November 9, 2007
Best of Luck to the Subway Sweethearts
Sometime before 8 this morning, Patrick Moberg and Camille Hayton introduced themselves to Good Morning America viewers, Diane Sawyer and hopeless romantics everywhere. The Subway Cyrano met up with his mystery lady last night for dinner, where they said they "clicked." Hayton suggests the subway moment was serendipitous because she wouldn't have been on it (going to a friend's place) if her house hadn't just burned down.
Moberg is compared to a Hollywood leading man, willing to do anything to "get the girl," this is prequeled and followed by a montage of movie moments (Sleepless in Seattle, South Pacific, Princess Bride). To the cynical haters: Moberg didn't mention his job, Vimeo or Jakob Lodwick. Also, Camille is adorable, totally wore a flower in her fancy-braided hair, but did mention Blackbook! Sawyer ended the segment sending them out of the spotlight to continue their adventure, but we bet we'll see them on the small screen again once Ann Curry comes callin'. (UPDATE: Here's a video of the two on GMA. AND Camille's journal was found!)
Before all of this morning television madness, a mere two days ago, Moberg said he wasn't going to speak further on his semi-precious subway sweetheart, so we asked Land Grant College Review's editors to finish up the lovebirds' story for us. Land Grant, for those who don't know, is a Brooklyn publication whose latest issue includes stories from Daniel Wallace (author of Big Fish) and artwork by Steve Keene (who has created album covers for bands like Pavement). Below is their dark take on the outcome of this story.
Best of Luck
by Dave Schuman, Josh Melrod and Dave KochIn front of the press, Patrick pops the question. They are always in front of the press, it seems. From their very first meeting in the coffee shop on Bedford, the press has been with them. With the flashbulbs going off he notices things about her face, the kind of things you can only notice about a face when it’s lit brightly for an instant. Later, in his bed alone, Patrick will try to forget them, he will try to remember her as she first appeared on the train, writing in her little book, the flower in her hair slightly wilted, which is what made it sweet.
(Continued after the jump...)
She says yes, as a matter of course.The wedding is the media event of the year. There are flowers, of course, fields of flowers have been harvested for this, paid for by NBC, after a bidding war that at times was bitter and ugly. Camille’s PR person guided them through it so they were unscathed. Camille’s PR person is better than Patrick’s, but Patrick’s PR person is a nice man who wears woolen hats with his business suits when it’s cold outside, and Patrick does not want to let him go.
When the babies are born, the world holds its breath. They are premature. The doctor knows that the babies will be fine, but for the press conference he puts it on for the reporters, he makes a series of concerned faces. He says that the parents, Patrick and Camille, are staying strong. The doctor’s book about the ordeal, “Close Call,” debuts as a New York Times Bestseller. Camille reads the book, in her room, but Patrick, in his room down the hall, will not even turn it face-up.
Overseeing her line of accessories has exhausted Camille. She wants the twins to go to boarding school, in Europe. Patrick does not want this, but what can he do? “What could happen to them as long as there are always photographers around? It’s like constant babysitting,” Camille says. She doesn’t look up from the spreadsheets as she says all of this. She has told him recently that she does not like his mustache. Patrick wonders when she even noticed it. He goes to the bathroom and looks in the mirror. It really doesn’t look very good.
Their thirtieth rolls around and, as always, the world wants something of them. It wants to be reassured. It wants to know that Camille still wears flowers in her hair and that Patrick still looks down at the ground when the cameras are on. It wants to hear him say again, “When I saw her on that Brooklyn bound train, I just knew,” though what he wants to tell the world most of all is that he doesn’t remember what he thought he knew then and that now, he doesn’t know anything. They are going on national television. The network is doing a two-hour special, with actors recreating the best moments of their lives. At the end of the special the two of them will meet again on a soundstage dressed up to look like a subway car. For now Patrick is alone in their dressing room. The whole place reeks of Camille’s flowers, her goddamn flowers.
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Cue all the "this is stupid" comments. While it may be, if you don't care, ignore the piece.
Camille was adorable this morning - poised and charming.
Moberg was better then I thought he would be...but still seems dull to me for some reason.
frumpy
my advice, for what its worth: you've had your fifteen minutes, now retreat before the media has you for lunch. As Bob Dylan has noted- "you can sell your privacy but you can't buy it back." Good luck.
Sit properly, young man.
Good for them. But what's with his hair?
She's cute, but he's a dork. All he needs is a red cap and glasses to fill in as a dead ringer for Where's Waldo.
The fictional story reminds me of Pahluniak's Survivor.
He's willing to do "anything to get the girl"...except speak to her when he had the chance.
.... and I'm totally gonna wear my American Apparel hoodie, maybe this new stuff from Kiehl's in my hair ..... (try not to sit like a sissy, try not to sit like a sissy).
Anyone else think this reeks of publicity stunt?
The plot is straight out of a romantic comedy (Her house just burned down right before he saw her and his video became the first "missed connections" style posting in internet history to get such wide media attention? really?) and they look exactly like some of the people in "hipster" marketing adds we've seen lately- a caricatures of real people. And the timeline is ridiculous.
He has far too much Gel in his hair. He's so prepubescent - is this a cheap PR stunt?
Ok they've had 15minutes of cheap tacky fame next story.
"Worldwide internet sensation"? Really?
He looks like he combed his hair with firecrackers.
She looks like she should be marrying the guy on the Quaker Oats label with her Pilgrim outfit.
Good luck to them, but I think this is a sham.
OK - last year or was it earlier this a man rescued a man (SUBWAY SUPERMAN I think the called him) from the train tracks as a train speed over top off them - that is news worthy, not some douche bag trying to get digits.
If I had a dollar for every time I caught a guy perving at a girl on the train - I wouldn't be riding the train for very long if you know what I mean.
jen carlson is retarded. seriously what the fuck.
im gonna take a wild guess and say that neither of these 2 are from the area. women across the midwest are watching this and just lapping it up. i hate ny
"they did mention blackbook"
so you're promoting a PR campaign that isn't about gothamist.
Further, it's a fake story. It's not REAL, jen carlson. Does that make sense to you? Reporing on this is like reporting about gossip girl.
an episode of gossip girl, that is.
Can anyone watch the video on http://abcnews.go.com/? When I try, I'm not getting Good Morning America, but some stupid video about the dating scene in LA.
And [16]10:30AM - you're retarded. Seriously what the fuck.
Does anyone else wonder if this was a black guy doing this for a black woman would it still have the same attention cross the media world. I ponder!
rumor has it that ms camille just finished up studies at none other than UC Santa Cruz, a town so flowers-in-their-hair picturesque and romantic, it's no wonder she accidentally fell into a love story in the subway story here in nyc. it sweetly and honestly fits in the 'anything goes and anything is possible' mentality of the cruz. if it happened to you, you might also think it was awesome.
i think the media is fascinated at reality tv happening without them more than anything else. omg, we could get real love on film!! everybody wants to see that. war in iraq, election 2008, hostage situations--real news exists every day, but how often can we see two people connecting for the first time on tv?
this is a timeless story that people would care about in any circumstances in any era.
i thought this was a blog about nyc, not a running commentary regarding two ridiculous hipsters in nyc. the level of 'hipsterism' in this city is absolutely nauseating. the entire concept is borderline moronic.
'hi, i'm trying to look cool by looking generally disheveled yet i look like everyone else and spend most of my free time searching for that perfect hoodie or top that looks straight out of the salvation army bin.'
ugh.
anyone remember the "million little pieces" debacle?
matty - you need to chill. we have nothing to do with this story other than reporting it - so please keep your conspiracy theories and attacks at our staff to yourself. they're really uncalled for.
i think they are.
It wouldn't surprise me if this wasn't some sort of plot (ala lonelygirl15).
alpalp, I followed your link but had to navigate to the GMA section to view the video embedded on the side next to the news article.
My recap of the segment:
The first half of it is a snore (boring precursor "segment report" sort of thing you see on the 10 oclock news) and to be brutally honest, so was the couple. If this really is a publicity stunt, the concept is a lot more exciting than the players involved. They seem like two normal boring kind of persons.
Camille is cute, but her nervous laughter got a bit annoying. Patrick bored me to tears the way only a selfconfident 21 year old guy who pretends he's bashful can.
I'm all for more important and substantial news stories too, but come on, let's bring a little warm fuzziness into gothamist once in while. Reading about murders and cyclists getting run over gets tiring after a while.
i'm all for more warm fuzziness and flowers and rainbows but COME ON. as if the pressures to couple-up weren't intense enough for the modern urban single, now we have this hackneyed fairytale that's going to get retold to us by every middle american aspirational grandparent? i actually don't care how "true" the story is, what kind of sexist media industrial complex spoonfeeds us a story straight from the pages of ladies' home journal circa 1954?
vimeo did this to get hits for its site. they make money off of creating internet memes.
he looks like some anime character, from dragonball z or something, with that hair
i shoulda known these two were under 25. After that, that's when the jading kicks in.
Eh, she's really cute. It's because she's not American. He's totally going to have a coronary when she eventually takes her interning booty back to AU. Will the media be there for that?
RoDogg: "Does anyone else wonder if this was a black guy doing this for a black woman would it still have the same attention cross the media world. I ponder!"
WORD THE F UP, dude
Welcome to Brooklyn—where young white privileged love conquers all!
*rolling eyes*
anytime i see a post i might not want to read, i simply don't. it's up to the editors and publishers to post on what ever they want, no? yeah, i thought so.
"t's up to the editors and publishers to post on what ever they want, no? "
and it's up to me to bitch and complain about it. no? yeah, i thought so.
anyway, why didn't they just do a segment about real people who met on the subway? i bet it happens all the time. that would make for a better story than this nonsense.
ok i have decided that i demand a vimeo.com movie of them making out, with tongues.
only then will i be convinced this is not a hoax.
my brother met his longterm boyfriend on the train. it was halloween and they were both in costumes. true story! but gay love on the tracks not as photogenic.
Hate to break the news, but according to a gma employee i know, everyone working there saw this camille chick sitting on an asian man's lap in the greenroom and making out with him. swear. to. god. sorry!
amazing, they find each other but that
baseball player who tried to find his juliet
on the seven train gets bupkis.
fake fake fake fake fake.
First off, she would not have been making out with an Asian backstage, that is her co-intern/friend at Blackbook. I can guarantee there is nothing romantic going on there.
Second of all, how is someone's apartment burning down a publicity stunt?
Oh and also it would be ignorant of Gothamist to ignore this story, becuase it is actually everywhere.
why don't you ask the police?
seems like the next subway creepo site is available!!
www.nycgirlofmydreams.com
how about
mikenycgirlofmydreams.com
#41 - Never said they actually burned her house down as a publicity stunt. I'm saying the STORYLINE, which includes her house burning down coincidentally the day before one guy gets famous for his, out of the million "missed connections" postings/videos/etc listed each day, gets ultra morning-news segment worth, is kinda unbelievable.
#23 - This is about as far from "hipsterism" as possible. Another part that makes this completely unreal is that these two don't look like hipsters, they look like a picture perfect image of what some 45 year old shoe salesmen in idaho would think hipsters look like. They are as cookie-cutter as they come. Regardless of that fact, to not report on hipsters in NYC would be ridiculous of Gothamist, hipsters (or whatever title they've had since the 20s), like it or not, have always been a big, important, part of the city.
Agreed.
Paul: They TOTALLY look like hipsters. Maybe we just define the word differently.
I am really sick of this story but all my friends think it's really sweet.
#46 - you don't think hipsters look like these two? uh, right. granted, "hipster" may include a number of styles, but I'd say you're more than a bit off if you don't think these two fit the bill. I'm pretty sure that if one sets foot in Williamsburg, you'd see "hipsters" exactly like this on any given day (and I'm pretty sure they aren't looking to the Midwest for fashion tips).
And I don't think I said don't report on hipsters. But multiple stories about two people? Overkill.
Why is she dressed like Emily Latella?
Stay classy hipster-doofuses, stay classy.
i think she's cute, i would totally hit that.
most of you people are so bitter that nobody ever cared that much to meet you after seeing you on the subway. let me console you:
"don't cry, little hater. maybe one day someone will want to talk to you. you keep posting messages on gothamist until that day comes."
They are hipsters.
No one would care if they weren't.
It is a C-O-N-spiracy.
Thank you!
i take back what I said about the guy being ugly and the girl being hot. The dude is actually average looking meanwhile the girl is super hideous with huge jowls of destruction. damn girl, what happened? that flower pic looks nothing like her. and Jakob lodwick and vimeo and busted tees and gothamist are all in a corporate incestuous synergy together.
gaydar went crazy when i saw this twink sitting on that couch.shes a cutie in a moon face cartoonish kinda way. Why did blackbook burn her apartment down ??