4 posts tagged “celebrity”

Walked by Meg Ryan today. She was standing on the sidewalk near a ton of movie trailers lined up along the Boston  Public Gardens. I had snagged a spot at the end of the blocked off street where there were just a few spaces open. No one was really around as I walked by the dozen or so trailers. Looking into the makeup and wardrobe trailers is cool--being able to see in is a treat.

As I said, it was pretty quiet along that sidewalk. It wasn't blocked off so I just walked past all the trailers along my way. Then I noticed a security guard sort of lingering near one of the trailers. Two women were standing near him talking. Lo! and Behold! It was Meg Ryan chatting with a dark haired woman with MASSIVE curlers in her hair. Three of them, I think, standing in a huge triangle around her head. I didn't really recognize her but in checking out IMDB to see what the movie was, I'm pretty sure she was talking to Debra Messing. And no, Meg Ryan's face wasn't all botoxed up and her lips looked perfectly normal, which was good. She's a beautiful woman who doesn't need to mess with all that crap.

It was so strange to see them. I literally nearly brushed shoulders with them because the sidewalk was a bit of a mess and I had to move around them. There was no one else around. I wanted to play the FAN but there are few instances where you can play the fan and not be the ANNOYING FAN (Joe and I talk about that everytime he sees Malkovich in Harvard...we decided there is nothing you could say to him without looking like an asshole) so I kept walking. She looked pretty much just like she does in the picture to the right. Her hair was a bit curlier though.

Turns out the film is The Women, starring a whole slew of well, women:

 

	Eva Mendes	...	Crystal Allen
	Meg Ryan	...	Mary Haines
	Debra Messing	...	Edith Potter
	Annette Bening	...	Sylvia Fowler
	Jada Pinkett Smith	...	Miriam Aarons
	Candice Bergen	...	Mary's Mother
	India Ennenga	...	Molly Haines (attached)
	Gloria Crist	...	Editorial Assistant

And of course, Eva scored the best name. But wow, what a cast! They've been filming for a few weeks now. The trailers take up major parking spaces downtown, which is a pain. It's great to see more movies being filmed here these days. For a long time the high costs of dealing with the various unions was a barrier to production taking place here but it seems to be changing up. I don't think we'll be on the same level with NY or LA but celebrity sightings are definitely more common these days.

how fucking cool I find Jezebel? One of my new daily stopping spots...

A new mag founded as an answer to the five great lies of women's magazines.

Oh girly, it doesn't matter who you are when you mess up THAT bad. I'll have an extra drink for you on June 5 when I'm blowing out my candles, knowing that no matter what I'll be wearing,  I'll be infinitely more stylish than you in that orange jumpsuit. ;-)

The Phoenix just came out with their list...

I agree with many obvious choices on the list, (Larry King, Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, Phil Specter, Karl Rove, etc.) but I definitely give them a thumbs up for including these very unsexy men:

100. Tom Cruise -- he's so freaky that he's a total turn-off now
85. Jon Basedrow -- I never knew that was his name...Joe and I just call him Ant-Man
80. Ann Coulter  -- YES!
73. Pope Benedict XVI  -- he'll probably beat me with his Pope-stick now
57. Randy Johnson -- ugliest man in baseball, IMHO
50. Mitt Romney makes me want to hurl. My skin is crawling as I write this. He would be in top 5 if I were writing this list.
35. Kevin Federline -- icky icky icky
30. Howie Mandel  -- Joe calls him "penis-head" or something along those lines
20. Jared Fogel -- the subway guy isn't terribly inspiring...
18. Mel Gibson -- I have to agree on this one...any admiration I used to have for the man disappeared when he did the Passion...all other events just solidified my thoughts.
16. Bill O'Reilly -- the Phoenix calls him the Worst Person In the World. Agreed.
14. US Senators from MA -- yeah Kennedy and Kerry aren't really terribly sexy
13. Philip Seymour Hoffman -- since Capote I've been a bit weirded out by him but I think he's an incredible actor
7. Sanjaya is SO not sexy. He's wimpy and wtf is up with that icky face fuzz? I guess it's the only thing that keeps him from looking like a 12 year old.
3. Flavor Flav -- watching him is far worse than watching a train wreck; I have to cover my eyes.
1. Trump.  -- 'Nuff said.

I do think #65 Colin Meloy is sort of sexy in a super-nerdy way though...maybe just because he sings such smart, overly-intelligent cool stuff that I can overlook the surface. 

I'm surprised Bush wasn't on the list, but he probably wasn't because it was just so obvious. He's beyond the list, I think...beyond unsexy. He can't even be thought of as any sort of sexiness...