.Thank you, Mary Stuart. *\~ Oct. 20, 2010*