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Pseudo-Jennifer Garner sighting at Whole Foods

Legally Brunette dishes on the woman she first thought was Garner, then realized she wasn't, but only after she tried to figure out what she could possibly say to her.

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how about nothing!! why do people feel they have the right to walk up to complete strangers and strike up conversations just because they recognize them from a tv show? leave them alone. didnt j garner just have a problem with a stalker? maybe she would not be comfortable with strangers approaching. now, if your paths cross and the oppurtunity is there to say hello or to tell them you are a fan, fine. its just the whole creepy follwing and trying to think of something to say.oh yeah,Lauren Conrad? Ricky Paull Goldin? does anyone care?

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Agree 100%. I once was in the same room as a bigtime TV celebrity. I treated them like I treat any other stranger--with common courtesy.

Then when I told my friends about this every single one of them said "Oh man why didn't you ask for an autograph/take a picture/kiss their rear end/etc" Why? Because I figured even rich people are humans too and they deserve to be left the hell alone when in public.

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who and the what now?

*edited for spelling*

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I had a related dilemma when I was a "serious amateur" photographer.

Occasionally I'd recognize celebrities on the street or in crowds at news events. Generally, they looked great and/or interesting, and they might have been nice additions to a portfolio, and I suspect I could have easily sold the photos to some celebrity 'news' outlet. But they weren't actually doing anything newsworthy, and it just seemed exploitative. Not to mention hypocritical, since I believe our emphasis on celebrity 'news' to be very bad for the country.

The last celebrity I shot was only accidental: at some crowded street event in Harvard Square, I noticed a strange movement, positioned myself and waited, and took a shot of a coherent group emerging. Only when I emailed another photog for his read on the image did I learn that I had shot Zach Braff leading a group of people for an unrelated event.

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Who is unbelievably self-involved. A celebrity sighting is banal enough. But a look-a-like? And then blogging about it? Give me a break.

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I bumped into Garner husband Ben Affleck just after the crack of dawn in Inman Square last summer.

He had jaywalked across a deserted Cambridge St. towards me while I was waiting for the signal (waiting, only because I was using my smartphone and I don't cross streets while I do so).

He initiated and held approachable eye contact as he passed me and I glanced up, but I'm not accustomed to saying hi to strangers on the street, so I looked back at what I was doing on my phone.

I bet my typical cold Bostonian street behavior contributed to the nostalgia of his old 'hood. In a different region, I would've nodded and/or said "'Morning." :)

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