SAG AWARDS!!

I know I owe you a post about the first two weeks, but this is much more exciting. The SAG (Screen Actor's Guild) Awards were last night at the Shrine Auditorium, which is conveniently located next door to my building(!). I decided about 3:45 (the red carpet started at 3) that I would go downstairs and see what I could see. I really wish I had done that at 3, because when Becca (one of the other girls in my group) and I walked down the street, there was a group of people standing and watching everyone get out of the limos. Just to set the scene, they were getting out on one side, and we were across the 4-lane street watching them. The whole road was blocked off, though, so it was a fairly unobstructed view.

As my camera is dead and I still haven't gotten a new one, I was relying on my phone, so I don't have many shots of people as they entered, but I have a few and the list of people who I did see is long. The SAG Awards are for movies and TV, so pretty much everyone comes. At the end of the broadcast, Funmi, Nick and I (one of my roommates and one of the boys) walked around trying to find where they were departing, not only did we find them, but we had quite a surprise on our journey! Keep reading to find out!

Here are the pictures from the afternoon:

Warren Beatty and Annette Bening:

And this was the biggest surprise of the afternoon:
Yup! That's Alec Baldwin from 30 Rock!
He was really nice to walk across the street and sign some autographs, I was too far away, but it was really cool of him. Here he is walking:

Highlights of the afternoon Red Carpet: Seeing the entire cast of King's Speech (yes, even Colin Firth!!), Andrew Garfield (Eduardo in Social Network and the new Spiderman), James Franco, Hilary Swank (She was very enthusiastic, blowing us kisses and waving), Nicole Kidman, Jon Hamm (Mad Men), Josh Duhamel (Mr. Fergie) and Mark Salling (Puck from Glee). They would all wave and smile and it was very cool and fun for me.

So after that adventure, I went back up to the apartment to watch the SAG Awards and see who won (no big surprises). Everyone was jealous of my adventure and Nick and Funmi said they would come with me at the end to scour the streets for people leaving. So, when the broadcast ended, we walked down this time on the side of the street with the Shrine, hoping we might bump into people. Nick brought his jump rope hoping to find some people from The Fighter so he could audition for The Fighter 2. Funmi and I made fun of him for it.

We really only ran into the people packing up the place, so we went down and decided to cross the street to where I had been earlier, just to get the overview. So as we approached my previous spot we see a few people conversing and as we pass we notice that while we don't recognize many of them, we did recognize one: Mark Wahlberg, star of, none other than, The Fighter. We stopped, turned around and gawked and he noticed Nick's jump rope and Nick said he wanted to audition for The Fighter 2 and Marky Mark said: show us what you've got! So Nick jumped for a minute and then Mark went back to his conversation, but we stuck around hoping for a picture and when he was done with his convos, he asked us and the two other kids if we wanted pics and we said: yes, please!! Funmi has the pics on her phone, so I don't have the one of her and I with Mark, but I'll post it as soon as I do (it will also be on Facebook) but I did take this one as proof:

So, after meeting Mark Wahlberg and freaking out to people on our phones we started to walk back to the apartment, but I was determined to find more celebrities and they were game. So we walked in the alley between the back of our building and the back of the Shrine and low and behold, there they were! Again, we were directed across the blocked-off street, but there were a few people hanging out watching for celebs and after a few minutes, they started to show up! They were mostly lingering and waiting for their limos, some were hanging out inside so we couldn't see, but pretty much everyone had to walk out to get to their cars and as they would come out we would call (or scream) their names and try to get them to cross the street. Alec came over again, statue in hand followed closely by Cory Monteith who plays Finn on Glee.

I took a picture with him, too, but Funmi has it, so again, I'll have to put it up later. He was really nice and cute and hung out for like 10 minutes taking pictures. I'll stop so much with the commentary and just show you my pictures from the night.

Here's another Glee cast member who came over, Chord Overstreet:

This is Jayma Mays or Ms. Pillsbury from Glee:

And one of my favorite people who didn't come over, but it's understandable, BETTY WHITE!:

I know you can't see her face, but that was definitely her, she did wave to us, but I couldn't get the picture.

All the Modern Family kids came over, this is Ariel who plays middle child, Alex:

This is me with Nolan who plays Luke, he looked so dapper and cute:

This is Luke again, but I wanted you to see how cute he was:

Here's Rico who plays Manny:

This is Nick with Sarah who plays Haley:

Me and Sarah:

And a couple of people from The Office came over. This is Angela:

This is Craig Robinson who plays Darrell:

This is Kyra Sedgwick from The Closer and aka Mrs. Kevin Bacon:

Me and Valerie Bertinelli from Hot in Cleveland, one of my new favorite shows:

This is a better one of her, she looked great:

Other people spotted but who didn't come over: Sue, Kurt, Puck, Quinn, Santana and Tina (I know, not their real names) from Glee; All the rest of the Modern Family cast; John Krasinski (Jim on The Office), Phyllis and Stanley from the Office; Andrew Garfield and Jesse Eisenberg from Social Network (Also pretty sure I spotted Armie, too, but I've seen Jesse and Armie before, in Durham); Angie Harmon; Edie Falco; Julia Stiles and Michael C. Hall from Dexter and many, many more. It was dark so it was kinda hard to make out faces from across the street, it was easier for the women, because I had seen what most of them were wearing.

Anyway, that was my Sunday! The Grammys are at the Shrine in 2 weeks and you can bet we will have front row seats to that one! Keep an eye out for my next post, hopefully coming in the next few days!

Love, sunshine and celeb spottings to all of you!