Celebrity sightings…at AERA?

So, AERA is good and interesting and all, but check this out…

Went to a bar last night with some colleagues.  We sat around two tables next to three tables that had “reserved”  placards on them.   About 1/2 hour after we got there, we found out for whom those tables were reserved:  Francis McDormand, George Wendt (NORM!!!), David Morse and about 4 or 5 other people who were surely actors as well but who I could not identify (I needed my wife there; she would’ve known them all).  I hope I didn’t stare too much; I tend to get a little starstruck.