Post by Maeve on Nov 30, 2007 2:31:46 GMT -4
Anyone else see this before? Instead of working I looked around for more Michael stuff and found this. This woman (fluffycat) wrote about running into Michael at LAX on November 4th and her interaction with him. This is what she wrote in her blog.
thenextthird.blogspot.com/2007/11/well-always-have-marbel.html
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One of the things I love about Los Angeles is that you see celebrities. And how there is this whole cult of celebrity, how some people (well, mostly visitors) will go to specific restaurants or hot spots just to see celebrities. Of course, as they say in Us Magazine, celebrities are just like us. Imagine our surprise when we saw Michael Emerson at LAX.
For those of you unfamiliar with him, well, he's the bad guy on LOST. Bad guy is sort of relative in a way, considering the show portrays a range of conflicting views. Anyway, since I'm a huge fan of the show, I was totally amazed to see him waiting in front of one of the terminals. I didn't recognize him when we passed by, but Annie did. We were jokingly saying, oh let's go back, but with my 50 lb suitcase, I wasn't going anywhere.
After we got through the hell that is airport security, I decided I wanted a drink from Starbucks. And of course, who did we get in line behind other than Michael Emerson? Now, a really cool character would have probably said, "Hi, I like your work," or something like that, but instead I started talking loudly to Annie and ignoring him. We had a long discussion about what exactly we wanted from Starbucks, and I noticed that the marble cake was incorrectly labeled "marbel cake." Annie said, yes, that is MARBEL cake, something else entirely. Michael Emerson, who ordered the aforementioned cake, joined in on the conversation. He said, yes, it's cake actually from Marbel, a province in Germany. In a totally serious way. Because he's a very good actor. Yes, Michael Emerson was flirting with us. He looked directly at me with these blue eyes and joked with me. I said, "really?" And he said, "no."
Of course at no point did I say, "Hi, I like your work" or "what is going to happen with your character on the show?" Then he went off in his direction, and we went off towards our gate. But coincidentally, his gate was right near our gate, and he sat down to eat his "marbel" cake right near us. I wanted to take a photo of him but my hands were shaking too badly with nerves, so Annie snapped the picture above. He got on a plane to Honolulu, and we flew off to Europe. We joked that if we saw him at the airport when we got back, I'd have to talk to him. But we didn't.
thenextthird.blogspot.com/2007/11/well-always-have-marbel.html
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One of the things I love about Los Angeles is that you see celebrities. And how there is this whole cult of celebrity, how some people (well, mostly visitors) will go to specific restaurants or hot spots just to see celebrities. Of course, as they say in Us Magazine, celebrities are just like us. Imagine our surprise when we saw Michael Emerson at LAX.
For those of you unfamiliar with him, well, he's the bad guy on LOST. Bad guy is sort of relative in a way, considering the show portrays a range of conflicting views. Anyway, since I'm a huge fan of the show, I was totally amazed to see him waiting in front of one of the terminals. I didn't recognize him when we passed by, but Annie did. We were jokingly saying, oh let's go back, but with my 50 lb suitcase, I wasn't going anywhere.
After we got through the hell that is airport security, I decided I wanted a drink from Starbucks. And of course, who did we get in line behind other than Michael Emerson? Now, a really cool character would have probably said, "Hi, I like your work," or something like that, but instead I started talking loudly to Annie and ignoring him. We had a long discussion about what exactly we wanted from Starbucks, and I noticed that the marble cake was incorrectly labeled "marbel cake." Annie said, yes, that is MARBEL cake, something else entirely. Michael Emerson, who ordered the aforementioned cake, joined in on the conversation. He said, yes, it's cake actually from Marbel, a province in Germany. In a totally serious way. Because he's a very good actor. Yes, Michael Emerson was flirting with us. He looked directly at me with these blue eyes and joked with me. I said, "really?" And he said, "no."
Of course at no point did I say, "Hi, I like your work" or "what is going to happen with your character on the show?" Then he went off in his direction, and we went off towards our gate. But coincidentally, his gate was right near our gate, and he sat down to eat his "marbel" cake right near us. I wanted to take a photo of him but my hands were shaking too badly with nerves, so Annie snapped the picture above. He got on a plane to Honolulu, and we flew off to Europe. We joked that if we saw him at the airport when we got back, I'd have to talk to him. But we didn't.
Rofl How lucky!?