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As soon as I walked around the corner, I knew something was wrong. I was so used to seeing her poking out of the parking garage to greet me, I noticed straight away that she wasn’t there. No, no, no, no, it couldn’t be, I chanted in my head, breaking out into a run towards [...]
“Load the magazine like this, hold your thumb out of the way, pull the trigger and you’re good to go.” A (slightly) scary man was trying to explain something very important, but I was lost in my thoughts as I stared at the weapon in my hands. Having never seen a gun up close, touched [...]
A few weeks ago, I was rewatching “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” when a thought struck me. It was during the scene where Richard Dreyfuss’ character is driving to that odd shaped mountain, and funnily enough, it was nothing to do with aliens. As I watched him struggle to read a map and drive [...]
Well who would have thought a 17 year old hand-drawn animated film would beat a Brad Pitt blockbuster at the box office? Certainly not Hollywood! And probably not Brad Pitt either, who has been doing some serious press around the world talking up his (admittedly excellent) baseball flick “Moneyball”. But “The Lion King 3D” beat [...]
Momentarily distracted by the sight of Rob Lowe, I tripped into the elevator at the Intercontinental hotel. Classy, I thought, looking around the packed space to see if anyone noticed. A familiar face smiled back. Automatically, I exclaimed a loud “HI” to it, but somewhere between the ‘H’ and the ‘I’ I realised, I don’t [...]
Brad Pitt’s blue eyes looked into mine as I shook his hand and tried to remember how to breathe. “Hi Brad! I’m Alicia from Australia, howsitgoing?” my words jumbled out and locked together in a rush of nervousness. “Hi, I’m good.” He said in his familiar voice. “What time zone is it for you right [...]
“Look!” screamed my visiting Australian friend Lauren, “I think that’s Mischa Barton!” I peered from the top of our double decker red sightseeing bus, and could vaguely make out the back of a blondish girl’s head, sitting at Starbucks. It could be Mischa Barton, sure, but it also could be one of another million blonde [...]
“I thought I had finally met someone normal,” explained one of my new LA friends, “when he said he was a dentist, but…” “Let me guess,” I interjected, “he was a celebrity dentist?” “Yes!” she laughed, “With an agent and many TV appearances!” No matter the industry, in LA, everyone you meet works in entertainment. [...]
“Have you seen Jesus yet?” asked one of my new American friends. “Um… I don’t think so…” I replied “In that case, you haven’t.” she said, “You’ll know when you do!” That prospect intrigued me but she didn’t explain any further, and while I was trying to figure out whether she was speaking in metaphorical [...]
“Oh my gosh!” I screamed suddenly, making Kate jump, “A yellow school bus! I thought they only had those in the movies!” “No,” Kate said, “They’re real. I used to catch one to school everyday.” “Cool!” I said, my eyes full of wonder. The most surprising thing about LA is that it looks exactly as [...]
