Why is there no ILX celebrity sighting thread?

Properly gorgeous, that lady.

rather disarming. she gave me one of those no-nonsense actress looks before she realized i wasn't a creep, and then she smiled and it was nice.

Mike Leigh, in the young trendy person's hair salon in Lamb's Conduit Street.

b-list sighting: jonathan "weekend at bernie's" silverman at my local Rite-Aid with a cute blonde who looked very familiar. Turns out she's tv actress jennifer finnigan and they are married. surprisingly didn't give off any douche-y vibes.

Saw Dennis Leary taping some stupid show he does at the uhhhh drunk polish german tavern looking place a while ago. he was very tall and was wearing unfashionable clothing

maulik pancholy (jonathan on 30 rock) on the jay st. A/C/F platform

Avey Tare on the 4 train into Brooklyn. I wasn't 100% sure it was him until I checked photos later. I kept looking at him because I wasn't sure if it was him, and I think he kept looking at me like "I wonder if I'm being recognized."

i saw dennis leary taping that crappy show in greenpoint a while ago. i didn't recognize him at first, but he looked to be about 7 feet tall and was wearing these ridiculous boot cut jeans ... the kind-of thing you'd expect to see in 1998-2000 or something.

Ha! Funny that velko mentions Jonathan Silverman. I saw him last weekend at the White Horse in LA. Then just when I thought it couldn't get any lower on the celebrity spotting scale, on Friday night I saw the blond surfer guy from TMZ out in Long Beach.

god. that guy.

the white horse = that dump on western?

exactly. the place inside the super 8 that smells of maple syrup and offers free hot dogs? yes, that place.

Rex Reed at a screening of a very putrid film

you GUYS. i just had a conversation with kim cattrall. ok fine it was about business. but then something was held up with her tickets and so she was just standing there like wondering what to do. so i go "i know this is a really inopportune time to tell you this but i'm a huge fan of your work"

and she did a little smile thing and said oh thank you

she's TINY and NICE. i'm going to get a glass of wine now and try and forget how not smooth i just was/.

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

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1x1mvb2W23Q/Sce239pqNoI/AAAAAAAABAY/5ZzAr6p_Fgo/s400/king.jpg

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.