Any celebrity "close encounters" (even 2nd hand?)

[Patiod]

I'm not talking book signings.

- One of my best girlfriends sucked face with Jimmy Gandofini at a college drama festival back when he was still pretty good-looking (he's only 44!!).

- My S.O. thinks his cousin may have had a fling with The Boss many many years ago, when she was working as a photographer for his band (many MANY years ago).

[DS1]

1. Said "Hi" to Larry King in the lobby of 5 Penn Plaza

He's even shorter than anyone would imagine, and looks even dumber standing up with those shoulder pads in

[terrya]

2. I took Stephen Sondheim's picture

I was with my partner, Doug, at the opening performance of "Bounce", Sondheim's latest musical, at the Goodman Theater here in Chicago. "Bounce" was in tryouts before going to New York.

After the show was over, Doug and I hung around the theater. We told Jane Powell (who was in the show) how much we liked her performance. We also saw and complimented Richard Kind on his performance.

After a while Doug and I went up to the second floor area, where there was a cast and crew party going on. Doug saw Sondheim there and I took a picture of the two of them (Doug knows Sondheim). I didn't meet Sondheim, which is probably just as well, since I probably would have said something stupid like "Gosh, you're pretty good".

[KitchenWitch]

3. I ran into Kent Hrbek in the frozen food section of a local Warehouse club

store.

[Left Is Write]

15. My friends and I were snubbed by Scott Erickson and Chuck Knoblauch

at Chammps in Minnetonka! :D

Then there was the time my husband and I found ourselves in the same aisle at K-Mart as then-St. Paul mayor Norm Coleman.

[KitchenWitch]

29. LOL

I got fell on top of by Tommy Kramer at the Rusty Scupper in Bloomington, back in the day. He blamed me for him falling on me, and expected me to apologize.

[IA_Seth]

33. Gary Gaetti

Gary Gaetti ripped up a baseball card I had of him when I was probably 9? I had approached him at Valley Fair in MN and asked him to sign it. He also told me to leave him and his family alone.

Sheesh. I was 9. I can understand it now, but daaaamn I was 9.

If you are out there Gary - piss off.

Never liked the Twins after that.

[KitchenWitch]

35. That stinks

I can see doing it to an adult, but a kid...

They need to teach pro athletes (and movie stars for that matter) that with the big paycheck comes a modicum of responsibility to your fans.

Wasn't Gary Gaetti the one that was run out of the Twins clubhouse (traded) after he became a born-again (and annoyed all of his teammates with his proselytizing?)

[IA_Seth]

38. Lol, don't know...

But that fits pretty well with how I feel about the turd so I will say you are right!

I wasn't even around my parents at the time, wasn't even sure it was him, but had brought by twins player's cards with me because I had hoped to see one there (I heard they were there often).

I was pissed that he ripped my card in half, but I sure did rip the rest of his up when I got home.

He traumatized me I think. Bastard.

[KitchenWitch]

40. Bummer

I love the Twins. Have since the late 1960s when we moved to Minnesota. (I was 4). I miss seeing games at the Met with the greats like Oliva, Killebrew, Mudcat Grant, Rod Carew etc.

[KitchenWitch]

4. Second hand - my son is friend with a national sports writer's kid

He was at their house when Torii Hunter and Jacque Jones were visiting for an interview.

[edbermac]

5. James Coburn in Paris in Nov 1992

Near the Musee d'Orsay; he was in his sixties at the time, had his arm around some babe who was easily half his age...

[MindPilot]

6. I have a picture of me hugging

Helen Thomas!

And I've had a drink with William Davis ("cancer-man" from the X-files--curiously he doesn't smoke nor does he believe in anything supernatural)

on edit: Met James Carville in the DC train station. And a looong time ago met Muhammad Ali in the San Diego airport. Does Howard Dean count? I've met him twice while working on the campaign.
I've been on stage with Sam Kinnison. I used to work with Bobby Lee (from Mad TV) and Dat Phan (from Last Comic Standing) although I don't know if that counts as "celeb" status.

My girlfriend got Penn & Teller to sign her rack last time we were in Vegas.

[Liberalynn]

7. I got to shake hands, get a hug, and say hello

and have my picture taken with Rocker/Actor/Soaper -Rick Springfield backstage at a local performing arts center, after having won a radio contest along with tweleve other listeners. He was very nice and very gorgeous in person, but he seemed so sad, and it kind of made me sad too. I know for certain now he is a fellow Depression sufferer as he has now publically stated. I always kind of sensed that in his music because I could recognize a kindered spirit. I think that is why I always related and appreciated his music as something deeper thant just pop rock from a cute guy.

Also got a personal introduction, thank you, hug, and pic with Drake Hogestyn aka John Black from Days of Our Lives, in thanks for getting several letters in support of his charcter published in soap magazine editorials, and then having one read on E-Entertainment's soap centered show.

Okay I admit I no longer watch Days or Drake sadly cause I just can't personally stand to watch even a minute of a JMHO god awful Deidre Hall performance, even for him, but Drake himself is a sweetheart and one incredibly gorgeous man, even more so in person than he is on screen, and oh by the way his eyes are really that amazing heart stoppingly mouth wateringly blue.

So I have a blue eye fetish! I can't help it.:blush:

[kwassa]

8. I lived in LA for 17 years and have too many to count ...

It is common to run into all but the biggest stars.

I generally don't bother them. I did have a nice little chat with Robin Williams; he used to run at the same track that I did way back.

[ronnykmarshall]

30. Same here ..

but my best was hanging out with and singing on stage with Mary Wilson of The Supremes.

[Le Taz Hot]

39. Same here,

but my favorite was walking in on then State Senator, now Congressmen Jim Costa while he was, er, "communing" with one of his constituents. Well, I didn't actually meet him until later but got an unintentional gander of his bare ass. I've met with him MANY times since but I never made reference to our first encounter.

[Yavin4]

9. Back in 1994, Saw Bill and Chelsea Clinton Walk Out of DC Bookstore

together. Something you'll never see Bush and his idiot twins do. Books are like kryptonite to them.

[CottonBear]

24. That is so cool! You're right. I've never seen Bush w/ his kids

except at election time or the convention. Not one family holiday photo or graduation photo. Weird. They must avoid him at all costs.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

10. Met up with Teddy and partied at the compound in Hyannisport

I volunteered for Best Buddies and I met up with several members of the Kennedy clan. Ted was quiet but Eunice approached everyone and talked to them. There were lots of celebrity guests at Best Buddies my favourite being Tom Brady.

He had a nice ass ;-)

[Bunny]

11. Best Buddies is a great program.

Good for you for participating! :thumbsup:

[fleabert]

12. Saw Kevin Smith a week or so ago here in SF.

he walked past my car, wearing a jacket that had SELLOUT emblazoned on the back, hilarious! I think he was attending a comic book or video game con. Lots of people in the area had on costumes and stuff.

I chatted up Francis Ford Coppola at his vineyard two Christmases ago- we went to a holiday party there, he was very nice. George Lucas was there too, but I didn't talk to him.

Saw Four Rooms in San Antonio the night it came out, and Robert Rodriguez and his entire family were there. They cheered when his Room came on. I spoke with him outside the theater after the movie. He was also very nice.

and I briefly dated Carlos (ricardo chavira) from Desparate Housewives in High School. nothing serious.

[Left Is Write]

13. How close is close?

I've hugged and shaken hands with a few. I was kissed by a then very popular country singer, and propositioned (in a very ugly way) by a 70s "star" on the downslide.

[Patiod]

16. I was actually thinking close-close

like my friend making out with James Gandofini. But hell, any encounter will do.

[Left Is Write]

17. So...is a kiss or a proposition close enough?

The propositioner exposed himself to me. That was MORE than close enough for me!

[ronnykmarshall]

32. Danny Bonaduce?

[Left Is Write]

37. No, a singer with a band.

[no name no slogan]

51. David Lee Roth?

[Left Is Write]

52. LOL, no.

I'm not going to publicly name him on the tiny little chance that I could get sued for accusing him of such a heinous crime.

It was 12 years ago.

I used the term "star" pretty loosely, and his band sucks.

[no name no slogan]

54. Oh geez, not Vince Neil from Motley Crue

or are we talking more on the level of Mike Reno from Loverboy?

[THUNDER HANDS]

14. I've shaken hands with Hillary Clinton (twice) and Vin Diesel

And seen Patrick Ewing naked and been in the front row for a Bill Bradley speech and shook hands with the entire Long Island congressional delegation and talked to Jayson Williams (the basketball player who shot is limo driver).

I've been around. I also knew the woman who's husband drew the Lockhart's cartoon. He did the drawings and she did the captions. He's dead, but she's still alive. Her son draws the cartoons now.

[bumblebee1]

18. While I was working event security in L.A.

After a Yanni concert, I saw Linda Evans in the lobby waiting for him. Then at an AIDS fundraising event, I spoke to Wesley Snipes. At the time, I didn't know who it was. His electric blue jacket stood out for me. Then I did a pat down search on a female attending a concert in Hollywood. Here it turned out to be one of the blonde actresses from the show "Beverly Hills 90210."

[hopein08]

19. Second hand...my dad sat next to Tom Ridge on a plane...

from Washington, D.C. to Erie, PA back when Ridge was a lowly little Congressman. My dad worked in drugs & alcohol recovery and Ridge came right out and admitted that Congress had done squat for that field.

[Dr Fate]

20. Said "hi" to Tom Waites while canvassing for Kerry in Union Square, SF

Also have met James Brown & his band on a few occasions in Augusta GA. (I know the guitarist fairly well)

Said hello to Andre from Outkasts at a Strokes show in Atlanta.

Smoked a J with the drummer from Wilco in Athens GA once.

Saw John Goodman in an Airport in NO.

I've briefly met Kerry & Max Cleland as well.

Etc, etc...

[Evoman]

21. Yep, Estella Warren, John Hannah and some others.

I had a bit role as a scientist in a movie with Estella Warren and John Hannah (the english brother guy in the Mummy). I said "good morning, how are you to Estella". She gave me a big grin and said "I'm okay, and you?" "Just fine thanks," I said.

I was also getting my make-up done next to John Hannah. Cept I didnt know who he was, so I started talking casually to him about shaving (cause he was shaving). Then it occured to me that I knew him from another movie. I then asked him why such a big celebrity would shave himself...doesn't he have a guy to do it for him. He had a good sense of humour...he just laughed and said, "No, I like to do it myself. I'm afraid of someone cutting me."

It was neat...I'm not even a extra, and I've never even acted before. It was a complete fluke that they were filming a scene in our lab and that they needed someone to play the scientist.

And if you ever see me in the movie, please remember that I dont really look like that. They really wanted to nerd me up for my scene. hehe..

[Lydia Leftcoast]

89. John Hannah?

:loveya:

[CottonBear]

22. I've met Michael Stipe, Mike Mills and Bill Berry of r.e.m. They live here

Mr. CB knows the whole band. His band and their band used to play all of the same clubs back in the day here in Athens, GA. Mr. CB & Stipe both went to the same art school. Mr. CB's band even opened for r.e.m.

I've met Vince Dooley, former UGA football coach and athletic director several times and I know Ray Goff, who is a former UGA head coach and QB. (I don;t know if football coaches count as celebrities in other parts of the country but they sure do in the South!)

I once met Don McClean the singer (years ago in about 1978.) I sat in the front row at an outdoor concert in Chattanooga. He was nice.

I got Davy Jones' (Monkees) autograph once after a performance of the 'Real Brady Bunch' stage show. He's very tiny in person!

[grace0418]

23. A friend of mine made out with Cuba Gooding Jr.

It was before Jerry McGuire but after the John Singleton movie (name I can't remember). He definitely was willing to take it to its conclusion but she said no.

[taterguy]

25. saw a future Fox News woman in her underwear almost 20 years ago

[Wetzelbill]

84. oh you have to say more than that

:)

[taterguy]

100. She was in a college play

ain't telling who it was

[Ravenseye]

26. Tony Dorsett, Michael Dukakis, Jimmi Simpson

I once flew from Dallas to I think Pittsburgh next to Tony Dorsett. We chatted for awhile about a bunch of different stuff. He seemed nice for a guy trapped next to me.

Michael Dukakis I ran into on a nice backstreet in Brookline, MA near Coolidge Corner. I was just out for a walk as it was a nice sunny day and happened to bump into him (not literally). He initiated conversation, really nice guy talked for a couple of minutes. I couldn't help but think the whole time...If he had won in 88 he'd never have been able to walk around on a sunny day in Brookline ever again...I guess a negative for all of us, but a positive in some ways for him.

And if we want actors, I've had drinks with Jimmi Simpson a few times. He's probably most famous for being the photographer guy in the miniseries Rose Red and abunch of other minor roles. He used to date, for a while actualy, one of my wife's friends. He seemed nice, but he dumped her in a real dickish way. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0801051/

[tigereye]

27. Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall

walked right by me (like a foot away) at a movie theater here. She was extremely tall, and he was extremely short and craggy.

It was very strange, since I like the Stones, but am not a fanatic.

After the movie, people ran from the theater after them.

[Mikimouse]

28. Sergio Mendes and Pia Zadora...n/t

[DanCa]

31. At the Devils and Dust concert in Chicago Bruce Springsteen..

shook my hand. I also know a few of the retired 80 wrestlers because my brother Doug works as a part time referee for a local independent wrestling company. So i've met King Kong Bundy, Tito Santanna, the Bush Whackers and a few others.

[seemunkee]

34. My son gave the finger to Anderson Cooper

he stole the parking space they were waiting for in Georgtown.

My brother shoots commercials so he has met a fair number of actors and sportstars.
Mickey Rooney, Star Jones, Cindy Crawford, Karl Malone, etc.

[Radio_Guy]

36. Bob Graham

I shook hands with then Gov. Bob Graham at my high school. I've been a Dem ever since.

[GalleryGod]

41. I escorted Catherine Oxenberg to the Premiere of "Hoffa"

It was a "mid-week",casual, Premiere...she was great.
I had fun...we gave Costner and his(now) Ex-wife Cindy, a lift home.

How??? Friend-of-a-friend volunteered me! Catherine's Buddy, Roger Rees (Lord John Marbury), got fogged-in at Heathrow.

[Wetzelbill]

83. now that is pretty badass

:)

[HEyHEY]

42. A few through work - but I don't think that counts

[MiniMandaRuth]

43. A friend of mine visited Australia and met Viggo Mortensen about a year

or so ago.... Got a piccy with him. She says that he's a really great guy face-to-face, even talked to her about LOTR and some art.

[Alleycat]

44. A friend got hit in the head

She was up front during the concert and George Thorogood was swinging his microphone around and lost control It hit in the head and knocked her out. She had to be taken out by ambulance!

[kwassa]

45. Well, he's bad to the bone.

[JackBeck]

47. I just had one.

I sitting on the downtown 6 train in NYC and Cynthia Nixon was eating a piece of pizza right above me. I was trying not to stare, but in my attempt to ID her through quick upward glances, she caught my eye, smiled, and sweetly said, "Hi".

I also almost knocked Madonna to the ground while walking down a crowded street in London, right outside a play she was doing there at the time. I was turning the corner and she had just crossed the street and I was walking so fast that I almost crashed right into her. She had to side step me to get out of the way. I didn't even realize it was her until my husband told me.

[felonious thunk]

46. Your friend and mine, Jerry Falwell

I stood behind him (and several bodyguard types that could best be described as 'goons') at a restaurant. So I started talking to my friend about his made-up wife's made-up abortion, and how it was her choice and he supported her.

FYI - it's not really a big surprise, but he's much shorter (and heftier) than you would expect. I don't think he's much taller than about 5'6" and probably a good 275.

[Rowdyboy]

48. Met George Clooney during filming of "O, Brother" also Brent Spiner

(Data of Star Trek TNG) during filming of "The Ponder Heart"

[begin_within]

55. Took a picture of Clooney while he made "Return of the Killer Tomatoes"

[Rowdyboy]

59. Yeah, I got a face shot of him too!

Nothing special, but he's in costume and recognizable

[madinmaryland]

49. Saw Arnold Schwartnegger and his wife

getting on an elevator at one of my clients offices.

Saw John Anderson (1980 Pres candidate), at Laguardia Airport.

Saw Bill Press (used to be on Capitol Gang) in Union Station in DC last year.

[NoPasaran]

50. Told Nanci Griffith where the ladies room was

While we were taping a Jerry Jeff Walker's Birthday show in Austin.

[sakabatou]

53. My brother has met/seen

Robin Williams, a member of the Seatbelts, the guy who wrote "Killing me Softly," and some other people.

[swimboy]

56. Goldie Hawn and Francois Mitterand

Ms. Hawn in France, and M. Mitterand in the US, oddly enough.

[tjwmason]

93. You just have to get everything the wrong way round.

:P

[swimboy]

95. True but sad.

And how are you this morning? :hug:

[tjwmason]

97. I'm very well thank you,

though probably in need of a spanking (see your P.M.).

And you? Coping with work?

:hug: :loveya:

[begin_within]

57. My dad met Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart one morning at the NGS

My grandparents lived in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and they were active members of the National Geographic Society and went to all their monthly luncheons. In the early 1930s, my grandfather was sick on one of the days they had the luncheons, so my grandmother took my dad with her instead. He was a teenager at the time, but I don't know exactly what year this was. The guest speaker at the luncheon that month was Amelia Earhart. Apparently Eleanor Roosevelt was also in attendance but was not the featured speaker as I am pretty sure that Amelia was given some kind of award from the Society at the luncheon. After the luncheon was over, my dad and my grandmother were walking through a hallway in the building and came right up to both Amelia and Eleanor and had a brief but friendly conversation. He told me this story several times during his life but I never thought to ask him what they talked about.

[swimboy]

98. I believe we have a winner!

What an encounter!

[trackfan]

58. I saw Kathy Griffin yesterday when I was walking to the bank

I wouldn't have recognized her, except for the fact there was a cameraman and sound guy there and she was being filmed. In fact, I didn't recognize her when I was on my way TO the bank, but on the return walk I figured out who it was.

[ronnykmarshall]

65. I love her.

Where was she? Is she filming in LA?

[trackfan]

87. She was at a coffee shop in Toluca Lake

on Riverside Dr. Paty's, I think.

[wain]

60. Adlai Stevenson, Pres. Eisenhower & Ford, Colonel Sanders.

Saw Adlai Stevenson in an academic procession at Oxford University in about '57, President Eisenhower at a welcome home in Gettysburg Square in Jan 1961, Colonel Sanders of KFC fame dressed in whites (fedora to shoes) outside the Waldorf in 1970 and President Ford at the table next to me during lunch at Pebble Beach in 1978. I guess I haven't been paying much attention since then.

[blondeatlast]

61. I sold Liberace a mink teddy bear once.

Shook Jimmy carter's hand and was invited to the inaugural--unfortunately I was ill and couldn't attend (boo-hoo; possibly THE biggest regret of my life!).

[JustDoIt]

62. Bill Clinton, Michael Jordan, Tom Cruise

As well as Schumer and Hillary multiple times each.

[MrScorpio]

63. From an old thread, my encounters

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=2384824

[twenty2strings]

64. Shirley Maclaine...At the S.F. erotic art museum.

I Was working at my first job ever doing sheetrock work at the soon to be opened Kronhausen collection of erotic art. I was working on a spot and she walked up just as nice as can be and said"Slap some plaster on for me,would ya?". I was very impressed and being 17,with her very beautiful everything and friendly manner, I fell in love or lust or whatever a seventeen year old boy feels. I think it was 1970. Wowsers!!!!!:bounce: :loveya:

[AtomicKitten]

66. we met Jerry Seinfeld outside the Paramount Theater in Oakland

right before a show (we had second row center seats). He posed for a picture with my then 10-year-old son. This was the year before the series ended.

[WolverineDG]

67. I have a few

Collided with Donald Sutherland as I was coming out of a store in NYC. Didn't realize it was him until I noticed my roommate having a cow. He was nice & helped me pick up my stuff that dropped (unlike the celeb mentioned above who tried to blame it on the DUer he collided with).

Shook Bill Clinton's hand when he stopped in my town during the "Campaign around the clock" in 1992. Shook Al Gore's hand when he made an appearance in San Antonio in 1997 or 1998.

My personal fave: Drove Randi Rhodes in my car this summer in Crawford. :loveya: Randi!

dg

[redwitch]

68. Said hi to Lewis Black at the train station in Albany, NY

Saw Dick Clark at Penn Station in NYC (Heard him swear too!)

Stood backstage with the Ramones at a community college theater years ago. Didn't talk to them though, very intimidating with the sunglasses and hair in the face!

My friend found herself standing face to face with Julia Louise Dreyfus in NYC. She stared at her frantically thinking of what to say and finally burst out with "I LOVE YOU!" She is still embarrassed years later.

And January before last I stood about 15 feet from Howard Dean at my hotel in NYC and was too nervous to go say hi and thanks to him. Damn, I'll be pissed at me forever for that one.

Have met Eliot Spitzer a few times, he is very nice.

[Nikia]

69. I spent time w/one of the biggest Democratic supporters in the county

She was my grandmother's friend and had campaigned for every Democratic presidential candidate since FDR. She showed me pictures of her with most of the candidates. She was kissing Carter in her picture with him.
Note: It was a Platonic kiss on the cheek, but I still thought that it was interesting.

[KamaAina]

70. Alex Trebek, outside Antoine's in the French Quarter

not exactly a chance encounter; a TV syndication convention was in town and I'd headed down to the Quarter lookin' to bag me some celebrity big game.

There he was, leaving Antoine's on St. Louis St. -- with his security detail! They spotted me leaning against the building with my go-cup (drink whatever you want in N.O., just not in glass or metal) and I overheard, "Okay, we'll go as soon as this guy leaves". :scared:

"This guy" left, swung around the block onto Bourbon, then spotted Alex in a crowd of drunken tourists yelling out "I've got a question for you, Alex!" and other such witty repartee.

So apparently a whole block full of drunken tourists was not considered a security risk, but "this guy" was. :eyes:

[SeattleGirl]

71. Bill Cosby, Susan St. James, Jessica Lange, Jane Curtain,

President Gerald Ford, and Ginger Rogers, all while I worked at a hotel in Eugene, Oregon.

[AtomicKitten]

72. OK, I used to work in a medical facility in Century City

a thousand years ago. Met Gene Wilder, Smokey Robinson, James Garner, Carrie Fisher, Victoria Principal, Kurt Russell, and others. It was a looooooooooong time ago.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

73. Second-hand, but funny.

An airline pilot I know told me about how Leslie Nielsen was on his airplane, and as he was getting off the plane he turned and said, "Good luck, we're all counting on you."

[WillParkinson]

74. Yes....

Too many to count. I work as a room service waiter and see "celebrities" all the time. A few off the top of my head:

Adam West
Robin Williams
(Yes, it's true. I served Batman and Robin)
Eddie Griffin
Elliot Gould
Smokey Robinson
Aretha Franklin
Mandy Patinkin
Tom (YUCK!!!!!) Bosley
Ernest and Tova Borgnine
Mick Jagger
BB King
Yanni
Don Rickles
Numerous baseball players
Numerous basketball players
Numerous Green Bay Packers (when they still used to play in Milwaukee)

Those are the ones I can think of. There's been many others.

[Orsino]

75. Stephen Colbert (way back when)

More than twenty years ago, we acted together in college and community theater.

[havocmom]

76. Fellow passenger on plane out of Tucson: Garrison Keillor.

But he and his party were in first class.

On trip to Tucson: Beau Bridges. In seat in front of me. Plane was not full. It was interesting. He was very kind. As we were leaving terminal, he asked if I needed a lift. It was cool, as my soon to be ex was there to pick me up and heard it. ;) Karma is a gas!

[spindrifter]

77. Steve Ballmer

at our local Starbuck's.

[UncleSepp]

80. I once ran into Jim Allchin...

... going the wrong way around a corner. We smacked into each other and dropped papers everywhere, it was pretty funny :-P

[elshiva]

78. M. Shawn Copeland and Diana L. Hayes: Womanist Theologians

M. Shawn Copeland gave a talk at the religious studies circle and she sat at our table.

http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/theology/faculty/scopeland/



Diana L. Hayes lived down the hall from me at Washington Theological Union. She also sat and ate lunch with us. And she signed two books for me. Yah!
http://www.clemson.edu/caah/philosophy/website/html/Women/HayesPoster.html

[UncleSepp]

79. Yeah - with infamous celebrities

On second thought.. nevermind.

[Benfea]

81. I talked to Kirk Hammet on the phone.

I complained about some elements of Master of Puppets (e.g. the bass drums were tuned too high) and he patiently listened. If our roles had been reversed, I'd have yelled at the presumptuous twit at the other end of the phone.

[Wetzelbill]

82. I gave Billy Mills my autograph

I signed a copy of my book for him at a speaking engagement he was at. (he's won the Olympic gold medal in the 10,000 meters in like '64 or something, they made the film "Running Brave" about him)

Shook hands with John Kerry.

Had a class with Salim Stoudamire.

Actually, I see lots of U of A b-ball players around from time to time. All the guys in the NBA from the last few years I have seen.

Sat in front of Bill Gates in a Seattle movie theater.

Talked to Chris McQuarrie (wrote The Usual Suspects) for quite a while.

Had several drinks with actress Guinevere Turner.

Met actress Mia Kirshner.

Met Gary Payton and Vin Baker of the Seattle Supersonics. (at the time they were)

I used to call author James Welch every now and then when he was still alive, he gave me lots of advice on some stories and I may adapt one of his books into a screenplay.

I interviewed author Sherman Alexie a few years ago, as well.

Oh yeah, I got former Olympic gold medalist and University of Iowa wrestling coach Dan Gable's autograph at a wrestling dual ten years ago.

[Digit]

85. Phil Donohue and Marlo Thomas were at my local WinnDixie

It was about 10:30pm and I recogized Marlo Thomas right away. They were both dressed up and she went to buy a bottle of wine.
It was during a time when they were having some golf charity function in the area.
The manager said he asked Phil it it was him, and he admitted it.
There was no mistaking they were not look-alikes.
They looked good.

[Ptah]

86. 1963

Saw Edger Bergin.

Steam enthusiast.

Have his autograph and sketch.

[huskerlaw]

88. Allison Janney & Janel Maloney

(CJ & Donna, West Wing) they walk their dogs where I go running. ;)

I've met most of the cast of Days of Our Lives...Deidre Hall way more than once.

And I've been in the same room as Matthew Perry, Neil Patrick Harris, Richard Kind, and Minnie Driver.

...and I just moved to LA 4 months ago!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

90. While at Yale

I saw Jodie Foster around quite a bit, and Lily Tomlin and Alexander Solzhenitsyn visiting the library.

I once sat at the other end of a lunch table in the Yale Commons from Meryl Streep, who had already graduated from the drama school and had come back to visit some friends.

I met Dick Cavett, who came backstage to congratulate a friend who was in a play.

Two of my grad school friends became S.F. writers: Esther M. Friesner and S.N. Lewitt.

While living near a mystery bookstore in Portland, I met Anne Perry, J.A. Jance. Ruth Rendell, James Lee Burke, Earl Emerson, and a host of others.

During the last presidential campaign, I met Dennis Kucinich a couple of times.

[emmajane67]

91. At an old flat I lived in

there was a postcard from Tim Roth on the fridge.

My flatmate's friend had gone upstairs to his hotel room with him from a party and he then instigated some VERY dubious behavior, so much so that she ran from the room.

I shan't divulge the details but lets just say that running screaming from the room may have been more appropriate.

[NewJeffCT]

92. A bunch of NBA players

I used to cover top high school players on a part-time basis from around 1990 through '97 or '98. So I met many of the US born NBA players that graduated high school during that time.

[XemaSab]

94. This is my limited experience:

I've had my picture taken with Dean and Harkin, I've shaken hands with Kathleen Brown (daughter of Pat, sister of Jerry) and I've shake hands with the Big Dog.

In addition, I saw Dana Carvey on the street in a small town in Marin Cty when I was least expecting it.

I also frequently ate lunch in high school with the dude who got John Walker Lindh into Islam. :shrug:

[swag]

96. I blew Richard Speck.

[Wetzelbill]

102. hopefully you weren't a nurse

:)

[taterguy]

99. David LaChappelle used one of my cigarettes in a photo shoot

[cassandra uprising]

104. Wow

He's one of my favorites. Did you get to talk to him at all?

[Lochloosa]

101. Arturo Sandoval, Diana Krall, Kool and the Gang, Chuck Mangione

Took Chuck Mangione to Hooters (http://www.hooters.com/). He was not happy that they did not serve liquor but he loved the wings. Really nice guy, signed autographs and played on the deck for a couple that asked.

Went with Diana after her show to a little jazz club. She did a three song set. Hot!

I used to drive for the transportation committee for the Jacksonville Jazz Fest. Got to meet a lot of people. Almost everyone of them was really great. It was the up and comers (or never to make it) that were a pain in the ass.


And Kool and his band were the BEST hands down. His whole band was fun to be around.

[cassandra uprising]

103. I opened up for Tito Puente

I was doing the spoken word thing with a friend's jazz band at a festival way back in the day. I didn't get a chance to meet him unfortunately, we had ourselves double booked that night and we had to leave as soon as we finished our set. Bummer.

[MissB]

105. Second hand is all I have.

One of my siblings is a pilot. That sibling gets to fly Hollywood types to various exotic locations for vacations and overseas to movie premieres. After the tsunami last year, that sibling was able to fly a former president around for a week.

I do get emailed quite a few good pics- I have my own private stash of Clooney and Pitt pictures. :)

[RedSpartan]

106. OK, not a celeb, but...

I was sworn into the DC Bar next to John Ashcroft a month ago. We sat next to each other for about a half hour ceremony (about 150 or so in the courtroom), then I waited on line behind him for another half hour while we signed the roll of attorneys. Some people were coming up to him and shaking his hand with both of theirs, saying thanks "for how much you've done for our country." One young woman, literally chomping gum, walked up and asked, "aren't you, like, Ash..." and tailed off. He said, "John Ashcroft, yes" and she asked for a picture, and he did so. When we got to the table, his roll call card wasn't there (someone had put it in a separate office, I guess figuring that he wouldn't get sworn in with everyone else). Anyway, someone went to get it, and it held up the line for around ten minutes. He was clearly embarassed, and said to me, "I'm very sorry about this." I just told him it was ok, that it made a good story to say I was sworn into the bar with the former AG of the US. We actually took the elevator out at the same time, and he said good luck and I said thank you. I'm certainly not a fan of the guy, but it wasn't the time or place to start up on him. I can say that he seemed to be a bit uncomfortable with the attention some were giving him, and just otherwise quitely waited in line like the rest of us.

I also ran into Drew Barrymore at a store called Cheap Jacks in NYC a few years back (a the time she was with Tom Green). She was, of course, shorter than I thought. We were looking at some jeans next to each other and I smiled and said hi. She did the same. Very nice.

And the same day I ran into her, DeNiro walked by my friends and I when we were eating at an outdoor cafe. Exciting and intimidating at the same time.