IMDB’d
I love how readily English makes nouns into verbs. Living in Hollywood is fun because of all the actors, and here, “I Googled him” is replaced by “I IMDB’ed him.” On imdb.com you can find everyone in the film industry, including the assistant to the camera man on a movie that went straight to DVD.
I have a plethora of actor sightings from my three years here. Once I was in line at the grocery store and David Carradine was in front of me. He has a faded eagle tattoo on his wrist. I met Lindsay Lohen at Chateau Marmont. She was sober, very sweet and polite, and I’m always a little sad now when I see … you know. Christian Bale and Keanu Reeves are both taller than I expected. Kirsten Dunst is shorter.
Actually, you have to watch what you say. I was at a restaurant and Orlando Bloom’s name came up. I was in the middle of a snarky comment about his masulinity when my companion’s frantic gestures made me aware that he was sitting right behind me. Hope he didn’t hear me.
But more interesting is meeting handsome actors I’ve never heard of before. I met one fellow at a restaurant, went home and IMDB’ed him, found that he was an East Coast Sagittarius, and that he played a waiter in a great movie from ten years ago. In the movie, someone bumps into him, and he says, “Excuse me”. So it was a speaking role!
I’m also friends with the guy who played the father of the lead who played the love interest of an actress who later starred with Diane Keaton. So there are now four degrees of separation between me and Diane Keaton. Unfortunately, I can’t stand her. But I won’t say it aloud in a restaurant around here.
