Again, I had another blog post ready to go but other events in my life just keep getting in the way. Typical that I have not blogged in a while then all of a sudden I become a blogging fool. Perfect for a rainy Saturday.
I have have had my fair share of celebrity sightings in Boston.....
John Malkovich asked me for directions in Harvard Square as I was crossing the street once. He was very nice.
I was in line for Ice Cream on Newbury street with Melissa Etheridge and her wife Tammy and their kids. I literally was in front of Tammy in line and we exchanged a few words about Boston real estate. On my way out of the ice cream store, I almost tripped over one of their kids and literally ran into Melissa Etheridge.
I walked by Debra Winger talking to her kid about where he wanted to go to lunch. I recognized her solely by her voice.
Peter Jennings said hello and asked me how I was doing when I walked by him on the stairs at work some years ago.
The list goes on...Phil Donahue, Julia Child, Christina Ricci. BUT...
Last night was a dozy. Mel and I were at
The Intermission Tavern in the theatre district sitting at a table by the door. We were there with Mel's friend Charlie from W. Virginia and some of his City Year friends who were all very nice. We ended up staying after Charlie left and hung out with a couple of them for a bit. One of the guy's wife plays for another flag football team in my league. Anyway each time the door opened it was freezing so you could not help look up and glare. So at around 10pm or so the door opens and I look up and in walks a tall guy with a 5 o'clock shadow in a scully cap. He was with about 4 people. My eyes opened as wide as saucers and Mel was like "What is wrong with you?". I managed to croak out, "John Hamm just walked into the bar."Holy Crap!!! I whip out my iphone and post and immediate tweet. Then I went into mini freak out mode. His group walked to the back of the bar, Mr. Hamm took off his cap and whoa even Mel was like yup that is him. The two other people at our table were equally as excited. Only two of us watch the show
Mad Men so we ended up waxing poetic about how great it was. So after about 15 minutes a table opened up and Mr. Hamm's group sat down. No one approached or bothered him, not sure if it was out of respect or the other patrons did not realize it was him. I headed to the bathroom and said to the woman in line. "Do you watch Mad Men?" she was like "No". I explained that the star of the show was in the bar, and she was like "That is cool". Of course I sat back down and looked down the bar and that same woman was sitting at the table right next to him. SON OF A BITCH, what a waste. A woman in their party got up to leave, he got up and kissed her on the cheek, as she walked by we all remarked that she looked familiar but could not place her, so I am guessing she is an actress who might be in the movie he is filming. After an hour of glancing down the end of the bar in disbelief I got up to use the bathroom again and there he was standing in the doorway. I looked directly at him said "Excuse me" and brushed by him touching his arm. All I have to say is he is a handsome man. I really wanted to sneak a pic but I would never walk up to a celebrity and bother them. I am of the mind they just want to be left alone when they are out, and I think that is OK. If he happened to sit near us I might have said how much I enjoy his show but that would be it. Either way, it was an exciting end to a fun night of meeting new people and discovering a new bar. I would definitely go back.
This is more what he looked like last night....
