where do i know you from...
So you are walking down the street, or grocery shopping, or passing someone in a car, or getting on an elevator and you recognize the person you pass but aren’t quite sure where from, so you run down the list of possibilities; high-school, college, theater, job, previous job, Seattle, yoga class…etc. until you realize, Oh you’re on TV! This happens all the time in LA and can be rather annoying because while you are running through the list of “where from” you are also wondering if you are being rude by not knowing who they are. Then once you realize they’re on TV, you feel like a bit of an ass for thinking you knew them.
Once you’ve been here long enough you see people on TV and you ask yourself, do I know you? Or are you just someone on TV? This is less annoying but annoying all the same. And then of course there is the issue of people thinking you are "someone". Their eyes light up but then quickly dim when they realize you are just a "nobody."
Recently, I “almost” recognized someone. I was walking down my street to my car and I see this girl (in picture) walking her dog. I immediately wonder how I know her and run down the usual list until I realize she’s on Grey’s Anatomy. Luckily it was fairly quick and easy.
Sometimes this can stump you for days. A couple weeks ago at Goom’s soccer game I saw a guy I swear I knew but couldn’t place him. After thinking about it for two weeks, I still have no idea so I’ve given up and I’m assuming he’s on TV and I just can’t place him.
This is a silly little problem but I do find being in other places where “stars” don’t go, to be a bit more relaxing.
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I actually see Operah all the time, she has a summer house around here, its no big deal...u kinda get used to it(plus I dont like her, I think she is the anti christ...lol)
He's got a lot of makeup on while on air. Sheesh.
While away a few years back, I walked up to an outdoor banking machine line at the same time as a very tiny woman who was holding a child that looked to be around 3 years old at the time. I smiled and said to her, "you go ahead first, that child looks heavy", this kid was almost as big as her. She totally ignored that I had spoken and stepped in the line in front of me like of course she should go first, wasn't it obvious? Once she finished at the ATM and turned to leave, I recognized that she was Kate Moss. And for the record, the skin on her chin was all broken out in pimples and she looked like Hell. Most stars we wouldn't recognize without all the make up and hours of preparation and perfect lighting. On a personal note, she is not a very nice person, at least to a nobody like me who was just trying to be polite to another mother.
Great and entertaining post.;)
xo
Zuzana
and the moral of the story is don't watch tv :)
just kidding I know that tv is a universal drug that has a long way to go before it's over :)
love to you Stacey
Ribbon x
ps... at different times in my life I have lived for decent periods without TV and it was liberating and a very creative time... these days it's difficult to convince the other members of the household just how good it could be :)
When she handed me her credit card I learned why, the woman was Maureen Reagan, daughter of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman. She looked like her mother but she didn't look like her mother enough to tip me off.
You could stop watching tele? Just a thought {grins}
(Billy Ray Cyrus is originally from the town I live in now.)
Nice blog, well-and-tastefully-colored and easy to read. And the content is YOU!
Funny, now my daughter has her degree in theatre and a lot of her friends are "in the business."
I'm still living in down.
xoxo
I it's hard to place them - unless you are a hardcore fan - because when "mixed" with regular people, they too look like regular people. And they are!, it's just that they come up on TV from time to time.
They say that as you get older, everyone you meet looks like someone you've met before. I believe it!
Car Goes Boom