After sleeping in again, we headed to Main Street to see what was happening. We schmoozed our way into the Stella Artois Lounge, which is attached to the Tao nightclub where we saw all the stars the night before. There wasn't too much going on in the lounge, but there were free drinks and yummy steak and fries to snack on.
(Kristine snuck this self-portrait to prove we were really there!)
We then walked over to Tao--the nightclub hot spot that had been impossible to get into the night before. We overheard someone say that Ewan McGregor had just left, but we didn't actually see him.
We hung out at Tao, sipping drinks, watching the Steelers/Ravens game and making new friends before going over to the Eccles Theater to see "I Love You Phillip Morris", starring Ewan McGregor and Jim Carrey. Ewan and Jim were both present at the showing and stayed for the Q & A afterwards. Jim's girlfriend, Jenny McCarthy, was also there. Jenny is very, very blonde. You could see her hair glowing all the way from the back of the theater:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2v0o4FYko0
Here's Jim talking about the character he plays in the movie, which is based on a true story (warning: spoiler alert):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OB4Nw8DA0c
That's Ewan McGregor at the mic answering a question. Jim Carey is in the beige jacket and glasses to his left.
After the movie, we went over to Michael Lohan's party at the Butera Barclay lounge. The doors to the lounge were open, so we didn't have to use Michael's cell phone number after all. There were a lot of beautiful people at the party, but no famous faces. We stayed for a few minutes and then decided to move on. On our way out of the party, we stopped to talk to Michael, who was again very pleasant. He told us about some of his charitable causes, including assisting/rescuing child victims of human trafficking in Cambodia.
We went back over to Tao and, with some careful maneuvering and impeccable timing, we were amazingly able to get back in. The party was in full swing when we arrived. At Tao, we rubbed elbows with Terrell Owens, Ian Ziering, Slash, Danny Masterson, Alan Cumming, and Matisyahu. Kristine stood next to Terrell Owens for most of the night and, yes, he is that cut and his eyebrows are that coiffed--but he's not that tall. There were probably a lot of other stars there, but it was pitch black, packed full of people, and about 90 degrees, so not very conducive for celebrity spotting--or photo-taking. Kristine was chatted up at length by Alex Frost, star of Gus Van Sant's film, "Elephant" (he played one of the school shooters). Alex is headlining a movie at Sundance this year called "The Vicious Kind", which was produced by Neil LaBute. I'm a huge Neil LaBute fan and both Kristine and I love Gus Van Sant's films--but the topic of conversation with Alex focused more on his Portland, OR upbringing and his first Sundance experience and less on his work with these two masters, unfortunately. Maybe next time...
(For reference, here's a link to Alex's bio on IMDB: http://us.imdb.com/name/nm1372713/)
Tao was an amazing experience, but we decided that if we had the millions $$ that these celebrities have, we might choose to spend our time somewhere that is more climate-controlled and less permeated with hair product.
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