My Dinner With Matthew Perry & Sheryl Crow
May 17th, 2006
Back in March, I ran into Friends‘ star Matthew Perry at a movie theater.
Well, wouldn’t you expect (as these things normally happen to me) that I was out for dinner last night in NYC at the exquisite Italian restaurant Da Silvano and who happens to sit at the table right next to me? Yes. You’re right. Good guess. It was none other than Matthew Perry. And can you imagine the synergy of it all when the exact drink he ordered in my previous run-in with him showed up once again last night?
The Diet-Coke factor. I’m telling you, it’s eerie.
Needless to say, Sheryl Crow also showed up and swung by Perry’s table to say hello to him as well. NYC is currently packed to the hilt with television stars galore due to the fact that this week is the Network “Up Fronts” — the week when networks present their upcoming TV show lineups to the advertisers they hope to squeeze money out of for the Fall Season and beyond. As a result, each network does a presentation to rooms of thousands of people, and carts out all the producers and talent on stage from those shows in the epitome of a dog and pony show.
But in the off hours, the talent goes out to places where I happen to eat and they order Diet Cokes.
During Perry’s dinner he got up to go out for a smoke and let the papparazzi take a few shots of him on the sidewalk outside — but on his way back he happened to pause, catching my eye. Although I half expected myself to say something like, “I hope you’re not drinking that Diet Coke with your meal, because that will just ruin your entire digestive process altogether if you do it…” I refrained. The crazy digestion loonies would obviously come out of the woodwork yet again and that would be, well, just plain frustrating.
Needless to say, last night simply convinced me once and for all that there are a slew of celebrities who are following me around the country, and they include Matthew Perry, Kristy McNichol, Ian Ziering, Freddy Prinze, Jr. and many many more.
I guess there’s not much to do about it but enjoy it.
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In other news, I’ll be winging my way back to the Left Coast today and will be resuming my regular subject-matter posts tomorrow with a heartwarming post entitled, “I Love You, But That Mole On Your Cheek Really Must Go”. Send me some good safe airplane travel vibes and I’ll see you on the flip side.
Are we talking all moles? Or just gross moles? Because I’m suddenly terribly self-conscious, as I have a mole on my cheek. Damn you Pauly!
Comment by Hilary — May 17, 2006 @ 8:54 am
Ian Ziering? Holy carp!
Comment by Alison — May 17, 2006 @ 9:01 am
There was a while when I was in L.A. that I could not escape from Daphne Zuniga. I did not mind it at all.
Comment by Dave2 — May 17, 2006 @ 9:23 am
Hilary - You’ll have to wait and see until tomorrow.
Alison - Yeah, you can say that again.
Dave - I met Daphne Zuniga a few months ago at some children’s charity event… She was extremely nice, and still looks quite fetching. Did I just say fetching? Yeah, I did. I think I’m going to use that in conversation today if I can work it in.
Comment by Pauly D — May 17, 2006 @ 9:39 am
I was stalked by Michael Rapoport for a while when I first moved to L.A. Then he got famous with his Fox show, and I guess he decided I wasn’t worth his time anymore.
Comment by Keith — May 17, 2006 @ 10:22 am
“Excuse me, Ms. Flight Attendant? Would you mind fetching me a Diet Coke that I will consume after eating my lunch, not on an empty stomach, so as not to ruin my digestive process? Thanks ever so much.”
Just something to keep in the back of your head, if you’re having trouble working “fetching” into conversation today…
Comment by annabel lee — May 17, 2006 @ 10:25 am
AL - Great idea!
Keith - It might have been his brother, Mikela Rappaport. They look sort of the same.
Comment by Pauly D — May 17, 2006 @ 10:26 am
Diet Coke with an exquisite Italian meal? I don’t even do that and I LOVE diet Coke. So you are saying Matthew Perry is following you, not the other way around? Did he ask you to autograph his own copy of the Lost Blogs that he was carrying around?
Comment by Susan — May 17, 2006 @ 10:26 am
wasn’t matthew perry an alchy for some time. perhaps that’s the mystery behind the diet coke.
Comment by amanda — May 17, 2006 @ 10:38 am
I wanna hear the Freddie Prinze, Jr., story.
Comment by Kevin — May 17, 2006 @ 10:39 am
Wait… Eye-an Ziering is going to be on TV again in the fall? Hold on, I just need to check outside to see if pigs are flying…
And Keith, Michael Rapaport might very well have been stalking you, for real! I hear he had a “problem” after Lili Taylor broke up with him (years back) and she felt it necessary to get a restraining order against him to stop his stalking her.
(Wow, I think I just snarkily gossiped more in this one comment than I have in a year…)
Comment by the swede — May 17, 2006 @ 11:17 am
which mole?
Comment by Jacquie — May 17, 2006 @ 11:37 am
so, what was the in flight movie?
Comment by kathleen — May 17, 2006 @ 11:53 am
Hm…can’t wait to see tomorrow. I have a rather cute mole under my left eye…
Comment by Anne — May 17, 2006 @ 1:19 pm
Man, you don’t give a stalker much chance, do you? Two days and you’re gone already? And here I am, still waiting on my binoculars from Amazon. Bush league.
Comment by Dan — May 17, 2006 @ 1:43 pm
I don’t know how I feel about you using the words “Ian Zeiring” and “celebrity” in the same sentence…
but isn’t it kind of ooky that I read the title for your post just as a Sheryl Crowe song came up on iTunes?
Comment by Bre — May 17, 2006 @ 2:34 pm
I’m just jealous that you guys have movie and TV stars to bump into!! We never get anyone interesting or famous here. Unless you count the stars of Monarch of the Glen? I dunno if that program is shown in the states? I did hear that Billy Connoly was in the local supermarket ages back.. but I didn’t see him.
Comment by Nicola — May 18, 2006 @ 7:22 am
have a safe trip home!
Comment by C(h)ristine — May 18, 2006 @ 8:31 am
Seriously…Kristy McNichol is still alive? She needs to show up at a premiere wearing something really heinous so that she’ll get put into the tabloids. Otherwise, how else are we supposed to know she’s still kicking…
The last thing I saw her on was Empty Nest.
Comment by Leah — May 19, 2006 @ 5:07 am