A question so condescending, so pompous—and yet delivered with such frequency that workers in the service industry actually keep a stock answer ready for it, as if holstered and prepared to fire. Cleopatra may have posed a version of it. So did King Lear, during an egomaniacal tantrum. But not Reese Witherspoon, the supposedly anti-Hollywood starlet who floats on down-home, Southern-bred charm? Yep, afraid so.
Witherspoon at her arrest on April 19 in AtlantaPhotograph by City of Atlanta PD via WireImageAfter her husband, agent James Toth, was stopped by Atlanta police on April 19, Witherspoon, who was riding shotgun in the car, drunkenly attempted to threaten the officer with the self-inflated, tone-deaf question: “Do you know my name?” The answer, it turns out, was no, the officer didn’t know. And he didn’t care. She was arrested for disorderly conduct while her husband was charged with driving under the influence. On April 22 the Legally Blonde star released a statement apologizing for her behavior.