Saturday, January 29, 2011

Gleeeek!

Ginny & I just got back from a free concert Matthew Morrison (or Will Schuester from Glee!) put on at The Grove...this outdoor shopping area with a farmers market attached to it. He has an album coming out in March so he performed one song from the album, 4 or 5 songs he performed in Glee (including Somewhere Over the Rainbow & Goldigger), and an awesome mashup of Great Balls of Fire & Saw Her Standing There (see Ginny's facebook page for videos).
He is just as beautiful in person as he is on TV (not something I can say about some other television stars I have seen) and he sounded amazing!





It was the best free event I have ever attended in my life.AHHHH! We also saw Kevin McHale (Artie! <3), Jenna Ushkowitz (Tina), Harry Shum Jr (Mike Chang), Chord Overstreet (Sam), and Iqbal Theba (Principal Figgins).




The Grove is actually a really cool place. Definitely someplace we will return to another weekend. We didn't get a chance to go into the Farmers Market (we were waiting in line to get a free lunch from Oscar Mayer, who sponsored the concert), and I feel like there are concerts there a lot because the stage didn't really seem like something easy to take down and reassemble every time they need a daytime venue for a performance.


So this week at Intuition was much more eventful than last. Monday I met the head of the company, Keri, and she took me and the other intern to a company (probably shouldn't broadcast the exact details) that she is thinking of basing a reality show off of. It was really cool to see the very beginnings of a (potential) show. She talked with the head of the company about the angle which the show could come from and other logistics. I then had to prepare an information sheet for her of all the main points of the conversation for her to send to people as the beginnings of a pitch. I also had to read a bunch of scripts that they have in various stages of development and talk to Keri and the other company head, Patrick, about what I thought their strengths and weaknesses were. That was really cool (and pretty intimidating) that they actually value what we have to say about their current scripted projects. If they actually use the changes that we suggested is another story, but it's still nice to know that they care about what we have to say.


Keri invited the female interns to this event called 'A Night of Red Carpet Fashion' but I couldn't go because I had class. :( At first I was really bummed, (I even tried to email my professor to get out of class but he said he couldn't excuse me because it was only the second meeting) but then I realized that it was primarily cocktails and appetizers, so I figured it probably wasn't good to go to an event where alcohol is being served as an intern being under 21. Good thing my birthday is next weekend! :)






Thursday on 'The Doctors' I did security for Montel Williams, his wife Tara, and their cute little dog Max. (All three of them were really friendly!) He was on the show with a girl who's brain surgery he paid for. She improved so much from the surgery I honestly couldn't believe the bubbly girl I picked up at her car was the same girl struggling to overcome her disability (can't for the life of me remember what it was called) in the videos they played before she made her appearance. It was a really emotional episode.
Friday everyone's favorite guest, 86 year old sexpert Dr. Ruth was on the show for the Valentines Day episode. She was so nice to everyone, took pictures with whoever asked for one, gave us all 'Sex for Dummies' (the book she wrote) keychains, etc. Its kinda funny given her size (under 5'), age, and nationality that she is literally the world's naughtiest grandma.
Jillian Michaels (eeekkk!) was one of the hosts for the 'C' show, 'Why Do Women...?' The audience was made up entirely of men, so it was funny to see their reactions to the 5 women hosts and the stuff that they were talking about on stage. One of the guests was actually an Ithaca alum, so it was pretty cool chatting with him and seeing how the LA program has changed since he attended it & what he has done since he graduated in 2006. After the show was over I got to drive Jillian back to her car (usually she likes to walk but she had someplace to be and I was doing runs in the cart, how lucky!). We chatted for a little about Glee (cause we passed the Glee soundstage) and when she got out she said "Thanks buddy!" Made my day. 


Tonight we are going to get pizza and see No Strings Attached on the Universal Citywalk. Exciting stuff!


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