I was touched by stars twice last night.

The first time happened when I was watching the LIVE TSUNAMI AID concert. It had just begun and they had already shown Madonna, Maroon 5, 30-odd celebrities answering phone calls with Jay Leno heading the line, and pictures and accounts of people who survived (or didn't) the tsunamis, when Norah Jones came up.

She is so beautiful. Her voice is probably the most beautiful voice in the world. What could I do? I had a real life siren in front of me- I had to call. So I did. And guess who answered?

"Hello this is BRAD PITT, how can I help you today?"

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*gasp* AAAHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAHHHAAAAAA!!!!!!

Geezus. I gave him $50 because somehow some of my brain was still working. If it hadn't have been I would have given him everything I owned. He has an amazingly sexy telephone voice by the way... really something he could brag about if he wasn't already ADORED BY THE WHOLE WORLD. And I spoke to him! Personally! The guy from Fight Club, Snatch, Interview... and I talked to him!

I told my director Pete about that and he asked me why I didn't tell Mr. Pitt about the independent project we were doing and see if he could donate.

Ha Ha Pete.

I wanted to call back and try to get Quentin Tarantino but Mommy advised against me giving them everything for a second chance.

Anyway... the second star that touched me was none other than the greatest one of them all: Katharine Hepburn. Through Cate Blanchett, but it was still Katharine Hepburn none the less. Oh yes my friends- me and Darryl went and saw The Aviator.

It is a great movie. The CG is awesome, the acting impeccable (by Leo in his second Oscar nod since Gilbert Grape), and the story extremely coherent compared to how it COULD have been done considering Howard Hugh's amazingly versitile life adventures. 4 stars my friends.

And Cate playing Kate. What heaven. She is up for a Best Supporting on this and she damn well better get it too. This was no impersonation (how could it be when she didn't LOOK like Kate at all?). This was a spiritual embodiment. Every move, gesture, flick of the lip, and stride WAS Katharine Hepburn. Her vowels were 1st rate, and the two combined.... the moment she stepped on I was in tears, laughing, and almost peeing in my pants.

I did get mad at a Kate moment though. The screenwriters should be ASHAMED!!!! CHEAP SHOT!!! VERY CHEAP SHOT!!! (Probably to get better emotional gratification for the audience in a scene that DIDN'T NEED IT!!) You know the one- Kate is helping Howard fix a broken foot when she mentioned "When my brother killed himself."

I wanted my money back.

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Katharine Hepburn NEVER EVER at ANY TIME admitted that her brother killed himself. It was below her and below her family to do such a thing. Until her DYING DAY she said that it was an accident, a game that went wrong, a stunt that didn't work. Even to SPENCER TRACY HIMSELF did she NEVER admit what had really happened. SHAME!!!! SHAME ON YOU SCORSESE AND DICAPRIO FOR WANTING A CHEAP BUCK!!!!!!!!! SHAME ON YOUR HEADS!!!!!

But then she did something that WAS very Hepburn and I pushed the molting anger to the back of my head and decided that if Kate blessed this picture enough to let Cate protray her so beautifully, then she must understand hollywood's disgustingly unsensitive GREED and let it pass. So if she can do it, so can I.

I miss you Katharine Hepburn.