Sometimes working the red carpet can be a tense affair.
I’m there with a cameraman, trying to get hold of a star for a quick interview as they buzz past.
Sometimes you’re lucky if you get time to ask one question, so the pressure is on to ask the right one.
Last week I was at the premiere of 42, a baseball biopic about Jackie Robinson, baseball’s first black star.
Chadwick Boseman is playing Jackie, while the man who was Indiana Jones takes the role of Branch Rickey, who signs him for The Brooklyn Dodgers.
Different celebrities have different styles as they walk the red carpet, and Harrison Ford is a great example.
He’s what I would call a “drifter”. While some celebrities happily stop and chat, Harrison prefers to drift along the carpet. He never really stops!
He’ll stroll past the cameras and microphones and chat away about his film, answering any questions he hears as he goes.
If you’re lucky you’ll get a couple of sentences out of him before he’s gone.
It’s a bit like being in one of those sushi restaurants where the food is on a conveyer belt you just hope you can grab something good before it sails out of reach!
Harrison is a good friend of my pal, Welsh actor Matthew Rhys.
Matthew starred with Calista Flockhart formerly Ally McBeal in the television series Brothers & Sisters, and the three became pals.
Being a qualified pilot, Ford invited Matthew along for a spin in his own plane.
How exciting would that be? It’s not every day you get to be Han Solo’s co-pilot.
As they were taking off, the control tower sent a radio message to Ford, saying: “You are cleared for take-off . . . and may the Force be with you!”
Matthew burst out laughing, but Harrison could only roll his eyes. He must hear it all the time.
Elsewhere, it never ceases to amaze me how quickly rumours travel in Lala Land and social media has certainly made things worse.
Take last week’s news about Margaret Thatcher dying.
On Twitter, the news was spread with a hashtag #nowthatchersdead, which soon made it across the Atlantic.
Unfortunately, some people here in LA misinterpreted the hashtag, reading it as “Now That Cher’s Dead”.
People began to tweet and text messages of condolences about the singer of Turn Back Time, and not former PM Mrs Thatcher.
They must have felt daft, but not as daft as TV producers in Thailand.
Following the news about the former Prime Minister,
one channel there displayed pictures of Meryl Streep who of course played Mrs Thatcher in the film The Iron Lady.
Still, that wasn’t the worst faux pas.
A television channel in Taiwan showed videos of the Queen, who they mistook for the former British PM.
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