Unless you have been on another planet for last 6 months then you know the big baseball news that Joe Torre left the Yankees and went to Los Anegeles Dodgers as part of the Kwame Brown trade. Now sure NYC has a tough media and rough fans and u have to deal with Mike Lupica looking up your towel, but Joe Torre has NO idea whats in store for him in LA, cuz Hollywood is a different beast. It's a joint obsessed with celebz, a town of crazy paparazzi, and of tabloids snooping in your garbage and Paulie Shore holding press conferences. SO we were thinking ahead about the kinds of hot, racy, scandal-making celebrity sightings of Joe Torre out on the town that might happen this year like on TMZ hidden camera and it made us come up with our list of:
TOP 2008 JOE TORRE CELEBRITY SIGHTINGS
- Squeezing organic prunes at the Trader Joes on Santa Monica Blvd.
- Tipping "generously" on a $12 haircut at a Mar Vista barber shop
- On Rodeo Drive, asking passersby for directions to "the Beverly Hills subway stop"
- Sharing turkey burgers with Hal Linden and JoBeth Williams, at the Parade Magazine/AARP "Old Hands, Young Heart" Awards Brunch
- Ordering a "Bigelow, green" at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on Sunset
- Using the complimentary blood pressure machine at a Bel-Air Walgreens
- In the front row, comparing notes with Beau Bridges, at the JC Penney Spring Fashion Show
- Buying flowers and chewing gum at the Cedars-Sinai gift shop
- At the Blockbuster on Santa Monica with a basket full of Sonia Braga videos
- Napping on the 413 cross-town bus
- Slipping out the back entrance of the Redondo Beach Mens Warehouse with "large bags" of sateen shirts
- Taking in a Laker game with Jamie Farr
- Spied in a private booth at Birraporetti's Supper Club, "drinking and laughing" with the Olsens, Merlin and Phil
