Road to Elsewhere, Excerpt #25*: That Time Leo DiCaprio, Ellen (Elliot) Page, and I Met Near the Paris Metro...

OK, maybe not during the same decade. But we were all there. Time is funny that way.

MY FAVORITE SURPRISE along the metro routes came along the #6 line, as I emerged from the darkness into the light—or into the sparkling Paris night—of the Bir-Hakeim stop, with a sweeping  view of the Seine and the Eiffel Tower. 

Bir-Hakeim sounds exotic, right? 

It was named after an allied outpost in North Africa, manned by what Metro historian Susan Pl…