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Started the day off at the swank Intercontinental Hotel on the Avenue of the Stars. This was the L.A. draw ceremony. Typically the way these work is one or a couple of the top seeds will attend to hobnob with tournament officials, executives from the sponsor, etc.

Next it was off to the Pacific Television Center to tape the Jim Rome 'Rome is Burning' show for ESPN. Unfortunately Jim was on vacation this day, so it was Doug Gottlieb doing the questioning.

Travelling from New York to Los Angeles to promote the book on top of his regular Tour schedule, James tries to get a little down time before the Tonight Show.

We get to James' hotel for a little R and R before the Tonight Show and low and behold...

It's Andy Roddick running wind sprints up the street! You get to see all the celebrities in LA!

Meet Matt Van Tuinen, hired hitman to accompany James on his book tour. Here he's calculating what needs to be done to get James on the Bestseller list next week.

And no trip to Southern California would be complete without a stop at the In and Out Burger. As you can see, on occasion James will actually pretend to be like everyone else and stand in line and wait for something. But most of the time he has his assistants (or hangers on like me) handle everything.

We have arrived!

 

Mr. Leno's car du jour.

And on into James' dressing room!

Before the show, Jay actually stopped in for a friendly chat with James about the book.

 

Jay assured James that everything would run smoothly on the show, and he had James promise that he wouldn't throw up on set (like he did on court against Hewitt in '01). JJ

And here is the man before the performance that could make or break his career. Notice how I used the Black and White function in Photoshop to accentuate the depth and meaning of this otherwise mundane photo.

James clearly believes rest is the best thing to keep the mind nimble when you have to keep up with the comedic talents of a Leno, so it's back to sleep.

JB, David Beckham and Victoria Beckham within close proximity- celebrity overload!

 

Then James signed some more autographs for fans outside. The end.