Rob sleeping soundly in his bed. Sun is shining through the window, a bottle of aspirin and a "half-full" glass of water sits atop headshots, scattered across nightstand. Alarm clock reads 10:26...10:27 (beep, beep, beep!) ...close up shot of "snooze" button...Thud! Rob's hand crashes down on clock as he catches a few more winks...
DREAM SEQUENCE. MULTIPLE VOICES/FACES.
"What have you been up to?" Why haven't you updated your blog?" "Are you ever going to write more?" "I can't belieeeeve it's not butter" "Robby, I am so proud of you" ...end with shot of Mr. T driving a forklift..."Update this thing foo!"
END DREAM SEQUENCE.
...beep, beep, beep...(cut to alarm clock being knocked off the table)
ROB (waking suddenly)
"Woh." (pans room for laptop) "I need to blog!"
CUT TO BLACK.
I realize I have been asleep at the wheel when it comes to updating my blog lately, my apologies! So, before I begin I would like to give a sincere thank you to those of you keeping me on my toes and asking for updates, if it wasn't for you...there is a good chance this blog would more than likely..."fade to black".
I believe I last left you in Greece, working CSI: NY, and I had just landed a role in a short film called "Shades of Grey".
Ahhh...what a day...err, (couple of days) those were!
Thursday night I was worked the show 'Entourage' for the upcoming season. I know how much some of you LOVE this show, so I'll try and refrain from too many spoilers. I was called in to start work at 6:00pm that evening, and base camp was located in the parking lot across from Grauman's Chinese Theatre and right next door to Jimmy Kimmel Live, they needed this huge parking lot to hold the amount of extras working this shot tonight, as we would be creating one of the biggest Hollywood movie premiere's since the Golden Era.
Fortunately I was booked as Press and not a fan, which meant I would be doing actual "work" (and I use that term loosely) as opposed to yelling and screaming all night.
The line to receive our camera equipment, easily took over an hour and a half to get through...fortunately, being that we were next door to Jimmy Kimmel, we were at least entertained with his musical guest for the night (Peter Bjorn & John) who performed on the outdoor stage. Fast forward about 4 hours, and finally the shops were closed up, and we took to the streets (Hollywood Blvd). They called all the Press up to the red carpet, in front of the Chinese Theatre*.
*Side note - For those of you who haven't been to LA, or familiar with Grauman's Chinese Theatre, it has been home to many movie premiere's and once was a home for the Academy Awards. Today you can find many o' tourist taking pictures of the hand and footprints from actual famed celebrities, or you can get your picture taken with the various nutjobs posing as those celebrities, or superheroes. Like these two...probably arguing over a dollar!
Back to the story...
Once the scene had been established, the red carpet rolled out, the screaming fans tucked behind the barricade, the premiere lights swaying in the sky, it was time for the limousine to pull up and out came the faux-celebrities...there were a couple look-a-likes who arrived there before Vinny Chase and his said, 'Entourage'.
Scar-Jo was there, a Brangelina couple...or Brad-Jo, in fact there was even a Billy-Jo walking by himself, or some other d-bag from a crappy pop-punk band...but ohhh yes, all the "Jo's" were out that night.
Vinny's limo arrived and out came the posse (I refuse to spell out Entourage every time) Johnny Drama, Eric, his girfriend Sloan, Ari and his wife, then Turtle and Jamie Lynn Sigler. (apparently he and Meadow Soprano are dating in real life now)
The whole night was us taking photos while they walked up and down the red carpet for Vinny's new movie, ...**SPOILER ALERT** ...'Gatsby' directed by Martin Scorsese. Being that I was press and it was my job to take pictures, I took it upon myself to attach my iPhone camera to the lens, so that I could sneak a couple shots for you fine folks at home.
This continued into the morning hours, shooting a bunch of different angles...when finally at 5:00am, we were all done. Somehow my eyes were still open, I was still on two feet...completely exhausted, and realized that while everyone else was going home to enjoy the comforts of their own beds, my day was just getting started...
Stay tuned for Part 2
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