Star Sightings!!

The movie stars are on my street.
I just arrived home from Rebecca’s birthday lunch at Ye Olde Spaghetti Factory and glanced out my window at the Fresh Pot (now ridiculously renamed “Jitters” for the duration of the filming.) Who was sitting on the step talking to a couple of pretty ladies? One Ga-Reg Kin-Near. He’s out there right now, as a matter of fact. He’s wearing sunglasses. Inside I noticed a large black man sitting at a table. I couldn’t see his face, but I guessed it was Morgan Freeman. Cha-ching! He came out a moment later, presumably to rehearse an entrance. I overheard Kinnear say to him, “Didn’t they tell you? I’m sitting on the stoop in this scene!” What a dork. Freeman laughed a little “heh heh,” clearly unimpressed with the bit, but then patted Greg’s back affectionately as he entered the cafe.
Notes:
* Kinnear is a very slight man. Slighter than you’d think.
* Freeman is quite large.
A piece of trivia:
* This is not the first time I have seen Kinnear on the set of a movie. In 1998, on an ill-fated trip from Denver to NYC and Providence, RI to visit a “boyfriend,” I stopped to watch a scene from one “You’ve Got Mail” being filmed on the Upper West Side. Yup, I spent 20 minutes of my life watching Kinnear sigh and then walk down the front steps of Meg Ryan’s brownstone holding a typewriter over and over. Later that night I got dumped. Ah, young love.