Blog

Have you ever had a celebrity sighting that wasn't? I was 1-out-2 on celebrity sightings during our many many Old Hat on-location shoots this last year. We DID see Bobby Brown on our layover in Chicago en route to South Bend, Indiana. He was with some lady who wasn't Whitney Houston. It would have been more exciting if she had been there, but I probably would've been seriously disappointed if she didn't act anything like Mya Rudolph's impression of her on SNL:

Robert wanted me to approach Bobby, but I SAW his Bravo show and various other reality show appearances and am convinced he is krazy (crazy with a "k"). This would've disappointed Deb as an 11-year-old girl because I used to steal my brother's Bobby Brown cassette tape and sing along.

Alas, spotting Bobby-B was redemption after the Jeff Goldblum sighting that wasn't in Ann Arbor. Perhaps it was the fact that I had to watch the movie "The Big Chill" for one of the videos we produced for the University of Michigan's "Big Chill in the Big House." Jeff Goldblum was one of the stars and his character went to UM. Perhaps it was the unusually warm summer temperatures in Michigan. Perhaps it's because people kept walking up to this dude asking for his autograph. Or perhaps this dude just looked like Jeff Goldblum. I took a grainy pic with my phone. You be the judge:

Well the consensus at our table was that I was wrong. It was actually the owner of the famous and delicious Zingerman's Deli, Ari Weinzweigr. My bad. However, I am confident my record will improve this next year. I will take more grainy pictures of celebrities or normal people who look like celebrities.