Tell About (Or List) Celebrities You have Met - Be Honest

[Dinger]

I have met and talked to:

Liberace (Pianist)
Van Cliburn (Classical Pianist)
Billy Ray Cyrus (Country Singer)
Vladimir Ashkenazy (Conert Pianist)
Wesley Clark (Twice)
John Kerry (Twice)
Eugene Fodor (Classical violinist)
Kenny Chesney (Country Singer)
Mikey Gilley (Country Singer)
Mike Holmgren (When he was with the Packers)
Fuzzy Thurston (Retired Green Bay Packer)
Jerry Kramer (Ex-Packer)
Ray Rhodes (NFL Coach)
Lazar Berman (Classical Pianist - Living in Russia)
Mike Sherman (NFL Coach)
Well, lots of Packers, but not Brett (Not yet anyway)
David Lee Murphy (Country Singer)

That's it, for now.

[SiobhanClancy]

1. Stephen King...

I've talked to him many times,when I lived in Lovell,Maine and he had a summer home on the lake near ours. He played softball with my(ex)husband,and we often saw him at the local store buying coffee and newspapers. Very cool and down-to-earth.

Also,I met Ted Williams years ago at a charity fishing tournament in Islamorada,FL. Meeting Ted was all I'd ever ask for in this life.

Also..Will Pitt:)

[Dinger]

19. Will Pitt!!! Cool: ) nt

[Kat45]

35. Hey there! Haven't seen you in a long, long time.

How've you been? :hi:

[SiobhanClancy]

62. Hi!

Long story,but I was sick for quite a while(thyroid cancer)but all is going to be fine with me. I hope you're doing OK:)

:hi:

[Left Is Write]

2. Okay...

Herb Alpert
Charlie Daniels
John Michael Montgomery (that meeting included a knee-weakening kiss, and boy! did he smell good)
Mark Miller (of Sawyer Brown)
The Mavericks
Little Texas
Trisha Yearwood
Highway 101
Doug Stone
Mark Collie
local Minneapolis news folks
The Marshall Tucker Band
Marty Stuart

and a whole bunch more I am blanking on - most of these meetings were in the course of my time at a country radio station in WI.

(BTW - I never met David Lee Murphy, but my MCA record rep had him sign a photo for me when "Just Once" came out. The last song I played on the air after resigning WYTE was "Out With A Bang.")

[fudge stripe cookays]

3. Music and politics...

Howard Dean :loveya:

Ann Richards

Sat backstage with Guns and Roses when they opened for The Cult. We'd missed the opening act, so I had no idea who they were!

Met The Outfield during an instore appearance at Sound Warehouse years ago

Played pool with the Norwegian band "The Stage Dolls" after their set at the Back Room in Austin many moons ago

Bruce Cockburn
The Grapes of Wrath
The Smithereens
The Long Ryders
The Hoodoo Gurus
The Pursuit of Happiness
The Church

I'm sure there are others, but I'm blanking right now....

[driver8]

21. Bruce Cockburn -- one of my favorites!! (Hoodoo Gurus, too.) n/t

[fudge stripe cookays]

57. We gotta hang out if I get to L.A.

We have very similar tastes, I've noticed. Enigmatic does, too.

[driver8]

68. I always tell Enigmatic that he is my long lost brother because our

tastes are so similar.

[fudge stripe cookays]

71. Then we were triplets...

separated at birth!

:P

[driver8]

90. There you go! I think Enigmatic and I are about the same age...

I graduated from college in 1985 and I am now 43 years old. He likes a lot of the 80's stuff that I like -- REM, Dream Syndicate, etc...

I also love the Hoodoo Gurus. What were those guys like?

[fudge stripe cookays]

91. A bunch of wacky Bruces!

"Aow! Good Aye! Come on backstige! We got some Fosters on oyce!"

Very nice, very likable, guys. Friendly and wacky as all hell. Especially Dave and Brad. I'd brought a "Blow Your Cool" poster from the store (working at Sound Warehouse), and they all signed it in loud gold metallic marker.

I honestly don't remember as much as I should have. It was late. I'd been drinking! :P

I SHOULD have graduated from college in 1988, but I was stupid and quit, so had to go back later. But those first few years....aaahhhh. So not much age diff. I'll be 40 in July. :o

I was completely green. Knew lots about mainstream music, but not much about independents. My ex back then introduced me to LOTS of the stuff I love now: REM, The Church, The Cure, The Jam, Velvet Underground, The Blue Nile, Wire Train....we had a blast together....the first few months. After that we fought about everything.

I actually discovered King Crimson on a class TRIP! I was majoring in Advertising Art, and we took a trip to an agency here in Dallas. We walked in, and they had music on a turntable. I was blown away. I asked a guy what it was; turns out it was "Beat" by King Crimson. The song was "Sartori in Tangier", which I love to this day.

Yep, definitely need to have that beer! :toast:

[driver8]

92. Oh yeah -- I like King Crimson...the Jam, too.

So much good music out there -- I don't pay attention to it like I used to, but ask Enigmatic to hook me up with new bands once in awhile.

We should start trading cds -- what do you think?

[fudge stripe cookays]

93. Sounds like a plan!

I gotta warn you though, I rarely listen to anything past say....1994 without feeling great heaving regrets for what has happened to rock and roll. I've become more of an "adult alternative" old fart these days.

The last thing I really liked was The Dead 60s this last summer. I love making mix CDs. But with all my genealogy taking up oodles of my time, it might take awhile to get one from this lady! I'll do my best at making it a worthwhile listen.

:hi:

[driver8]

96. I know what you mean -- I am more of an "adult alternative" type

myself.

We'll talk more about the cds later. I don't want you to feel overwhelmed with your genealogy and having to worry about making a cd for me. I've got a couple of friends that I promised cds to; making one for you will give me a good kick in the butt! :headbang:

[GalleryGod]

105. Hired Bruce for a concert at Goucher College in 1992- Wow!

Sold OUT 1,000 tickets in one afternoon ! Very nice folks! The Student Body knew who they wanted and we delivered ! What a great, cold and blustery Baltimore night that was ! Hot,Hot inside !

That's my memory !:toast:

[fudge stripe cookays]

110. Silly GG!

Not THE Bruce!

Those OTHER Bruces! (They're from Australia, those blokes are.)

fsc

[flvegan]

4. Hmmm...okay, I have a few

Hulk Hogan (wrestler)
The Big Show (wrestler)
Lex Luger (wrestler)
Jim Craig (hockey goalie)
Multiple Bucs and Lighting players (football and hockey)
Carl Hiaasen (author)
Ian Astbury (lead singer, The Cult)
Matt Sorum (GnR, Velvet Revolver)
Billy Duffy (bassist, The Cult)
Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle)
Bruce Campbell (actor, Evil Dead, etc)
Tony Little ("bodybuilder" hawking exercise equipment on tv)
All the guys from Saigon Kick (band)
Henry Winkler (the mf'ing Fonz, yo)
Ralph Nader
Everyone in The Black Eyed Peas
Most every newsfigure in the animal advocacy movement, such as Ingrid Newkirk (PETA) and Wayne Pacelle (HSUS), and of course...

Rod Coronado, activist and alleged terrorist

[Fox Mulder]

7. How'd you meet...

Hulk Hogan
Big Show
and Lex Luger?

[flvegan]

17. Well

Hogan lives here. I actually met him out on my waverunner several years ago. I saw this huge three-seater with this enormous dude on it. Sure enough, Hogan. I cruised up, as he was stopped, and asked if he was okay/broken down. Then, I was like, "uh, you're Hulk Hogan" as I was a huge fan from his WWF/beating Backlund years. I think he expected goofy fan syndrome, but I gave him his privacy. I told him I was a wrestling fan, and that watching him when I was 14 is partially what got me into lifting weights ("hangin' and bangin' and taking my vitamins"). He appreciated it. Our talk lasted all of 15 minutes.

Big Show works out at the same gym as I do. He's VERY soft spoken and quiet, and polite. He's so frikkin huge, it's amazing. He's bigger than most of the equipment there.

Lex worked out a few times at the gym I went to many years ago. It was a Gold's, and it seemed that whenever the wrestlers were in town for a show, they worked out there. Lex was unbelievably strong. I vividly remember him doing cable crossovers with the entire stack of weights AND a 45 lb plate racked on each side.

I also once watched Dusty Rhodes, Barry Windham, Tony Rich and others playing basketball together at Windham's house. Never spoke to them though.

[Fox Mulder]

25. Sweet.

I met Brock Lesnar once. He was at the Alexandria, MN Fleet Farm buying hunting rifles.

Not nearly as exciting as your stories.

[KitchenWitch]

8. You met Jim Craig? Miracle on Ice Jim Craig!

:wow:

[flvegan]

22. Yup, he gave the address at my brother's graduation.

I got a poster that he signed. It's a huge blow up of him wrapped in the American flag after the big victory.

He's a class act. Very, very nice. We spoke for 10 minutes or so. I wanted him to know that of the several highlights of my life, watching that team win, stands up there.

[KitchenWitch]

24. He always seemed like a decent guy!

I remember bawling my eyes out when they beat the Russians. I was 16 at the time, and even then I knew that was a big moment!

[EstimatedProphet]

5. An eclectic list

Slappy White
Bob Weir
Vince Cargill
Victor Wooten
Amy Goodman

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. I don't get out much.

But I've met Paul Wellstone, Wesley Clark and Olivier Messaien.

[Dinger]

23. Paul Wellstone (*sigh*) nt

[tjwmason]

56. That's a definite winner.

The people who could beat Olivier Messiaen is a very very short list indeed.

[Fox Mulder]

9. My very small list:

Paul Wellstone
Ralph Nader (not proud of that one)
Arne Carlson (not proud of that one either)
Mitch Berger (former Vikings kicker)
Brock Lesnar (former WWE Champion)

[hiaasenrocks]

10. Two.

Mystery writer Lawrence Block (one of my favorites, 4-time Edgar Award and Nero Wolfe Award winner, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master...in short, one of my writing idols)

and...

President Clinton!

[anarch]

11. Julio Iglesias once clapped me on the shoulder

I guess that's pretty much my closest brush with fame.

[SeattleGirl]

12. Here are mine

Bill Cosby
Susan St. James
Jessica Lange
Jane Curtain
President Gerald Ford
Ginger Rogers
Richard Bach

[Crazy Guggenheim]

13. Don Johnson and Cheech Marin. Some others but can't remember.

[tuvor]

14. I met Maria McKee backstage!

But I didn't get a kiss like enigmatic did. x(



Oh, and I also met Mitsou. Bye bye, mon cowboy!!!

[fudge stripe cookays]

98. You wacky Canadians...

and your Mitsou...

reprehensor walks around the house singing that. I think Americans completely miss its importance to modern pop culture.

If I was a lesbian, I be all over Maria like white on rice. I love both Lone Justice albums. Haven't bought any of her solo stuff though.

[Scout1071]

15. Paul McCartney

Yoko Ono
Howard Dean
Rick Springfield
Emmitt Smith
Charles Barkley
Derek Thomas
Chris Lowell
Hulk Hogan
Hootie & Fish
Phish
Nick Lachey
Jessica Simpson
Dick Vitale
Bonnie Raitt
Wayman Tisdale
Tim Howard
'99 Women's World Cup Team
Lionel Richie
Liz Phair
Joe Montana
Beastie Boys
Pat Benatar
Billy Idol
The Cult


Plenty more athletes and coaches, but done naming names!

[driver8]

16. Slash from Guns n' Roses -- a story...

I used to work at a recording studio in the San Fernando Valley called Rumbo Recorders (owned by the Captain and Tennille, by the way.). Anyhow, Guns n' Roses recorded "Appetite for Destruction" there and loved the studio.

So, Slash is there working on his first solo album. Things are slow one night and he and a couple of guys from his band go to a strip club. They come back a few hours later with a couple of strippers, and start partying. Slash is drinking his Jack Daniels and one of the strippers (about nineteen years old) decides she will drink some Jack with him.

I'm standing in our lounge and I see this stripper come staggering down the stairs -- drunk as can be. She lays down on the couch and starts to get sick. I grab a trash can and run over to her and I am holding it while she pukes. Slash says, "Don't let her hair get in the puke!" and he runs over and is holding her hair.

I thought to myself, "If my friends could see me now. No one will ever believe this story."

I have to say, for the record...Slash was definitely one of the nicest and coolest people I have ever met. No attitude at all and friendly to everyone.

[johnnie]

34. And

He is hair friendly it seems.

[Zomby Woof]

18. A smattering

Robert Cray
Al DiMeola
Warren Zevon
Arlo Guthrie
Tommy Mars (played keyboards for Zappa in the 70's)
Harry Anderson (a regular customer at the bookstore I worked at in the mid-90's)

[Whoa_Nelly]

20. The Doobie Brothers

And spent some time with Pat Simmons and his wife

Eddy Money
Bill Maher
Wayne Brady (comedian)
Doug Stanhope (stand-up comic and The Man Show host)
Irving Stone (author)
Bud Wilkinson
(was the Oklahoma University football coach...he used to come over for dinner at our house)


That's all can think of right now...

[alarimer]

26. Nolan Ryan

And I stood next to Tom Cruise once (I didn't talk to him). At the time he was into racing (and I think before Scientology). It was cool at the time but now I think he's just weird.

[elshiva]

27. A very local celebrity, but a celebrity none the less

Stephen Vicchio one of the greatest Job (Biblical character) scholars in the country.
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Vicchio_Image_Ayyub.htm

He is a philosophy professor at my alma mater and I met him a couple times, but his greatness
intimidated me, so I never had him as a professor. My dad went to UMBC with him.

[Pendrench]

31. I've also had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Vicchio

I work at UMBC, and so I used to see him quite a lot. He also went to my high school (Mt. St. Joe) although he's a bit older than me. In fact, the last time I saw him was at a book reading/signing at St. Joe...he autographed a copy of his book "Ivan & Adolf, The Last Man in Hell".

I'm not positive, but I believe he had a stroke a few years ago.

Tim

[elshiva]

32. He had a stroke, but he is still teaching.

Ivan & Adolf is a great play.

[Pendrench]

37. That's what I thought....I remember hearing him interviewed on the

Marc Steiner Show awhile back (after his stroke)...his speech was a bit slurred, but he was still as sharp as ever.

Tim

[elshiva]

39. YUP! That was a great show, his disciple,

Chris Dreisbach was on that show. Dreisbach is a great professor too.

[BuelahWitch]

28. Mickey Rooney came to Ottawa, KS in 2001

I had dessert with him (and about a hundred others) then we all got our pictures taken with him before he did his show:





Others I've met are:

Betty Garrett (Mrs. Babisch from Laverne and Shirley)

Jane Russell

Donny and Jimmy Osmond

Lauren Tewes (Julie from The Love Boat)

[bmbmd]

80. When my dad was in Sicily in WWII

he and his buddies had just "liberated" a town and were hiking back to the main task force. Captain Mickey Rooney came flying around them in a jeep and splashed mud on them. A mile or so later, they came upon Captain Rooney stuck on the side of the road with a flat tire. He yelled at the little troop of GI's saying "Hey you men-get over here and fix this tire". My father, ever the gentleman replied "Respectfully sir, kiss my ass." and continued down the road.

[BuelahWitch]

111. Hee hee good for him!

I heard from many people that the Mick could be a real asshole.

All the people in that pic (except for Mickey and his wife) were upset because we were supposed to have dinner with him. He strolled in around dessert time. In a way, I kind of felt sorry for the little duffer because it was clear that he wasn't "all there." I don't know if he needed the money or what, but it seemed kind of cruel to drag an 80+ year old person out to Ottawa, KS to do a show.

[Dangerously Amused]

29. Jane Goodall.

John Paul Stevens (United States Supreme Court Justice)

Dr. Neal Barnard.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

30. Ozzy Osbourne, Geoff Tate, Kielbasi Queen, Richard Bey, Kip Winger,

Johnny Depp, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, damn.... there are more but damned if my mental block won't go away....

[ucmike]

33. mostly fighters

ufc fighters. tito ortiz, bas rutten, chuck liddel, royce and renzo gracie, ken shamrock.

i was leaving the lennox lewis/shannon briggs fight in atlantic city when someone crossing my path bumped me really hard, knocking me out of the way. i was pretty pissed and started to say something when the guy turned around and sort of nodded an apology to me. it was larry holmes. needless to say i was glad that i didn't get the chance to say anything obnoxious.

i literally bumped into regis philbin on the sidewalk outside of the ritz-carlton. i had no idea it was him until i heard him speak to his limo driver and i recognized his voice.

gov. pataki thanked me and shook my hand while i was working near ground zero after 9/11. he was a nice guy, he personally thanked everyone who was working at our site. he actually stopped to speak to everyone, not just a gratuitous handshake. he thanked me for being there and said it was people like me who take care of our country when it is most needed. regardless of what people say about his politics, it was a proud moment for me.

[Kat45]

36. Elton John and Lemmy (no, not together) :-)

Tom Scholz (from the band Boston)
James Montgomery
Tracii Guns
Wes Clark

[Ally McLesbian]

53. Sir Elton rocks

Never "met" him, but did attend two concerts.

[Rabrrrrrr]

38. Too many to list

[Redstone]

40. I invited Emmylou Harris to have a drink with me.

She turned me down. Does that count?

Redstone

[lizziegrace]

43. I would say so

You have excellent taste. :toast:

[Redstone]

44. And it was back when her hair was still black.

(Not that the grey hair is not attractive on her.)

She was utterly stunning.

Redstone

[democracyindanger]

41. A few, but I'd rather tell this story

A friend/coworker of mine was in LA for a job. Stayed at a hotel that musicians liked. To get to the hotel bar, you had to walk through a good sized lounge area.

He and the coworker with him decide to get a drink. They meet in the lobby, and start walking to the bar. She's a little ahead of him, and she sees the members of Green Day sitting in the lounge area, hanging out and talking. Their path takes them right past Billy Joe and company. She walks past them, then hears my friend (behind her) say fairly loudly, "I'm tok-king in an English accent!" To which Green Day starts shouting, "What the fuck? Fuck you! You wanna get your ass kicked?" etc.

Still cracks me up.

[lizziegrace]

42. Honestly

Carole King
John Kerry
John Edwards
Ray McGovern (former CIA and outspoken critic of *)
Tony Bennett
Dinah Shore
John Grisham (his kids went to school with my daughter)
Pat Matheny
David Sanborn (talked to him on the phone when he called, my ex was a musician too)
Clark Terry
Jamie Abersal (jazzer, hope I spelled his name right)
Kathy Mattea

[Rowdyboy]

45. George Cloony, John Turturo, Brent Spiner, JoBeth Williams and

Jimmy Carter....

[lizziegrace]

47. I would LOVE to meet Jimmy Carter

I've thought about sitting in on his Sunday School class in Plains. I understand he teaches every Sunday.

What a national treasure.

[Rowdyboy]

48. I was extremely lucky to meet him before he was important....In 1975

when he was merely a former governor of Georgia running for the Democratic nomination, he came to my college to speak. As editor of the college newspaper, I had an opportunity to shake hands, attend a speech, and ask him a question. There was a $20 dollar a head reception following but in those days I had NO money so I didn't go. Probably could have gotten in free, but I was too proud (damn fool!)

I remember that he was short, charismatic, had a firm handshake and looked me in the eye. When I asked my question (about reducing US forces in South Korea) he gave me a direct answer. It wasn't what I wanted to hear, but he did answer the question.

I'd thought about attending his Sunday school class and I'd really love to meet Rosalyn. What a classy, classy lady.

[DanCa]

46. I was at an Elvis concert as a baby.

Theres a picture of elvis holdin me when i was a baby in her scrap book. IS that why my middile name is just the initial "E"?

I ve meet Bruce Springseen, shook my hand after a concert.

I also meet with Senator Durbin personally to legistate for stem cell research. In fact he gave me the donkey and flag pin off his lapel because I was getting extremely ill in his office and said that I deserved it more than he did.

I ve also meet with the Drifters who did a parkinsons' benefit when I visited Ohio.

[havocmom]

49. Weird Al Yankovic hugged me

and said I was the strangest woman he ever met. :woohoo: THAT's gotta count for somethin'

Of course, I was wearing a penguin suit at the time. Not a tux, a penguin suit, with big floppy feet.

[fudge stripe cookays]

97. OK, you know you can't

just throw that out there and leave.

"Why were you wearing a penguin suit, Havocmom?"

Come on, the peanut gallery is waiting on this one. :yourock:

[havocmom]

104. Somebody had to wear it!

Actually, it was for March of Dimes Mother's Walk against Birth Defect fund raiser. The company my sis worked for was challenged by another firm to see who would raise the most $$. One of those take pledges to get paid by the mile things.

Their company mascot was this silly penguin caricature. Well, she decided we needed to bring it to life. Asked some costume shops what it would cost to make one then showed up on my doorstep begging me to do it.

Hell, sounded like fun to moi! So, we got a mess of black satin, white satin, felt for beak and feet and some really horrible red and white stockings. I designed and did the sewing. My nephew (god, I miss him) built a variation of a hoop skirt support from some ultra light plastic/metal stuff so the penguin would be rotund in proportion to an average height person. Got a black mask to wear around eyes, which would otherwise have been visible through the beak one looked out to see.

THEN, I got suckered into wearing the damned thing for the event! Marchers all met at Reid Park in Tucson. Sis HAD to be visible to rally her team so I donned the suit. Nephew drove me to the park, but far from the rally point. Got in the suit which was like a guest house in satin, and we headed to the rally to REALLY pump the troops up.

The route through the park took us by... the duck pond. Boy, that was interesting! Suffice to say, I developed a, hmmm, following! By the time we got to the rally, Weird Al was on stage to do his thing and kick it off... I waddle into the crowd followed by some very confused fowl.

Couldn't do the full 16 miles with my head in that black satin hood, but did the first five then was driven to various points on the route to encourage the tired masses.

As we started down Broadway, leaving the park, some really cute kids started surrounding me, not unlike the ducks earlier. One of the kids had a boom box (hey, it was the 80s) and most were dancing so I started bogeying along with them.

OK, believe it or not, I am pretty shy and was more so back then. But, there is something about a costume that hides your face... It was swell!

The march promoters had Weird Al driven along the route to encourage everyone too. While I was still with the kids in the first few miles, he was there on a corner laughing and I went over to tell him how my daughter (the one who wouldn't go cuz she wanted to sleep in) loved him! We had a big ol Weird Al to large black and white satin bird hug and he laughed and told me I was the strangest women he ever met.

Rest of the day was interesting. Got lots of odd looks and honks from motorists. Some interesting propositions, and several people bought me cold drinks, which I had to do using a long straw to straw pipeline through the beak.

The barbecue/party in the park was hosted by a local radio station and there was lots of loud music and dancing. ALL the little kids wanted to dance with the penguin. Believe me, I understand how a day in the life of Big Bird goes ;)

The DJ finally cut through the crowd of kids to dance and was trying to peer into my peak to see who was in there. All he got was the black mask and a hint of baby blues. He was begging me to take the hood off so he could see the damned fool in the black satin cocoon in Tucson, Arizona when it was 85 degrees. Told him I couldn't do what I was doing if anybody saw my face.

The funny thing is, I can't even dance. But, there ARE pictures. Alas, nothing digital.

Don't know that I rock now, but I had rocks in my head then. It was a blast.

[fudge stripe cookays]

108. Now THAT is a great story!

And for a good cause!

The minute you said Tucson, I thought, "Holy crap, this woman's bonkers. Hope she did it in January!" But you really are a trooper!

And the thought of bunches of ducks following you around is hysterical.

:thumbsup:

[havocmom]

118. If it had been January, I might have managed most of the march

But, alas, it was March. Hit over 90 that day. It was a whole lotta fun.

[trackfan]

50. Some that come to mind:

Tori Amos
Minnie Driver
David Carradine
Mike Marshall
Chris McCarron
Jeff Mullins
Ron McAnally
John Mayall
Taj Mahal
Terry Donahue
Kiki Vandeweghe

[StellaBlue]

51. longish list (many of them are famous in the UK only!)

Richard Holmes
Will Hutton
Andrei Kurkov
Pete McCarthy
Chris Stewart
Robert Macfarlane
Robert Twigger
Tony Benn
David Attenborough
Steven Berkoff
Henry Blofeld
Tony Buzan
Martina Cole
Jilly Cooper
Chris Eubank
Frederick Forsythe
Jimmy Greaves
Ainsley Harriott
Matt James
Kitty Johnson
Frank McAvennie
Andy McNabb
Gilda O’Neill
Gervase Phinn
Gary Rhodes
Gordon Smith
David Starkey
Phil Taylor
Ricky Tomlinson
Salley Vickers
Phil Vickery
Bob Wilson
Joan Collins
Telly Savalas
Mary Louise Parker
Darrell Royal
George W and Laura Bush (yes, really)
Walter Cronkite
Kinky Friedman
The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams
Troy Aikman
Dr Marvin Olasky (inventor of 'compassionate conservatism')
Gene Stallings

[Ally McLesbian]

52. Al Gore x2, Bill Clinton

and Gray Davis as well though I didn't like him too much.

As far as national politicians go that's about it... and my brain is too much of a jelly to figure out which other celebs (especially entertainers) I met in person (as opposed to concert attendance or just a glimpse).

Given my nickname, you'd expect me to have met Calista Flockhart, but the best I could do was a glimpse from afar.

Okay, okay, I'm gonna rub this in now: Mariah Carey (one meeting, two concerts = three encounters total).

[MiwSher]

54. Michael Landon n/t

[Crazy Guggenheim]

72. Welcome to DU.

[MiwSher]

89. Thanks :) n/t

[ariesgem]

55. I'm at many high profile fashion shows in Los Angeles

working for an agency that supplies dressers (someone who helps the models get in/out of fast, multiple changes). Many of the shows feature celebrities as the models (mostly at charity events) and many of the super models participate. I've also attended some of the after parties. Many of these events are held in the backyards of the homes of celebrities.

Here's my list:

Kate Moss- Very Cool

Naomi Campbell- She's a diva

Tyra Banks (I dressed her before she was a supermodel- back when she modeled at the California Mart and I ended up dressing her years later after she made it)

Cameron Diaz (she was also a California Mart model and modeled for Roxy before she made it)

Vivica Fox

Jane Seymore(SP)- I know she's a REPUG, but she's very nice.

Nancy O'Dell (from that entertainment show, I think it's called Extra)

Venus & Serena Williams- (They have fashion shows every year for the City of Hope Charity)

Jennifer Capriati(SP)- She was my model for the above show.


Oprah Winfrey- (she filmed a week of shows out here in L.A. some years ago. There was a mini fashion show in a segment where they were showing that season's new bathing suit line). Cindy Crawford, Daisy Fuentes and Lauren Hutton were co-hosting. After the show, she came back to the green room and thanked all the dressers.

Miss America- (I dressed her the year the Super bowl was in San Diego) There was a super bowl celebrity fashion show the day before the game.

Dr. Ruth

Ricky Martin

Magic Johnson - Every year he hosts a Macy's Passport celebrity fashion show in an airport hanger at Santa Monica airport to raise money for aids.

Will Smith- I had to dress his bratty son Tray at Magic's show a couple of years ago

Tracy Lords- She modeled at Magic's 1st Passport fashion show in 97'. We smoked a couple of cigs outside the tent between changes and had some small talk. That girl is cool.

Hugh Hefner- There was a charity show in his backyard. I didn't get to go inside the house but the grounds are beautiful. The after-party was held in the yard and he came out to meet/greet everyone.

Dean Kain- He only had one change and you can bet I helped him get in it!:evilgrin:

Dr. Ruth

The Red Hot Chili Peppers- They played at the "Fire and Ice" celebrity fashion show for Aids Project Los Angeles back in the early 90's. I got autographs from them and took a picture with Anthony Keidis. (see below). I dressed Linda Hamilton at that show.



Mick Jagger- The Stones had a fashion show introducing their line of clothing (I call it "slut wear"). You'd get arrested wearing these clothes on the street. Mick came backstage after the show to thank everyone. In person, he looks good for a man of his age. He was gracious and approachable.


I met designers- Giorgio Armani, Tommy Hilfiger, Jean Claude Gautier(sp)- Madonna's designer when she wore cones, Oscar De La Renta

The list goes on and on. It's not too difficult to meet celebs. in this town. Get a gig with a good event planner, caterer or production crew and your in.

[ariesgem]

58. Too late to edit the above...

but I meant fashion designer- Jean Paul Gaultier.

[Callalily]

59. Had brief chats

with:
David Sedaris (writer)
Wynton Marsalis (classical/jazz musician)
Stefon Harris (jazz musician)
Campbell Scott (writer/actor)

That's all that I can think of off the top of my head.

[Magrittes Pipe]

60. I introduced the presidential candidate to the governor.

Dennis, have you met our governor? Governor Doyle, meet Dennis Kucinich.

[stlsaxman]

61. okay- i'll bite...

Robert Fripp (during frippertronics tour)
Bonnie Raitt (last year introduced by her old friend Leroy Pierson)
Don Preston
Napoleon Murphy Brock
Mike Keneally
Ike Willis
Richard Gorman Powers (my uncle)
Susan Sarandon
Tim Robbins
David Van Tieghem
Laurie Anderson
Ian Anderson
Marin Barre
John Hammond, Jr.

Zappa alums I actually played on stage with. Most of the others would remember our meetings when prompted.

I almost forgot-

Jane Curtain
Jane Goodall
David Sedaris (he bummed 3 cigarettes from me... very cool!)

[Crazy Guggenheim]

73. What's Ian Anderson like? All of Jethro Tull for that matter?

[Orsino]

76. I met Anderson on a bad night, maybe.

He was signing autographs just before a show in Mannheim. He talked to some ladies, but us guys (including this gushing longtime fan) were completely ignored.

[swag]

63. In 1983, Jay Leno had a run at a DC comedy club, and I was

assistant manager at a food court bakery off the Orange/Blue lines. Jay would come around to buy something to eat in the morning, and he would always be cracking these awful, corny jokes. I remember my associates behind the counter, Jeanette and Marita, saying to him, "You ain't funny. Go eat your danish."

Caspar Weinberger used to buy danish there too. He was all business.

One grouchy non-celebrity used to amuse us all with his daily order: "Give me two sticky buns." I'll give you two sticky buns.

My Mr. T story I have told too many times.

Senator Paul Simon was a nice guy.

Jesse Jackson is tall.

Joe Eliot, the Def Leppard guy, is very nice, though his band's music sucks.

Those Molly Hatchett guys were hopeless.

I'll leave off all the punk rock luminaries, because nobody gives a shit.

[LynneSin]

64. Celebrities I have met!!! Mainly Sports players

I closed a bar down one night with Rolando Roomes, Marianno Duncan, Jose Rijo and Barry Larkin of the Cincinnati Reds (This was back in 1990). I took Roomes & Rijo out for Cheesesteaks afterwards.

I've tried on Rob Dibble's World Series ring. He then proceeded to bum a smoke from my boyfriend's sister and drank a round of beers with us.

I use to hang out with Rich Gannon at a local bar in Lansdale PA. It was the place to be on Thursday Nights in the region and Gannon was only a backup, backup QB for the Vikings. I think his dentist friend like me but the guy was a big of an asshole and way too short.

I have a few other stories with the Cincinnati Reds. I was a bit of a sports groupie (although I would never sleep around) and we knew where they were staying when they were in Philadelphia!


There are a host of people who I've met briefly, gotten autographs from or just been in the general area that I haven't listed just because there would be too many especially with politicians.

But I can say that I had front row for Robert Plant's concert in Hershey Park in 1988 and during the second chorus of his solo hit "In The Mood" he reached out towards me and I reached back and we held hands while he sang the second chorus. It was all dreamy until some bimbo next to me, sitting on her boyfriend's shoulders decided to whip her shirt off and flash her breasts. But Robert was all the gentleman and just glanced and walked away then

[mikeytherat]

65. My short list:

Bo Derek
Michael Jordan
Sam Donaldson (boy, was he drunk!)
Quincy Jones (he loved my band!)
All of the Chicago Bears' 1985 players and coaching staff (at my cousin's wedding - he played five years with Da Bears)
Stanley Jordan
David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen
Charlie Daniels (and knowing his politics, it pains me to say this, but he was one of the nicest people I've met in music)

mikey_the_rat

[Orsino]

66. Liz Taylor, Stephen Colbert, George H. W. Bush

Met Liz in my hometown as she was stumping for then hubby John Warner.

I acted in college and community theater with Stephen Colbert.

The elder Bush (then veep) was my college graduation speaker.

[hyphenate]

67. I've met so many through the years

That it's kind of difficult to remember them all. Not bragging, but I worked at Universal Studios for 8+ years and went some shooting locations and conventions over the years, so I saw a lot of people during that time. Let's see how many I can recall.

Walter Koenig
Mark Lenard
Leonard Nimoy
Jimmy Doohan
George Takei
Nichelle Nichols
Jon Pertwee
Robert Englund
Peter Falk
Rod Taylor
Monte Markham
Richard Kiley
Gretchen Wyler
Scott Hamilton
Ron Masak
Kris Tabori
Chris Noth
Dan Florek
Tracy Nelson
Fiannoula Flanaghan (sp?)
Robert Ginty
Bruce Davison
Gerald McRaney
Scott Bakula
Dean Stockwell
Robert Foxworth
Michael Ironside
Denise Crosby
William Sanderson
Jane Seymour
Joe Lando
Marc Singer
Jane Badler
Richard Dean Anderson
Kevin Sorbo
Michael Hurst
Lucy Lawless
Robert Trebor
Michael O'Hare
Stephen Furst
John Ritter
Joyce DeWitt
(director) Alexander Singer
Alexandra Tydings
Richad Hatch (BSG, not Survivor)
Mark Goddard
(cinematographer) John Flinn III
Richard Biggs
Pat Tallman
Larry Manetti
(producer) Alex Beaton
(producer) Don Bellisario
Michael Bellisario
David Bellisario
(author) David Gerrold
(author) Hal Clement (real name: Harry Stubbs)
(author) Christopher Stasheff
(producer, writer) Paul Brown
Julie (MTV) Brown (not the British one)
Barclay Hope
Nigel Bennett
Dean McDermott
(director) Jon Cassar
Grace Lee Whitney
Robin Curtis
Angelique Pettijohn
Morton Downey, Jr.
Robert Urich
Max Grodenchik
Gil Gerard
Tim O'Connor
Felix Silla
Tom Bosley
Robert Conrad
Red West
Dirk Blocker
WK Stratton
Jeb Stuart Adams
Jeff MacKay
James Stephens
Shanna Reed
Willie Aames
Nick Tate
Andrew Duggan
Dick Van Dyke


I know there are far more than this, but it's still early and I've only had one cup of tea.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

69. Hilary Clinton x2

:D

She's all I can think of right off the top of my head.

[azmouse]

70. Just some Diamondbacks baseball players.

Chad Tracy
Tony Clark

I walked by Jackie Mason in a Las Vegas casino a few years ago. He's short.

[Faygo Kid]

74. Norm Cash, Al Kaline, Alan Trammell, George McGovern

I guess nobody loves me, at least those who are famous

[Initech]

75. I met prog-rock gods Robert Fripp and Keith Emerson (of ELP)

At a prog concert, no less! I went to see Porcupine Tree and I was just hanging around, talking to some people, buying a beer and Fripp walks out after his set! It was pretty cool.

[MellowOne]

77. Only a few

Johnny Carson
Dustin Hoffman
Wilt Chamberlain

[hunter]

78. I ate lunch with Robert Ballard, before he found the Titanic.

I'd gone to a lecture of his and asked some questions. Later I was eating lunch alone and he came by and asked if he could sit down. He'd recognized me from the lecture. We talked about sharks and dolphins.

I've also met R. Buckminster Fuller and had dinner with physicist Hans Bethe.

Okay, I confess I'm a total science geek.

I've met "Captain Kangaroo" (Bob Keeshan) who was a most delightful and thoughtful man.

On the other side of the spectrum of delightful and thoughtful men, I've met Larry Flynt.

I have some funny stories about other celebrities, especially Hollywood celebrities, but I always strive to be a gentleman, so I will shut up.

[CBHagman]

79. I've got to get out more!

And has anyone else noticed that Jane Curtin and David Sedaris appear on more than one list? Interesting. Why those two people?

My list:

I've shaken hands with:

The late Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC), while he was still alive. :evilgrin:

Representative Connie Morella (R-MD) at the Bethesda Metro stop, no less, the day after the election of whatever.

Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), when he was still a rep.

Bill Clinton

Humorist Mark Russell

Al Franken

Representative Barney Frank (D-MA)

Former Governor Hugh Carey (D-NY)

Actor/director Peter Riegert. Great handshake, like Clinton's.

All others listed I've chatted with, properly met, and/or been to the home of:

Helen Thomas
Mark Shields
Donna Shalala
Molly Ivins
P.D. James (mystery novelist)
Frank McCourt
Howard Dean (whom I introduced at a talk -- the most superfluous words I've ever spoken)
Paul Wellstone, God rest his soul
Tom Stoppard
Tom Wolfe
Eugene McCarthy
Dave Barry
Representative Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)

There are various others I've waited on in the store where I used to work, and of course I've seen various people give speeches, readings, etc., or just go about their business (e.g., Warren Christopher going to the movies).

[khashka]

81. OK - the list

Leo Sayer
James Hunt
OJ Simpson
Barbara Boxer
Nancy Pelosi
Paul McCartney
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Tanith Lee
Joe Haldeman
John Varley

(also Paul Cornell and Kate Orman - they were so cool. I was doing my humiliated don't-belong-here routine and they both started yelling - It's you! It's you, you. It really is you! - who can resist that?)


I have to say all of them were very gracious. Stand outs? Boxer and Pelosi. Paul and Linda. And first and foremost - Marion and Tanith. I was such a bastard with them and they were gracious, kind, understanding. And when I went back to their books, I went with a new understanding.


Khash.

[loudestchick]

82. Bill & Hil while he was governor of Arkansas

Brad Pitt--In 1986...he was just another frat boy.
Jon Bon Jovi--at a recording session before their first album came out
Dottie West
Jeff Foxworthy
Sawyer Brown
Dolly Parton--she's really petite except for those huge boobs and huge hair
INXS--1987 I took them some booze to their hotal room when they played at Mizzou
Kurt Vonnegut--we're related (distantly)
George Brett--I live in Kansas City
Derek Thomas--ditto--he was a neighbor of my parents prior to his death

[WolverineDG]

83. Randi Rhodes was in my car!!

I met her in Crawford when they needed someone to go get her & producer Barry at the hotel nearby. :loveya: Randi & Barry!!

dg

[Crazy Guggenheim]

84. What's she like in person?

[WolverineDG]

86. very nice

very funny. short, too. obviously, hates bush. she liked the fact that i refused to spend one thin dime in crawford. :thumbsup: randi!!

dg

[mvd]

85. Let's see if I can remember..

Luke Petitgout - lineman for NY Giants (my cousin. My grandmother was adopted, and he's a member of her adoptive family. I don't know him that well, but he would definitely recognize me if you asked him about cousin Matt.)

Joe Theisman - former QB of the Redskins. Signed my Redskins record and allowed me to wear his Super Bowl ring.

Geraldine Ferraro - former VP candidate. I was young and can't really remember it, but she rubbed my head.

Calvin Williams and Fred Barnett - former players for the Eagles. Came to my high school for autograph signings.

Frank Robinson - former player and a manager. Got his autograph.

[huskerlaw]

87. Allison Janney (CJ Cregg, West Wing)

and most of the cast of Days of Our Lives.

Give me a week, then add Matthew Perry to the list. :)

[pink-o]

88. Where do I start....

Elton John and Bernie Taupin
Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood
Pete Townshend, Roger Daltry and John Entwhistle (This was their 1980 American Tour, Mooney had already died.)
Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham (Page kept away from the Hoi Polloi)
Sean Connery
Billy Connelly
Paul McCartney
Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum (when they were together)
Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid (see above)
Dr Ruth
Sean Penn
Peter Coyote
Ray Davies and the rest of the Kinks in various incarnations
Chris Isaak
John Fogerty
Jane Goodall
Robin Williams
Will Durst
Chakka Khan
Rita and Ziggy Marley (in 1982; Bob had already died)
Bunny Wailer
Ang Lee, Jake Gyllanhall, Randy Quaid (@ the Brokeback premiere in LA; Heath Ledger didn't show)
Also there, I rubbed shoulders with: Lindsay Lohan (she'll go to the opening of an envelope) Maggie Gyllanhall, Shaun Toub (he played the Iranian shopkeeper in "Crash",and is a really nice guy)
Various football and baseball players for Oakland and SF
Joe Dimaggio, too!

I work for the airlines, so many of these people have checked in with me. But most of the muscians I met backstage or at their sound check, in days long before anyone was scared of stalkers. Most everyone was gracious and congenial, and believe me, I don't know how they do it. There's always someone who's acting intrusive or stupid around them. (One guy approached Robert Plant when my boyfriend and I were talking to him and told him "Houses of the Holy" sucked!!!!)

But after all these years, and all these luminaries, I can honestly, unequivocally state that celebs are no better and no worse than any of us. We may worship them, but the good ones are just working hard at a hard job, trying to make sense of a crazy life, just like us. To be able to find those sublime moments and take joy at the simple beauty is the real success as far as I'm concerned. And just like us, some celebs are better at it than others.

[momophile]

94. Bobby Hull flirted with me and touched me...

My sister and I went to our favorite sportscard shop and he was signing autographs to our surprise. We didn't have anything for him to sign nor the money so we just did our looking around and went to leave. Just when we were getting in our car to leave, Bobby came out of the store with the owner and walked over to us, put his hand on my arm and said, "so ladies, where are we going for lunch?" I said that I would take him anywhere and we all laughed and then he left. Then my sis and I just sat there for a minute and stared at each other, absorbing what had just happened.

Oh, and the same sis and I jumped up and down with three of the Avalanche on a street in Denver after the Broncos won their first Superbowl. We had just ran out of a bar, celebrating with the rest of the city when we came across the three (Corbet, LaCroix and Yelle). My sis and I were so excited that all we could do was jump up and down. They jumped up and down with us. Had the Broncos not just won and had we not been so euphoric and tipsy, we would have stalked them.

Now I'm just babbling...

[Ptah]

95. Edgar Bergen

He was a steam engine fan.
One of our neighbors worked some acerage with steam powered implements.

This was 1961 or 1962.

Edgar Bergen came to visit this neighbor.

His visit was announced over the prairie AM station.

We went down the road about a mile and got his autograph,
right there under the Big Sky.

[bridgit]

99. i worked for Bill Graham but hubby met: Julie London...

:thumbsup: i met allot of music folk while still in the bizz, old boyfriend wrote for In Living Color, so met the Wayan's, Jim Carry, yada-yada

[Cocoa]

100. Cesar Chavez

and Larry Storch. I've been in Larry's home.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

101. What's Larry like?

[CBHagman]

103. Now that's an interesting combo.

Together or separately?

[NaturalHigh]

102. Booker T.

[GalleryGod]

106. I attended the premiere of the movie, "Hoffa" with Catherine Oxenberg

thus...I met Devito, Nicholson (Jacccccccccccccccck!) and Kevin Costner and his first wife.

It was a blast. My moment on the carpet.

[Clintmax]

107. Only one...Corey Hart in 1984.

:bounce::bounce:

[Cobalt Violet]

109. Just a few that I had any real business with.

Peter Wolf (J. Geils Band):

He came to one of my gallery openings and bought one of my paintings. He is very into art. He studied painting too.

Matt Clement (redsox):

I cut his hair before back when I was working at a shop not too far from Fenway. I didn't know it until I got home and my SO was watching the game. They interviewed him and I knew it was him. I could have cut more Redsox hair back then or any other sports team and wouldn't even know it as I'm not much of a fan.

[bertha katzenengel]

112. June Lockhart and Penny Marshall

[kedrys]

113. Trent Reznor and Danny Lohner

They came to talk to the loiterers after a Nine Inch Nails show at a small club a few years ago. Very nice, soft-spoken, not at all snotty.

A few hockey players from my youth in the frozen wasteland, none of whose names any here would recognize, I think.

Former Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, at a hockey game.

Frank Drake, the astronomer; Buzz Aldrin; Tom Cech, biochemist, who won a Nobel Prize a couple of years after I met him (1989). Drake is hilarious; we started discussing some of Larry Niven's propulsion systems, and Drake giggled and said "I'm not going to be the first to test those when they're actually invented!"

Coming up this year (through the Progressive Forum in Houston): Jared Diamond, Sy Hersch, Molly Ivins, and (if all goes to plan) St. Bill Clinton himself in June.

[ET Awful]

114. Let's see . . .

Phil Lesh (bass player, Grateful Dead)
Tony Basil (of Hey Mickie! fame)
Kari Wuhrer (chick who had a bit role on 90210)
Charmagne (forget her last name, one of the dancers from Sir Mixalot's "Baby Got Back" video)
Howard Dean (met him at the Mass. Democratic Convention)

I'm sure there are a few others that I can't think of right now.

[nickinSTL]

115. man, I need to get out more...

closest I've come to celebrities are:

Dr. Tom Shippey - a Tolkien scholar featured in the extra DVD info for the Lord of the Rings. I've never really talked to him, though...just checked out books to him when he comes into his local library :P

F.W.DeKlerk - didn't really meet him, just got to see him speak in a really small venue.

[progmom]

116. Lenny Kravitz, Miles Davis, Kevin Bacon, Sting, Norah Jones, Jesse Jackson

Joni Mitchell
Aretha Franklin
Tina Turner
Dionne Warwick
Ella Fitzgerald
Sarah Vaughan
Carmen McRae
Dizzy Gillespie
Rosa Parks
Barenaked Ladies
Cowboy Junkies
Barry Williams (Greg Brady)
Joan Baez
k d lang
Sonny Rollins
Jimmy Smith
Ray Davies
Chris Noth
Nancy Wilson
George Clinton
Bob Mould
Indigo Girls
Jeff Daniels
Julia Child
Shari Lewis
Peter Paul & Mary
Van Morrison
Al Green
Richard Thompson
Jeff Buckley
Mavis & Pops Staples
Rickie Lee Jones
Suzanne Vega
NKOTB's Joey McIntyre
Amiri Baraka
Ken Kesey
Henry Rollins
BB King
Kristin Hersch
Jason Mraz
Kid Rock
I played Whirlyball with former NBA forward Wayman Tisdale, but I have no idea if he's considered famous.
...and tons and tons of jazz musicians...

This is all I can think of off the top of my head.

[1gobluedem]

122. I forgot that I met Jeff Daniels too!

And Mercer Ellington. And Rosalyn Carter.

[Greyhound]

117. The short list...

James Earll Jones (before he moved back east)
John Travolta
Tom Cruise (every bit as dumb as you think)
Ricjard Dreyfuss (neighbbor, usually @ Gayfair Market)
Richard Harris (enjoys being a dick to strangers)
Notoroius B I G
Leonard Nimoy
Rod Stewart
Elton John
Clint Eastwood
Al Gore (2)
Bill Clinton
Newt Gingrich
Barry Goldwater
Bill Shatner (multiple times over 15+ years)
Gary Hart
George Takai
DeForest Kelly :(
Vincent Schiavelli
The Pamer Brothers
3 of the Baldwins
Patrick Stuart
Dick Dale
Robert Guillaume
Keanau Reeves
Snoop Dogg
Brian Dennehy
Larry Ellison
Dan Farmer
Demi Moore
Geena Davis
Nicole Kidman
Courtney Love
Jenna Jameson
Andi McDowell
Trish McLish
Roseanne (Barr @ the time)
Minnie Driver
Vincent Ferney (Alice Cooper)
Guns & Roses (Major assholes)

[kwassa]

133. I think I know where the Gayfair Market is.

Kings Road?

[Greyhound]

134. Haha , it's the Mayfair on Franklin & Bronson, but everybody I knew

called it gayfair, I lived in Bronson Canyon and he (Dreyfuss) lives somewhere nearby (as does Denehe)

[GalleryGod]

137. My brother lived near there, on Kings Road

I met Jody Foster-we were both checking out the "Hearts of Palm" at the same time !:rofl:

[LSK]

119. tiny list

Christine Cegelis - running for Congress in IL
Jim McIlvaine - former NBA player
John Lingenfelter - famous corvette tuner

Cant think of anyone else. How the hell do all you people meet these people?

[Beer Snob-50]

120. I met Dick Vitale once

a great guy. We discussed college basketball if you can believe it.

[1gobluedem]

121. Mo Rocca and...

Wynton Marsalis
Branford Marsalis
Mel Torme
Bo Diddly
Robert Cray
PJ O'Rourke
Al Kaline
Magic Johnson
Chuck Daly
Charlie Batch
Joshua Redman
Luther Allison
Pops and Mavis Staples
Los Lobos
James Cotton
Buddy Guy

...and countless NPR personalities if those count.

[mzteris]

123. Bull Durham was made

when I lived in Durham.

I met - and :party: with -

Kevin Costner
Susan Sarandon
Tim Robbins
Rob Wuhl
Trey Wilson

***

Franco Harris

Snookie Young (jazz trumpeter with Doc Seversen).

Oh - & I met Claude Akins in an elevator when I was in highschool.

[Rob H.]

124. In 1978, a near-meeting of Anthony Quinn

My family was living in Isfahan, Iran, at the time (my parents were working for Bell Helicopter-Textron) and we had gone out to eat at a Mexican restaurant* and Anthony Quinn was sitting at the table right behind ours. My mom had heard that he was in the country filming a movie called Caravans, but she never expected to actually see him.

She leans over to my dad and whispers to him, "Don't turn around, but Anthony Quinn is sitting right behind us!"

My brother, who was 12 at the time, asks loudly, "Who's Anthony Quinn?" I don't know if Mr. Quinn heard my brother or not, but my mom was so embarrassed that she couldn't bring herself to turn around and speak to him. :(

*Strange but true, a Mexian restaurant in Iran--it was called "Little Mexico," iirc. There was also an Italian restaurant we used to go to but I can't remember the name.

[LiberalEsto]

125. Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Pig Pen

Graham Parker
Roy Rogers
Gary Hart (when he was running for president)
Joe Biden (when he was running for president in the 1970s)
Jack Kemp (when he was running for president)
Harrison Williams (when he was a NJ senator)
Tom Kean (when he was NJ governor)
Barry Commoner (when he was running for president with Citizens Party)
Sonia Johnson (when she was running for president with Citizens Party)
Cindy Sheehan
Will Pitt
Noel Neill (who played Lois Lane on the old Superman tv series)
Pete Fornatale (WNEW-FM dj in NYC in late 60s-early 70s)
CNN sports columnist Mike Celizic
NJ comedian Uncle Floyd
Poet Allen Ginsburg
Some of the cast of Laugh-in, 1960s tv show (can't remember which ones - too long ago)
1960s pop singer Melanie
Chicago 7 member Lee Weiner


There's probably more, but I've forgotten them. I met many of these as a newspaper reporter in and 1970s and 1980s.

[LiberalEsto]

128. And....

Journalist Jimmy Breslin
Satirist Paul Krassner
Rep. Chris Van Vollen (D)
former Rep. Connie Morella (R)
Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D)
former MD Gov. Parris Glendening (D)
Former MD. Gov. William Donald Schaefer (supposedly D)
Former Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (D)
Former NJ Gov Brendan Byrne (D)
Former NJ Gov. William Cahill (R)
Former NJ Gov. Christine Todd Whitman (R)
Former NJ Rep. Millicent Fenwick (R)
Former Okla. Sen. and 1976 President candidate Fred Harris (D)
Miguel Algarin, founder of Nuyorican Poets Cafe in NYC


Mind you, I wasn't too thrilled about meeting the rethugs.

[tonkatoy57]

126. I'll play.

I've met a lot of people in the Classical Music world. I don't know that everyone would think they are celebrities, but... I've played concerts with and spoken with,
Eugene Ormandy, Leonard Bernstein (partied with him all night in his hotel room after a concert),Leonard Slatkin, Aaron Copland, Benny Goodman (I'm a clarinet player and was so excited to meet him, but alas, he was a major asshole), Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg ( a great frisbee player), YoYo Ma, Eric Leinsdorf, Emmanuel Ax, Ricardo Mutti, Michael Tilson-Thomas.

In popular and jazz music I've met Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck (his son's went to my school), Art Blakey, Chick Corea, Wynton Marsallis (we went to music camp together one summer), and singer Flora Purim.

In sports, a shorter list. Michael Jordan, Meadowlark Lemon, former Raider with a cameo in the landmark porn film, Behind the Green Door, Ben Davidson (he was my next door neighbors nephew), Brooks Robinson of the Orioles, and Ozzie Smith and Willie McGee of the Cardinals.

I set next to Debra Winger at a reception in Rome at the American Embassy. I had no idea who she was until later.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

127. I also saw Steve Allen in 1995 at a book signing at Borders. RIP.

[Max Cherry]

129. Bear Bryant

t

[Divameow77]

130. Mostly Musicians

Crazytown
Linkin Park
The Osbournes (minus Ozzy & Amy)
Dave Grohl - Foo Fighters
Moby
Gavin Rossdale
Papa Roach
Disturbed
Green Day
Tanya Tucker
Penny Marshall
Ice-T
Korn
A ton of Vikings Players (no, not on a boat)
Emilio Estevez
Dennis Rodman
Limp Bizkit

I'm sure I'm forgetting someone...

I knew I would remember...

Tony Hawk
Ginger Lynn
Raquel Darian
Dianna Lauren
Bobbi Brown - from Cherry Pie fame

[maveric]

131. Worked Room Service for the Miami OMNI Int. hotel, 1977-79.

Here's a list of some of the celebs I served:

John Travolta (Shitty tipper)

Gerald Ford.(Heineken and a BLT)

Anne Margaret (Served her breakfast while she was in her nightgown)

Roger Smith(Actor and Anne Margaret's husband. Was asleep when I served Anne in her bedclothes)

Emerson Lake and Palmer (Served them breakfast after a concert. They smoked a doobie with me)

Merlin Olsen (Very nice man, good tipper)

Howard Cosell(Liked his scotch. Good guy who liked to talk to hotel help)

Frank Gifford (Tea toadler, very quiet, decent tipper)

David Steinberg (Heineken, bagels w/ lox and cream cheese. Gave me $20.00 tip for a $10.00 order)

Barry Goldwater (Treated me decent, liked Jack Daniels, good tipper)

Woody Hayes, OSU footbal coach.( Tea Toadler, very quiet and composed, average tipper)

Walter Matthau. (Just like he is in his movies. Loved scotch. Had me go to the liquor store for him because room service charged too much for scotch. Very funny when drunk and a good tipper)

[GalleryGod]

138. Good memory, Thanks,Mav

:bounce:

[kay1864]

132. Hmm, let's see now...

James Bond celebs:
(at the premiere of Licence to Kill in London)
Timothy Dalton (007)
Bernard Lee (M, now deceased)
Desmond Llewellyn (Q, now deceased)
Robert Davi (Licence to Kill villain)
Anthony Zerbe (Licence to Kill co-villain)
Jane Seymour (Live and Let Die, beautiful!)
Britt Ekland (Man with the Golden Gun; bumped into her from behind, she had LOTS of makeup)
Vijay Amritraj (Octopussy, tall)
Prince Charles and Lady Diana (didn't actually meet them, but I was about 20 rows behind them, so I can truthfully say I went to the movies with Charles and Di)

(at the Ian Fleming Golf Classic)
Christopher Lee (Man with the Golden Gun)
Shirley Eaton (Goldfinger, Jill Masterson, painted gold in the movie)
Kevin McHugh (Sean Connery's stand-in/lookalike)
(could have met producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson, but didn't--damn)
Desmond Llewellyn (Q, again--two months before he was killed in a car accident)

(at the Playboy Mansion)
Hugh Hefner
Keith Hefner (brother)
Weird Al Yankovic (very nice guy)
Drew Carey (big smile all the time)
Judd Nelson (I accidentally bumped into him at the bar, and he apologized to me)
Martin Landau
Seth Green
Bill Maher
Olivia De Berardinis (artist)
Verne Troyer(Mini-Me)
Ron Jeremy
Janet Pilgrim (Playmate)
Shannon Tweed (Playmate)
too many other Playmates to mention

But this tops them all IMHO:

Mrs. Kay has met Rosalynn Carter (who was as genteel as you might imagine)

[bearfan454]

135. I met Luis Aparicio at the Old Comiskey in the 60's.

WE have some old black and white pics.

[Mutley]

136. No one.

:P

Not a single one.

Wait! Scratch that. I met Keith... what's his name, what's his damn name?! He played soccor for the Baltimore Blast in the 90s. I went to his soccer camp.