Holy Batman!

Today, Marc met me at Subway on the escalator for lunch, something we do fairly frequently. However, today was a bit different because when I went to meet him, the first thing that came out of his mouth was "I just passed Morgan Freeman on the escalator."

WHAT??!?!?!?!?!

Turns out, Morgan was filming the newest Batman movie, The Dark Knight, just a few levels down on the escalator. To heck with lunch, who needs nutrition when there is a mega movie star in our vicinity? So, we went back down the escalator to Lyndhurst Street where we found hundreds of production crew members standing around and shouting into walkie talkies. We were in the middle of an honest-to-God movie shoot! At that point, we didn't know what movie, mind you, but I didn't care. Morgan Freeman was within 50 feet of me and I had a great view of him from the stairs!

We stayed for a while watching Morgan walk down a really Chinese-y side-street that I like so much - boring, I know, but the cameras were following him and the director was shouting Action! and the whole thing was just so Hollywood - right in the middle of Hong Kong! After Morgan did his strutting, his handlers shuffled him over to Pizza Express for lunch and pulled down the shades so we reluctantly went back to Subway to nourish ourselves.

Funny thing was, Marc had almost changed our lunch plans to go to Pizza Express, our favorite pizza joint, before he encountered all the craziness. AND, he had heard that the Batman movie was set to shoot in Hong Kong but that a key action scene was cut out of the movie because it involved dropping an actor into Victoria Harbor which is extremely polluted. (This tidbit turned out to be false: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/entertainment/view/310579/1/.html )

After lunch, we went back to stalk some more and saw that all of the camera equipment had signs for the movie Rory's First Kiss. "Booo," Marc said, "I'm turned off now."

However, when he went to his office, he looked up the fictitious movie and found out that Rory's First Kiss is the code-name for Batman: The Dark Knight and that Morgan Freeman is one of the actors. So, it really was Batman!

The shooting was scheduled to continue this afternoon but I refrained from making my way down there to play the star-struck fan. Who knows, maybe we'll be at dinner this weekend and run into Morgan. We can invite him to our table to have drinks and we'll become fast friends. He'll invite us to Aspen to go skiing and Lake Como to hang out with Clooney. I'll be sure to write *all* about it...