Friday, April 6, 2007

Everyday People

So, I'm halfway through my commute the other morning, stopped at a light. I look over to my right into the driver's side of this big ol' gold, Lexus SUV. I hadn't yet had my coffee, but I'm like, "Is that...? I think...Yes, it's Leeza Gibbons." Was she on her way to "Dancing With the Stars" rehearsal perhaps? Should I offer up some pointers?

Don't worry folks, I'm not gonna tell you all every time I see a celeb out here. The purpose of today's treatise is actually to comment on the relatively mundane phenomenon it is for people to see celebs. It's no big deal to anyone out here, because it's the norm. I've now seen a real who's who in random famous people (my criteria for famous is, if I know who they are and we've never met, then they've clearly attained at least some degree of notoriety.) I've seen Kirstin Dunst, Kyra Sedgewick, Leeza Gibbons, "Crab Man" from "My Name is Earl," one of the lesser guys from "Swingers," and one of the Sklar twins from that "Cheap Seats" show. Throw in Bubba's two-for-Tuesday the other night of Lindsay Lohan and Quincy Jones' daughter from "The Office," and it's a pretty good lot for 4 months.

What's wild is, in all of these instances, it was coming across them in day to day life. The supermarket. The pharmacy. The hair salon. The parking lot. And what's gotta be pretty cool for them is, no one seems to hassle them at all. At least not during the day, away from the clubs. All bets are off if you're currently embroiled in a scandal of course, but out of all of these folks, not one of them was being badgered for pictures, autographs, etc. I gotta tip my hat to L.A. about that. Bodes well for my impending celebrity.

4 comments:

Darren Felzenberg said...

Very good. I like the way you said you weren't going to tell us about every time you see a celebrity ... and then you tell us about every time you have seen a celebrity.

Unless it's Betsy Russell on a horse, I'm not impressed.

Anonymous said...

I, for one, would love hearing about every time you see a celeb. Kinda fun to live vicariously.......

Anonymous said...

I, too, don't mind hearing about every celebrity you encounter. Perhaps you could have a subdivision of your blog to accommodate those of us who want to hear about each celebrity sighting.

Anonymous said...

I want to hear more about the pig. Orville should have his own section too. Come on man you got to please everyone