Celeb sightings at CES
Posted: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 4:17 PM by Will Femia
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The celebrities at CES are a large part of their marketing but I only ran into a few and half the ones I did see were NBC people. Then again, I wasn't really looking for celebrities and I still managed to find a few so that's a pretty good hit rate.
There was a massive throng gathered in the LG area with their attention turned toward a large box draped with a red sheet. Wow, I thought, an actual, literal unveiling of something. so I wormed my way closer and waited for the big reveal. Then the marketing lady got on stage and told us there'd be a special guest.
And theeennn they played the trailer for Iron Man. I thought for sure Robert Downey, Jr. was going to walk out. No such luck. It was
Jon Favreau, the movie's director. And the unveiling was of the first Iron Man suit in the movie.
Later in the day I wandered into the
Gibson tent. Just as a performer was coming on stage.
Natasha Bedingfield. (
MySpace) I was surprised at how easy it was to just walk right up and take pictures.
It's cheating (and usually not allowed) to take pictures of famous NBC colleagues but since the NBC Universal booth was out in the open and I wanted to show you what it looked like anyway, here are the people I ran into while I was there:
Nancy O'Dell was there to participate in the launch of the
new Access Hollywood site.
CNBC's Maria Bartiromo might be the hardest working media person down there. It's easy to forget that CES is as much a business show as it is a tech show. She was interviewing business luminaries in the late afternoon on Monday and when I came in at 9 a.m. on Tuesday she was already there doing more interviews.
