Who are the Famous People that You have Met

[Parche]

For me it was Martin Short, John Kerry, Bernadette Peters, Paul Sorvino, Clyde Drexler,Anthony Quinn, Terry Porter, Jerome Kersey, Peter Jacobson, Magic Johnson, and my Congressman David WU
Ex Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber

[GCP]

1. Tricky Dick Nixon

The only famous person I've ever met. He used to hand out pens with his name on at Halloween.

[hopein08]

2. You're lucky to have met all of them...I can only list two people...

1. My congressman, Phil English (Republican)...believe I'm not bragging! Although I will brag up the fact that I deftly managed NOT to shake his hand though everyone I was with did.

2. Bruce Baumgartner (not so famous)...Olympic gold, silver, and bronze medallist in wrestling.

[Bunny]

22. I met that asshole once. Phil English, I mean.

It was a work -related thing, couldn't get out of it.

[hopein08]

28. Mine was a history club trip from my college...

even went to his Capitol Hill office (mostly because a history graduate worked in it), but he shook all hands while I darted to the back as much as possible. It was on the day that House passed the $87 billion in October 2003. The best part was when my professor told English that rather than give the WH more money, give it with demands that they get out and get out quick!

[lizziegrace]

3. mine

John Kerry, John Edwards, Carole King, Ray McGovern, Pat Metheny, Tony Bennett, Dinah Shore, Clark Terry, and a lot of other musicians. (My ex is a drummer.) Oh, and Bob Taft. :eyes:

[Arugula Latte]

4. Hi Parche.

You met who? You met Wu! Woohoo! :woohoo:

(Sorry, it had to be done.)

My list: Holly Hunter (nice), Eric Estrada :woohoo:, and I used to know Adam Duritz (Counting Crows) a bit back in the day. I think there are others that were more than mere sightings, but I'm blanking on them now.

[Parche]

10. wu

Yes, I know him personally, very nice guy, we always go to his election winning parties!!!!

[ZombieNixon]

5. Dick Durbin. Howard Dean.

Today. *is still thrilled* :P

Edit: and Tom Udall, my congressman from back in NM. He was my first "famous encounter." :D

[Merrick]

6. The guys from Radiohead, Rod Laver

the first from some after party passes my sister scored from the band's sound mixer who probably thought it meant she'd sleep with him later (oops... oh well). The second because the same sister is now married to his son in law. All are very cool, down to earth people.

[William Bloode]

7. Depends on what you call famous.

Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, and Hulk Hogan would be the biggest names i have personally met and spoke with. There are other regional stars as well. What can i say i worked in an entertainment industry for sometime, on the bottom rung of the ladder of course.

Others would be Ricky Skaggs, Randy MachoMan Savage, Allison Crouse, The Whites(related), Red Sovine, Kazushi Sakuraba, Karl Gotch, Ric Flair, Ricky Steamboat( used to fill his boat with gas) Ralph Emery, and Dale Earnhardt Sr( put a roof on his barn in Mooresville), among others.

[TheBaldyMan]

8. Benny Hill n/t

[William Bloode]

12. I am in envy!

I'd love to have met Benny. He's one of my favorites. I heard he's a bit standoffish. Not in a bad way just bashful like from my understanding.

[TheBaldyMan]

14. I don't know the guy, I met him once. He was on his lunch break at the time.

so it's not like I'm a friend of the family or anything.

[William Bloode]

18. Was not insinuationg you did or were.

I was more or less remarking my meeting him in all likelyhood would have seemed anticlimatic. Ya know, all i know of Benny is from Tv, so all i know is Mr funny. So i would have expected the funny guy, and may have been a touch let down by the real life Mr Hill.

[TheBaldyMan]

25. not at all he was really down to earth, even when he was a multi-millionaire

he still acted like a regular guy and didn't go for the trappings of stardom. When I met him he was down a local park, sitting enjoying the sunshine, his packed lunch and a thermos of tea! I think he was also ogleing the pretty young men but I couldn't say for sure.

[Redstone]

9. Besides myself, only Senator Dodd.

Redstone

[flvegan]

11. Tons of pro-wrestlers, guys from The Cult, Warrant, Mike Patton

Lots and lots of animal advocacy/rights folks (authors, organizational heads, etc) though most might not find them "famous" so to speak. Many sports figures (Jim Craig, Bucs/Lightning/Devil Rays players). Henry Winkler is probably the only famous actor I've met.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

33. Henry Winkler was my college graduation speaker.

:hi:

[Parche]

13. forgot

Met the band Cure riding in the elevator at the Hollywood Mondrian hotel.........

[Jamastiene]

15. Shoot me now.

When I graduated from my other curriculum in electrical/electronic technology at the community college, I met Robin Hayes. He was on stage to shake every graduate's hand. Guess who couldn't escape his grasp? :puke: :eyes: :blush: Oh, woe is me. I should NOT have admitted that.

On to better famous people:
I met Joan Jett when I was 16 years old. I still remember that fondly. I ende dup meeting her 3 more times after that and following her around NC to see her in concert. I once saw 3 Joan Jett concerts in 3 days. Oh, how I would love to relive those three days.

Finally, after waiting for 23 years and dreaming and hoping and giving up hope and then hoping again, I met Deborah Harry. She's shorter than I am. That threw me. I remembered reading that she was 5'3" when I was a kid. I measured from the floor up to that height to hang my big poster of her. I always remember looking up to her, literally. So, when I saw that she was shorter than I was, I got confused. It was still a dream come true though.

[Ptah]

16. Edgar Bergen

[StellaBlue]

17. Deep breath

David Starkey
Joan Collins
Rowan Williams
George W. Bush
Laura Bush
Chris Eubank
Howard Dean
Troy Aikman
Lloyd Doggett
Marvin Olasky
Chris Bell
Kinky Friedman
Gene Stallings
Mel Gibson
Frederick Forsythe
Mary Louise Parker
Phil "The Power" Taylor
Darrell K. Royal
Walter Cronkite
Al Gore
Telly Savalas
Father Dave Dwyer
Sandra Bullock
Dennis Quaid
Andy McNabb
Ainsley Harriott
David Van Os
Sam West
Jilly Cooper
Steven Weinberg
The Dalai Lama
Sophie Dahl
The Dallas PD officer who arrested Jack Ruby (he visited me in the hospital when I almost died of meningitis at two months old)


and more, but I can't remember them all right now - I only got two hours sleep last night!

[MrCoffee]

19. Eddie Vedder, Tiger Woods, went bowling with the Flaming Lips

i forgot John Cusack, Deborah Messing, Lizzy Edwards, Jennifer Granholm, and Debbie Stabenow.

[William Bloode]

65. Bowling with the Lips aye?

I bet that was fun. I love the Flaming Lips.

[tk2kewl]

20. Phil Donahue, Marlo Thomas, Bill Clinton, Jackie Onasis, Caroline Kennedy, George Soros...

Mario Cuomo, Carolyn McCarthy, Nile Rodgers, Victor Navasky, Kitty Carlyle, Lucy Arnez, Peter Boyle, Lauren Bacall, Micheal Bloomberg

[hippywife]

21. Not very many...

Lyle Alzado, Gordon Jump, Mel Goodman, Fr. John Dear, and Dennis Kucinich.

[huskerlaw]

23. Bradley Whitford...

Allison Janney, Janel Maloney, Noah Wylie, most of the cast of Days of Our Lives, um...David Arquette, Neil Patrick Harris, Matthew Perry, Minnie Driver...I think that's it... ;)

[EFerrari]

24. Some but my favorite was Craig at a benefit. He could have

been in a whole bunch of other places but there he was on a Wednesday night. :)

[QMPMom]

26. Hmmmm.....

Bobby Kennedy (a month before he was assassinated), Joe Louis, Roy Rogers, Gale Gordon (Mr. Mooney), the country group Alabama, Roger Zion (former IN-8 Congressman).

Edited to add: after reading another post I remembered that I have met Ricky Skaggs. Hate the man. I really, really do, and I can't tell why due to confidentiality issues.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

27. Henry Winkler and Ray Manzarek.

Also talked on the phone with "Animal House" director John Landis and just today, Tony Soprano himself rode past me on his bike.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5792477&mesg_id=5792477

[mtowngman]

29. Julian Bond, Gil Scott Heron, Russ Meyer and Pierce Bronson

all while I was in hotel management

[RFKHumphreyObama]

30. Mostly Australian politicians

Look them all up on Wikipedia if you don't know who they are

-Gough Whitlam
-Paul Keating
-Kim Beazley
-Wayne Swan
-Kevin Rudd
-Peter Garrett
-Andrew Wilkie
-Gareth Evans
-Bob Carr
-Morris Iemma


And the non-Australian ones
-Roald Dahl (OK, he came to my school and gave a talk but I didn't actually speak to him)
-DU's late and great Andy Stephenson (a wonderful, warm and friendly person with a great passion and zeal for the progressive cause and a dedication and commitment that was inspirational)
-John Dean -Yes, the ex-Nixon aide who is now one of the *'s Administration's fiercest critics

[greendog]

31. Bill Monroe

[Phillycat]

43. Ooh, jealous. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

32. Al Franken, Paul Wellstone, Wes Clark, Al Gore, Walter Mondale,

Krzystof Penderecki, Olivier Messaien.

[Xipe Totec]

34. Jean Chretien

Robert Crippen



Chuck Yaeger



Michael Collins

[querelle]

35. Mostly Canadian Politicians

I live in Ottawa so this is bound to happen from time to time:

1. Jean Chretien lives around the corner from me so I see him alot. Very friendly nice guy.
2. Saw Joe Clark at a convenience store one time. The man is waaaaay tall.
3. Stephen Harper at a book fair with his kids. Very shy and a kind of a pleasant man.
4. Svend Robinson. Self-righteous media whore. Would show up for the opening of a car door if he thought there might be a photo-op.
5. Pierre Trudeau. Another shy one. I see his ex-wife Margaret at the supermarket quite often.
6. Bill Clinton when he opened the new US embassy here.

There are more, but I won't bore you with the names of people you probably don't know........

Q

[Left Is Write]

36. Quite a few, mostly country singers.

Plus Herb Alpert, a couple of politicians, and local TV celebs. And probably some other people I'm forgetting about.

[benny05]

37. John Edwards and his wife Elizabeth (separately)

http://bennycat.blogspot.com/2006_06_25_bennycat_archive.html...scroll down to special edition..

http://blog.oneamericacommittee.com/story/2006/7/27/215313/411

[recoveringdittohed]

38. Back when I was a Republican

I once shook hands with Ken Blackwell. Excuse me while I go wash my hands, again.

[Luna_Chick]

39. Russell Crowe teased me about my hat

Does that count? At one of his former band's (TOFOG) concerts awhile back in Chicago. He was joking around on stage and telling some great stories, making comments to various people in the audience when he caught sight of me in my VB hat. It was one of those fishing bucket hat style things with the VB logo on it. Anyway, he says to me, "Nice hat, luv, you going fishing?" Then waggling his brows, he said, "or just fishing tonight?"

I also met Tom Berringer and Charlie Sheen here in Tucson back in the late 80s when they were in town shooting scenes from Major League. Charlie was an asshole, and I was too shy to get Berringer's autograph. Berringer was a real pro, though, really nice to those of us who were just filling in for the stadium crowd, laid back and an all around decent fellow.

Tomorrow I'll be seeing Big Dog here in Tucson..not sure if I'll get to shake his hand or not.

[devilgrrl]

53. That's nothing! Exene Cervenka liked my hair!

:7

[GalleryGod]

40. My Top 3: the Kennedy Brothers

:patriot: 'Nuff Said.

[Phillycat]

41. Perry Farrell, Rob Zombie, all Soundgarden exc. Chris Cornell,

Evan Dando, The Beasties (VERY briefly, like they walked past me and I said hi), Matthew Sweet, Steve Earle, and a million other more minor bands. (EDITED TO ADD: two of the preceding male singers kissed me. Guess which ones!)

Denzel Washington. Everyone on Trading Spaces.

Al Gore (when he was VP), Tipper Gore, and the girls.

Almost all the famous Washington Redskins excepting Theisman, but including John Riggins. :loveya:

There are more, but I can't think of them!

[kay1864]

42. All of them at places I'd never thought I'd find myself

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)

[Pacifist Patriot]

44. Bill Clinton, Julia Roberts, Tony Randall, Jesse Jackson...

Ray Borque, Tom Wolfe, Jim Davis, Teddy Brewski, Teddy Kennedy, Max Cleland, Jimmy Carter & Amy Carter, and Eddie Van Halen. I can't think of any more.

[CBHagman]

45. Playwright Tom Stoppard

Eugene McCarthy, Representative Chris Van Hollen, former Senator Bob Packwood, Mark Shields, Donna Shalala, Senator Paul Sarbanes, P.D. James, and various others.

[Zomby Woof]

46. Warren Zevon, Robert Cray, Arlo Guthrie, ...

Harry Anderson, and very recently, Vanna White (we flew together on a recent trip - she's very nice and unpretentious).

[1gobluedem]

47. Mel Torme, Bo Diddly, Robert Kennedy, Jr.

Wynton and Branford Marsalis
Billy Dee Williams
Ken Burns
Mo Rocca
Irma Thomas
Robert Cray
Taj Mahal
Marcia Ball
Pops and Mavis Staples
Rosalyn Carter
Mercer Ellington
Judy Collins
Jeff Daniels
Mitch Albom
Bo Schembechler
My two US Senators, Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin
Billy Ray Cyrus (my SO's good friend wrote Achy Breaky Heart)
Al Kaline
Cokie Roberts
Salman Rushdie

Numerous NPR hosts if you count them as famous people.

[Trailrider1951]

48. Rod Serling

Early '70's, Ohio State University, All-night Twighlight Zone -a-thon. I smoked then, and when I slipped out back for a smoke, there he was, also smoking. Yes, he was every bit as smart as you would think, but what struck me was how SMALL he was. Only about 5'5", and I'm 5'7". He looked 10 feet tall on TV.

[Parche]

63. rod

Upahead a sign post, he was a genius!!!

[Richardo]

49. Frank Sinatra. Dyan Cannon. Maureen McCormack.

Frank: Backstage at some benefit in Palm Springs when I was 13. He was there to sing, I was part of a Boy Scout color guard. :patriot:


Dyan: Shared an elevator with her in Century City in the late 70s, when she looked like this. Rowrr! :loveya:


Maureen: Asked me to buy beer for her in Westwood, also in the late 70s. Unfortunately, I'm a year younger than she is. Rowrr! :loveya: Ahhh what might have been....

[LiberalHeart]

61. Someone I know who met Dyan circa 1980 said she was gorgeous...

Better looking in person, a true natural beauty. True?

When I met the young James Garner he was the most handsome guy I'd ever seen. Much better in person.

[LSK]

50. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth

[devilgrrl]

51. Famous actors have been friendly/cordial, Pro Athletes were jerks.

I generally avoid celebrities.

[Brewman_Jax]

52. Rosalynn Carter

my taichi association did a demostration at the Carter Center for our 10th anniversary.

I've also met former senator Sam Nunn, who spoke at my graduation.

[Broken_Hero]

54. A short list..

1. Rod Smith, at minneapolis st paul airport, he was taking a flight to Denver...lots of espn/reporters there...

2. Scott Pollard-at a movie theater in Lawrence ks...he is one tall man, I bumped right into his chest, as the whole theater crowd was exiting...

3. Kirk Henrich/and his father-Backyard Burger, Lawrence, Ks...

4. Dale Ellis-at a local grocery store, I was the bag boy, and I asked paper/plastic, and look up and see a very tall man...I'm 6'4, and I was astounded to see somebody that tall...

5. Steve Wallace-lineman for the 49er's...at a fireman vs 49ner fundraiser thing...it was a basketball tourney where our fireman/cops, got to play bb against some 49ner's....

6. John Menzer...

I think thats about it...hmm, yep...:)

[reyd reid reed]

55. I've met

Suzanne Sommers, Telly Savalas, George Gobel, Roger Staubach and...a few more. Can't think right now.

[SteppingRazor]

56. Oh jeez... huge list...

I'm a journalist, and I've covered politics and music, so a list of them all would take awhile.

If you don't include people I met on the job, though, then it would just be narrowed down to people I met growing up in Southern Cali -- Dick Van Dyke, Patti Labelle, Leslie Nielson, among others.

[trof]

57. Jimmy Carter, James Garner, Pat Boone, Amanda Blake.

She was 'Miss Kitty' on Gunsmoke.
Jesse Jackson, and Clarence Kelly
Except for Carter, they were passengers at one time or another on my airplane (TWA).
Kelly was also a passenger much later, but I knew him personally long before that.
His daughter and I were friends in high school.

Clarence who?

From the Magazine | The Nation
Chief Clarence Kelley: A Dick Tracy for the FBI
SUBSCRIBE TO TIMEPRINTE-MAILMORE BY AUTHOR

Posted Monday, Jun 18, 1973
In 1961 the Kansas City, Mo., police department was badly shaken by a scandal that involved its chief and two of his high-ranking officers. To put the department back together again, the state hired FBI Agent Clarence M. Kelley. He quickly restored morale, re-established public confidence and made the department into one of the most innovative in the U.S. Now President Nixon is calling Kelley, 61, to perform a similar service for the FBI, which has been badly compromised by the Watergate scandal and fractured by internal strife since the death of Director J. Edgar Hoover 13 months ago.

Kelley's three-decade record as a law enforcement officer has few blemishes, and his chances of confirmation as Hoover's successor by the Senate seem good. Some agents at FBI headquarters would have preferred that the new director come from within their present ranks and are skeptical about Kelley's ability to be independent of the White House. But his nomination pleases other senior FBI agents in the field offices. They still consider him one of their own—one, moreover, who was tainted by neither the in-house feuding during the late Hoover years nor by the controversy over Nixon's first choice for the job, L. Patrick Gray. Kelley has a reputation for being independent of politics—though associates consider him somewhat conservative. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Ken Huff, he declared: "I have not bowed at any time to pressure, and I will not bow to pressure in the future."
http://jcgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,910670,00.html

[tinfoil tiaras]

58. John Kerry and Mike Mills

all in one year-2004. it was amazing. Mike Mills is so cuddley and John Kerry was really nice...so... :D

[Lavender Brown]

59. (Soon-to-be) Governor Spitzer

:)

[LiberalHeart]

60. Yousuf Karsh, Tom Noe, Danny Thomas, Joe E. Brown and...

Jimmy Stewart, Caesar Romero, Phylis Diller, Joan Fontaine, Karen Valentine, Vivian Vance, James Garner, Rudy Vallee, Van Johnson, Zaza Gabor, Hugh Hefner, Sammy Davis Jr., Sy Zentner, Pete Fountain, Louis Jourdan, Joyce Carol Oates, Sue Grafton, Alex Kava, Roger Smith, the guy who played Radar on MASH, John Saxton. Probably more .... those are the ones I remember now.

[Justpat]

62. I met James Brown in Hubert Humphrey's office.

[av8rdave]

64. Lessee.....quite a few

Howard Dean, Tip O'Neill, Newt Gingrich, Danny Glover, Bo Jackson, Deion Sanders, Emmit Smith, Boomer Esiason, Richard Tyson, Wolf Blitzer, Richard Simmons, Terry Bradshaw, Sandra Day O'Connor, Evander Holyfield, Mike Shula, Ken Griffey Jr, Lou Dobbs, Jim Irwin, Paul Tuetel (sp?) (orange county chopper guy), Michael Caine, Eugene Levy, Pat Green, Maynard Ferguson, Stan Kenton, Dave Scott, Frank Borman, Dallas Schoo, Pete Rose.

[brook]

66. The one I missed meeting

is maybe more interesting than those I met - William S. Burroughs attended the same college that I did - but he dropped out after killing his wife about a month before I enrolled. Was taking a stroll down memory lane yesterday on the internets and discovered this for the first time. The school kept it totally squashed...but it's hard to believe nobody spilled the beans....especially since he continued to live practically next door to the college for at least a year while the Mexicans decided whether to try him or not.

[Westegg]

67. As a journalist, I met plenty of 'em, but...

...It was those I met socially, outside of my work, that I remember most vividly, including: Mario Cuomo, Leonard Bernstein, Miles Davis, Danny Kaye, Gene Kelly, Ted Kennedy, Robert Plant, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Andre Previn, Alice Waters, Jerry Brown...and (how could I forget?) Mister Rogers! Damn, hard to believe the majority of those great folks have passed on.

[SoyCat]

68. Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani, Sonny Landreth, Kermit Ruffins,

Howard Jones, and John Edwards. I'm sure I've left out a few. I'll add them if I can only remember...

[Lowell]

69. I spent an evening fishing

with Gary Burghof (Radar O'Reilly) when he was down here visiting his parents. When I was a kid I met Boris Karlof, Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford and Elvis.