We saw Matthew MacConughey. No...really, we say him...IN REAL LIFE. We have the picture, I just can't upload it. Sure...we were 20 meters away, and he was surrounded by paparazzi, but we eye-balled him. By that, I mean there was nothing but air between my eyeball, and what appeared to by his preened Armani suit. If only we could never wash our eyeballs. Unfortunately, every time I blink, my associated famousness disappears a little more. Of course having spotted Matthew and photographed his face through a throng of other paparazzi, we are now bbf's with him and will feel comfortable calling him Matty in the future. In fact, I think Jasmine will Facebook him after I write this blog. I'm positive we'll be keeping in touch.
In a city where successful actors outnumber hopeless ones ten thousand to virtually none, It's common for actors to be doing anything 'but' act in Hollywood. In fact the word 'actor' in Hollwood in used very loosely. For instance, someone might say, 'I'm an actor', in response to the question 'so what do you?'. I might just add at this point, this question and response occurs 99% of the time between any two people meeting for the first time in Hollywood. In fact I heard this question last night, in a karaoke bar on Hollywood boulevard after we had dinner at Hooters. It was our barmaids response to what I assume is another actor waiting to crack the big time. In between slurps of my Budweiser, which incidentally tasted remarkable like rusty water, I heard her respond, I'm an actor. My ears perked up immediately. It was short lived when I discovered her coup de gracé was a tampon commercial. Which is great. It's one more tampon commercial than we have ever acted in.
From LAX we caught a shuttle bus to our Hollywood hills hotel. Our bus driver, who incidentally professed that he was friends with Michael Jackson and referred to gay people as 'off', dropped off a young fresh faced man at the Fox Studios lot and he said he was going to do some 'screening' there. Apparently, according to the driver, this means script writing. To be honest, he didn't even look old enough to drink, but hey, if Michael Jacksons friend says screening means scripting, I for one believe him.
