Why is there no ILX celebrity sighting thread?

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.

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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

I wish I could've found those clips, but my realaudio player is on the fritz.

- Bob Marley

Stephin Merritt, unsurprisingly attending the revived Fassbinder miniseries at NY's Film Forum.

Kenneth Cranham got on the (17) bus about halfway down Cally Road this morning. Wasn't sure it was him until he started having a very raucous actorly phone conversation peppered with ironic 'darlings', unfortunately I had to get off just as he was starting an anecdote about having to brush up his Scottish accent which involved Brian Cox.

I've seen David Tibet twice in the last 12 months. Should I ask him if Death In June are nazis?

Susan Sarandon at the movie theater. Missed the chance to harangue her about her ‘dangerous Hillary’ delusions.

Saw Juno Temple and Andre Royo this weekend. LA!

that's ok gunther, i'm sure she's been plagued by MSNBC binary nitwits for 18 months now

Brad Pitt(!) at a Nils Frahm show(!!)

Billy Dee Williams doing some grocery shopping

Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant at gate 22 terminal 3, Heathrow, waiting for a flight to Helsinki. Arguing the rights and wrongs of labour anti semitism and whether Sadiq Khan is a good mayor.

I was dancing with Karen O'Leary to Polynesian electro on Saturday night. Niche spots r me.

Oooh, Tennant and Lowe, interesting!

Is Karen O'Leary a famous person?

Mine was talking to Billy Bragg and finding he was, disappointingly given the abuse I've given him over the years, quite a nice bloke.

... on Saturday.

Karen O'Leary is a Kiwi actress who is in What We Do In The Shadows and currently starring in the spinoff TV show Wellington Paranormal.

i.e famous enough for me to have been aware of her back in Britain and enough to consider her a celeb now I'm in NZ.

At least Mackenzie Crook level if that helps.

Oh, I had no idea you were in NZ these days!

Only for the summer/winter depending on your perspective. (Which is why I guess it's a celeb thing, coming from outside.)

and currently starring in the spinoff TV show Wellington Paranormal.

well i guess i gotta look up this spinoff show! (is it good?)

Humour is a bit more Wellington-centic but it's pretty funny.

Same set up as their roles in the film, Minogue and O'Leary are oblivious to what's going on around them.

Vanessa Williams, talking to her friend whilst waiting for her car to be retrieved in midtown parking garage.

I guess they saved the best car for last

dr cox in a japanese cocktail bar at the next table rn

J0hn C. McGinl3y or some UK daytime talk show personality?

former

Ooh, that's a good one! I had a good one too.

Sat across from Tina Fey and her at the ferry dock over to fire island a couple weeks back. I had a minor freak out and we def had a moment where she realized I recognized her and the look on her face was "oh please don't talk to me" so I didn't. I REALLY WANTED TO THOUGH.

thats my secondary school experience with women in a nutshell tbh

TINA FEY THO

maybe that look was actually "I hope she talks to me"

Bez buying petrol in Waitrose Abergavenny.

Beautiful.

did he have a car with him or was he just buying a bucket of petrol to huff

He's driving a nice Merc these days.

In a tracksuit and pool shoes.

never change, king

tommy carcetti held the door for me at caffe nero

i saw nas outside ginza six
ate ramen with n1ck mu11en in Golden gai

Alan Davies in my local, I'm hoping he's just been to see Arsenal get humped by Man Utd, the twat.

bit late now but i walked by Oscar Isaac in Tate Britain in September, in a room with some sculptures, he was looking at one by Anthony Caro

On the bus to work today, listening to a track by Kleenex called "Madness", bus draws up outside Caledonian Road tube, I glance out the window and standing in front of me, waiting to cross the road, is Suggs.

Funnily enough, we were driving past Palmer Park in Reading, a bloke comes out of a house and gets in his car, I quip to my wife "That Alan Davies has let himself go, ...." then I realise it actually is him.

I've done likewise 'check out that twat, thinks he's Bono'.... oops

John Slattery. Gastown, Vancouver, about an hour and a half ago

'check out that twat, thinks he's Bono'.... oops

otm tho

Billy Gibb0ns of ZZ T0p, leaving a brewpub in Seattle’s tourist area, five minutes ago