Matt Dillon Evidently Loves New York

There are celebrity sightings and then there are better celebrity sightings.
My partner and I had a couple last Saturday afternoon, during a couple of long and humid walks around town.
The really impressive thing about celebs in town on a night like last Saturday: the fact that they are even here. I mean, it was so hot and gross that it looked like an ideal time to get out of Dodge and get some relaxation somewhere cooler. And anyplace would have been cooler the other day, before the heat blessedly broke.
Our tally on Saturday: Matt Dillon and Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick.
Dillon was the winner. We saw him up in the northern reaches of Central Park. The non-yuppie part of the park. He was surrounded by about five or six drummers. He had evidently just been playing with them. Dillon was getting congrats all around for his performance.
This whole sighting was adorable on so many levels that it’s hard to keep track. Here’s a celebrity diving into New York life, not only behaving normally but actually going out of his way to participate in a wacky urban moment. The last time I remember seeing Dillon—this dude is basically everywhere—he was eating pizza alone in a downtown eatery while reading The New York Times. It was the sexiest thing I’ve ever seen.
Speaking of sexy, there were Bacon and Sedgwick. They famously lost dough in the Madoff mess, so maybe they cannot afford to get away. On Saturday night there they were, walking down Amsterdam Avenue, looking impossibly glamorous. Seemed to be heading home. Bacon acted like the little kids who were playing at his feet were not annoying. Now that’s acting. Sedgwick looked stunning in a colorful blue dress. Sure, she seems like someone who could use a sandwich or two, but this is modern-day America and we like our stars skeletal.
The thing I like about these three: they are so New York. I’m not sure what I mean by that but—no, wait. I am sure what I mean by that, at least in the case of Dillon. He’s part of the scene instead of apart from it. Unafraid to dive in. Seeing something like that is like watching a star really shine.