Had Saturday night (relatively) off from party coverage so here’s some news from the streets and cafes:
Celebrity Spotting #1: On King Street Thursday night I spotted “30 Rock”/Piccolo Fringe’s Paul Scheer and Jack McBrayer walking by St. Matthew’s Lutheran. I freaked and honked the horn. My wife got all over me. She recognized them from somewhere, but didn’t realize it was because she knew them only as Kenneth and Donny, the competing NBC pages from her favorite show. “Jon!” she said. “Why are you making fun of those dorks?”
Superstar Spotting #2: Folly is a good place to relax during the festival and not be out of things. Traditionally, many of the performers stay there. I remember seeing the cast of Mother Courage at Folly in 2000. And it was that same year that tightrope performer Antoine Rigot suffered a serious neck injury diving into a wave.
At Taco Boy on the middle Sunday of the festival we ran into Lynn Letson, having a margarita with friends. She said she’d been out till 2:30 in the morning, riding around in a friend’s golf cart.
“We went to Taylor Mac earlier, and he had all his drag costumes laid out on the front of the stage. My friends said, ‘Lynn, that looks just like your bedroom.’”
Between gushing over Evelyn Ray Sanchez and the SPB, Lynn basically admitted that she has a fever, and the only cure is more Spoleto.
“I get so turned on by everything for these two weeks, I can’t sleep!”
Mega-superstar Spotting #3: Friday morning, That Guy from Stripes came in the bookstore. Bought about five or six old children’s books and gave me a hard time about the time-consuming process we have of logging all the books we sell.
BM: That’s a lot of work Why don’t you get a scanner?
JS: I’m waiting on my residual check from Ghostbusters.*
“I wanna party with you cowboy!”
*Yeah, I didn’t actually say this.
