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Star Sightings!!
by Willow
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.
Comments
After seeing (and loving) As Good As It Gets, I cannot for the life of myself think of Greg Kinnear as anything other than a gay man.
It ruins things sometimes, e.g. the (already oh-so believable) romance in You've Got Mail.
Posted by: Sonja at August 3, 2006 5:03 PM
Providence? 1998? That's like totally my bag! Who was your "boyfriend"?
Posted by: larry forney at August 3, 2006 7:34 PM
wtf Selma's here???
Maybe he was getting some sympathy from the ladies for being kicked off of Project Runway.
Posted by: Rebecca at August 3, 2006 9:00 PM
His name was Jamie and he was a sophomore at Brown at the time. Were you at RISD?
Posted by: willow at August 4, 2006 11:06 AM
Yeah, those were the days.
Posted by: Larry Forney at August 4, 2006 12:26 PM
Please inform of all Selma Blair sightings please.
Remember when Kinnear hosted Talk Soup??
Posted by: Steve Schroeder at August 3, 2006 4:33 PM