Blind Item Reveals
February, 22, 2008
The great thing about today's four items is they all come from the same apartment building in New York.
#1 The summer this B list film actress who I love to rag on as of late was in Shakespeare in the Park, she lived in the building. The building is in Manhattan that was home to many celebs on a permanent basis or just while they were doing a stint in a play or something. So, our actress lived in the building that summer under an assumed name because she didn't want to be bothered. Fine...who cares. No one in the building really cared about famous people living there. There was no mail room at this building, but rather a concierge who gave out mail. All of the mail was in pigeon holes and generally, the concierge knew you and got your mail as you came to the desk. Sometimes there were a few people there so you had to wait. Fine...well, not fine for our actress. Once, while a person was getting their mail and chatting with the concierge for a moment, he got the mail and told the person they had a package in the back so he was going to get it. Before he went to get the package, our actress came up and asked for her stuff. She was told to wait since there was another person there ahead of her. She didn't like that at all. So she said, I can't wait and I want my stuff now. The concierge ignored her. She was so steamed and unfortunately, the person ahead of our actress in line had to ride in the elevator together. She had previously asked the security guard if she could have the elevator to herself. He promptly told her that that is not how things work in the building...but in a really nice way.
#2 This former A list child actor lived in the building. He actually got kicked out of the building. He was renting...spending about 14k a month on rent. That included a studio apt that was made into a gym. This is when he was married. They rescued a lot of animals but never took them out...they also smoked pot incessantly so the halls reeked. That's why they were asked to leave. He NEVER held the door for anyone. There was a fire in the building where his mom and siblings lived...well, they all moved in with him. There were siblings ALL over the place. They would run down the halls banging on the walls. It was annoying as hell to say the least.
#3 The Paper was also filmed in the building. Ron Howard was scouting out the location so everyone on the floor which was used for filming got to see him. A few days later, he was back and invited several residents to see what was going on. He was incredibly nice. One of the male stars was not friendly at all. Apparently he was being stalked at the time so he had an armed guard, who was really nice, but our actor was an ass. He refused to take the elevator if anyone was in it. He also refused to talk to ANYONE.
#4 Here's another ass. This involves an Academy Award winning actress/supporting actress. The building was set up such that there was a doorway that went from the elevator bank to the hall. One day a resident was going from the elevator to the hall and our actress was going the other way. Well, they didn't see each other and our actress bashed through the door and hit the resident in the head. Ok, mistake...fine...well...not so fine..our actress said "get out of my way." Yeah, not ok. So, the resident told her to watch it because the resident lived there etc etc and the resident thought that our actress was really rude. The woman with her apologized profusely. The resident told her there was NO reason for her to apologize because she didn't do anything. The resident pointed to our actress and said "She's the one who should be apologizing." The resident kept being ignored by our actress while the assistant just kept apologizing.
#1 - Natalie Portman
#2 - Macaulay Culkin
#3 - Michael Keaton
#4 - Marisa Tomei
Natalie Portman B list? C'mon...
ReplyDeleteWow. Natalie Portman always seems down to earth and not at all a bitch. Maybe I'm just naieve.
ReplyDeleteI agree... people ravish about her all the time. Well I guess to good to be true...
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ReplyDeleteenty, can you please keep your promise and reveal the HIV+ pop star?
thanks.
Oh, man, my daydreams about Michael Keaton coming over to clean my house will never be the same again. :-(
ReplyDeleteGuessed Macaulay right away and am not surprised at the other reveals here!
for some reason im so bummed about the natalie portman reveal. didnt know she was that much of a bitch.
ReplyDeleteThe Portman one is the most surprising reveal yet. She always comes off as very sweet and I never read anything bad about her.
ReplyDeleteDude, if Marisa Tomei ever told me to "get out of [her] way" after an accident, someone would have to hold me back from planting my foot directly into her ass. Seriously.
ReplyDeletethese were very lame blinds anyway.....so some famous people think too much of themselves and act like asses....tell us something we don't know
ReplyDeleteWow, I thought for sure #1 was Drew.
ReplyDeleteMarisa Tomei also surprises me. I always had her pegged as cool.
oooh, that was a tasty reveal!
ReplyDeleteJust goes to show what a good actress portman is
ReplyDeleteAwww. I love Natalie Portman! :-( That sucks!
ReplyDeleteBE NICE, NATALIE. GODDAMMIT.
Disappointing about Portman. I've liked her since The Professional. I guess a truly nice famous person is a rare thing indeed.
ReplyDeleteI really want to like Mila Kunis, but the fact that she's dating Macaulay makes me ill.
ReplyDeleteKudos to the concierge & the resident for giving the gals a dose of reality (not that they seem to have appreciated it).
I remember this one when it first came out ... I think we got 'em all right except #1. I'm actually kind of surprised Ms. Portman would pull that much attitude. Hopefully she isn't doing that kind of BS anymore (yeah, right).
ReplyDeleteWhat? Portman always seems so above the rest of us. That girl has never had to work a day in her life.
ReplyDeleteRe: Natalie
ReplyDeleteAlways loved her, would like to think that she's just naturally the most beautiful, Harvard educated, sweet darling....
But, how many years of having everyone kiss your ass until you start to believe your worth it.
And, dammit, worth getting your mail first too! Pshaw.
Marisa Tomei might have been drunk at the time.
ReplyDeleteand actually Natalie Portman maintained a full AP/honors load in high school while acting--that's kind of hard work, but I never pegged her as a bitch. maybe it was PMS.
I don't know, maybe the concierge was talking for twenty minutes with the other resident and ignoring her. I would get pissed too. I'm just saying, number 1 doesn't sound that bad.
ReplyDeleteI agree. The elevator thing is odd but could be her not wanting to be bothered by 'fans'. Maybe she had a bad experience.
ReplyDelete1) really surprised
ReplyDelete2) knew it
3) woulda never guessed, forgot he even existed, guess anyone can have a stalker
4) way too big for her britches. Hell, anyone could pretend to talk about a car while smacking gum and being a dork floozy, sheesh.
I didn't think the Michael Keaton one was that bad. I dunno. I'd be freak about talking to strangers if one started stalking me, I think. But I'm generally paranoid as it is.
ReplyDeleteKeaton strikes me as very eccentric, but I love him as an actor.
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ReplyDeleteThe Natalie Portman reveal is nice for me because I think shortly after this blind is when he bitched at her about the shoe launch that redgurl72 mentioned. I remember thinking that came out of the blue, and a lot of defenders came to her side. Not so out of the blue as it seemed apparently...now whenever a random rant comes on that seems random or doesn't make sense I will now think, what does Ent already know about the person or which blind they are an answer to.
ReplyDeleteI've actually read quite a few bad things about Portman and her diva behavior, but it's all in the last few years. Must be getting too big for her britches....
ReplyDeleteNatalie Portman herself said that she regretted some of her behavior from back when she was 15-16 (the timeframe when she was doing Shakespeare in the Park). She had spent the time since The Professional being offered lolita-type roles by 40-50 year old men, and was seriously creeped out by it, but also says that it was no escuse for her behavior. During the filming of The Phantom Menace she realized how her behavior was affecting others and cleaned up her act. Every single account I've read of her taking place in the ensuing 10 years says that she's a wonderful person, if still a little wary about the loss of her privacy.
ReplyDeleteAre you the same person you were in 1995?