NBC and Milkshake!

Today I woke up at 5:00am PST to do a radio interview (ahhh, too early!) and I’m doing it again tomorrow. But after that I got to go back to sleep for a couple of hours. Then we started to get ready to go to NBC with Stephen Fry. He picked us up in his little green mini and we were on our way to the studio. An NBC show about movies had contacted us and asked us if Stephen would go on the show to talk about films, the industry and in particular, buyacredit.com and Clovis Dardentor. We set off from the Holiday Inn Express and just down the road to NBC. It was really nice to see Stephen again. He has been looking after us whilst we’ve been here in LA and has always been on the end of the phone in case of any problems :) .

He was very envious that yesterday we had walked down Santa Monica Blvd and got ourselves Miley Milkshakes from ‘Millions of Milkshakes’. Ben had found the place on the internet so we ventured through Hollywood to get to it. It’s a nice little shop that invites celebrities to come and make their own milkshakes. The Miley-Shake consisted of Cookie Dough, Reeses Peanut Butter Cups and ice cream…YUM! It was sooooo good.

Anyway…I’m going off topic… When we got to NBC, someone showed us to the greenroom where Stephen got his make-up done. We met Carole Propp, one of the producers on the show who was very interested in what we were doing. Unfortunately, we were unable to go on the show as they have a ‘No under 25’s policy’. But who better to represent us than Stephen Fry?

Before long, Stephen was in the studio with Hollywood player Peter Guber, and the interview ran its course. It went really well and Stephen sung our praises :) . Afterwards, he had to dash off to an important lunch and one of the Production Assistants drove us back to our hotel.

Later on we just went down to Hollywood, finally found Kevin Spacey’s star (it had been covered up by the Red Carpet all week) and took some pictures with it! Can’t get them off the phone though!

Now we’re sitting in the hotel room and contemplating going to Bubba Gumps for dinner. Tonight is our last night here as tomorrow evening we are flying back to London. We have really enjoyed ourselves in Hollywood. It is an amazing place that is just constantly inspiring. Love it here.

NBC interview with Stephen Fry goes out soon but I’m not sure when exactly… I’ll let you know!

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Weekend in Hollywood…

We had a really great weekend in Hollywood. Saturday was a good day as we just spent most of it walking around, exploring. We walked down Sunset Blvd for a while, then back onto Hollywood Blvd. Then for the rest of the day we watched the Oscars get set up. There were loads of stand-ins for the stars rehearsing the red carpet walk. Staff with big signs hanging from their necks reading “George Clooney”, “Zac Efron” and “Matt Damon” walked up and down for a while, pretending to pose for pictures!

On Sunday, we watched Alice In Wonderland in 3D. It is a great film, and Stephen Fry (who plays the Chesire Cat in it) was very good. We highly recommend it. After that we made our way down to the Kodak Theatre to join the screaming mob at the Oscars. We weren’t expecting the security we encountered. Before we could even get within a 1/2 mile radius of the Red Carpet we were security checked, one by one. We managed to get a bit of a view through a heavily fenced off pavement and we saw some stars walk in. After a while we thought it would be better to watch on TV, so we went back to the hotel and watched the whole ceremony. It was good to watch it at a normal time and not at 4am (which is when we used to watch it in the UK). The right people won I think.

This morning we were back to work with an early start. Well, I got up early. Toby and Ben got to stay in bed!! Not fair! But anyway, I got up to do two radio interviews and there are some more this afternoon. There should be some newspaper articles coming out over the next few days, and then tomorrow we are going to NBC with Stephen Fry to record an interview for TV…so that should be fun!

I’ll keep you updated!

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New York

Well, we’re in New York. It is cold and wet but we’re loving it. Today we ventured out of the hotel room for a bit, walked up to Times Square and Central Park and took some photos. We look really tired. I mean really tired. Sleep hasn’t been on the top of the agenda. We did an interview with The Associated Press during the week which got released yesterday alongside Jude’s support video. The response has been incredible, and we’ve been refreshing google kicking ourselves. CBS, NBC, Huffington Post, New York Times, Yahoo News – surely not!??!

Here’s just some of them:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35602016

http://omg.yahoo.com/news/jude-law-backs-teen-effort-to-fund-film/36505

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20100226/us-film-teen-filmmakers/

http://www.seattlepi.com/business/1700ap_us_film_teen_filmmakers.html

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iWy2bRVf3_sxRvi3hz1OrEEcA4OgD9E3VTLO0

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=9955533

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/entertainment/jude-law-stephen-fry-make-videos-to-support-teens-effort-to-fund-first-film-85467762.html

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/02/26/1501949/jude-law-backs-teen-effort-to.html

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/02/26/business/AP-US-Film-Teen-Filmmakers.html?_r=2&scp=4&sq=jude%20law&st=cse

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/26/ap/tech/main6246748.shtml

It is so so exciting and it’s still spreading across the news :) . Hopefully more will come of it. We are planning to fly to LA sometime next week to see Stephen and to meet a TV producer out there. Maybe some press as well, who knows?

Right now we’re all sitting in the hotel room, watching TV, trying to relax and unwind. Me and Ben had a very very stressful morning. Let me explain; there’s a Starbucks cake here called a “Marshmallow Dreamcake” (sounds good doesn’t it?) well, anyway, we have made it our personal life-long mission to find this elusive cake. We saw it last time – and now it’s gone!!! How can there be so many Starbucks’ and so little Marshmallow Dreamcakes? :( .

Seeing as it is Saturday, we reckon we’ll do some touristy stuff. I’ll keep you informed RE the Dreamcake.

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