When celebrities come to town to make movies, they usually descend upon us in a flash, look pretty, drink our booze, eat our ice cream and zip back out again. But Ricky Gervais, who is making a movie in Lowell, is leaving us a little something special in his blog.

After a rocky start in which Gervais made fun of the Lowell Sun and the Lowell Sun responded in kind, Gervais appears to be back on good terms with the city. (But is the Lowell Sun on good terms with him?) At first, it seemed as if he was going to get in another dig at the sun, but it was more of a plug:

However, the Lowell sun misbehaved a bit. Not the newspaper, the gigantic ball of burning gas 93 million miles away which was meant to drop behind a building by 3.15.

Eh, that was okay. The paper seems to be loving it. He calls Lowell residents "quiet and polite" as they crowd around his shoot, and he writes that he digs L'Espalier. Probably because he can afford to eat there.

Promo image of Gervais in "The Office" days from the BBC.