{"id":8234,"date":"2008-07-16T11:15:30","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T15:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8234"},"modified":"2022-10-16T09:25:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T13:25:43","slug":"okay-this-is-getting-ridiculous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8234","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Donovan, This Is Getting Ridiculous"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over our family vacation – we were all joking about how Jeff Donovan and promotions of Burn Notice<\/i> were everywhere<\/i>. Commercials on television, ads in magazines … Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff Jeff. You could not (and cannot) escape. People would open up the NY Times<\/i> to do the crossword and see Jeff’s huge mug staring back at them. Or you’d have the paper opened up, and across the back – a double spread – JEFF!! It became a joke. “Uhm, not sure if you’re noticed, but Jeff Donovan is freakin’ everywhere right now.”<\/p>\n

Jeff is my brother’s friend – kind of an honorary O’Malley – I’ve known him for years. He’s fun, funny, and loyal. He’s beloved by his huge rowdy group of buddies, all of whom have been tight-knit and close for years. And he is really nice to Cashel (who even got to go to one of the screenings of Jeff’s films – AND got to ask a question <\/a>at the QA after the screening!) . So you know what? Being nice to Cashel is all I need to know about a person, as far as I’m concerned. I met Jeff right after Blair Witch 2<\/i> came out – which, naturally, did NOT go over as well as he had hoped – although he had a pretty humorous attitude about it – so now, to see him hit it huge with Burn Notice<\/i> is damn cool.<\/p>\n

Last year, you could kind of feel it coming … I’d be walking down the street and see something like this<\/a> go by and I’d think: Uhm …okay … that was Jeff going by, for God’s sake … I think this is gonna be huge …<\/p>\n

Burn Notice<\/i> was picked up again for Season 2. Posters have started appearing everywhere – even more intensely since it’s now a returning hit – so the subway stations are filled with Jeff, and I see Jeff float by on the sides of busses on a daily basis. One morning I got into an elevator at 30 Rock and nearly had a heart attack because Jeff’s enormous face was all over the interior elevator walls – larger than life – a promotion for the show in every single elevator at 30 Rock.<\/p>\n

And today I go to my traffic Sitemeter for my blog.<\/p>\n

This is what I see.<\/p>\n


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Jeff. You are now omnipresent.<\/p>\n

Congrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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