I'm tellin' you
man, this shit just does not happen during the down
times. Even though nothing in the past couple of weeks
prompted this, it still feels like this unbelieveable
momentum where more than anything I give you at home
fun shit to look at. :-)
A friend of
Linda's works with a production company that is doing
a primetime special for ABC and at the last second
(seriously hours before) they needed background...
though it would cost me quite a bit in lost work, she
seemed pretty desperate and I figured I'd help. Again,
take out this site? Not happening. Looking at
celebrities is actually somewhat aggrivating because
there's such a big part of me that's goin' "gonna be
me, gonna be me, gonna be me" and soon I just wanna
expolode. However, the challenge of getting off some
video in a room full of people looking at you without
anyone noticing? That shit is awesome. I
succeeded in getting Christian (Rosario Dawson had
already left):
As well, I stood
in for Christian while they lit the shot and grabbed a
few frames of that:
And you can see
the entire 20 second process in this entry's
video:
If your computer
can handle it (meaning it doesn't stutter once it's
loaded) click the "HD" button...
incredible.
As is usually the
case when you see celebrities in person is that
they're bone skinny. Rosario in fact may actually
be a lot skinnier than the last thing
I saw her in (Clerks 2) because she just looked
way, too, thin. Christian is just rail thin as well.
Amazingly it wasn't until I was looking at him that I
remembered a story I hadn't thought of in over a
decade...
WTVN
Entry #69,
from September 1996, includes a show where
I interviewed a producer at the station, Ethan
Weiss. Ethan worked on Saturday Night Live for a
couple of years basically doing grunt work - but one
week in particular he was assigned one thing: Make
sure Farley and Slater get to the show on time. Chris
and Christian were really good friends which was quite
a concern when they even booked Christian as the host.
Ethan said Lorne Michaels pulled him aside mid-week
when it was already clear they were blowing off
rehearsals to get high, and asked him to stay with
them the entire time and make sure they don't get in
too much trouble. What ended up happening was all
three of them stayed up for 2 straight days
speedballing and doing crystal meth in limos and
clubs, etc.... but they made it on time. And
considering? They both performed incredibly. He said
they seemed tired but you'd never know they hadn't
slept and were completely strung out. Even crazier,
when Ethan told this story, Farley had died 10 months
before. It was just an amazing peek into celebrity
that kinda shocked me - as he pretty much admitted, at
his job, that he did copious amounts of drugs just a
few years earlier. Your employer has to love that.
Wow, come to think of it - 2 months later he was fired
when the show he worked on was cancelled.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
ANYWAY...
Christian looked incredibly healthy, fit and
most assuredly clean. Other than his hairline, dawg
looked younger than me. And the weight thing is
certainly a good wake up call for me. As I've said
several times over the years, even the ugly people are
skinny. I mean, unless you're the really funny fat
guy... you have to be skinny or you will lose
opportunities. Period. And amazingly, I have 15-20
pounds I can lose right now. People look at me and
think I'm crazy when I say that, but when I was
15-20 pounds lighter - they didn't think I looked too
skinny. Sucks, but I'm prepared. One thing about
quitting my job is that I will be able to focus on
being in the best shape of my life (again). I
overheard someone talking to an up-and-coming actor
once and he said point blank: "If you can only afford
acting classes or a gym membership, choose the gym
membership." And if you're a real actor and
that line really pisses you off I suggest you
really make your own movies and star in them.
Of course, you could just run to the acting
class. :-)
Really no gossip
to report (except for the massive druguse in the 90s -
LMAO), both Christian and Rosario were funny, cordial
and the shoot was pretty simple. It's going to air May
29th at 9pm on ABC and I'm sure I'll find a way to
upload it as a send-off before the gigantic trip
coming up in June.
