In this Michelle Williams/Heath Ledger-free edition of Gawker Stalker: Claire Danes, Jay-Z, Chris Rock, Matt Damon, Ed Burns and Christy Turlington, Lance Armstrong and Sheryl Crow, Liam Neeson, Kevin Bacon, Tina Fey, Kate Bosworth, Joss Stone, Amy Poehler, Neil Patrick Harris, Matthew Broderick, Topher Grace, David Schwimmer, Keri Russell, Jimmy Fallon, Christina Applegate, Leelee Sobieski, Woody Harrelson, Tony Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Ric Ocasek from the Cars, Ashlee Simpson, Carolina Herrera, Mark Cuban, Tony Kushner, grungy Olsen Twins, David Wain from Stella, Peter Bogdonovich, Robin Givens, Molly Ringwald, and Lewis Black.

Maybe it's time to enact an Adrian Grenier-style ban on her, but in the meantime, I had brunch at Freeman's on Saturday (9/24) next to Claire Danes, unfortunately sans Crudup. She was with a non-famous, not particularly attractive female friend. She looked lovely if casual, but sat facing the wall the entire time. She eats dessert!

9/29 — OK, so I stomped over to the Mandarin this morning (in boots that I guess I ve never worn on concrete and will NOT be putting back on today) and went into the lower lobby to wait for some co-workers. I had the 6 bottles of Fiji water and 4 bags of starbursts with me — don't ask. Well, anyway, I m getting situated and am pulling out my phone to make a call and who walks into the lobby but HOVA himself,
Jay-Z! I was so excited we were the only two people in that lower lobby. I was openly gawking at him w/no shame and he said Hey, how ya doin? I don t know what I said back, but it was probably pretty lame. No Beyonce in sight though. He went into the entrance for residents and I took my water and starbursts and skipped out of the lobby — giddy as a school girl.

Pretty sure I just saw Chris Rock is Madison Park by Shake Shack. Looked very disoriented, bearded, poorly dressed (flannel?) and glazed eyes. Mistook him for homeless tin-foil chaser.

I saw Matt Damon on 95th between Madison and 5th on the set of The Good Shepherd. He was really nice and friendly and offered to take a picture on my friend's camera phone.

Saw Ed Burns and Christy Turlington (along with their oldest child and another couple) having breakfast at Edward's in Tribeca on Saturday, Sept. 24. The restaurant was mostly empty (most folks were eating at the tables on the sidewalk), so my family and I were only one table over from Mr. and Mrs. Burns, et al.

I was walking along the West Side Highway today and saw a camera crew with all the fixings, as well as four very nice-looking motorcycles. A little while later, checked it out again, and it was none other than Lance Armstrong, sitting on a hog—without a helmet! Sheryl Crow was hanging around with a walkie-talkie, apparently doing something official, and she looked very good. He did too—real macho in a motorcycle jacket, not too skinny, albeit accentuated by a self-promoting Livestrong bracelet. He rode off, still sans helmet, as the crew followed them in a truck tailed by a NYPD car.

Sat behind Liam Neeson and a petite blonde lady companion at "Fran's Bed" at the Playwrights Horizons on 42nd St. on Wednesday night (9/28). Liam was wearing a dark green blazer and jeans and looking very suave. But his hair — it was stringy and looked almost orange! He's a tall man, but not as towering as he seems on film. The pair slipped in moments before the curtain, sat near the exit ramp, and made a quick getaway after the show. I was a little surprised that he apparently wasn't whisked backstage to give his regards to Mia Farrow (they've worked together — playing a couple in Woody's "Husbands & Wives"). Maybe he didn't have the stomach to say anything nice about the wretched piece of crap of a play we'd just suffered through.

7pm, Wednesday, September 28: As I'm reaching for magazines at the Newsstand in front of Tower Records at 66th and Broadway, I look up to pay and there's Kevin Bacon right under my nose. Wow is he skinny. Very thin. Was wearing a wool hat, dark sunglasses, black jeans. and what appeared to be platform gym sneakers. Also black. Was looking rather tired and was talking with another guy who I thought perhaps was a fan, but then they walked off together toward Lincoln Center.

Walking home at around 5:30 spotted Tina Fey searching for her keys outside her building in Chelsea. Much better looking in person and she's tiny! Did she have a baby? She was with a stroller and chatting on her cell phone.

Saw Kate Bosworth on the corner of prince and mercer. She had a nasty, I m better than everyone look on her face. Super thin but ugly awkward face. With 2 older women, probably publicist and mom???

Arrived at Chumley's last night (9/29) via taxi, and was a little turned around. Several people were outside smoking, but somehow, I failed to see the open door to the former speakeasy and, instead, start pushing on the door to the residential part of 86 Bedford Street, to no avail. Next to me, I hear a sweet English-accented voice of one of the smokers saying, "Where are you trying to go, sweetheart?" As I turned and told a very pretty, light blue satin camisole-clad Joss Stone that I was trying to go to Chumley's, I realized that I had been pushing on the wrong door. She put her arm around me and said, "Dear, how many drinks have you had?" We giggled at my confusion and I went inside, leaving her and her companion to finish their cigarettes. Quite lovely, and very nice.

9/29, at around noon, saw an extremely sweaty Amy Poehler fro m SNL at the Starbucks on 15th street. She had just come in from a jog, was wearing a blue sports bra, black spandex.

A lanky, handsome Neil Patrick Harris at the bar of Craft on Thursday night, looking just like he did as Doogie Howser. Not your average Chelsea boy by any stretch he was very nattily dressed in a tweed blazer, shirt and tie. Cute and well mannered the young man "accompanying" him should have taken a cue and dropped the grungy rugby shirt and bed head. They met 3 other handsome young men and a fag hag, I mean young lady, for dinner and seemed to have a good, if not raucous time.

9/27 around after 7 pm Matthew Broderick at Bleecker Playground. An earlier stalker asked what has he done lately? Well, clearly he's busy fathering. He was taking his son out for a jaunt in the park and was appropriately following little James around and hanging back as much as possible. I wouldn't have noticed him if it weren't for another mommy friend who spotted him because, like many of us over-40 parents of toddlers, he looked a bit tired and a bit doughy.

9/29- Topher Grace at Arlene's Grocery with about 5 girls sitting around. He wasn't drinking, very reserved and nice. First spotted him outside leaning against a car and talking to a publicist, Melissa Rosenfield, not sure it was his but they kept mentioning business with another girl who's name I didn't catch, she was an old friend of his, but something about hedge funds and business managers. Later he sat surrounded by the young ladies, who were pounding them, still without a drink but a smile.

I saw David Schwimmer grabbing a late breakfast / late lunch / early dinner around 4:30 on Saturday, September 24th at Bubby's in TriBeCa. Also, while grabbing lunch on 7th Avenue and Perry St., saw Keri Russell walking with some guy with a ponytail (think Tom Cruise Mission Impossible 2).

Corner of Third and 13th Street: Cute and taller than expected Jimmy Fallon talking on his cell phone - I recognized the voice. Unshaven and in glasses, wearing red sneakers, jeans and baseball cap.

Spotted Christina Applegate with an assistant-type in Hell's Kitchen. She must have been coming from her Broadway show because she was wearing really heavy make-up. She was fairly tall and definitely pretty.

Stood in front of Leelee Sobieski during the Death Cab for Cutie set (9/28) at Webster Hall for Spin's 20th Anniversary Bash. She looked tall and blond bombshell-ish in a bright red sweater. Both arms were clasped around the neck of shorter, dark-haired Joe Average. "Him?" thought everyone in proximity.

I saw Woody Harrelson outside of Spirit last Thursday. He was getting into a taxi. He was wearing this muscle shirt with a mandala of some white boy creation. He was with this cat that later did an interpretive dance/flower arrangement at the show at Spirit.

Tony Curtis outside of MoMa last night. Funny, I didn t see him at the special, John Waters introduced screening of A Dirty Shame. He had this toupee that needed its own zip code and possible some kind of warning light so planes didn t crash into it. He had the freaky-deaky look of the chronically plastic surgeried. His face was smoother than my request for a Gawker comment log-in.

Saw the Hohan shooting a video on 26th between 6th and 7th. The crew pretty much had the whole street blocked off, place was swarming with Paparazzi, and...oh...does anyone really give a crap? People need to get a life. Does a Hohan sighting even qualify as anything special?

I saw Ric Ocasek (from The Cars) walking on the southeast side of Union Square last weekend. At first I just thought, "he's a little old to be goth". Then I realized, no, it's Ric Ocasek! He hasn't aged a day since I was listening to Cando-O in high school. Must be another perk of that Faustian bargain that enabled him to marry Paulina Porizkova.

Don't know if this counts but, at Ashlee Simpson s concert at Supper Club last night (yeah I was there and I'm not ashamed, I should be though, right?), Ashlee was up in the VIP area before the concert watching her opening act. Homegirl had a huge brown leather jacket on over her whack outfit and a huge bodygaurd to match. Her new blonde hair looks like a weird wig. Joe Simpson later watched his daughter from the same area and at the end of the concert was hanging over the balcony to the delight of the fans below who were cheering his name. Scary.

I was at 86th and Madison at about 5 p.m. today, waiting for the bus to take me back home to the 'hood, when who should stroll by in her stiletto heels but the always impeccable Carolina Herrera. I probably wouldn't have turned around and seen her if she hadn't been closely tailed by two maintenance worker-looking guys who were joyfully crying, "Look! Carolina Herrera! It's Carolina Herrera!" Clearly the Vogue party pages are for everyone. Anyway, Herrera Sr. looked impossibly elegant and terribly well-coiffed, which was no surprise. It was hard to tell behind her big black sunglasses, but I think there was some really skillful plastic surgery going on under there.

Saw Mark Cuban come by himself in to have lunch today (9/29) at the Cosmic Diner on 58th and Broadway. Wearing jeans, navy blue tee with long sleeve tee underneath. Sat in corner and read paper. Way hotter in person than I expected.

If the P.A.'s are to be believed they're filming a new Spielberg movie in Fort Greene this week. Some sort of seventies thing, but I'm so out of the loop, I've no idea what it could be. Anyway, I didn't see Spielberg, but I did see Tony Kushner chilling in the neighborhood caf writing a huge pile of thank you cards. He is very tall for a playwright.

Tuesday, 9/27: two Olsen twins chain-smoking and grinding each other to 80s pop at Bungalow 8. The blonde one looked cute but frumpy in jeans, flip flops and a non-descript black shirt. The other one had apparently gone digging through Archie Bunker's cast-offs for a large, ill-fitting, puke-colored jacket-type item and jeans. Her hair hadn't been washed in months and I think she probably smelled (which would explain why the ostensibly gay friends in their group only wanted to dance with the blonde one).

Hopefully this isn't too late, but: at Claire Danes' dance performance at p.s. 1 Saturday night (very good by the way) saw David Wain of Stella. The people at the theater seemed to know him, said "hey David" when he came in. Looked sort of like an overgrown teenager in hoodie, ripped jeans, and horn rimmed glasses, and sadly receding hairline. He has the same deer in the headlights look in person as on the show, and frequently gave his pretty blonde date this mouth-agape hopeful look. Right before the performance started, he really loudly ran down the stairs and out of the theater, then reemerged in the same manner five min. later. Awfully dramatic way of going to the bathroom.

I was in line yesterday (9.29) at the security checkpoint in the Delta/Song terminal at JFK when Peter Bogdanovich got in line right behind me. He looked at me glassily and walked over to the ATM before passing through. Saw him later in the newsstand, still looking dazed but very well-groomed and dapper/Hollywood creepy in white jeans jacket, light purple shirt and dark purple kerchief around his neck. He had a big water bottle in a water bottle holder slung over one shoulder. Surprisingly tall.

9/23/05-walked by the Ambassador Theater on Friday night and saw Robin Givens slink out the stage door. She has terrible posture. She is going into the show in October replacing Brooke Shields who came out some time after and signed autographs for 10-15 minutes. She has excellent posture and is very tall. She was very friendly to fans.

Does an '80s celeb spotting count? Saw Ms. Pretty in Pink Molly Ringwald today eating lunch at a table in front of the Shake Shack. Accompanied by 2 non-famous folk. She is still cute and freckly as ever.

I don't even know if this counts: I saw Lewis Black just ten minutes ago on 53rd street between 8th and 9th, walking with two blond women, one who looked much older than him and one who looked much younger. He glanced briefly at me and looked away, like I was going to start fawning all over him or something (although I do love "Back in Black"), and passed by him uneventfully. He's shorter and chubbier than I thought.