Why is there no ILX celebrity sighting thread?

british character actor roger allam, walking through middle of cambridge

i only saw her face for half a second, but i think i spotted debra messing driving a black bmw on santa monica blvd.

Saw Hugh out of the Housemartins on Newland Ave the other day but I do that most weeks.

nancy travis was in my intro to judaism retreat this weekend

Larry King, looking v much like Montgomery Burns and Nosferatu, walking into Citi Field on Saturday with Mets owner Fred Wilpon.

yeah, he's mad withered irl

and he had his son with him who's about 12. yeeesh

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scrubs/roseanne actress sarah chalke in local supermarket
looking way too skiny

oooh you should tell the enquirer she's on smack.

shooting up with julia roberts

this week:

parker posey at an opening
gilbert gottfried on 22nd street
david byrne at a dance performance

Saturday: classy young British actress Rosamund Pike, sitting next to us at a Dexter Sinister event at the ICA.

i think i saw angela from the office today, but that almost doesn't count because office sightings are pretty common.

Emily the Indie Racist from Big Brother buying bread in the Christian Bread Store in Bristol at the weekend.

eric balfour (b-list, i know) walking down vermont ave with some chunky gal

elvis costello wearing a purple hat which was more interesting as guy-in-purple-hat than elvis costello (to me)

i think i saw angela from the office today, but that almost doesn't count because office sightings are pretty common.

Yeah. Kate Flannery lives in our neighborhood so we see her all the time at the grocery store, etc.

Greg Germann (obscure name, but recognizable from the hundreds of TV shows he's been in) next to me at the to-go line at Sunnin in Westwood.

Is John Sinclair a celebrity? Well, he is to me, so there. Saw him last night at a Marshall Allen gig, he even spoke to me but I couldn't make it what he said, pretty sure it wasn't "Kick out the jams, motherfucker" though.

What was the gig like though?

Amazing, he played for 4 hours! He's 85 you know!

For a second there I thought you meant John Gordon Sinclair and I was puzzled why you'd find him hard to understand :/

i saw old-school character actor clu gulager for the second time this past weekend, at a screening of the hurt locker.

Amazing, he played for 4 hours! He's 85 you know!

I bet it was too.

I saw Gok Wan near Oxford Circus on my lunch break today. He dined in the dim sun place on Eastcastle Street.

Is John Sinclair a celebrity? - He used to regularly play at a jazz club I worked at. Truthfully, he always came off as kind of a prick, but at least his ant-capitalist values held out enough to sell me a brand new, signed first edition of Guitar Army for like $15. He'll always be A+++ in my book b/c of that.

Last week on the train to London I sat with Justin Lee Collins on the way up and Dick Strawbridge on the way back.

Eddie Izzard - wandering around Soho
Dr. Liam Fox - on train to Glasgow
Phil Tufnell - on train from Glasgow

Stephen Tobolowsky at the Ikea in Costa Mesa
(probably don't know him by name, but he's been in damn near every TV show ever and a bunch of movies)

i just looked him up and he should totally play dr morbius in the ilx movie

cable host and reactionary prick LOU DOBBS in a doctors office friday AM. unfortunately it wasn't the urologist (where some karma would be delivered).

he looked up and smiled at me w/that self-satisfied "you know who i am doncha" expression and i was in the elevator before I realized who he was.

Jack McBrayer and Charlyne Yi at Home in Los Feliz a couple nights ago.

Also, Toby Maguire and his wife motorcycling down 6th in front of our apartment last night.

Rick Witter at a bus stop in York.

Jesus at Taco Bell, in my gordita.

Nick Cave on the beach at Hove in his swimming trunks.

*Murray Melvin! In Soho yesterday! This excited me no end.

*(Younger ILXors are advised to ask and older friend or relative)

I saw Keith Chegwin in Soho on Tuesday. Wasn't all that excited tbh.

Was he naked?

Younger ILXors who like the Smiths might recognize Murray Melvin!

Two weeks ago, I ate sushi at Katsuya on Ventura not 10 feet away from both Matt Parkman from Heroes, and B-Real from Cypress Hill.

Give it up for Valley sushi spot bringing the celeb love.

Murray Melvin lives? I can't imagine how big those ears must look now... I'd recog him primarily from his Barry Lyndon clergyman.

Mike Leigh in Waitrose. An old lady, who he seemed vaguely acquainted with, said to him 'you still making your films then?', in the same way your grandmother might ask you about one of your little hobbies.

Mike Leigh lives locally, I see him walking around near my house all the time.

Four Poofs, minus their Piano, in Edinburgh.

(note for Americans, yes, the UK has an unfathomably popular cabaret troupe called Four Poofs and a Piano. lol Britishes, etc)

its cute that they hang out together as a group

yeah 4 realz that's always heartening to know!

jesse bradford (the guy kirsten dunst likes in bring it on) in los feliz

Jack McBrayer and Charlyne Yi at Home in Los Feliz a couple nights ago.

haha just saw this after my last post