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is he as bald, in real life?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Homophobia, I imagine. Bez, that is.

Kate Winslet went to Red Roofs drama school in Maidenhead. I haven't seen her, but it has sort of kept me going for a couple of days.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 14:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I didn't know he was like that, he certainly wasn't the only time he was ever in the proximity of me, instead he was just telling very funny stories and signing the odd autograph - seemed a thoroughly decent (if completely fried) individual.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 14:22 (nineteen years ago) link

LINDSAY LOHAN, PEOPLE.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Bez is ace, according to friend who worked with him on his 'job's a good'un!' telly bits.

Kate Winslet used to work in a traiteur in Primrose Hill when I lived there, as a Saturday girl.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link

LINDSAY LOHAN, PEOPLE

I know! I can't believe this has gone unremarked upon, Spencer could be the new Wilmer.

― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link

GIVE US MORE SPENCER. WE MUST KNOW ALL.

― Dale Panopticalis (cprek), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Every time I see Adr1an Brody in a movie I think of Spencer's story.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I was trying to figure out of Spencer was having an out-of-body experience. (I'm also completely confused -- an "8-head"?)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Weirdly, I just saw Bez on Wardour Street on the corner of St Anne's Court. Spooky.

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link

double forehead, ned

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Now I'm even more confused! What in the world is a double-forehead? The equivalent to a double chin?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Whoa, I just realized my forehead is exactly as tall as four of my fingers!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link

A fucking big forehead, Ned.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link

why are big foreheads good? is this some kind of obscure fertility connection?

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link

I've seriously never heard either of those terms in my life. I just hear about big foreheads (I have one myself, especially in comparison to my sister).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Big Forehead = Brains

Which makes me and Markelby geniuses

― Ol' Dirty Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Speaking of Miss Lohan...
Last week I saw Fez (from That 70's Show) give Richard Jefferson (of the New Jersey Nets) a THUG HUG.

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Bez made some comment about gays in an interview or something. I think he was just 'having it large' and being a bit of a dimbo. To his credit, he did apologise about it later. I met them once and they were very nice, gentlemen in fact. Albeit gentlemen in search of cigarette papers. Perhaps PF is barking up a completely different tree. How should I know? Eh?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, a different tree.

The definitive statement about Happy Mondays was made not by me but by Andrew Dean, in a letter to Steady Mike, which with predictably uncanny recall Mike recited, roughly, to me, in August or September 1999. I liked the letter, as Mike recalled it, because it managed to convey contempt and hatred while eschewing obscenity.

― the bluefox, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, do tell.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't - I don't remember the wording. I have given an impression of what it said, I hope.

Mr. Dean himself, or Steady Mike, might be able to fill us in properly.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I have seen Dominik Diamond at Celtic a lot. I didn't realise he counted as a celebrity (I used to go to school with him, so don't consider him a celebrity anyway, but I didn't think anyone else did either).

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Was it just about music/dancing and related matters or other things?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link

i ate 10 tacos next to jeff weaver last night

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link

also, GOOD on s.chow.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link

PJM, it was about the band - 'music and dancing', yes. It wasn't about crimes they had committed, or anything; save of course crimes against pop.

But like I say - I didn't pen the letter.

― the bellefox, Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I want to see Spencer's name in the tabloids as "Handsome LA mystery man-did he split up Lindsay and Wilmer?"

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link

They can all chase after us for scoops, we can airily say 'no comment'...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Details! Skinnier than I was expecting - She seems to have lost a bit of baby-fat, but looks very healthy. I'm firmly in the 'I think they're real' category as 'they' seem to have shrunk a bit too. Beautiful milky skin with freckles - she thankfully abandoned that overtan/frosted look she was getting. Amazing voice. Blue jeans, low cut black top (but not really racy). Seemed very nice (hasn't gone all Tara Reid). No Fez (according to someone, they broke up last Thursday - I was like "wtf? how do you know that?"). HUGE bodyguard. I unfortunately completely lost my ability to speak near her, however I busted some dancefloor moves when they played "Gimme the Night"!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:49 (nineteen years ago) link

*bows in acknowledgement* Spencer, indeed = the bomb.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link

(Me, I would have been stuck somewhere in a pit with a huge wedge of asiago cheese dumped on top of me.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 18:52 (nineteen years ago) link

That's quite a bukkakeuphimism.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link

just saw Al Pacino...5th ave and 45th

― ddb (ddb), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link

digits, spencer?

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha, nope.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link

okay i am officially jealous, spencer.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm getting a little bummed out because I just realized there aren't really any more actresses I want to see in person. Oh wait, I forgot about Nicole Kidman!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link

The cream of Glaswegian writing talent, William McIllvanney, his brother Hugh (I think) and Alasdair Gray in the same bar at the corner of Byres Road and Great Western road.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Saturday, 20 November 2004 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link

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

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