Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Jeffrey Katzenberg Can't Sit Still In Restaurants

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In this episode: Jeffrey Katzenberg; David Spade; Adam Brody; Alec Baldwin, Shawn Wayans, and Adam Brody; Jay Leno and Damon Wayans; Queen Latifah, James Spader and Laurence Fishburne; Diddy; Camryn Manheim, Jodie Foster, and Michael Cera; Kim Dickens, Jasmine Guy, Tony Shaloub, Michael Rappaport, and Salma Hayek; Emmy Rossum and Topher Grace; Topher Grace; Emilio Estevez; Kristin Davis; Frankie Muniz; Giovanni Ribisi; Peter Dinklage; Jason Schwartzman; Kirstie Alley, Annie Lennox, and Tangi Miller; Anthony Kiedis and Denise Richards; Ricardo Antonio Chavira; Soleil Moon Frye; Peter Dinklage and Julia Sweeney; Daisy Fuentes; Edward Herrmann and Elvira; Luciana Barroso; Adrienne Janic; Shane West.
· today (10/3) went to pinot on coldwater for lunch and saw jeffrey katzenberg bopping around the restaurant. he sat with a couple producer types, then went outside again, then went to the bathroom, then wandered around, and finally sat down at a nice corner table. seriously, this went on for at least 10 or 15 minutes. finally, his lunch guest arrives, and it's the Reanimated Corpse Of Warren Beatty. the table was bathed in bright sunlight, giving a faint aura around each of them. so, cool. i was all pleased with myself and my hollywood lunch until i came back to work and said, "guess who i saw at pinot?," and my co-worker rolled her eyes and muttered, "katzenberg?" damn.
· I had been making fun of the way the guy in front of me was walking on his treadmill. Then he started spinning around on the treadmill and I realized it was david spade. I think he's watching laguna beach on his tv, which is a little better than what I'm watching (my fair brady). He looks like a midget. And he's also wearing khaki short. He goes to the gym in khaki shorts?
· Spotted Alec Baldwin at the Tropicana Bar hanging out in a little roped off corner last Friday (9/23). He's gained some weight...Was at LAX on Wednesday (9/28) ...Saw Shawn Wayans hanging out with a buddy by the dance floor checking out the crowd. Vincent Young (BEVERLY HILLS 90210) was in the back patio talking to oil heir Brandon Davis while Adam Brody (THE O.C.) was talking to producer David Sacks who's movie THANK YOU FOR SMOKING caused quite a ruckus at the Toronto Film Festival.
· not the most hip sighting, and i realize he's ubiquitous, esp. in the valley, but saw jay leno last thurs (9/29) near the burbank airport driving one of those unattractive open-air antique cars of his. remarkable mostly bc it was at the height of the fire's total eclipse of the area, rendering the air presumably quite toxic. yet there he was, breathing it all in. maybe it was his way of getting back to nature? also, last sunday (9/25), i was browsing the over-priced jean selection at blonde in santa monica. i was too engrossed in the denim to notice other customers, but after we left my boyfriend pointed out that damon wayans was in there with his lady-friend. apparently, his lady spotted a blouse in the window and threw it on the counter. the salesperson said there were other colors available. damon preferred turquoise. fascinating stuff!
· Went to the HMS Bounty over the weekend for a birthday gathering. A bunch of my lady friends suddenly got super giddy and nearly creamed themselves over the spotting of one Seth Cohen (or is his real name Adam Brody?? - pretty interchangeable i guess), who was bellied up to the corner of the bar. I'm not an OC watcher (which nearly ostracized me from the group), so I was more excited for my friends, who are OC devotees. Also there was Sean Lennon, wearing his dad's wire-rimmed glasses, though his were much more thicker lensed.
· I saw Queen Latifah at Amoeba Records last night. She was buying this really ugly poster of a topless sister riding a unicorn. Needless to say, I waited until she left and then bought the exact same poster for my room.
· Went to see Serenity this weekend at the Arclight. Before the movie saw James Spader in the concession line. He was short, kinda chunky in the middle and wore a brown fedora. Had his arm around some skeleton of a blond woman. Saw him after the movie as well, thus allowing me to assume he likes the Joss Whedon western/sci-fi. In the parking lot walking to my car saw Laurence Fishburne. Nothing spectacular about him, shorter than I would have expected, but in my experience they all are.
· Forgot to email this in last week, but I saw Diddy on the 20th Century Fox lot last Thursday (9/22). The man was wearing a black blazer with jeans and sunglasses in 90 degree weather and didn't have a sweat going at all. For some reason, that was more impressive to me than him being worth hundreds of millions and having rapped with Martha Stewart.
· Saw some wonderful celebs at the screening of Wallace and Grommit's "The Curse of The Were-Rabbit" at the Village Theatre in Westwood. Camryn Manheim looking fresh and VERY tall with two blonde and ADORABLE children (hers?) and a motherly Ros-from-Frasier-type woman. Desperately wanted to give her a giant hug. Also saw Jodie Foster trying to be incognito with no makeup and covering her face while talking on her cell. No one really bothered her and she looked great! Later, saw Michael Cera (George Michael from Arrested Development) near Diddy Riese. He had blonde hair and was walking with two friends, and maybe his mom? He looked young, maybe 16 or 17, so I guess that would make sense. He didn't really want to be noticed.
· Larchmont Village is definitely the place to go if you want to see random celebrities running errands and eating. Within 15 minutes of standing in the same spot of sidewalk outside Cafe du Village waiting for a table the other day, I spotted: a.) the lovely Kim Dickens on her way to the postal store; b.) Ms. Whitley Gilbert herself Jasmine Guy and spawns getting into a black SUV, and finally c.) recent Emmy-winner Tony Shalhoub getting out of an electric car (yes, electric) to meet friends for brunch. A few days later, back on Larchmont, I was on my way to the Starbucks when I spotted Kim Dickens yet again, this time rushing off, arms full from the Farmer's Market. Even in work out clothes and tiny pixie braids, she was stunning. Then as I left the Starbucks, I passed Michael Rappaport and his equally carrot-topped kids hanging out at a cafe up the street. As expected, he was very pale, with bright red hair, and was cautioning his kids in that famous New Yaaawwwk accent not to skateboard off the curb. Finally, later that evening, I was coming out of the Borders and Sunset and Vine, and I saw Salma Hayek dressed like a trendy Newsie chatting with associates outside of Schwab's. She is tiny and pretty, but looked out of place to boot.
· friday night at doughboys, saw emmy rossum and topher grace leaving dinner and waiting around for their car at valet... kind of a big age difference when you see them in person. topher, for all you stalkers out there, drove a brand new lexus suv.
· Was booked on an American Airlines flight from JFK to LAX on 9/30. Noticed a tall, youngish guy with an American Airlines staffer who was taken directly to the front of the line while they were boarding Group 2. I thought he looked a bit old to have to travel with a flight attendant, and then realized it was Topher Grace. He was much taller and cuter than I thought he'd be, dressed in jeans, a white t-shirt, olive colored jacket with a backpack and small olive green suitcase and most importantly, short hair. When my boarding group was called, I unabashedly scanned first and business classes and didn't see him. Figured I'd just missed him, but it turns out he was flying in steerage with the rest of us! He was just 2 rows ahead of me and to the right, so I was close enough to notice that he was very nice to everyone and that he had the armrest up between himself and a very attractive young African American woman who was his seatmate. Unfortunately, I don't think they were lovers. He watched DVDs most of the time, and she read a book. When we finally landed at LAX, she was left waiting for her luggage at the baggage claim and he was gone.
· Saw Emilio Estevez shopping at the Santa Monica Robinson's May. I'm 5 feet short and he was definitely no more than 2 inches taller than me. He looked at the 80% off sale pants...didn't he make enough money on those damn "Young Guns"/"Mighty Ducks"/"Stakeout" movies in the early 90's to be on the other side of the mall at Macys? Charlie and Martin should kick him down some cash.
· Was heading into an appointment at a medical building in Santa Monica last Friday when a pretty but demure-looking woman came out of the Ladies room headed toward a first-floor office. It was obvious we were going to cross paths in the small lobby area, so I politely stopped and let her cross, and gave a grin (not recognizing her at all). She ever-so-subtly grinned and nodded an acknowledgment. Only as she passed did I realize that behind the black sunglasses was the sweet and proper Charlotte York, oops, I mean Kristin Davis. As I walked up the stairs I took a gander to see what office she ducked into. Turns out it was a traditional Chinese Medicine doctor, aka Acupuncturist. Is the real-life Charlotte York
visiting a real-life Dr. Mao to help warm her womb? Enquiring minds want to know. She's very pretty btw, in that classic preppy way.
· Thursday evening (9/29) I took a trip to Target on La Brea and Santa Monica where I spotted a miniature Muniz, as in Frankie Muniz with equally miniature "finace" in tow. They look shrunken and adolescent. As fiancé pushed the cart Frankie gave me a Hollywood don't recognize me sneer. I scooted away and quickly realized that his sneer might have been directed towards my lint covered grubby smelly gym clothes. F* that guy.
· I saw Giovanni Ribisi at the Arclight on Friday night, Sept. 30. He was so tiny, I wanted to scoop him up, put him in my pocket, & take him home with me.
· Was at the Arclight (10/6), taking in a matinee of Capote (10/5). I must say, he really is a pocket hunk.
· Tiny, hairy, schlumpy Jason Schwartzman stood behind us on line at the Sigur Ros show at the Hollywood Bowl. We think he was with Thumbsucker Director Mike Mills, but not positive.... Zooey Deschanel was nowhere to be found...
· I saw Tangi Miller from Felicity at Trader Joe’s on 3rd and Fairfax looking absolutely gorgeous! She has the most beautiful skin and looked very fit. The checkout guy would not stop hitting on her. I felt bad. ”Just let Tangi buy her darn edamame, salmon, raspberry chocolate sticks, 2-buck-chuck and leave dude!” Also saw a VERY TALL and VERY SKINNY Annie Lennox at Urban Outfitters shopping in the men’s department. She still has that ultra cool, very short, peroxided-out, pixie hair cut which made her stand out even more. And while I was shopping in the plant department at HOME DEPOT on Sunset Blvd. today, I heard a woman talking to her friend and recognized her voice. I then peered through the cyclamen all stealth-paparazzi-like to see none other then Miss Jenny Craig herself…Kirstie Alley! She looked FABULOUS! Jenny Craig is really working well for her. She was really funny, talked loudly, and bitched about how she could never take care of a plant and that they always die on her. She also had some girl with her who laughed at anything she said even if it wasn’t funny. (I need to have one of these people with me at all times too.)
· Thursday night, at the new macrobiotic restaurant M on Melrose, ANTHONY KIEDIS literally strode right up to my table (requisite hipster cutie g.f. in tow), peered over my dining companion's shoulder and looked straight at me proclaiming, "That looks good!" A bit shocked, I shrugged and glanced toward my meal, "Uh, well, yes, it is." He continued to stare, fascinated, and then said, "Is that some sort of Asian boxed meal?" (I was munching on the Bento Box, choice of salmon, tofu cakes, or fried Seitan.) I nodded, close enough, and pointed down the counter, "They're over there, in the display case." Anthony lit up like a Christmas tree. He rushed off, but it seems he didn't get a Bento Box, but one of the "hot" orders to go. Clearly I didn't sell him on it enough. Friday morning was having some post-yoga coffee at Cassbah Cafe in Silverlake, watching something be filmed across the street in the 99 cent store parking lot. I said to my friend, "I bet it's that Denise Richards TV show, the one set in Silverlake". And lo and behold, not 2 minutes later, DENISE RICHARDS comes strolling across the street! She looked great, SO SLIM for just having a baby! But not too skinny. In sweats and curlers (clearly in between takes), but still gorge. Charlie should continue to grovel to try to get that back.
· Thursday, 9/29: Ricardo Antonio Chavira outside of Don Cuco's in Burbank. Eye-poppingly hot in person and emitting shockwaves of charisma while he was chatting up a near-impossibly pretty petite brunette, who was not his TV wife. They both looked like they were having the time of their lives just looking into each other's eyes. With all that beauty and charisma and one of them being on a hit show, it would have been the perfect picture of the Hollywood high life — if they hadn't been outside Don Cuco's.
· I saw Soleil Moon Frye or "Punky Brewster" at the Ralph's in BH last night (Mon Oct 3). She is super tiny, very skinny (especially considering she just had a baby) and seemed EXTREMELY bothered that people were noticing her. They really weren't noticing "her" per se...she looked a little slovenly and was wearing a semi-half shirt. I guess my thought was...it's 7 p.m. on a normal working person's evening...if you don't want to be noticed, peruse the Ralph's at a less-congested time.
· Peter Dinklage at Cafe du Village reading the NYT over breakfast with an older woman on Friday. Julia Sweeney among the throngs at ArcLight Saturday night. You'd think every blockbuster this year and arty film of merit were released all this past weekend, it was such a mob scene.
· Saw Daisy Fuentes at the Arclight theater this Saturday (10/1). She was with a guy and looked fantastic in person.
· This is truly turning out to be Week of the B-Listers. Last night (10/05) at the Smoke House in Burbank, Edward Herrmann (Richard Gilmore and FDR) chose to step back in time to enjoy some Better Homes and Gardens-style garlic bread, steak, and other American delights. While taking my end-of-the-day run earlier this week I figured out Cassandra Peterson (AKA Elvira) lives in my nabe. She was walking her dog along Canyon Drive at sunset; granted not quite the time of day in which becomes The Mistress, yet she did wait for broad daylight to pass.
· Last night (9/29) I saw a celebrity by association, Luciana Barroso (sans Matt Damon) enjoying happy hour with three girlfriends at the Belmont on La Cienega. Not only was the quartet thrifty by timing their visit for half-priced drinks and appetizers, but they also had their server split the check into four seperate bills. The most disturbing part of this "celebrity" encounter is that as each of the eight people in my group arrived, they all immediately said "isn't that Luciana Barroso?" upon joining our table. Curse you US Weekly!!!! P.S. She is FAR prettier in person than in mag photos and the engagement rock was fab. Looked to be a very large center diamond with two very good size diamonds on either side of the center stone.
· I saw AJ "Adrienne Janic" from the TLC show Overhaulin at 7969. I ran up to tell her how beautiful she was in person and asked her if she was single. She laughed and said no. She is so gorgeous. Seriously one of the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.
· Sherman Oaks Galleria, exiting theater 3 after an early Serenity showing on Saturday (10/1) evening, when who should I see but ER's Shane West chatting with a group of friends directly in front of the concession stand. He looked good in a wifebeater and khakis, replete with leather cuffs and artfully tousled hair. He seemed to like the movie, and they left without being approached. He seems well-adapted to his new NBC-assigned status of "heartthrob".