awkward-encounters

Painful Conversation Starters For Talking To Celebrities

noelle_hancock · 04/11/08 06:18PM

Liz Smith is awfully excited about her recent close encounter of the Clooney kind. She ran into The Salt-and-Peppered One at a recent party for Leatherheads at 21, and offers advice for conversing with the stars on her WowOwoW "women over 40" website.

Casey Affleck Clearly Not Versed In How To Behave Around 'Dancing With The Stars' Also-Ran Royalty

Seth Abramovitch · 02/01/08 01:26PM

Having only recently declared him the Most Adorable Thing Ever, we must admit the video above might force us to reexamine our Casey Affleck position. Showing all the ill-tempered signs of someone who's survived a childhood rife with Ben-inflicted noogie and wedgie abuse, Affleck's SAG Awards interaction with Lisa Rinna demonstrates the most shocking disregard for pre-awards-show social conventions we've seen since Jeremy Piven openly questioned the salvageability of Billy Bush's very existence at the 2006 Emmys.