# Can a famous person really get a table at a full restaurant?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 25, 2018, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-famous-person-really-get-a-table-at-a-full-restaurant/811140 "2018-03-25T00:12:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-famous-person-really-get-a-table-at-a-full-restaurant/811140/41 "2018-03-28T15:47:33Z")

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Jamie Lee Curtis has said that, in making reservations in the UK, she always uses her husband’s British lordly title (actor Christopher Guest is also Baron Haden-Guest) rather than her movie-actress name, and gets better results.

> [@erysichthon](#):
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> Back in 1992, _Spy_ magazine tested\* this out: [Big Shots Never Wait](https://books.google.com/books?id=UkhW08U-qOUC&lpg=PP1&lr&rview=1&pg=PA38#v=onepage&q&f=false)…

I remember that! Looks like the writer might’ve embroidered some of the call transcripts a bit, though.

> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> And if you’ve never seen the tracking shot in which that occurs, [you should](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJEEVtqXdK8).

Interesting. Did they double back through the kitchen? Seemed like a longer route through there than it needed to be.

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