Ginger's follies, foibles and fixations.
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Monday, April 21, 2003 A Friday Five for Melanie's Birthday! Celeb ettiquette (the NIN version) Plastic's Celeb Thread 1. Who is your favorite celebrity? I'm very fond of Steven Soderbergh. He's talented, intelligent, has a great sense of humor, seems approachable and kind, and has a lot of super-famous friends. 2. Who is your least favorite? There are way too many that are not worth remembering, much less naming here. 3. Have you ever met or seen any celebrities in real life? It seems like a lot, having read through Plastic's thing and seeing a lot of "well, I knew a guy who saw so-and-so from that one show way back when." I'm lucky enough to have met (actually spent the better part of a night with--and no, not that way) the idol of my teenhood, Jello Biafra. I've met and chatted with: Hanson and their mom, Jason and Rachel Trachtenberg, Rich Hall, A.D. Miles (from Wet Hot American Summer), David Cross, Tad Doyle (of TAD), June Lockhart (Lost in Space), Alan Rickman and, just the other day, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I've shamelessly hugged: Mike Patton (Faith No More) while he was singing and kissed his sweat-soaked shoulder. I've shaken hands with: Boy George, John (Johnny Rotten) Lydon, and Penn and Teller. I've seen at close range in a non-performing environment: Meg & Jack White, Michael Ian Black, Chris Cornell, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, Courtney Love and most of The Fastbacks. I once walked right by Sandra Bernhardt and shopped next to Madonna without knowing it (people told me after the fact). Neil Patrick Harris rode by me on a bike. I saw Scott Wolf (Party of Five) at a bar and he kind of nodded in my direction as my friend and I were leaving and his entourage took over our table. I know there are more that I'm forgetting... 4. Would you want to be famous? Why or why not? Of course I think it would be cool to be famous, but I'd rather be the sort that is rarely recognized, someone whose 'product' (i.e. writing, art, website, etc.) are known more than the face or the name. And I'd like to be famous for something smart and interesting rather than something sordid or cheap (like a reality TV show or a political sex scandal). That way, if people DID recognize me, they'd have to be pretty interested in whatever it was that I was doing, and hopefully they would be cool and not a creepy stalker. And also I'd like to be famous in a way that would cause me to become very rich. 5. If you had to trade places with a celebrity for a day, who would you choose and why? Bridget Fonda, because then Danny Elfman would be my fiance, and who wouldn't want to know that that is like? [update 5/3/03: Just when my blog broke and I didn't have time to figure out how to fix it, all these celebrity and pop-culture topics came up (e.g. the Entertainment Weekly pop culture quiz, Plastic's celebrity thread) -- which are my FAVORITE-EST TOPICS IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD. It was like giving up blogging for Lent at the worst possible time. Unintentionally!] posted by Ginger | 1:29 PM |
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