I've been here in Burbank - a stones throw from Hollywood for over a year, and haven't seen it. For some reason, I just don't feel compelled to do the whole tourist thing. It is cool, however, seeing famous people around town - sort of surreal. Here's who I've seen just hanging out in Burbank/LA
David Carradine - hanging out on the patio of a mexican restaurant as I jogged by.
Dannie Bonaduchi - waiting outside a restaurant, talking on the cellphone
Juliette Lewis - Shopping at my grocery store
Jay Lenno - Driving some Model T ford around town.
Vin Diesel - Walking through the parkinglot while I was eating a sandwhich.
I also think I ate lunch next to Napoleon Dynamite (John Hader), but wasn't completely sure because he looked so ....... normal.
Yay for fame. I would take the money associated with it, but I sure as hell wouldn't want to be 'known' everywhere I go.
Hollywood has cleaned up quite a bit in the last few years. I worked at the Kodak theater for a few months on the Ryan Seacrest show. It's not so bad lately. Nice name dropping there finger, hehehe. I am working on a movie right now with:
Anthony Hopkins, Christian Slater, Sharron Stone, William H. Macy,Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Lawrence Fishbourne, Martin Sheen, Heather Graham, Lindsey Lohan(?), Harry Belafonte, Helen Hunt, Elijah Wood, Shaia LeBouf, Brian Gahrety(?) Freddy Rodriguez(six feet under),Joshua jackson(Dawsons Creek), a slew of others i cant remember, directed by Emilio Estevez, and no I am not kidding. At least half of them are working every day. You get used to seeing the stars in LA, and almost tired of seeing them when working(at least I do, as gripping is labor intensive and physically exhaustive work). Most of them are pretty nice though.
