The Pap Alert goes off at 10:00 AM this morning. “Hello!,” I answered the phone in a sleepy voice. Normally I get up at around 10:00 AM since most celebs aren’t out-and-about until sometime after that time anyway. Yeah! We have the easy life. :) “Do you want to do a movie set today?,” the other side of the phone asks me. “Well, it depends on what it is,” I replied. “You have a choice to either do Tom Hanks or Entourage”, the other voice told me. Can you figure out which one I decided on?

So there I go getting out of bed to get ready for the long ride down to a city with no name (Note: I can’t mention the location of the movie set, because I don’t want to give any hints to my competitors). I take a shower and I read my morning e-mail, I also checked my blog for spammers. I am finally ready by 11:00 AM and I am off.

I get to the movie set at around 12:00 PM, just in time to note that there was no movement on the lot. Well, I don’t want to bore you with this tale, so here’s the conclusion…it was a bust, no Tom Hanks. :(

So I am headed back to West Hollywood. I feel like I have wasted part of my day with the movie set. I finally made it into West Hollywood around 2:30 PM. I am now cruising Robertson Blvd. headed northbound getting closer to The Ivy. I figured that would be a great place to start the day, but no luck. I continue my route northbound. Once I get to Melrose Ave., I spotted Nicole Richie’s car pulling into Maxfield’s Clothing Bouique. I quickly parked my car and head to the alley way. I spotted other photographers across the street from the store. New School doesn’t know about the alley. I climbed a fence of the neighboring building so that I could stand on the flat concrete surface and get the perfect view.

Nicole Richie and Samantha Ronson

Soon, Nicole steps out with Samantha Ronson, who by the way is celebrating her birthday by spending it with Nicole. Now why would anyone do that? I don’t know. :?

I jumped down from the fence and ran to my car. I decide to follow Nicole to her next destination. I became aware that the other paparazzi also had the same idea. The Ninja by now has joined the chase and we followed her to Fred Segal on Melrose Ave. While waiting, we get a surprise visit from Janice Dickinson – The First Supermodel and her daughters. :) Well, I give her credit that she has always been nice to the paparazzi.

Janice Dickinson

Nicole comes out of the restaurant and wants to sit outside. I initially thought that she wanted to give us some shots by sitting outside. After all, we were all there by now. Nope! She calls the security guard and tells him to move us from the public alley where we were waiting. The security says, “Well, I can’t do that since they are all standing in public property.” At least someone understands the law. Nicole responds, “Oh!” So now she gets her food and goes into Fred Segal to eat UpStairs. UpStairs is another store located at Fred Segal; it just happens to be upstairs. :)

She finally comes out and we hosed her. She even had a hard time getting to her car because of all the paparazzi. We all pretty much don’t care for her. I don’t even understand why she is famous. She hasn’t done anything to establish herself as either a singer or an actress. She has no reason to be famous. But as a paparazzi, we have to shoot her because of public demand…she sells. Go figure! There are so many talented actors/actresses in the world that don’t have any recognition because all the recognition is given to pseudo-celebs.

Nicole Richie and Samantha Ronson

Anyway, later on, I was checking out Melrose Place, since that is where I had spotted Rachel Bilson’s car. I couldn’t find her though. I walked the streets and looked into every store. Just as I was headed to my car, my Pap Alert goes off. “Lionel Richie is at Le Petit Four on Sunset Blvd.,” The Ninja tells me. I get into my car and off I go. I respect Lionel a lot. He is a great artist and musician. Unfortunately, I cannot say the same thing for Nicole Richie.

Lionel Richie

Lionel was attempting to make it hard for any photog to spot him by sitting in the corner in the back of the restaurant. The Ninja and myself decided to do drive by shootings. He gets into my car and we continue to circle the street in front of the restaurant and back through the parking lot. Once we come out of the parking lot, we wait for the red light and we let a few cars pass, attempting to estimate the distance so that we come to a stop in front of the restaurant waiting for the green. Then back into the parking lot we go and start over. :) We did this about six times. Everybody in the restaurant had a clue what we were doing but Lionel. We had enough pictures and we went into the parking lot to position ourselves for the shots of Lionel walking out of the restaurant, which would complete the set.

Lionel Richie

He finally comes out of the restaurant and starts to laugh since he finally realized what the restaurant people where talking about. Lionel is one of the best in dealing with paparazzi. I wish him luck with his new single, “I Call It Love”. It’s actually a nice love song.

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Tuesday, August 8, 2006, 2:40 AM

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