You know what is really annoying me? Besides the fact that leaves are already falling off the trees and the air is getting chilly, signaling the end of summer?
OK. Here…
The Metro Detroit area is swarming with movie stars because we are becoming quite the new Hollywood dontchya know, with movies and television series being filmed all over the place. Hugh Jackman and his children. David Arquette and Courtney Cox. Miley Cyrus. Gerard Butler. Ray Liota. Just to name a few of the big ones. I know there are more, I’m just not up on ALL the celebrity gossip, I mean sheesh…I have laundry to do and mouths to feed and tweets to tweet or twat or whatever…you know.
The thing that is starting to bug me is…
EVERYONE. And I mean EVERYONE. Has been seeing all these stars out and about. Dinners, the park, picking their kids up from camp, bars…
EVERYWHERE.
I was getting my nails done and listening to some girl talk about the fact that the movie being made with Gerard Butler is being filmed in her house. So she’s met him. Like…MET him. He has sat on her couch. AND her toilet. She could make a fortune on eBay with the sale of a toilet seat shat on by Gerard Butler.
People are having BBQ’s with Hugh and his babes because they are neighbors. And their kids are playing together. He is swimming in their pools. WOLVERINE is SWIMMING in other people’s pools. I wonder if they will ever put chlorine in their pools again. I wouldn’t.
HELLOOOOO.
But me? Nope. Not a single one. No Hugh. No David and Courtney. No Miley. No nothin’ for me. Not even a BBQ hot dog to choke on.
But then again, it’s not like I’ve been going out on the town so much. We’ve been hanging out around the house a lot this summer. Poolside, thanks to scorching hot weather.
I saw more stars 10 years ago in Birmingham than I do now. Gabriel Byrne almost got his foot run over by my stroller and he said excuse me while I drooled and stuttered at him. I’m smooth like that.
And…I don’t want to brag but Keanu Reeves was checking me out at a bar in Birmingham. Or, it might have been the guy who was standing next to me.
Maybe now that it’s getting cooler out, I’ll put on my Mukluk boots, a Pashmina wrap, big glasses grab my camera and go hunt them down myself. But that would be too stalker-like. Which really, at this point, I might be OK with.
Or maybe Hugh or Gerard (I figure we can be on a first name basis, seeing as it’s my blog) will come across this blog post, feel sorry for this poor, middle aged Mom and I’ll get an invite to dinner. I’ll bring the wine. Perhaps a nice Late Harvest Riesling from our lovely Leelanau Peninsula? I have lots of that.
Or not.
Well, I could always just drink wine with my husband and make him talk with an Australian accent and a mask made from a cut out of Hugh Jackmans face. After a few glasses, I won’t know the difference anyways. So, it’ll ALMOST be like I met and got to hang out with one of our celebs.
ALMOST.
Or not.
OK, so obviously, I need to get out more.
Or wait!
Maybe I’ll clean up my yard first (maybe it was one of those snotty stars that left that note, you never know). Then, I’ll follow them on Twitter(I don’t follow movies stars on Twitter but I may have to make a couple exceptions considering) and send them a Twitter e-vite to a BBQ at my house!
Disclaimer: Just in case any of you movie star types in the area stumble across my blog because I totally know you have google alerts, I’m COMPLETELY joking about the stalker type behavior. But, if you want to come and hang out at my house and drink wine, I’m totally cool with that. Don’t mind the hidden cameras in the bathroom and stuff…
Some of us do actually read what comes across our twitter feeds & gasp do actually read blogs on Sat (yes, I know, I need to get a life:)
I am from Boston which was the “IT” town for awhile in terms of movie making & I’ve never run into any celebrities either so I can totally relate to your pain! Good luck on your celebrity stalking… err hunt to meet & greet š thanks for the fun post!
You have to follow On Location Vacations.com, they give you a daily update on where the various films in town are filming so a lot of people were able to see the stars if they had any specific favourites and other people from the area in fact did get roles as extras in many of those films.
If Hugh Jackman accepts an invite to your house I’m coming to live in your attic.
Talk about being a stalker.
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So … I definitely saw Courteney Cox Arquette at the Black Pearl in Ann Arbor in July. And got a picture with her.
(don’t hate me! LOL)
(http://www.yesnofilms.com/2010/08/michigan-hollywood-of-midwest.html)
I’d definitely like to run into Hugh Jackman. Not sure where you live, but it seems like most of the Michigan projects are being filmed either on the west side of the state, in Detroit, or in Ann Arbor, so if you don’t frequent those places then you might not run into them. Since I graduated from U of M in May ’09 there’s been a ton of movies filming there, and one day Ross (aka David Schwimmer) was in Ann Arbor … all of my friends’ Facebook statuses said something like “OMG! Just ran into “Ross” at the Union!” so I was pretty jealous of that. š
Girlfriend, if you have all those celebs living in your neighborhood you better get out there with that camera! It’s your job to keep me, well, I mean, all of your followers in the loop. Capture a shot of Wolverine and all his abs by the pool, please. K?
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I live in LA and I see stars- got to tell you that it is not all that exciting. Some of them have awful attitudes and bad breath that makes you want to hurl. All that money and they can’t buy mouthwash. yuck.
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