Ciao, Bella!

I'm departing on the red-eye Thursday night for NY. Then, Friday night, Raul and I jet off to Rome where we'll rendezvous with some friends and drive down to the Amalfi Coast south of Naples. We're taking a villa in Positano overlooking the ocean (one of the most beautiful places in the world, imo) to celebrate our ten year anniversary.

Wasn't sure I was actually going to make it because my renewed passport didn't arrive until yesterday by Federal Express. Talk about cutting it close! Before I depart, though, I need to apply for a California driver's license and register my car because my NY plates and insurance expires while I'm in Italy. Off to do a smog check on my car during lunch ....

Ciao, ciao!

Celebrity sighting: Brian Austin Green ("Beverly Hills 90210") eating lunch next to me at Topz on Santa Monica Blvd.; producer Dan Jinks (American Beauty) and a former "Will & Grace" producer at the Arclight watching the movie Disturbia. Yesterday, however, I missed seeing the Governator and Rob Lowe who were eating in Disney commissary. We suspect Arnie was shooting a cameo for "Brothers & Sister."

April Showers

Bring May flowers. Except, it never rains in SoCal. Though, it's been very foggy and cloudy as of late. Gloomy comes to mind. So much for sunny California.

Anyway, it's been a VERY long time since my last post. Things have just been crazy busy. Landed at ABC supporting a VP in Business Development. We're adjacent to the Disney lot and situated between casting and the movie dpt., so there have been celebrity sighting galore (more on that later).

My producers are in the process of optioning my script and bringing in a new writer in to beef up my characters. I'm done with it, so it's all good. Started a new script a couple weeks ago that's going exceptionally well.

Also, a few weeks ago, I injured myself playing tennis. Wacked myself in the face, right above my eye. Cut myself open, but no stitches. My eye swelled and I had a nice shiner for about a week. It's still healing, however.

Did anyone hear about the Hollywood fire recently? Some kids visiting from Illinois accidentally started it and the hills behind Warner Bros. erupted in flames. The hill behind our office bld. was on fire, and when the smoke shifted north, it engulfed our entire building. So they let us go early because the smoke seeped in and it was hard to breathe.

So celebrity sightings: Ryan O'Neal (who patted me on the shoulder), Dave Navarro & the actor who played David Palmer on "24" at Hollywood staple, the Palm Restaurant; Leonardo DiCaprio & girlfriend at Pinkberry's on Santa Monica; Queen Latifah & her girlfriend at Crunch doing the elliptical next to me; and at work: Eva Longoria, Sir Ben Kingsley, Luke Perry, Scott Wolf, Jerry O'Connell, Debi Mazur, director Christopher Guest, Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry, director James Burrows, and a host of other character actors you all would recognize.