Celebrity sightings

Just a quick post to recall some of our celebrity sightings and where they happened. I mention where because I find the context interesting. Like, I live here and so do they (mostly in the valley, right?) and we're all just going about our business. Sometimes a celebrity is in context (think, "sceney" restaurant or on Robertson Blvd. (trendy shopping), other times, more out of context, just doing their thing, just like me. There's something about that I find intriguing, though clearly not enough to be very eloquent about it. Anyway...

In no particular order, well except the first.

• Fabio. Hands down my favorite sighting ever. My cousin and a friend were visiting and we were all doing some obligatory sightseeing of fancy houses in Beverly Hills (which largely means looking at super tall bushes and fancy gates), four of us in the car. We pulled up to a stop sign in the residential area and a red convertible sports car of some kind (I won't even hazard a guess what model, it's such a cliche) pulled up beside us, stopped for just a second and then sped off, like pedal to the metal sped off, needlessly so. Very showy. All at once, but after a pause, all four of us in the car chimed, "that was Fabio!" It was awesome. He was kind of leathery and orange.
• Tony Hale (Buster from Arrested Development) at the Trader Joe's down the street. Twice.
  
• Michael Cera walking down Hyperion (with stereotypical backpack) while I was enjoying Huevos Rancheros at the Burrito King.
• Jessica Alba at Loteria Grill in Hollywood. She was essentially sitting right next to us and we didn't realize it until she left and flash bulbs were going off outside the window. The waiter told us.
• Darryl Stephens, that guy from Noah's Arc, at AOC on 3rd. Not shocking since it's kind of a scene. But the food is amazing.
  
• The other Hilton sister on Robertson Blvd. (which was a block from our WeHo apartment) at some retail clothing store opening. Remembered: Nikki.
  
• Tori Spelling on Robertson Blvd., obviously shopping. It was clearly staged, for her show or something.
• Jack Nicholson, also on Robertson. Had a small entourage.
  
• Victor Garber at the ArcLight Cinema in Hollywood. I forget what we were seeing.
  
• Calpernia Addams at the "Whatever Happened to Busty Jane" show at the Celebration Theatre at Casita del Campo in Silver Lake. She sat right in front of us. I bought her a margarita.
• Scott Bakula at the Donut Prince on Olive in Burbank. Amazing donuts, btw.
• Mary Lynn Rajskub at Travel Town (which was featured on an episode [season 4, episode 8] of Six Feet Under, remember? Nate and Brenda take Maya there). She was riding on the kiddie train a few cars back with her kids.
• Adam Goldberg, walking down the street mid-city.
• Bruce Vilanch, drove behind me in his cherry red PT Cruiser on Fountain all the way from Silver Lake to Hollywood. Wasn't it Bette Davis who famously said, of navigating LA traffic, "Just take Fountain." She's right.
  
• This shouldn't count, because the celebs were arriving to re-record "We Are the World" but I work right across from the Jim Henson Company (former site of A&M Studios, and Chaplain Studios [hence Kermit dressed as the Tramp in the statue on the roof]) and thus saw a ton of different folks arriving: Brandy, Celine, Snoop Dog (drove himself), and others who slip my mind at present.
• There are others I'm forgetting. I assume I see more celebrities than I recognize if that makes sense. The mind plays tricks. Sometimes it's hard to know. Some days everyone's a celebrity; other days, a famous person probably bags your groceries. Confusing.