My
friend Linda facebooked me Friday night “Bruce Willis is in Providence. How did we miss that?” I remembered his daughter Scout attends Brown
University, so I googled Brown graduation and found that Memorial Day weekend
was the graduation.
Twitter
was buzzing:
Bruce Willis spotted on Thayer St. minutes ago! #RhodyRadar
Bruce Willis is in my dad's restaurant and I'm not there #figures
No big deal or anything
but Bruce Willis was at my restaurant today. #celebstatus
Bruce Willis Came to my
job OMG!!!! Die harddddddddd
Hola Bruce Willis, thanks
for visiting me this morning. #starstruck
Also caught a glimpse of
May @GQ_India cover star Bruce Willis looking like a regular proud dad
at the graduation. #CelebsArePeopleToo
Casually saw Bruce Willis
at my hotel this morning #biltmore #providence
Sitting next to Bruce Willis
at dinner at Brown. Didn't expect that. (@ Mill's Tavern
Restaurant
It was the weekend, my
husband was busy working in order to get ready for us to go away for a few days
and my sons were home, one with a nasty cold.
The weather was cold, windy and rainy and it was just not possible for
me to get out and search for Bruce Willis, although I knew he would be at Brown
for most of Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
But also, I figured he’d want his family time and not have people going
up to him and invading his privacy, so it took all the willpower I had to not
go looking for one of my absolute FAVORITE movie stars and knocking off one of THE
top items on my bucket list.
I did however send the
following tweet to his gorgeous wife, who was also in Providence for Scout’s
graduation: “you have a beautiful
family-meeting Bruce, getting a photo w/him is on my bucket list-can u help? I
am in RI & he is here now too.” She
didn’t tweet me back.
Photos of the graduation
were posted later in the weekend.
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Bruce looked a little irritated, so I
know I made the right choice, but on Monday I saw the following tweet:
Saw Bruce Willis at
Venda >>>
It had been tweeted an
hour before I saw it. Venda is only a
couple of miles from my house and I dragged the boys with me on the chance he may still be around. We parked around
the block and took a walk around.
But alas, there was no Bruce Willis to be found.
So, this bucket list item
remains unfulfilled. But I must admit I enjoyed the brief fantasy of meeting Bruce Willis, and
asking him if he would please take a photo with me! And heck, if I had seen him walking while I was in my car, I would definitely have hollered out "Yippee Ki-AYE!!!
It's too bad you weren't able to get a pic with Bruce Willis but I agree with you Bruce looked a little irritated.
ReplyDeleteYes, he certainly did - I had googled Bruce Willis on Memorial Day to see if he still was around and found a blog post with these photos. The author said how proud he looked but all I could see was irritation in these shots. I have my own philosophy about celebrities. I feel they are fair game when promoting their work or 'working' either in concert or shooting a show or movie, but it's infringing on their privacy when they are clearly having family time. Had he been filming something, I would have been all over it!! I just love Bruce Willis!! And lets face it, fans like me who see his movies and buy the dvds are putting a lot of money in his pocket! A photo with him would totally make my day (or year)!!
DeleteSo close, yet so far away... Sorry you missed him. Maybe you should send him a message that the next time he's in town you need to see him. lol!
DeleteHA HA - I'm sure he'll run right over to see me!! NOT!!
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