Fametracker has a new Hey It's That Guy! section, the purpose of which is to "attach names to actors previously known only as 'That Guy!' and to track both former 'That Guy's who've graduated to identifiable-name status, and those former 'name' actors who've declined to the well of 'Hey! It's That Guy!'" (Via Idle Type).
I checked, and yep, John C. Reilly made the list.
A few years back I had my own "hey it's that guy" experience with Reilly outside of Largo in LA. He was there to see the show with his pals Paul Thomas Anderson and Fiona Apple. The HITG! moment came during a Jon Brion set and I'd gone outside during the intermission to get some air. Reilly was standing on the sidewalk smoking and chatting with friends when a group of people walked by and a guy yelled "Hey, it's that guy! Are you that guy? That guy from Boogie Nights?"
Reilly just smiled, nodded at the passer-by and said "Yeah, I'm that guy."
Pretty classy really. Reilly's one of those guys who knows how to handle his semi-fame.
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So the Detroit Pistons bit it last night...eh...it was sooo close there and then Kobe had to go and act all Kobe-like, but really what did the Pistons expect after sort of meandering through the start of the third quarter? That and all the missed free throws on Ben "Shaq" Wallace's part...That and going completely cold during overtime. Still, I'm going to stick my neck out here and say the Pistons will take it to Game 7. I'm not brave enough to declare them the victor, but I don't mind looking like a naive idiot if they end up losing in the home stretch. I believe they've got it in 'em to give the Lakers a bit more of a scare.
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Hmmmm, the New York Times reports that Tivo is set to "build bridges from the Internet to TV" (requires free registration). Basically this means that, via a new Internet-based technology that will come standard on your TiVo recorder, you;ll be able to "download movies and music from the Internet to the hard drive on (your) video recorder".
Sign me up!
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Final thoughts...last night I almost finished The Virgin Suicdes, but I couldn't. I just physically couldn't. The closing of the second-to-last chapter was just too heartbreaking and the writing was too beautiful and frankly, I simply couldn't take anymore of that sort of thing. At least not right away. Some things need to be taken in slowly ... so I'll save the final 35 pages for later.