Once had a brief but funny conversation with Marlon Brando while doing background work as a paramedic on the film "Don Juan De Marco". Brando walked up to Mike pointed at the rampart prop phone Mike had and asked him, "Excuse me, but could you dial out on that thing?" Mike replied to Brando, "I suppose you could if there were batteries in it." Brando thought on this for a minute and then said, "Oh, you're not the real thing, are you?" Mike said, "Nope." Brando was pleased with his cleverness and ambled off to where he was being called to rehearse a scene.