Show Blog: A Day At Access (May 17, 2006, 9:30 AM)

#3 (10:12 AM) — Just received this glorious email from the conquering hero:

“Got all 3 stand ups in…. just….. very rushed ……”

Timmy, go have a glass of France’s finest bubbly. You’ve made the show proud.

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#2 (9:30 AM) — This is probably the last email you want to get this morning from Tim Vincent, who is supposed to lead to two pieces and tag another from the red carpet at the opening of the Cannes Film Festival.

“Ok…..someone  next to me has just been stopped by security for standup even before the stars have arrived……we will have to limit this to one standup…..”

Come on, now. The mighty Tim Vincent – with Access Hollywood behind him – cowed by security guards? FRENCH security guards?! Please.

Let the record state that we all have faith that The Big Sexy will get the job done despite le initial road bloque.

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#1 (7:10 AM) — It’s early morning in Burbank and early evening at the Cannes Film Festival. We’re watching today’s segments at the crackadawn screening meeting, Access producer Nando is feeding us Tim Vincent’s stellar interview with Tom Hanks along with footage showing our unreal access to the cast of “The Da Vinci Code.” Which, naturally, leads not to a discussion about the film’s worldwide box office potential or Tom’s new hair, but rather to a discussion about the untapped potential for Los Angeles to have a beachfront like the one we’re seeing beamed to us from the south of France.

“Why,” loudly reasons native New Yorker Rob Silverstein, our Executive Producer, “can’t we have that out here? You go down to the beach, like to one of those nice hotels down there and there’s the hotel and then a path and then you have to cross the Sahara to get to the water!” Another native New Yorker, a native South Carolinian and the lone early morning rep from the San Fernando Valley all nod in agreement.

This only serves as fuel for Rob.

“We need a club on the beach!” he thunders, not taking into account decades of Southern California zoning laws or realizing that his days of “clubbing” have long since past.

If we didn’t need him here, I’d tell the guy to run for mayor. The way Silverstein operates, he might actually get his club before too long.

– Mathew Baxt

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