Last night was the 40th birthday of David Slade. It was assumed there was going to be some large get together of the cast with David. Little did we know, David was hard at work on his birthday, while some fo the cast took the chance to have a dinner together.
I got downtown early evening all ready for who knows what, but I suspected it was going to be late. I started out at the Sheraton, but soon after chose to change locales to the residence. While there I found out several cast members left all together & that everyone at the residence had left to follow. It took awhile, but eventually the cat was out of the bag. A variety of cast were at Gotham Steakhouse. This is one of the more notable eateries in Vancouver. Celebs of all levels dine there, gangsters dine there, athletes dine there, politicians, you name it. So it was hardly some hidden little hole in the wall find. What was not known was exactly who all were in there. A variety of paps were there, several autograph hounds & a two fan/informants. All the regular paps, hounds & informants were in the mix. What was missing was Rob, Kristen & a few other notables. It was obvious they had opted to have another get together elsewhere away from the high profile big fancy look at me steakhouse dinner. That was where the less notable cast, Stephenie Meyer and Kellan Lutz went to dine. The majority of the main cast Rob, Kristen, Ashley, Nikki, Elizabeth, Jackson & Xavier, went elsewhere. At one point I decided to try a hunch & went on a wild goose chase to a few hot spots to see if the others could be found, but I came up empty & eventually came back to Gotham. When I got there I was informed that Kellan had just left a minute earlier & everyone had gone to chase. To top it off, one of the two people I thought would be there for any following that was required decided to book off for the night because of a girl. Which is all fine and good...MOST nights, but not one where you know there is potentially a big evening on the line. The other followed Kellan, but soon lost him & while they were gone, the rest of the party let out. First up was the Wolves. Chaske Spencer, Bronson Pelletier, Alex Meras & Kiowa Gordon all went into a cab together. Chaske & Bronson signing a couple autographs each on the way to the vehicle. I got 1 from Chaske, as I didnt need the others. After them, everything was a bit of a blur. I recall seeing Stephenie Meyer leave with a couple people, but I couldnt tell you if it was with cast or not. Daniel Cudmore I believe left on his own. I also believe Charlie Bewley left on his own. But I cant be certain in either case. Julia Jones & Bryce Dallas Howard I believe left together. Cameron Bright, his mom, Jodelle Ferland & someone I assume was her mom, I believe left together. I stopped Jodelle for an autograph. I am a huge Dead Like Me fan & she is a pretty notable guest spot in the pilot, so getting her to ME was cool. I coerced her to sign a second autograph. She seemed willing, but the lady with her (perhaps her mom) was not as eager for her to do it. I had a 3rd photo as well, but after how hard it was to convince her to sign the 2nd, I took what I got & let it go for another time. It took less than 5 minutes & the place was a ghost town & not one single person around to follow any of them. From there, my friend & I decided to focus our attention on a flight coming in that had Taylor Lautner. Giving up temporarily on the chase of the possible cast get together (at this time we didnt know DS was working still, we still thought there was a bday get together somewhere). When we got to the airport we found it out it was the worst kept secret of all time. Somewhere between 12 & 15 people were out there waiting for this flight. When it landed we looked around & my friend saw Taylor coming thru, and quickly realized he was not going to come thru the door we expected him to. So everyone scrambled back to the inside where we were drooling at the prospect of him taking the long way thru. We were fooled, he had been wisked away in some way that we still havent figured out, but he was taken from the arrivals level to the departures level. Most of the group made their way upstairs by escalator & elevator. As my elevator got up there I looked & saw no sign of him. Everyone thought they had been duped, and headed away. At the last second, I saw several hundred feet away, one of the locals from http://www.twilight-gossip.com speed walking away from us, a second later I saw someone getting an autograph waaaaaay down the terminal. I beelined down there, sure enough it was Taylor Lautner & his dad with an escort guard and another autograph hound getting him to sign. I got over there & the guard told me to get back or I would be arrested. I backed off, and was ready to make my move maybe 75-100 feet down where there was a break, as they were hiding behind check in counters. But I didnt have to make a move, they came out towards us. I asked again, and his dad asked politely "what colour pen do you have" I said blue, he looked on disapprovingly, so I said I had a black too, which he took, handed to Taylor & he proceeded to sign for me, another hound, then another for me, before being hurried to his towncar. One pap got a few shots of him, but for the mostpart, the large crowd downstairs didnt even get a sniff of him. In toll I think only 4 or 5 people got anything out of him, autographs, pics or anything. After he was gone there was a pretty unfriendly verbal altercation between the female guard who was escorting them to the car & a pap. I wasnt at the hotel when Taylor showed up, but the report is that the driver of the car & perhaps Taylors dad got out & lambasted those that were there for the incident at the airport, as she had apparently phoned the driver to tell him what went on. By the time I got back downtown (BTW- the new skytrain is fast once it gets going, but I waited like 10-15 mins for it to show up, then leave.) it was clear Rob was out somewhere & those that knew were not interested in sharing with the others. So after an hour or so of taking random stabs in the dark to see if we could find anything I called it a night and came home. Not a total disaster, but not as great of an evening as projected. Final total for the night 2 Taylor Lautners, 2 Jodelle Ferland, 1 Chaske Spencer & a few pics. Below are the pics of Jodelle, Daniel Cudmore & Charlie Bewley (with Cameron Bright over his shoulder) from the dinner.
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After fighting off the general of all colds lately, I finally put in some quality time hounding yesterday & had reasonably decent results.
After a quick stop off to get a few Canucks in the late morning/early afternoon, it was off to go for Eclipse. First stop was to get a few BooBoo Stewart autographs at the former ground zero of the Eclipse cast. Since the mass exodus of the cast earlier this month from there, its been relatively a ghost town. However, it seems cast members who are here for breif stints still go there...this included Booboo. When I showed up he was sitting outside, hanging with 2 people, sipping away on a Subway drink while his friends were eating. Eventually they got up to leave & my friends & I grabbed a few autographs & a I took a few pics. Hewas incredibly pleasant & seemed thrilled with the attention. After that I headed to the still practically unknown destination of the current Eclipse cast. Although still in the downtown core, we opted to drive over there. Things seemed dead for awhile, then eventually there were small signs of life. First person sighted was Chaske Spencer. My friend hurried over to get him before he went in the door. I showed up a few seconds later & snapped a few pics of him before he headed inside. He told us about the long nights of shooting where they werent getting back till 7 AM. He said he was going upstairs to catch a nap...cant blame him. It was clearly a short nap though, as I would see him more later. At the same time we saw Chaske, another celebrity was spotted going to a store nearby. Current Smallville villian & best known as Mason on Dead Like Me, Callum Blue was out doing a bit of shopping. I was going to snap a few pics of him as he left, but he came out & spotted me & started up a conversation....so I would have felt like a real dick taking shots then. We chatted for a minute as he walked back to his residence, not far from where the Twilighters now reside. Sometime after that, and before the next encounter I saw a handful of the 100 Monkeys leave for their show they had last night at Neptoon Records. There was a bit of a lull after that. We would eventually see Chaske again going out with a friend. A little while after that from a distance one of the hounds noticed Xavier Samuel & 2 girls leaving in the opposite direction. We hurried after them, eventually catching up to him just before he was about to go & see a film. He stopped & signed a few autographs, and posted for a couple pics before heading inside. Upon returning there was an excitement that things were picking up. As it turned out, it was not really the case. A bit of a lull happened again, but when it was finally broken it was hectic. Alex Meraz, Kiowa Gordon & Bronson Pelletier came out together & headed towards the club area. I stopped Bronson first, then Kiowa. Both who seemed fine with being stopped. Alex kept going forward. I caught up to him & asked him to sign as well, he gave me a less than impressed look & signed 1 with what seemed like a pained look on his face. I had heard he was not too receptive to autographs, clearly they were right. I then pushed my luck & asked if the 3 of them would mind posing for a pick. I got an enthusiastic reply from 2 of them & they posed long enough for me to get 1 good pics. I'll give you 3 guesses who wasnt the overly enthused one. After that they went on their way & I returned to wait for more. Shortly after that, Chaske was on his way back...again. I got him to sign a couple photos & he went inside. As the evening wore on, I was getting itchy to go & check out the 100 Monkeys show. So I finally decided to take off & go to the venue. On my way to the bus to take me there I developed a mild leg cramp & decided I was going to stop off at home first, which was a slight detour from my route, but still close enough I could get to the venue in 20 mins if anything happened. As it turned out, that was actually the end of my day. I laid down to wait for the cramp to subside, but it never did & eventually I just fell asleep.....but all in all, a fairly decent day, so no regrets on bailing early. Dont know why, but uploading these videos from the show has been painfully tiresome & challenging. Here is 1 of the 2 I have. Sorry this wasnt posted sooner, but I really didnt think there was anything profound in it worth rushing to get it up. Its a few seconds ro Rob leaving in the cab at the Backstage Lounge show where Bobby Long was performing last week. Early on you hear the now infamous "Kristen you're a bitch" comment. Hearing it from where I was standing NOW, I have no doubt Kristen might have heard it as well. I was on the opposite side right near the drivers window & you can hear it quite clearly on my audio. Anyways, nothing overly amazing about the vid outside of that & the breif blips of Rob you see when he was lit up. But I know you all wanted to see some Rob...so here it is. So since the KStew fiasco I have been bombarded with hate & fan mail on here, twitter, imdb and even other sites I didnt know that fans had contact of me on.
The fans, I get. Clearly they understand what I say & actually follow logic. The haters. I clearly dont get. Not because they shouldnt hate me. Some of them have reasons to hate me because they dont like my profession or whatever. What I dont get is, how they misread things that are so blatantly obvious, think they can make me upset or mad by making all sorts of erroneous claims on twitter or here, the biggest though is they will lie for others...Namely a pap. Interesting. Hate me because of MY profession, but happily endorse a guy who has been arrested on multiple occasions for invading the privacy of celebs at work (unlike ME). Who employs a person that was recently caught urinating in a public park (unlike ME), and who is now infamously connected thru the actions of his GF calling Kristen Stewart a bitch. This is JUST the tip of the iceberg really. This is who you are willing to endorse & lie for? Wow. A certain locals blog was directed to me. In there, the user said (paraphrasing as to not steal word for word their inaccurate ramblings.) several things that are inaccurate & are without question, puppet like propaganda of the earlier discussed photog. She called me a moron. I guess if you are comparing me to a group of mensa members, perhaps I am? Compared to the general public, inaccurate. But thats a petty thing to argue over when you see the follow up insanity. -She claims I concocted the IDing of PUNKD Images photographers girlfriend was the one who made the claim. Incorrect. If you read my twitter from that night. "I know nothing of the KStew bitch comment fiasco. Just hearing about it thru twitter.12:56 AM Sep 8th from web " I was informed by multiple people who it was. MULTIPLE people IDed it as PIs photographers GF. NOT PIs boss, but his underling. It was 4 minutes later when I was told.... "@canadagraphs it was lil guys gf in the red-she shouted it then some fans told her off-then she threatened to punch them in the face lol1:00 AM Sep 8th from UberTwitter in reply to canadagraphs" NOT ME who tweeted it first. I just posted the info I was given. I took the original tweet IDing who it was & IDed PI as the company responsible for it, which they clearly were.. After the photog whose gf did it asked me to, I removed the tweet IDing the company. I did it....on the basis his boss quit talking about me on twitter...which he refused to do.... SO, I publicly stated it again. I was willing to NOT get into the politics of what they did & just play dumb. But the boss at PI opted to instead post to my request to drop all this... "Go Fuck yourself Moron.. RT @canadagraphs: took down the tweets and you said you would stop..9:43 AM Sep 8th from TweetDeck " Was his reply to a DM that was sent to him telling him I had talked with his pap, and we agreed I would remove the post IDing the company that did it, if he stopped tweeting about me. The pap told me he had his bosses word on it. So I took the tweet down. When he posted that, I decided the agreement was null. -In what is sure to cause more confusion & to avoid outing anyone by name... she clearly overheard a conversation she didnt clearly understand & moreso, mistook peoples roles in the convo & more importantly, outright mistook people in it. She claims I named two people as the people who called KStew a bitch... ironically, 1 of those people was the first one to tell me who did it, the second has the same name as the person responsible...but isnt the same person as the one she claims I said said it. She clearly only heard "names" & reference to the "bitch incident" & ran with it. Way to get your facts straight before publicly posting it. - She then claims we decided to change it from the two people to PI to fit our needs. What she heard, was obviously us verifying that the person responsible was infact the gf of the PI photographer....who as I stated has the same name as the 2nd girl. The ID of the girl was outed LONG before I ever tweeted it. Like I said, I just verified who she was associated with. To top it off, the photographer in question bragged about the comment on his twitter (locked profile) & openly explained to me via phone calls why it was done. He doesnt deny his gf did it. He actually seems proud of it. So, really she didnt get too much right outside the fact that two (I actually believe it was 3 of us) were out there talking about the event. All she did was used vague details to sell an agenda for another person. Whether she got paid to be a cheerleader or not is a different story. For her sake, hope she did...or she ruined her reputation for nothing. If she wrote that part in the blog JUST to find a reason to belittle me because she doesnt like me, thats even funnier. Again, putting your reputation on the line for petty reasons often backfires. My suggestion...in the future, on something where you are going to criticize someone publicly, KNOW your facts before you post them. Dont ever assume. its fine to assume some things. Size of a crowd, order of people you chit chatted with (long as its not relevant to a detail) & such. But a conversation you werent involved in, really...best to avoid it...or else risk looking foolish. ALSO.... The person who DID do it is also not the heavier set girl with the wine glasses that the lynch mob seems determined to hunt down....so really, quit it. The girl who did do it is considerably skinnier, wears glasses, had her hair tighter & was wearing RED...not white.....as anyone who was there can tell you. Will I need to blog about this again??? The stupidity around it is overwhelming. To the best of my knowledge, multiple people have outed the girl who DID do it. One even says the cast & staff are now aware. Nothing outside of me IDing the company responsible was my doing.... Whether PIs boss wants to believe it or not...or his puppet, is another story. Having no part in the 2nd film, New Moon, Sarah Clarke finally made her way to Vancouver to film parts in Eclipse as Bellas mom Renee.
After a short lunch date with Billy Burke & his family, she made her way back to the hotel. I actually had lots of time to get photos of her, since she was walking for 2+ blocks. So heres a good set of pics of a Twilighter that is rarely seen. After hibernating for more than a week Rob Pattinson poked his head out today.
He was at the set for Twilight Saga: Eclipse & he was spotted by the paps & fans alike. At the David Thompson Secondary School which is the set for some of the high school scenes Rob was there to film scenes & the paps were there too...and FINALLLLLLLLY, they got him. They got him good. Photo company Splash News http://www.Splashnews.com got shots most everyone wanted to see, Robert Pattinson as EDWARD!!! I will not steal the images, instead I will provide links to sites that have (likely) legitimately obtained the rights to the pics. http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2009/08/first-look-robert-pattinson-vamping-eclipse http://www.celebuzz.com/robert-pattinson-shoots-eclipse-g130291/ This was so big that other companies on the job were a bit deflated from seeing that they got the shots everyone was there looking for. There was a sense of "what are we here for now?". But they still hung on till the end with the approximately 100-140 fans that congregated on the grounds hoping to catch a glimpse of the cast members. The cast was well concealed behind more tarps & gates than I've ever seen for anything. Sometime around 8 (I think) a cavalcade of vehicles left, including Robs, with his bodyguard in the front seat the chase was about to begin. I advised my friend to take to going the opposite direction of where they went since we had a bad angle to start. We caught up a few blocks later & followed him to his downtown residence, where several fans & paps were scouting the area. He drove in, with nothing for anyone to see. About 2 hrs later. Rob, Kristen, Ashley & Kristens manager were seeing walking along a walkway on the property....we thought we had them. We went where it lead....but they never came out. After 20 mins, KStews manager came out, talked with 1 of the autograph hounds, went for a short walk & came back. We still had things tightly covered. Shortly after that, her manager came back out...this time on my side. We chatted, he told me the cast had given up on going out, and that he was just going solo....then proceeded to leave on foot walking away, not to be seen again. We hung on for another 1/2 hr or so before finally pulling the pin. Although it was a fruitless day in the aspect of actually GETTING anything, it was useful in that Rob sightings usually lead to more. Things went like this last time. Nothing, nothing, nothing, breif sighting, nothing, nothing, breif sighting, breif sighting, nothing, everywhere, everywhere etc. I am hoping its the same. I compare it to someone testing water at a pool or the ocean. They dip their toe in first, pull away, then try again, then maybe a foot, then soon a leg, and soon they jump right in. Today he dipped his toe back into the pool again. Maybe tomorrow it will be a whole foot. If anything tonights near close call makes me feel hes itching to go for a swim. Maybe next time. |
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