Almost Famous
September 28th, 2006
You gotta pay attention to coincidences, so here are three recent moments that put me in proximity to celebrity: during a pee break at the screening of The Queen yesterday, I bumped into everybody’s favorite pig farmer James Cromwell, who plays Prince Philip in the movie. His handler/girlfriend/pr person asked me where the press conference was going to be, so I guess it wasn’t much of a sighting, but it was pleasantly disorienting to run into James on the way to the John. He was wearing a beanie hat, perhaps to hide the scars from the electro shock treatment he had to undergo as George on Six Feet Under.
This morning, I walked out of Paprika (more on that later) just in time to run into Cindy Sheehan on Sixth Avenue. She saw me recognizing her, we smiled at each other and mouthed hello, and kept on going. It wasn’t much, but it felt warm and genuine and made me like her even more than I already did. You know those magnets that say “Freedom isn’t free?” Cindy Sheehan is one of the few true contemporary American heroes.
And finally, Entertainment Weekly mentioned me in the same sentence with Anthony Hopkins and Dan Aykroyd. Another lifetime ambition checked off!
[tags]celebrity, jurgen, james cromwell, nixon, ultrachrist, cindy sheehan, anthony hopkins, dan aykroyd, nyc, nyff[/tags]
