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I thought I saw Trent Raznor in Streatham this morning. And did a double take thinking, what on EARTH would he be doing in Streatham? But then Tim Windmill told me that apparently loads of Merkin bands (especially ones playing at the Academy) go down to Streatham to score dope. So go figure. Still no idea if it was actually him or not. He was certainly *short* enough.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 12 March 2007 10:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Win and Regine from Arcade Fire talking to Nick from the Frank Ferdinands in Mono on Saturday night.

― Stew, Monday, 12 March 2007 10:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I really like the idea that Trent Reznor chills out in Streatham. I hope it was him.

― chap, Monday, 12 March 2007 14:21 (seventeen years ago) link

boris johnson (sorry kaet!) again, this morning at 9.30 on rosebery ave by exmouth market. i was on the 38 facing backwards, he was on his bike and he and the bus had to stop at the same time. he was wearing a red woolly hat and i couldn't help giggling, he looked up and saw me and smiled sheepishly.

A friend saw Amy Winehouse on the 134, sitting at the back singing one of her own songs to herself really loudly.

this makes me SO SO HAPPY.

― emsk, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:09 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Whoopi Goldberg leaving the Dreamworks complex in her Mercedes yesterday afternoon.

And then last night at the Jerry's Deli next to the Beverly Center (I don't usually go there since it's overpriced and mediocre quality)...

Tobey Maguire
James Spader
Sam Moore!

Only way it could have been better was if all three were at the same table

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 29 March 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link

in decreasing order of interest, on my recent holidays I saw:

Clint Eastwood buying petrol just outside Celebration, FL
Davis Love III walking down International Drive, Orlando
Julia Foster & Bruce Fogle on my flight from Tampa to Gatwick

― ailsa, Thursday, 29 March 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Joan Cusack at a Bulls game! I didn't recognize her until that put her face on the Jumbotron. She was 3 seats away from me.

― Jeff, Thursday, 29 March 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

in the past two months or so:

whoopi goldberg at the calexico taco cart in soho. (she didn't buy anything)

ed koch at an awards ceremony i went to.

sofia coppola on broadway and prince (the day of the oscar broadcast)

― impudent harlot, Friday, 30 March 2007 04:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Kevin Rowland queued up behind me in the chemist's the other week. He was sort of dressed like a weird cross between a country gent and a Cuban pimp. A sartorial development from my last sighting when the look was more Ali G meets Catweazle. Anyhow, he bought mouthwash and Handy Andies - poor man must have a touch of the sniffles. It's all that hanging around on the front of records in his mum's knickers I think.

― NickB, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Chris Tarrant was in my work local a couple of weeks ago - the Glassblower on the corner of Brewer St & Glasshouse St.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

jared leto (wearing a groovy shirt) at the echo on tuesday night

― get bent, Friday, 30 March 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Ooh this week has been a great week for celebrity sighting for me...

Natalie Portman and Peter Gabriel at a conference I was working at.
Johnny Greenwood's cheekbones and jawline just from wandering around town.

― Jill, Saturday, 31 March 2007 12:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Johnny Greenwood's cheekbones and jawline just from wandering around town.

!!!

Around where? Is he beardy?

― Melissa W, Saturday, 31 March 2007 12:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I saw Miranda July at a vegetarian restaurant in Chelsea (which wasn't very good). She was with some dude, and she was making the same over-deliberate "endearing" faces she makes in the film.

― Hurting 2, Saturday, 31 March 2007 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Tobey Maguire
James Spader
Sam Moore!

Only way it could have been better was if all three were at the same table

And they all had their nobs out.

― Mark C, Saturday, 31 March 2007 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I saw Martin Freeman on Great Marlborough Street last week - he was the only person in Soho wearing sunglasses.

― Mark C, Saturday, 31 March 2007 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Around where? Is he beardy?

Oxford. He was pushing a pram with a kid. There was a lady with another kid behind.

I always forget how sharp his bone structure is.

― Jill, Saturday, 31 March 2007 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Oxford. He was pushing a pram with a kid. There was a lady with another kid behind.

I always forget how sharp his bone structure is.

Ah yes, it is quite sharp. Is he looking good? Or is age creeping up on him yet? :)

― Melissa W, Saturday, 31 March 2007 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

One thing I love about the Upper West Side of Manhattan is that you get a more interesting variety of celebrity sighting -- less star power, more fondness. This week has totally delivered for me with two great ones:

1.) Saturday morning, looking really rumpled and messy, crossing Amsterdam somewhere in the 80s -- Garrison Keillor

2.) Just now, standing next to me on the 1 train from 50th to 79th: Richard Kind (who I love), of Mad About You / Spin City not-exactly-"fame."

Richard Kind was double-interesting because (a) just before I left for work I watched the last episode of Spin City before Michael J. Fox left, which is of course kinda teary and lovable (and incidentally makes mention of Fox's character hating a junior senator from Ohio named Alex P. Keaton), plus (b) the only other people who had a noticeable "hey wow that actor is on the train" were black, which may or may not have to do with the last few times I've seen him being on All of Us and Bernie Mac, plus (c) he may have thought I was a big weirdo, because I couldn't help spending the whole ride smiling broadly and thinking "wow Richard Kind! I love that guy! He's so lovable! It makes me smile just looking at him!"

― nabisco, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:51 (seventeen years ago) link

i love richard kind too !!! lucky.

― chaki, Friday, 6 April 2007 01:36 (seventeen years ago) link

richard kind fucking rules

― get bent, Friday, 6 April 2007 05:34 (seventeen years ago) link

french stewart over by raleigh studios on melrose. what a freak!

― gershy, Friday, 6 April 2007 06:28 (seventeen years ago) link

aw richard kind is so grebt!

i never see famous ppl anymore even though i work at 30 rock (wtf?! where is tina fey?!). i think i saw one dude from snl once (i can't remember which one) and i have seen one of conan's band members a few times.

― tehresa, Friday, 6 April 2007 07:18 (seventeen years ago) link

i see people from snl all the time and im on the wrong coast! recent sightings: molly shannon, amy pohler, fred armisen.

― chaki, Friday, 6 April 2007 07:27 (seventeen years ago) link

today at lunch was steve carell eating with his wife at jinkys on ventura blvd then while walking back to the office i saw muhammed ali's daughter coming out of a dance studio! 2 in 1

― chaki, Saturday, 7 April 2007 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link

doesn't the office film in van nuys?

― get bent, Saturday, 7 April 2007 02:57 (seventeen years ago) link

fun fact: fred armisen was in one and directed another video for my roommates' band! the one he directed was shot all around my neighborhood/in our basement. i don't know how long ago this all happened, but i secretly wish he'd show up at our house some day for more fun! i am too embarrassed about being starstruck to even ask roomies how they know him!

― tehresa, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:07 (seventeen years ago) link

i duno if they film in van nuys but i think steve lives in the hills above ventura blvd.

― chaki, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link

apparently you can drive past the dunder mifflin building (aka "chandler studios") on 13927 saticoy st, which is either van nuys or panorama city depending on which source you believe. zip code is 91402. the characters' cars are in the parking lot.

― get bent, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:17 (seventeen years ago) link

oh i know where that is.

― chaki, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:18 (seventeen years ago) link

thats panorama afaic btw

― chaki, Saturday, 7 April 2007 03:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought i saw nicole kidman driving on santa monica blvd in beverly hills. i didn't take note of what she was driving.

― get bent, Sunday, 8 April 2007 00:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Most of the cast of Grindhouse + Tarantino at Graumans Chinese last night for the 8pm showing. Also there were Simon Pegg and Chris Parnell.

― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 8 April 2007 07:11 (seventeen years ago) link

conversation with friend of a girl i'm friends with who came into my restaurant and sat in my section:

me: so, what do you do?
her: um, i'm in a movie.
me: really? awesome. so, what, is it like an indie or...?
her: uh, no. it's a hollywood movie.
me: wow, that's cool. who's in it?
her: ben stiller
me: holy shit, you're serious? not joking? how much time do you get on the movie, how big is your role?
her: uhh... i'm the main character.

!!!

― modestmickey, Sunday, 8 April 2007 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link

this person walked past me last week singing "ain't no sunshine" quietly to herself:

http://www.patswayne.com/ppage/ppcs3.jpg

― scott seward, Sunday, 8 April 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

genesis p-orridge

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Honestly, it's just too good not to tell. So I go to Teddy's on wednesday and see Eve, Elisha Cuthbert, Paris Hilton (standard clientele), and... Sean Penn. My friend's sister steps on his foot, but we were relieved when he's cool about it. 5 minutes after we leave, Eve crashes her Maserati Quattroporte into a median. The big news is that Sean Penn went to visit her in jail at 4am and offered to bail her out! He didn't seem like he was on the make or anything. I think he was just like, 'gotta bail out my drinking buddy'. Also, I may have been freakin' on Eve on the dancefloor...

― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 28 April 2007 09:34 (seventeen years ago) link

wow. that makes me really wanna befriend sean penn! even moreso than before... also puts elvis costello and philip glass sightings to shame!

i don't know if she's really a celebrity but i also saw caroline rhea while walking down 6th ave after work one day. she looked really shitty and was wearing some of the ugliest pink track pants i have ever seen.

― tehresa, Saturday, 28 April 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Robert de Niro at Trinity Church screening of Passio

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Who or what is Eve?

Sally Phi11ips on Berwick Street, looking pregnant.

― Mark C, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Alison from Big Brother 2002, Epcot Florida.

Dawn says "Oh, there's Alison from BB!" I say "Oh, she looks like her..."

And then she produces a microphone and starts talking into a camera in brummie..

― Mark G, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I saw someone that looked very like Sandy-that-pissed-in-a-bin-and-jumped-over-the-fence from Big Brother at London City Airport last Sunday. I've still never seen any of the Scottish Big Brother contingent (I must be the only one never to have seen Shahbaz!), though my brother was on first name terms with Cameron's mum when she was flying down for all his eviction nights back in the day.

― ailsa, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Eve is a rapper/singer/actress. She was in Barbershop and, most recently, a mugshot.

Who's Sally Phi11ps.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Comedy actress - Smack the Pony, I'm Alan Partridge, Bridget Jones films, rubbish sitcoms.

― ailsa, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I love her!

― Dr.C, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I fear you're too late (I used to love her too, in Alan Partridge, sigh).

― Mark C, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

note: no one asked who ROBERT DE NIRO is

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

My dad did, once, when he met him. Well, he came home and told us he'd met some American actor called Robert De Niro and had we heard of him because apparently he's quite famous?

― ailsa, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link

in th shop:akron family,fred schneider,jolie holland,mercury rev,martha stewart,harvey fierstein.chanmarsshll,mr ibold,banhrt(doesnt really count),
in town:dan aykroyd,philip glass(not fair he lives here),alan cummings,heath and his wife,carly simon!(me 2),kate pierson,mike tyson..etc

― danbunny, Monday, 30 April 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I used to love her too, in Alan Partridge

That sounds so ew. I don't know why. Maybe I have a filthy mind.

― stevienixed, Monday, 30 April 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

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