Mr Davies said he met a stranger as he strolled in south London and accepted a dinner invitation.
And in a resolutely unshowy comeback, Debra Winger practically backs into the movie as the sisters' mom, a stranger in another woman's household (both parents have remarried), reluctant to offer anything more holding than a smile.
In a foreign country such as France, Catherine Camus would have been a stranger, one more Camusian character struggling to understand the whirl of absurdity between birth and death.
Your parents, your grandparents, your great-grandparents, they remembered what it was like to be a stranger, and as a result treated strangers with compassion.
But Mr Hirschfeld was no stranger to Hollywood, as a companion show across the Thames bears out.
The release of SimCity will likely be studied for years as a case of how not to launch a product, and the story keeps getting stranger and stranger.
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Brennan is no stranger to a naked protest as he has participated in a nude bike ride before in Portland.
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But on a sober day, the 39-year-old was surprised when a stranger called her by name as she crossed the street.
"That's just my personal policy, just as I wouldn't send them over to a stranger's house to play, " Barr said.
As Mann sat to eat, he writes that a stranger approached him then attempted to pull off his glasses, which, oddly, are permanently affixed to his skull.
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Slash, no stranger to tech (he was immortalized as a character in the video game Guitar Hero), is optimistic about sales prospects.
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Scott's school friend Jeff (Jeremy Shamos, superb as always) has been invited and is our guide, playing a stranger navigating long-practiced family rituals.
Within a week, he grew hoarse, and from the next room it was as though another man were singing not Dad but a growly stranger.
The fact that so many people, to whom I am a total stranger, took the time to elect me as their contestant of choice is something I am still trying to comprehend.
Wood built on her stardom with the 1962 musical Gypsy, and 1963's Love with the Proper Stranger, which saw her win her third Oscar nomination as a shop assistant facing unwanted pregnancy.
Twitter has its own dangers, as we saw this week when a Clark, NJ teen posted that there was a stranger in her home and she asked people to call 9-1-1 .
Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House (and no stranger to risk), thinks a daringly clear agenda would act as a rallying point for America's centre-right majority and could appeal to a decisive 55% of voters, not just a narrow 51%.
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Even stranger, 1 percent listed "lead actress" as their reason for buying a ticket -- and that 1 percent gave the movie a harsh "B-" grade.
As two men argued over whether the demonstration was in support of Mr. Morsi, a stranger quickly interjected, saying "It's one hand in the square, " a slogan drawn from the uprising that toppled Mr. Mubarak.
He is no stranger to diplomacy and has often traveled overseas on behalf of the Obama administration as a diplomatic troubleshooter and to mend frayed relationships.
The former Massachusetts senator and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate is no stranger to foreign affairs, having spent almost three decades in the US senate as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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It's almost as if the way we speak of our parents with a sibling is the same way we speak with a stranger.
General Mills is no stranger to the occasional outbreaks of profit-busting promotional wars that routinely occur as players in a mature industry jostle for position in the grocery aisles.
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As I reported a few weeks ago, films like Kung Fu Panda 2, Pirate of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and Thor have turned in disappointing 3-D box office numbers.
Hill's role as Charlie Young on the hit NBC drama is his debut on a regular TV series, but he's no stranger to the limelight.
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