Star Sightings

Los Feliz, my current 'hood, has its fair share of celebrities who live around here. I always get asked by my non-L.A. based friends, if I've seen anyone famous lately. Most of the time, I don't -- or I guess I should say -- I don't recognize anyone. There are times I walk past someone and think to myself that person looks as if s/he could be famous but I fail to place a name to the face. Los Angeles is loaded with extremely good looking and extremely skinny people. The beautiful actors blend in with the better-than-average-looking-civilians. It's the ugly and fat people who stand out.

The past month, though, I seem to have run into several famous actors. They were:

• Tobey Maguire who was at the Arclight, a movie theatre near me. (My guess he was there to see the Indiana Jones movie as it was opening weekend and Indy was being shown on 95% of the screens in that multiplex.) Spidey watching Indy, proving that L.A. is indeed surreal.
• Scarlett Johannson who was walking in Griffith Park.
• Giovanni Ribisi who I spotted at the carwash. Actually, I probably wouldn't have recognized Giovanni Ribisi except that he was reading a script while he was waiting for his car and the script had "G. Ribisi" watermarked on it. Dead giveaway.

Anyway...Stay Dry Midwesterners.