On Saturday I went to a local "premiere" of the movie "Carpool Guy" that Corbin Bernsen directed. If you go to the
website for it I think you can still win tickets for the other dates. He's doing a tour of a number of cities to promote the movie, which is straight-to-DVD and stars soap stars. It was a pretty good movie. I bought the DVD, and it should be interesting to hear the commentary.
Each show will have some of the stars of the movie (they're listed on the web page). At my stop it was Tony Geary (Luke), Rick Hearst (Ric), Corbin (Durant), and Lauralee Bell (Christine on "The Young and the Restless"). I got there right when the stars arrived in a stretch limo. They went in and posed for pictures with everyone, in whatever combination you wanted. (Like some just wanted Tony, or some just the guys; I felt sorry for Lauralee! She got left out a lot!

) I just posed with all of them, and then got my mom in the picture with all of them. Those pictures will be posted on their website and then you can buy a copy, so I'll post here when I see my picture. (Kind of scary!) Then they signed autographs, and talked to people for a while until it was time to start the movie. They had to leave a few minutes into the movie to go on to St. Louis for their Sunday show.
Lauralee was the chattiest to me. When she asked what my name was for the autograph, I told her Leigh, and she said that hers is with Lee but she always like Leigh, that spelling. But we talked about how no one could spell it or pronounce it. She seemed very nice. She's soooo thin. I didn't really say anything to Tony and Rick besides Hi. I told Corbin that I love him on The Mole when he went nuts. (If you didn't see it, he really did go kind of crazy, trying to figure out who the Mole was. He even came back when the did the second Celebrity Mole. He was so addicted to it. But he was really bad at it! But he and Steven Baldwin were a riot.) He said that that's when he went nuts, but he's still nuts.
Then right before the movie started, he asked if they could get White Sox World Series shirts at O'Hare, that he needed to bring them home for his sons. Lauralee said she needed them, too. We said that they should be able to get them there.
All in all, a pretty fun time. And how often do you have a chance to see Tony Geary!?!