Seeing Stars and Staying Silent


I have found an amazing perk working for E! Entertainment: famous people flock. Actually, work. As in work there. Today I walked into the elevator after a normal run to the mail room and who stood before me but the Man who is Morpheus- Lawrence Fishburne!



He was standing hunched quietly in the corner, hands in his pockets, head down. I was so shocked that I stopped in the doorway for a millisecond, starring at him. Then, quietly, I turned around, pressed 4 on the button panel, and acted like everything was normal for an excrutiatingly quiet four floors.

Idiot me!

The day before I was coming back from lunch break and walked INTO a man in very ragged clothes and a dirty hat talking quickly and quietly to another man in a very impressive suit. This is the face I saw:



before I turned and convinced myself that I had been seeing things. Peter later told me that many talent managers and agents shared offices with E! Entertainment and lots of famous actors came here to see them. Again- stupid me!

A week before that I was downstairs in the food shop buying a smoothy when this woman comes up behind me:



Bim- you know her. Remember the show 'How Do I Look?' Anyway, she was looking down at her toddler son (who was frowning) and saying "You're whining! You're whining at my work!" There was a nice little pretty lady beside her- probably an assistant- who looked thoroughly uncomfortable.

And what did I do that I've done each and every time? What were my actions- keeping in mind that my trusty camera was with me at each sighting?

I WUSSED OUT. I STAYED QUIET. I RAN AWAY.

stupid me.

There is one person who has been avoiding me, though, and I know he is at the E! building everyday because Peter delivers mail to him PERSONALLY. It's the host of the E! show The Soup, Joel McHale. This hilarious, brilliant comedian seems to be everywhere I am not, spotted by everyone but me. All I get to see of him to know he is real is the paycheck stubs I have to file everyday for his wages.

:p It's probably better this way. I wouldn't want to make a fool of myself again and not say anything.