"In 1992, Billy Bob Thornton met Pietra Cherniak outside an Italian restaurant in West Hollywood. 'I guess there's not a snowball's chance in hell I could get your phone number,' he drawled. She couldn't understand a word and took his number instead. They married a year later..."

[Sadly Pietra sued for divorce and, in 1997, obtained a retraining order to keep Billy Bob away from her and their children.]