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May 21, 2005
lately i've been amused by...
...the entrepreneurial guy selling "Sith Happens" t-shirts to the huge line of Star Wars aficionados (with their lightsabres and Princess Leia hairdos) lined up for a solid New York city block waiting for the midnight showing of Episode III.
...the couple that passed me as i was coming up out of the subway during a sudden thunderstorm. he was shirtless, since she had his top draped for modesty over her soaked white blouse. while others were scurrying hither and yon to get under any available overhang, they were tromping down the street singing "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" as loud as possible.
...the splendid satirical newspaper, The Onion, which is available for free -- on the street, in the fine coffeeshops i have been frequenting, etc. Los Angeles needs to get a clue and start installing more Onion distribution stands on the street so there's an alternative to LA Weekly.
...my first ever correct bona-fide celebrity-in-the-wild identification. usually i am celebrity-blind; when i work red-carpet movie premieres and the director tells me to "keep an eye out for so-and-so," i just laugh. i'll never recognise them. people who tell me they saw "that guy from that WB show" at the gym amaze me. my most famous example is when i had a 10-minute conversation with a very nice but very short salt-and-pepper haired man, regarding Asian politics. after he walked off, my camera operator wanted to know since when was i so friendly with Richard Gere? so you will understand that my correct identification of the middle-aged man who was standing with his wife behind us in the line for the amazing sushi restaurant, then was later seated by us, was nothing short of a total accomplishment for me. i never though i'd enjoy some of the best hamachi i've ever had with Mike Myers. shocker.
Posted by hadashi at May 21, 2005 6:16 PM
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Wayne Campbell is...(*gasp*) middle-aged!
Congratulations on appropriately identifing your first celebrity in the wild.
Posted by: Joanna at May 23, 2005 8:55 PM
Ha! I am right there with you on the not recognizing folk. Or ignoring the fact that I do.
Did you ask Richard about his pet gerbils... ;op
I am being a bit of a butt-head. Hehehehehe
My celebrity quotient will be overfilled for the next few years when they film the new Jack Black movie at Alex's in June... pphhbbtt...
Posted by: Ms. Jen 
at May 25, 2005 11:56 PM
you know, when i worked on The Contender, i did not immediately recognise Sylvester Stallone. he was just another dorky musclehead big guy grazing at the craft service (snacks) table to me.
Posted by: hadashi at June 5, 2005 6:04 PM
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