Celebrity Sightings part deux

I saw Juliet Landau again, this time at Sankai Juku's performance at Royce Hall. I believe I read somewhere that she used to be a ballet dancer... maybe she does butoh now?



And I saw Toni Basil at Eiko & Koma's performance at Kaufman Hall at UCLA. I am not using Toni's picture from "Mickey" (even though I still own the 45) because she is a choreographer (hey, David Bowie's Glass Spider tour!), and I want to picture her here as more than a one-hit wonder.



I have to get over my celebrity shyness and just go talk to people!

Celebrity Sightings

It seems the Chinese Theater is the place to go for celebrity sightings, even at a Sunday matinee of Borat. And this is just in the movie theater itself. If we'd wanted to go for some heavy-duty sightings, we could have checked out the Happy Feet premiere (rather than hanging out in Virgin) or we could have hung around for the Deck the Holidays premiere later in the day.

Sitting next to Karl was John Billingsley, best known to me as Dr. Phlox on Star Trek Enterprise. He's also in that show The Nine. I've never seen it, but I've seen the billboard. He and his companion really enjoyed the movie.



Also enjoying Borat this afternoon was Doris Roberts. I know she was on Everybody Loves Raymond (except, evidently, me), but I prefer to think of her in Remington Steele.



Yesterday, walking down Melrose, I spotted Dagney Kerr, Buffy's roommate Kathy at the beginning of season 4. She seemed to be looking at a storefront space with a friend and discussing what they would be able to do with the space. OK, I recognize that she is not a celebrity to most people, but she was on Buffy!



My most exciting celebrity sighting so far was of Juliet Landau (Drusilla on Buffy and Angel). She was in line in front of me at Oguri's performance at Electric Lodge a few weeks ago, and asked me to save her spot in line. I of course said yes!



This does not count all the celebrities I met at a benefit for World Can't Wait back in September. Let's just say at one point I was sitting at a table with Michelle Phillips next to me, and Ed Asner and Gore Vidal across from me! I was also excited to talk to Debbie Allen. I was most excited, however, to see Rene Auberjonois. Odo!!!

7 MPG

That's the vanity license plate I just saw on a H2 Hummer (yes, the BIIIIG one) driving down Pico near Century City.

I'm still speechless.

Visit Corpus Gardens at Hollywood Forever on Dia de los Muertos... 4pm Saturday Oct. 28

Bienvenidos Hajimemashite Welcome to

(begin jingle)

We're Rendition Airlines, Doing What We do Best

Entry Visa Denied...
> Fly the Friendly Skies...

(circus sounds)

Heyyyyah! Heyyyyyah!!!!!!
step right up!
the Greatest show of Empire!
fear! danger!
torture!
trained prisoners!
the love and romance of heavy artillery!
a manifest destinty extravaganza!
heartstopping entertainment!
one day ONLY!

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It's that MOST wonderful time of the year!
Corpus Delicti is inviting you to participate in
our 4th Dia de los Muertos Butoh Extravaganza
at Hollywood Forever Cemetary.

here is their website
http://www.ladayofthedead.com/

here is our website
http://www.corpusbutoh.org

These festivites are well attended, and several
thousand people from all walks of life come to this
event. More and more come every year. It is covered by
all sorts of media, and a splendid time is had by all.

The Hollywood Forever folks give us a wonderful, prime
cemetary plot where we make our
installation/environment in which we perform.
We will be doing 2 performances, roughly an hour each,
beginning with
the opening procession from 4:30 to 5, after which we
perform from 5 to 6 with an hour break and then a
second show from 7 to 8.

I wish they had a mute button

So I've discovered that the marching band is not so great when I'm trying to rehearse. Try choreographing a dance about torture while the marching band plays "Surfing USA"! There's just no way to drown that out.