Watched a movie with Ethan Hawke

So the family I babysit for is connected in the film industry out here. The husband is a director for a small company out here. Through his work he has made friends with many actors and directors and such, plus the fact that he can speak English is a big bonus for those in the industry that don't speak french but are in France for filming and such. One of said friends is Ethan Hawke. He was in town the past few months filming a new movie and Sebastian (the husband) asked him if he wanted to present a film and have a discussion about it with the audience afterwards. So being the family's babysitter, and Sebastian knowing that I have an interest in film, he invited me and a few friends to come to this film presentation. So Saturday morning at 11am, me and two girlfriends went to a small little theatre in Paris and waited with the rest of the audience for the showing of Point Blank (a 1967 Lee Marvin film) to start. As a guy was explaining that after the film we would be able to discuss the film with Ethan, I happened to turn around and look towards the door and who should pop their head into the theatre but Ethan Hawke. We made full eye contact and I even got a little smile :) I then told my girlfriends who also turned around and smiled at Ethan, and then of course giggled. It was quite clear that we were the north americans in the room! lol So Ethan presented the film and then he went and sat in the balcony of the theatre and we all watched Point Blank. It was actually a really good film and I really enjoyed it. Then afterwards Ethan came back to the main level of the theatre and sat up front and did a question and answer period for a while. It was pretty neat to sit there and discuss the film with him. It was interesting to hear another actors perspective about the acting within the film and on the film as a whole. Afterwards, Ethan was a sport and signed some autographes and even took some pictures with people. It was quite a quaint little event and a pretty cool experience. Gotta love having random connections like that :)

Boys II Men Concert in Paris

So this may sound silly to some of you but I went to the Boys II Men concert on the weekend. Too be honest I was a little sceptical but it was actually a really good concert. I had a lot of fun and knew more of their songs than I had realised! Lol They did an amazing rendition of Lonestar’s Amazed. (Which it turns out was offered to them by their record company but they didn’t think it was good for them at the time so they passed it up. Too bad, since Lonestar made it a number one hit and got a Grammy for it! Lol) They also did some the Beatles, the Four Tops and even Aerosmith. The odd thing about the concert was that it was in Paris and although most of the crowd were French, the band spoke maybe one or two words in French and that is all! They also did a lot of speaking in English; you know explaining their songs and such, which must have been frustrating for some of the French people, especially those that don’t know very much English. They even did an explanation of the song Mama and told people to call their moms on their cells and hold them up to the stage, they even took a few of the phones closest to the stage and sang into the phone. Again, may not have meant very much for those who don’t understand English! Lol But the funny thing was, and I think someone forgot to tell the band, but the following morning was France’s mother’s Day!! Quite fitting if you ask me. They also did another song which was a love song and then handed out a dozen roses each to the crowd. But the thing that amazed me the most was that anytime they would ask the crowd to sing along and hold the microphone out over the crowd everyone would sing the song in English and it sounded amazing. There was one point were they sang the entire chorus and it was perfect English. You would never have known that it was a mostly French crowd.