Saturday, May 28, 2005

Magnolia of the Rich and Famous


Does anything here look familiar?

On page 27 of the May 23, 2005, edition of Us Weekly there’s a picture of Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber sitting on a park bench drinking coffee from Magnolia Bakery and sitting in a little park across the street on green benches with stone tables, which happen to have chessboards engraved on them—but you can’t see that in the photo.

How do I know that the tables have chessboards on them? Because on the first day of our vacation in New York, after having dinner at Penang in SoHo, Josh and I (along with our friend David) walked over to Magnolia, got some of their famous cupcakes, and sat in the exact same spot where Naomi and Liev are sitting in the photo above. Nifty, huh?

The caption of the photo reads, “On May 4 in NYC, LIEV SCREIBER and NAOMI WATTS picked up coffee at Magnolia Bakery before heading over to a Greenwich Village park. ‘They were laughing and talking quite a bit!’ says an eyewitness.”

And not that I would ever be caught reading a copy of Us Weekly. A little bird told me about the picture. (Cough, cough.)

Below is a picture of me noshing on Magnolia cupcakes and sitting right where Liev Schreiber is sitting in the photo above.