It is Friday and I needed a Friday. I needed it like Lindsay Lohan needs a guy with a credit card and no spending limit. Normally I would say this in the Random Photos, but for today I will say it here. If you want your Reader Photo included in the Random Photos beginning Monday and then again on Reveal Day on July 4th, e-mail me your photo to entlawyer90210@yahoo.com
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When I arrived in _______________, FX picked me up at the airport and used the 20 minute drive to a restaurant to fill me in on exactly what was going on. Complicated is an understatement. FX had received a call from GI asking her to come to _______________. GI was filming a movie and in GI’s own words was f**king too many people to keep track of and fending off others while also using way too many drugs.
GI was in a relationship with TA. He is an Academy Award winner/nominee. At the time this happened he was barely still A list although at one time he had been a solid A. He was flying in that weekend to see GI. She had told him not to because FX was coming and GI wanted to spend the weekend with FX. It wasn’t true, but if TA showed up and FX was not there then TA would know something was up so FX was in town.
Although GI was having sex with several people, she was having the most sex with SB. He is an Academy Award winner/nominee. He also was in a relationship. He also was having sex with other people during filming. His girlfriend (NE) at the time is an Academy Award winner/nominee. SB had told her not to come because he might have to shoot that weekend and was not sure he could get away. NE was coming though.
To make things even more complicated, another actress on the set who is an Academy Award winner/nominee (LR) had reserved a private dining room at a restaurant when she heard all of these people were coming.
That is where I was headed to with FX.
My thoughts from dinner. It really was like an old British mystery. Half the people there knew exactly what was going on and the other half didn’t. At least right away.
By the end of the night TA and GI were headed for a split. He was already having sex with someone else and the two never really went well together. He just liked living on the edge because it made him feel younger. The thing is though, even though they would split by the end of the weekend, it was important that GI not appear to be interested in SB, especially while NE was there. To achieve that, she thought she would seat herself as far away from SB as possible. I think the drugs made her paranoid because every ten minutes she would wonder if whatever she had decided ten minutes earlier about how to deal with it all was the right decision. So, it became a game of musical chairs. This was a sit down dinner. Every time she would move, she would take her dinner plate with her. Meanwhile, SB was getting bombed and NE looked like she was going to die when SB started talking about their sex life to me and LR.
FX was trying to keep GI somewhat level headed and coherent which became increasingly difficult through the night. Besides the players I have mentioned there were other cast and crew and the director all at a table that could hold about 20 people. One person noticeably absent was this at the time A list mostly movie actor who had a girlfriend at the time but was currently not speaking to GI because she turned him down. I remember SB kept falling asleep at the table. I heard someone say that he took Ambien. You would think he was down for the count but then would spring back to life and tell another story and nod back off. NE looked worried about him and kept trying to get him to leave, but he wouldn’t have any of it. He then started kissing some of the other women that were there which then led to him kissing GI. He probably thought all the kisses were the same, but they weren’t. Anyone could tell by then they were hooking up although NE didn’t say anything and I was not looking at her when the kissing happened so I don’t know what her facial expression was.
I don’t think I have ever been to a dinner quite like that one. Oh, one other thing. LR was so regal. She presided over the event like a Queen. She just took it all in and let it wash over her. I always think about that and wonder if she doesn’t have a little puppet master thing she likes bringing out from time to time.