Why is there no ILX celebrity sighting thread?

^ outside the haunted house at the funfair at my local park

but... Gaz Coombes died 30 years ago

oh no, not Gaz!

Immortal matador of tunesmithery, always in our hearts

Revive for Michael C. Hall in garden square near me, with really cute dog.

minor indie rock celebrities: i saw sadie dupuis and dylan baldi at the whole foods i shop at. sadie had a big leopard-print coat on, it was neat.

baldi is from cleveland and i feel like i've seen him elsewhere around town

If minor indie rock celebrities count then I sighted one in my apartment the other night. Not sure if they count, tho.

In a mirror?

just remembered that about 6 months ago i am 95% certain i walked past julia stiles

malcolm gladwell running the opposite direction from me on the prospect park jogging loop
had to restrain myself from malkovich-style screaming HEY GLADWELL and chucking a water bottle at his head

"On average, I can expect to be pelted in the head with a water bottle every 3 years. I guess I was due."

HEY GLADWELL THINK FAST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-lSUz0Hn10

I actually saw Gladwell out the window of a diner on hudson street. I never thought I would be the type of person who recognized New Yorker writers on the street, yet here we are.

Sam Rockwell on a bike looking v confused in Atl's Little 5 points

My little niece had blisters from her new dress shoes after her Mum's very important thing. So while her Mum finished up, we wandered down Victoria Embankment to see if we could find her some Union Jack flip flops or something equally cheap and tacky. We ended up outside Charing Cross and found an Accessorize, where there were cheap kiddie flip flops. But this girl is so slow at choosing what she wants and my partner will give in to this. I was hungover and tired from the important thing so I paced up and down the shop for ten minutes while she tried on the three different options of flip flops endless times. Just as I was about to suggest this 6 year old should walk through Covent Garden bare foot, Michael Smiley walked past with the smallest handbag dog on a lead, listening to his headphones and mumbling to himself. Cheered me up no end.

Paul Rudd at the Yo La Tengo show in Central Park

French artist ORLAN in the Whole Foods on Houston.

Michelle Yeoh on Prince St. in SoHo.

lead singer of hot hot heat at the jam space i go to

Pet3r Bl4ck from The Hard-Ons behind me at the post office, holding two 12"-square packages. Presumably solo albums that someone in Denmark is paying $25 postage for, which will buy him a bag of lentils.

kirk pengilly from inxs and his wife layne beachley (world champion surfer) at our local supermarket a couple of weeks ago

steve coogan outside tesco in rottingdean

Served the same man in Tesco years ago.

Tiny innee

saw him outside quo vadis in soho last summer

my wife met ravi shankar's dog yesterday

i stood next to bob weir at a metallica show the other day

David Hayman, not much of a celebrity perhaps, but he's watching the Celtic v. Motherwell game in the pub right now, so he's alright by me.

Umair Haque in his leather jacket, 34th St Herald Square subway NYC a couple of months ago

Never heard of either of those

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Haque is of "I'm from the internet and I'm here to help" ilx fame

Is that him in the pictures?

Yep

simon callow sat opposite me on the tube the other day. not sure how much he counts as a celebrity tho.

More than 90% here or in the rolling rip threads

(xp) More than this Umair Haque chap, for sure. And David Hayman too.

Keith Carradine in front of a restaurant somewhere EV-adjacent on Bond or Bleecker St.

Pretty sure jimmy Fallon has a place on gramercy Park, seen him there in the morning a couple of times, today with what seemed to be his wife and kid in a stroller

Yeah I guess so
https://ny.curbed.com/2014/9/5/10050662/jimmy-fallon-now-owns-five-units-in-his-gramercy-building

Haven't seen him myself but Bryan Ferry is in the library today, I can tell you what he's reading though: the Hogarth Press edition of "The Waste Land" from 1923.

i saw alan bennett crossing a road in harley street

(i was not there for medical reasons though he may have been)

Lucinda Williams was at the last show I went to, at what the guy on stage called a boyt, b-o-y-t

New Doctor Who Jodie Whittaker and Siobhan Finneran were on the table behind us at an Italian in Cardiff today.

Pretty sure jimmy Fallon has a place on gramercy Park, seen him there in the morning a couple of times, today with what seemed to be his wife and kid in a stroller

\o/

this is not a celebrity but i've been working on a video project for somebody and we had to do some last minute work today and at the end of it her coworker made us a nice meal. during dinner they dropped the info that he had a bit part in "Murder in Coweta County", the 1983 made-for-tv movie staring Andy Griffith and Johnny Cash. he never actually met them but he did go to the premier party and Johnny and June Carter Cash were there. so that's pretty sweet.

^

We had about a dozen program directors in my 11 years at the radio station. My favorite one was this older guy named Jimmy. Kind of a shorter fella, kind of a rugged Bob Costas thing about him, if you can imagine something so crazy. Brass pipes that sounded just as sonorous in his office as it did on the radio.

He was always vague about his background, just listing a bunch of WXXXs and KXXXs real fast if asked. He once said how "the boys" used to love a big yard he had back in Virginia, but never mentioned them again. But one time, he let it slip that he had played the bad guy in an 80s made-for-TV movie starring Mean Joe Greene.

Say the fuck what? This was 15 years ago, so with an hour of searching online and an hour of waiting for the video to buffer, we finally found some clips. Apparently, the plot began soon after the moment in the Coca-Cola commercial where MJG throws his jersey to the kid. There's Jimmy, with 80s porn stache, walking in on MJG in the locker room, admonishing him for giving up the jersey. "You should've never given away that property. It's worth a lot of money. For someone as washed up as you, Joe, with his better days behind him, that money might be worth something."

"The jersey belongs to the kid now!" says Greene, as he storms out of the room.

(Looking this up on imdb, I guess Greene tries to adopt the kid? That's one way to get your jersey back.)

My co-workers and I stared at the screen. What the fuck is this? Who is this guy? On cue, Jimmy comes down the hall, sees what we're watching. "Oh you finally found it, huh? Now put that away. We've got Bert Sugar calling in!"

So like Adam, maybe this post doesn't belong here. But then again, maybe it's Jimmy who's the real celebrity here.

I was sure for a moment that you were making up this idea of a movie based on a Coke commercial, but...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0257199/

Jimmy's the real deal

kinda puts the battleship movie in perspective dunnit