Summer’s almost a distant memory, but you can still bask in the glow of the stars seen on the scene around L.A. recently. Here’s a recent sampling:
Curse of the Jade Scorpion star Helen Hunt, driving a brand-new rented Saturn through the streets of Culver City to nearby Sony Studios. Ever polite, Helen kept the hand holding her cigarette outside the rental car at all times, so as not to diminish that exhilarating new car smell.
America’s (Only Slightly Tarnished) Sweetheart Meg Ryan–looking more adorable than ever in layered fashions, bright pink lipstick and blonde ringlets–browsing for CDs in the massive Virgin Megastore on the bustling Sunset Strip. You go, Meg–it’s nice to see that some superstars don’t let their personal shoppers pick out everything for them.
Avid auto enthusiast Nicolas Cage and his pretty paramour Lisa Marie Presley cruising in a classic ’60s-era baby blue Corvette Stingray on Malibu’s winding Pacific Coast Highway. No word on whether anything by Lisa Marie’s daddy Elvis Presley–who played a race car driver in Viva Las Vegas–was playing on the radio.
Angelic Drew Barrymore shopping on Rodeo Drive. In the wake of the terrorist attacks, darling Drew chatted with the famous shopping street’s top-hatted official greeter, who makes the regular throngs of tourists feel at home in 90210, and made sure his own spirits were holding up.
The Score‘s Edward Norton scoring tickets to Session 9 at the Mann Westwood Theater in L.A.’s Westwood Village. Also on the streets of Westwood recently were Boston Public’s irrepressible Fyvush Finkel and his wife Trudi enjoying a stroll through the Village before stopping into Jerry’s Famous Deli for a late lunch–or maybe an early dinner. One never knows on the senior schedule.
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Super-diva Cher, signing autographs for the jurors who found in her favor in a recent lawsuit by a contractor, at a Los Angeles County courthouse.
Lithe actress Jolene Blalock, the newly-minted Maxim cover girl and star of UPN’s new Star Trek series Enterprise, taking a break from the set outside Paramount Studios’ Stage 18. Still in full make-up, Jolene was slipping in a cigarette between takes, and the sight of a Vulcan woman enjoying a smoke was, as Mr. Spock used to say, fascinating.
Jamie Foxx, MTV Video Awards host and co-star of the upcoming biopic Ali, and a frisky female companion enjoying the swanky seaside bar at Santa Monica’s Shutters On the Beach.
Stunning starlet Kathleen Robertson, who made a big impression in Beverly Hills 90210 and recently appeared on screen in Scary Movie 2, hanging poolside among the haughty hipsters at L.A.’s lofty Standard hotel. Kathleen is a radiant head-turner in real life, but she almost went unnoticed thanks to the uninhibited couple having enthusiastic foreplay against the wall of one of the well-lit third-floor suites, in full view of the patio partiers.
The West Wing’s Allison Janney getting latté-ed at the Burbank outpost of Starbuck’s, as was Will & Grace’s Eric McCormack–and here we thought Sean Hayes was the one who seemed the most caffeinated.
Eighties TV staple Jason Hervey, best remembered as the obnoxious older brother Wayne on The Wonder Years, catching up with a long-lost Industry contact in the lobby of the luxurious Four Seasons Hotel at (not in) Beverly Hills.
OBSCURE-BUT-COOL SIGHTING OF THE MOMENT: Character actor Paul Gleason, perhaps best known as the ’80s-authority-figure-teens-loved-to-hate in John Hughes’ high school angst classic The Breakfast Club, chatting with friends outside Century City’s Shubert Theater before a performance of Kiss Me, Kate. Gleason, one of the hardest working “heavies” of the Greed Decade, clocked in appearances in films like Die Hard, Trading Places, Tender Mercies and The Great Santini and continues to appear on the big and small screens regularly.
