Celebrity Sightings

I have seen quite a few celebrities in the streets of New York the past two days.

Yesterday I saw Tony Shalhoub exiting a limo and entering Carnegie Hall for the CBS upfronts.  The upfronts are where the networks present their fall schedule and shows to the advertisers and press, and they usually bring in the big stars.  Tony Shalhoub is starring in one of CBS's new comedies with Jerry O'Connell, "We Are Men."  This is CBS's official description of the show:

WE ARE MEN is a single-camera comedy about four single guys living in a short-term apartment complex who unexpectedly find camaraderie over their many missteps in love. Carter (Chris Smith), the youngest and most recent addition to the group, moved in after being ditched at the altar mid-ceremony, and is now eager to re-enter the dating scene and get on with his life with some guidance from his “band of brothers”: Frank Russo (Golden Globe and multiple Emmy Award winner Tony Shalhoub), a successful middle-aged clothing manufacturer and four-time divorcée who still fancies himself a ladies man; Gil Bartis (Kal Penn), a small business owner who was caught having the world’s worst affair; and Stuart Strickland (Jerry O’Connell), a speedo-wearing OB/GYN who’s hiding his assets until his second divorce is settled.
Jill (Rebecca Breeds) is Frank’s charming and attractive daughter, who stands as the one positive remnant from his failed relationships. Armed with a hot tub, pool-side barbeque and plenty of questionable advice, these losers in the marriage department take Carter under their wing to impart their own brand of wisdom about the opposite sex.

Emmy Award winner Rob Greenberg, Eric Tannenbaum and Kim Tannenbaum are executive producers for CBS Television Studios. Rob Greenberg directed the pilot.

I also saw Emma Stone and Edward Norton in Times Square filming the new movie Birdman, directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu.  The movie also stars Michael Keaton, Naomi Watts and Zach Galifianakis.  Stone and Norton were talking by a crafts table in front of a Broadway theatre that had fake billboards up.  I was looking at the billboards first and was thinking that the guy looked a lot like Michael Keaton, but with a different name, and then saw Norton and Stone.  Then I realize they were filming a movie and the billboards were fake.  The dark comedy is about a former actor (Keaton) who once played a superhero and stages a Broadway play based on a short story by Raymond Carver to become famous again.  His plan was threatened to be derailed by his egotistical lead actor (Norton).  Stone plays Keaton's daughter/assistant who is just out of rehab, Watts is Norton's co-star in the play, and Galifianakis plays the producer.

Lastly, I saw Matthew Morrison walking with his girlfriend, Renee Puente.  I actually noticed her first, because even in just shorts and a casual shirt she walked like a model.  Matthew was talking on the phone about his cooking skills.  It was a funny, random conversation to overhear.