Celebrity Sighting...

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard on the 2 train. They got on at Bergen Street in Brooklyn during rush hour. Hey, I guess times are tough for everyone. Do you have any idea how expensive chauffeurs are? They stood, nestled in with all of the commuters. No one said a word to them, and no one offered them a seat.





I’ve seen only two other celebrities riding the subway:

This guy who starred in The Sopranos



And Steve Buscemi, who’s kind of hard to miss.

Actually I’m usually terrible at spotting celebrities in public. It's partly because I'm oblivious and partly because I don’t stand around at theater stage entrances or on-location movie sets, unless said movie sets are happening on my block. For some reason my street must be the quintessential Brooklyn neighborhood. Most recently The Muppets came to town. All of the kids in a five-block radius came out to watch them shoot. Of course no one realized how scarring this could be to the little tykes when, in between takes, Kermit wasn’t quite as animated as he should be. One three-year-old said, with tears streaming down her face, “Daddy, hims not real.”

Before that we had Ugly Betty in the hood and The Squid and the Whale and The Royal Tenenbaums. The biggest hoopla was for Tom Cruise and War of the Worlds. That last scene? When they’re supposed to be in Boston? Nope. That’s Brooklyn, baby.