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alasdair gray painted its ceiling. unless they were in the hilton's piano bar.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 20 November 2004 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link

I used to see The Big Man around that area occasionally.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Saturday, 20 November 2004 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Jason Priestley at Finding Neverland at the Arclight last weekend. He's gotten all chunky and hot. I was checking out his flabby ass without realizing it was him just before the movie at the Poquito Mas across the street. I thought he was just another sexy out-of-shape khaki-clad young LA dad-type.

― Titsy Borgnine (Arthur), Sunday, 21 November 2004 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link

shell at justus kohncke, at the art school, maybe.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 21 November 2004 03:18 (nineteen years ago) link

and lucy mckenzie?

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 21 November 2004 03:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Last summer my brother-in-law and his wife took us to a supposedly trendy LA restaurant called Dolce. Very clubby, reservations checked at door by bouncer-like guy w/clipboard. Inside a bustling bar scene, people waiting to be seated and everybody gawking like crazy. tourists -- prime celebrity spotting in other words.
Food much better than expected. Drinks consumed. Towards the end of the evening a diminutive woman w/ towering afro toddles up to our table. She leans in, exhaling vodka breath. "I'M RICK JAMES' NIECE!"
"Uh, that's nice. Sorry your uncle passed away, etc." She leaves not a moment too soon, only to reappear and plunk her butt down on the banquette next to my wife. Launches into a long monologue about the dearly departed, and amusing quickly turns into annoying. So I decide to try and get rid of her. Hey, I've "had a few" as well.
"That's all well and good, but you know Rick James ripped off George Clinton and took it to the bank."
In a split second she's two inches from my face. "FUCK YOU MUTHAFUCKA..."
Cut to the chase: she gets ejected from the joint and her boyfriend, who's about 6' 10" and wearing Harlem Globetrotters sweats actually comes over to apologize.
As we're leaving I apologize to the guys at the door, you know, sorry to make trouble. "Yeah, well, it wasn't your fault. She had a bad week -- her uncle died and her tour got cancelled."
"What? She's a musician?"
"Yeah, that's Cindy Blackmon, Lenny Kravitz' drummer."
OMGWTF!
Does she count as a celebrity?

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 21 November 2004 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I'M RICK JAMES NIECE BITCH!

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 21 November 2004 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link

This is a second hand story, but amusing nonetheless. I was wokring a temp job in college, and my supervisor was an pretty attractive woman a few years out of college at the time....Anyway, this was when Glam Slam was still in operation in Minneapolis and Prince still owned it etc...

She and her friends went out to dance at Glam Slam, and she was wearing a catsuit apparently. A security guard said that Prince wanted to meet her and so she agreed to go to Prince's private lair in the club cuz she was a fan.....In any case, Prince was reclined, surrounded by his "people" so the security dude took her over to Prince. Apparently, Prince just kinda looked her up and down without saying anything for an uncomfortably long period of time. Then he finally asked the question: "Is that a MYSTERY suit?"....

She was baffled, and finally just said, "Um....yeah...I guess." Then more uncomfortable silence, and when it became apparent that she wasn't going to instantly start stripping and having sex with him, the security dude said she should probably go back to her friends.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 21 November 2004 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I did not take these and don't know who did, but they're fun anyway.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

I just beat Reading striker Dave Kitson in a game of online Scrabble.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 10 January 2005 01:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Flava Flav. Wearing a silver hat. Handing a giant wad of cash to a breakdancing team. New Year's Eve. 53rd St.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 10 January 2005 02:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Used to share a local with and live a street away from M@rk 'Ch0pp3r' R3@d. Now there's a celebrity.

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 10 January 2005 03:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Ali Landry is HOTT up close. Had a drink next to her at the Grove last night.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 14 January 2005 21:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Just after X-mas I saw Noel Gallagher on Picadilly.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 15 January 2005 18:11 (nineteen years ago) link

i saw tara lipinski on thursday!

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 15 January 2005 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw Fab and Albert from the Strokes and Drew Barrymore at the bar around the corner from Irving Plaza after the 1st of the last 3 Guided by Voices shows in NY this year. Yes, I was drunk and offered them Klonopin and had Drew say hi to my friend in Albany. She seemed kinda hassled to do it but was nice about it. My friend I was with said they were trying to score coke but I'm not sure I believe him.

― Colin O, Sunday, 16 January 2005 02:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Not because I don't think they'd be rying to score coke, it's just I don't believe him is all.

― Colin O, Sunday, 16 January 2005 02:40 (nineteen years ago) link

was just in new york for the last week. saw owen wilson at the broome st. grille (short), carson queer eye waiting for someone in front of my hotel (deranged; flanked by men), some designer lady from a tv show called surprise by design that my girlfriend recognized, i think her name was becky, drinking in the bar of our hotel (ugliest coat i have ever seen; trashed), bobby brown walking down 5th ave (fast walker; flanked by reality tv crew), a couple others that i might remember soon but now i am busy nursing a probably broken liver.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Sunday, 16 January 2005 02:59 (nineteen years ago) link

i see dennis norden the other day, i think he lives on my street, he was going into a flat with a hot older woman. also the guy from rumpole of the bailey drinks in my coffee shop but we're kind of friends now so i don't want to say where in case you all mob him.

― bengo, Sunday, 16 January 2005 03:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Once saw Stewart Lee in a bar in Edinburgh. We were looking for a friend of mine called R1chard Th0mas, which is the same name as the musician who SL wrote Jerry Springer: The Opera with; so we had a rather confused conversation.

Also in Edinburgh, during the festival, a few years ago: Ken Campbell was stood behind me in the queue at the all-night supermarket.

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 16 January 2005 20:40 (nineteen years ago) link

i see dennis norden the other day, i think he lives on my street, he was going into a flat with a hot older woman

It's not physically possible for anyone to be older than Dennis Norden. You have strange taste in ladies.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 17 January 2005 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Derek Jacobi yesterday, trying so hard not to be recognised it was painful to witness

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 4 February 2005 12:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Last week (Sat. night), I was sitting next to Jamie Foxx and his entourage at Balboa on Sunset Blvd. A very un-exclusive Hollywood hang-out, if you ask me, so I was kinda surprised to see him.

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Sunday, 6 February 2005 09:07 (nineteen years ago) link

yesterday andrew w.k., bitches.

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 6 February 2005 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Last weekend: author Philip Roth, talking to a streetside book vendor w/ a table full of "The Plot Against America." "Yo, buddy, I'm not getting any royalties here."

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Sunday, 6 February 2005 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw Norman Blake in Glasgow Central Station last Wednesday.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 6 February 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link

And Paul Lambert taking his daughter to her dance class up the stairs from my work.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 6 February 2005 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link

i saw david walliams on new oxford street last week, with a very pink t-shirt on.

also the other week we *think* we saw ben stiller's parents in the princess louise.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Sunday, 6 February 2005 21:05 (nineteen years ago) link

i saw michael pitt and kim gordon dining together at pop burger. then eva mendes at the christopher deane fashion show. and tori spelling & amanda lepore at the heatherette show. and randomly met k1ngs of convenience at a turkish restaurant tonite, and i guess im doing their merch table for their gig tomorrow and 3rlend wants to dj at my party in april i think. that should be fun!

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 7 February 2005 07:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Is saying you've seen Ann Magnuson when she was scheduled to be there anyway a sighting or not?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 February 2005 07:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Phil, you never fail to amaze me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 7 February 2005 07:17 (nineteen years ago) link

once, i saw the dreamy keyboardist from canasta at a mexican restaurant in chicago. he's a vegetarian!

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 7 February 2005 07:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Back in the middle of December, my friend and I went to Burke W1ll1ams day spa in the Sherman Oaks Galleria, and we saw P4ul4 4bdul there, naked and crying hysterically with her friend.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 7 February 2005 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link

she just wasn't feelin it dog.

― Big Baby Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 7 February 2005 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw Moby at the Film Forum concessions counter last week, garnishing his popcorn. (Not as memorable a FF moment as the time Keanu Reeves and his two friends repeatedly circled the auditorium at a sold-out showing of a Lenny Bruce documentary before they secured 3 folding chairs in the back.)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link

So my fav thing about celebrity sightings on, say, Gawker is that they make for good restaurant recommendations.

First thing when I walked out my apartment yesterday was Maggie Gyllenhaal wearing a kind of ugly outfit and an iPod. She looked cute.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 7 February 2005 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Penelope Cruz in the lobby of Chateau Marmont on Friday night. Very pretty woman. Made eye contact but that's it. Love Castillian lisping. Also saw Patti LaBelle sitting with flowers. Apparently Orlando Bloomps was in a bungalow next to one where I was at a party, but no one saw him.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 00:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Julianne Moore, at Dojo on Bleecker on Sunday afternoon (NYC). She's still hot, I don't know how old she is, but wow.

― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 02:57 (nineteen years ago) link

marilyn manson walking up cooper square. the eye tipped me off.

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 03:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Martin Johnson, Tom Wilkinson and the Queen, last Thursday at Buck House.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 10:47 (nineteen years ago) link

i saw a guy that looked like comic book guy walking with a guy that looked like lenny i shit you not

― charleston charge (chaki), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 11:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Julianne Moore, at Dojo on Bleecker on Sunday afternoon (NYC). She's still hot, I don't know how old she is, but wow.

YES! I'm so jealous of you.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 11:28 (nineteen years ago) link

i saw that guy who played the senior lawyer in l.a. law in a copenhagen, denmark suburb ten years ago. now take that, be-yortches!

― Jay-Kid (Jay-Kid), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 20:31 (nineteen years ago) link

That bloke from Eastenders, possibly called Minty, who used to be an extra who was one of Phil Mitchell's hard nut mates and then worked his way up to a speaking role as the unrequited lover of Sam Mitchell and now may or may not be in it any more (I gave up watching it about a year ago). He moved into the flat directly across the street from my flat a few weeks ago.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, Bernard Butler must live very nearby too. I've seen him around a few times. Once I found myself sitting opposite him on the Victoria Line. We both got off at Finsbury Park and both queued up for the same bus. Then we both got off at the same bus stop and walked down the same three streets. By this stage I was getting worried he would think I was a mad stalker so I pretended to tie my shoelace until he disappeared out of sight.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah Minty is still in EE I think. Was he also originally off Grange Hill like years ago?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link

GO OVER AND ASK HIM NOW!!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 22 February 2005 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link

saw Ed Burns after a play (starring andrew mccarthy!) last night. also saw Liev Schreiber awhile back in a restaurant.

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Dave Lopez of L.A. local KCBS news - at the Santa Ana Courthouse yesterday, 10th floor. Well, he's a celebrity to me!

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Friday, 25 February 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link

In the last week or so:

P1erce Bro$nan
Jerry O'Conne11
Ray L10tta

― EComplex (EComplex), Friday, 25 February 2005 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

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