Stephen Dubner took his family to Benihana in NYC and spotted a celebrity, but he's not telling. He's making readers guess.
One table over was a large party including someone that all of us recognized, whom we'll call Celebrity X. A year ago, I don't think many of us, if any, would have recognized Celebrity X — even though he/she was pretty well known some 20 years ago. You could even say notorious. But that celebrity dimmed quite drastically. If in recent years you thought of this person at all, you probably would of thought of her/him as somewhere between a has-been and a clown.
Thanks to a couple of recent television shows, however, Celebrity X is back on top. This would seem to be due in considerable measure to an impeccable sense of timing.
There are some good guesses so far: Mr. T, Flavor Flav, Hulk Hogan, David Hasselhoff. I'll bet it is Flavor Flav.
The first person to guess correctly wins an autographed copy of Freakonomics.
