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Byline: Jonathan Van Meter
About an hour into what turned into a nearly four-hour marathon dinner, I start to count the thank-yous. Drew Barrymore, the most grateful person on Earth (or, at the very least, in Hollywood), says it more sincerely and more frequently than anyone you've ever met. If a busboy tops off her ice water: Thank you! If the waitress mechanically stops by to see if everything is OK: Thank you! If I pay her a compliment by telling her, for example, that she's very funny: Thank you so much. After a while, I stop keeping track, but I counted well over 20 separate and distinct expressions of gratitude. At one point, after the dinner plates are ...