We were leaving FAO Schwarz, crossing over Fifth Avenue and walking past the Plaza Hotel.
To escape the crowds and a busy thoroughfare, we decided to take a side street to reach our destination that traversed past a private entrace of The Plaza. (not the grand main entrance - this was less ostentacious and more concealed)
We were almost oblivious to the group of people lined up behind barriers on both sides of the street. There had been so many people everywhere else, for all we knew they were lined up for a show or a buffet or who-knows what, and we decided to just bypass the scene. When we circumvented the masses and got to the location that was next to the front of the crowd where the barriers held them back, I began to notice all the cameras and the excitement. Standing in front of the barrier, I spoke to a young woman on the other side of the metal bars and asked her, "What's going on?"
"I think they're filming a movie!" the cute brunette responded.
I replied, "Do you know who's in it?"
"Nope!" she said. "I'm just here cause my friends dragged me along."
Hmmm.... I thought to myself. "Let's just go," I said to my mom. I didn't see any movie cameras or trailers and it didn't look like a movie scene to me. No telling how long those people had been waiting there and no telling how much more time would drag on before they caught a glimpse of some unknown "movie star."
So we started walking.
Right as we got up to the side entrance of the infamous hotel, who crosses in front of me but Robert Pattinson.
"OMG, OMG, OMG! It's Robert Pattinson!" I screamed at the top of my lungs.He was gorgeous! Dressed in a black suit with a crisp white shirt unbuttoned part of the way and a black tie hung loosely around his neck, the sight of him took me by surprise.
It's relevant to provide some history. I have been a R.P. fan for quite sometime. It was several months back when CJ brought home the first Twilight movie and I disregarded the film saying, "I don't want to watch some vampire movie."
He cajoled me, "Everyone says it's really good. All the girls seem to like it."
So I watched it reluctantly but instantaneously fell in love with the beautiful and hypnotizing Edward Cullen - R.P.'s character in the movie. I think I watched that movie three times before it was due back to the rental store.
I then proceeded to read the Twilight books. I read all four books in the series in a week. I just couldn't get enough!
Since then I have found myself stopping at every magazine stand and gazing at every website that has a picture of R.P. featured. I just can't seem to help myself! (It's an innocent fascination really and my husband has no concerns.) :)
But as I came face to face with this man that has held an allure over me, I lost all sense of maturity and self-awareness.
I squeeled loudly with my words running together in an almost foreign language type of tone. Then... for a moment.... time stood still - Robert Pattinson turned and looked at me!
We were eye to eye for a flash of a second.
The look he gave me though was not a smiling face. It was a look of fear. I think the poor man thought I was going to attack him.
Then in an instant, he was gone... wisked into the restricted hotel like steam that evaporates into the air.
My shoulders slumped. I realized what an idiot I had made of myself and what an opportunity I had missed - my camera was in my hand the whole time and I had not snapped a single picture. What a great journalist I am, huh?
I was still in shock, standing frozen in the path of what had just occurred, til I felt a small hand tugging on my sleeve. It was Miá. "Mommy, who was that?" she said with her sweet innocence.
Zoë, the older sister, with indignation replied for me since my voice had seemed to cease. "Duh! It's Edward from Twilight!"
I smiled at the occurrence. The whole story seemed to transpire in slow motion, but in reality it was over in a flash.
At least I thought it was over til my mother, with similar stagger and surprise, began shrieking just as I had moments before, "OMG! OMG! OMG! It's Pierce Brosnan!!!"
Like a replay of the serendipitous encounter I had just experienced, my mom was brushed with the same destiny with a movie star of her attraction. P.B. had arrived just moments after R.P. because they were filming a movie inside in a restaurant in the Plaza Hotel.It was quite the event.
In retrospect it almost seems like a dream.
But it really happened.
And I have the Newsweek article from the next day to prove it.... the headline: Robert Pattinson anxious to return to London after enduring fanatic New York females.
Well, at least I left an impression....
