Riot continues

This was taken when right before things got crazy. One second later and the gates lifted up and John thought he might die. But he didn't....

We just opened the curtains and the sun is shining through the fog for the first time in two weeks.

Its almost like Beijing is the sister city to San Francisco - except that instead of fog - our fog is pollution....So maybe our sister city is LA - but even in LA the smog burns off in the morning. Here - the pollution rides overhead like a cancer all day everyday...

Our visibility today is almost 5 blocks - where normally its 2. Ivy is running around taking pictures out the window of our hotel like crazy.

The weather here has been beautiful this last week. And by beautiful - I mean anything above 50. Just being outside and not feeling like you are walking in an ice cube is so nice and lifts my spirits.

We have two days before the big shoot.

There is a ton of things I have to do that are not about the shoot - but are shoot related. We are editing an interim show between the all new show I'm doing and the last one that aired here in Decemeber. We are taking a lot of pictures of different people that I have to organize. I have to be working on the new script - and manage my team.

Today we go over to the big star's hotel.

She doesn't like any of the wardrobe we picked so far. She said she doesn't like any of last years clothes. Director Hu said that she only likes next years clothes - the ones that haven't come out yet.

We are going to go through her stuff and our stuff and see what we have together and if its enough to make everything work. But dealing with celebrities is like dealing with children. I told Bill the other day its a devil's bargin. You are using them to have their fame rub off on your product and they are using you to get everything they can and then some. It's an endless cycle and really no way to break it...

We head out to the studio later. We have 6 sets in the process of being built. We want to get out there today to make sure they are proceeding without going in the wrong direction. Then tomorrow we can make sure we are on schedule.

So time to jump in I guess. No rest for the wicked in China. Even on Saturday...