Celebrity Disappointed After Meeting Fan

LOS ANGELES— Denzel Washington, who on Monday finally met longtime fan Brenda Haines, found the encounter anticlimactic, the Oscar-winning actor said. “I don’t know, from her fan mail I always thought she’d be more exciting, I guess,” Washington said following his awkward four-minute conversation with the 47-year-old Pomona waitress and mother of three. “And I’d always imagined she was taller.”