Celebrities you have met...who were really cool.

[hatredisnotavalue]

I have met Stephen King several times and he is really cool....he is really a nice guy

[Beaverhausen]

1. Ooh...Ooh...I love to show this picture

[Tangerine LaBamba]

6. That is SO cool!!!!

That's a great, great photo!!!

Lucky you ...............

[Left Is Write]

2. The coolest celebrity I have ever met, bar none, is Raul Malo.

I met a lot who were nice, ordinary people, and a few who were jerks and asshats.

Raul Malo, though, very cool - and he didn't even seem to be aware of how cool he was. This was in June of 1994, when most people around me hadn't heard of the Mavericks. I was trying to help change that. :)

[GOPisEvil]

8. Of anyone on this site, you will appreciate this.

The guys from The Derailers are the nicest guys you'd ever want to meet.

Once back when they were brand new, they played a place called Gruene Hall on a Friday night, opening for Kelly Willis (who is also nice). Saturday afternoon, I was back in Gruene just goofing off when I heard music coming from the Hall. I went in, and The Derailers were playing in the front room for free, selling their homemade cassettes.

Fast forward about 10 years and I'm back in Gruene Hall and The Derailers are headlining. I happen to be standing next to Brian Hofeldt at the bar during a break. I told him he and the band sounded good. I told him about that Saturday afternoon and Brian asked my name, thanked me by name for being a fan and shook my hard very warmly.

So, like I said, good guys. :)

[Left Is Write]

10. I am not surprised by that, and it makes me smile.

[GOPisEvil]

11. I also have to agree with you that Raul Malo is a nice guy.

At least he was nice to me.

At the aforementioned Gruene Hall, the path to the men's room is also the "backstage" area. I was trying to get to the men's room and Raul was in my way, but he had his back to me. Someone got his attention and he apologized very nicely. On my return trip he pretended to get in my way again, and we had a laugh over it. Later, he and The Mavericks put on a great show. :)

[Left Is Write]

13. I had done a pre-show interview with Robert Reynolds a couple of days earlier -

Robert was the official "go to" guy back then for radio interviews. I talked to him by phone for a good 45 minutes, and had to pare down that tape to something that would air in 3 to 5 minutes. That was hard - he was pretty open and pretty funny. Raul I got to talk to face-to-face about an hour before show time, no tape, nothing official on the record.

When I was on-stage with my colleague to introduce the band, I was on Robert's mic. He is well over 6 feet tall, and I'm...not. One of the crew told me not to mess with the mic settings and just do the best I could. I had to keep hopping up and down to reach the mic, and everyone laughed. It was fun. And yes, the show was fantastic.

[abq e streeter]

31. I have a video of the Joe Ely Band from Gruene Hall , ( about 1985)

never been there, but looks like a hell of a fun place. Nice guys in that band too ; some friendlier than others ,but all basically good guys...Sax player is a friend, and the drummer an acquaintance, and have met the rest of em several times...their crew back then was all old buddies too ( sound guy, guitar tech/roadie, road/business manager ). I've only heard a few songs by the Derailers, and Kelly Willis, but like em a lot. My friend who was the guitar tech and roadie introduced me several years ago to a guy named Dave Holt, who supposedly was asked to be in the Mavericks when they were putting the band together, but for some reason he didn't join. Supposedly, anyway...

[Mr. Ected]

3. I did a real estate closing for Kenny Rogers a couple years ago

Really cordial and down to earth.

[AwakeAtLast]

4. Jane Pauley

She was really nice and talked to me for a very long time. This was during Obama's campaign. She came to IN (she is a native) to stump for local democrats and of course for Obama. It was so much fun!

[hatredisnotavalue]

5. this is me in the sweater

[Tangerine LaBamba]

9. I met Paul Newman in an ice cream store,

and he was really nice. I just sort of did a double take when I realized who was standing next to me, and I just didn't say anything, minding my own business, and he started talking, asking me what I was gonna get, stuff like that. I think he was pleased that I hadn't pounced on him, which was precisely what I wanted to do.

I met Sean Connery at a premiere. He was an oaf, really rude. I don't think he liked women. Even after I told him we had the same birth date.

I met Bill Clinton twice, at White House receptions, and he's the only person I ever met who throbbed. He had this friggin' GLOW around him. I never saw anything like it. Even Newman didn't have it. We shook hands, made small talk, but he kept squeezing my hand, and - this was before Monica - I thought, "The guy's a hound!"

I met Jimmy Carter in the Oval Office when my boss, who was a big Democratic guy in DC, took me with him to present President Carter with a book my boss thought he should read.

I met Walter and Betsy Cronkite at Monticello one Sunday afternoon, on a tour and later we talked in the gift shop.

I met Margaret Truman, who was a total doll, really funny and just dirty-minded enough so that we could make jokes about Secretary Snyder, her father's Secretary of the Treasury (a long story).

I met Dan Rather coming out of the White House the day after Spiro Agnew had resigned; we were both on our lunch breaks, and we walked together for a couple of blocks. He very patiently answered my questions about what happened next. He had gorgeous thighs. Big, and he was better-looking in person.

I met Mr. Justice Harry Blackmun at a dinner party at a friend's house. My friend is a dermatologist, and Mr. Justice Blackmun was one of his patients, and they got to be pals. He was a lovely old gentleman, with a discreet way of telling a story, very proper, but just a bit risque. He was very soft-spoken. I thanked him for Roe v. Wade, and he just smiled and patted my shoulder.

I meet a lot of people. I'm what an old pal called "incident-prone"...................

[omega minimo]

17. He "throbbed"!!!

:rofl:

I didn't meet Jesse Jackson but I saw him at a march. I was looking through the camera lens and had to stop shooting. He had a glow around him, a felt charisma.

Not quite throbbing, though. :spray:

[Inspired]

48. I'm so glad you said that about Bill Clinton.

I said almost the same thing when I first saw him in person. (Not the throb part though!) He really does glow. It is hard to believe unless you see it yourself.

[w8liftinglady]

23. THAT is cool!

[Ikonoklast]

7. Paul Newman at Mid-Ohio.

In the pits during practice.

Nicest guy, self-effacing, and loved talking about racing.

[myrna minx]

16. I always loved to watch him race at Road America in Ekhart Lake back in the 1980's

when I was a kid.

I bought John Waters a cocktail at Nye's Polonaise Room in Minneapolis. He was a gracious gentleman, kissed me on the cheek and said I was sweet. :loveya:

[Fire1]

12. Michael Jordan and Shamar Moore!! n/t

[mwdem]

14. Not me, but my husband, and it was Jodie Foster.

At a convention right when "Silence of the Lambs" came out. He sat at her table at a luncheon, and they talked about their gardens, of all things. She was very down to earth, he said. I saw her a couple of years later, and she was so beautiful, and petite! She seems very approachable.

[abq e streeter]

15. many--among the nicest were Ernie Banks,Bonnie Raitt, Martie and Emily of the Dixie Chicks

Del Shannon was also very nice and friendly......of the many blues artists ( who are celebrities to some people) ,Willie Dixon stands out ; Junior Wells was real nice too....and as I've mentioned before, Clinton chief of staff( and Obama's transition team chief) John Podesta was a friend when we were undergrads, and an absolutely great guy. I've known members/sidemen of famous bands , but not the "stars"; from Country Joe and the Fish to Ozzy Osbourne to the Rolling Stones, among others ( all nice guys too, but names hardly anyone would know, except the guy from the Stones-Bobby Keys). Former NM governor Gary Johnson, despite being a kind of right wing libertarian, was always real nice to me too on the several occasions we met... Among the baseball players who were real nice and friendly besides Ernie, were Joe Cunningham and Curt Flood... I've been very fortunate that I've never met one celebrity who was a jerk; just some who weren't particularly friendly , and again, not in an arrogant or conceited way, just could tell they didn't want to be bothered and don't blame them one bit.

[abq e streeter]

44. didn't mean to imply the other "Chick " wasn't nice---Laura Lynch ( before Natalie Maines)

Laura was an absolute down to earth sweetheart as were the other two...this was 1992, and they replaced Laura with Natalie in '95.

[Archae]

18. Tom Baker, over 20 years ago.

At a Whovian convention in Milwaukee.

Great guy, loved the fans.

[Orrex]

32. I met Sarah Sutton and Ian Marter at a Con in Philly in 84

During breakfast in the hotel restaurant. They were sitting together with no crowd around them, but my mother urged me to go over and say hi.

They were tremendously cool. Very gracious, and they both seemed genuinely pleased to chat with the 13-year-old pestering them during coffee.

[EastTennesseeDem]

19. Albert Pujols

Stopped and signed a baseball card for me at Spring Training 2004. I was very, very, very, very, very, very, very starstruck.

[GOPisEvil]

22. I met Whitey Herzog once.

He was polite and signed something for me.

[EastTennesseeDem]

27. Too young to remember Whitey, but my dad talks about Whiteyball all the time

I really wish baseball could be played like that. Beats the hell out of homerunball, as far as how exciting the game is.

[Bennyboy]

20. Tom Hanks

Right before Gump opened he was in Sacramento visiting some relatives and he was at a chinese buffet on Howe Avenue with his relatives.

Everyone kind of eats at these long communal tables and when I put my food down he was across the table from me. Super nice guy, talked and chatted for a long time.

[w8liftinglady]

21. Willie Nelson-twice

He is really fun,and very down to earth..

[Forkboy]

24. Bobby Orr count?

A class act all the way, and the fucker still looks like he's 30 years old.

[abq e streeter]

29. Does Bobby Orr count??? Are you kidding? One of the greatest hockey players who ever lived

Nice to hear he's a class act too. For those DUers to whom he's NOT a celebrity, I can only say ... eh? ( the only word in Canadian that I know)

[Forkboy]

36. What do you mean "one of"?

:D

I met him years ago at a charity golf tourney on Cape Cod. I had my younger nephew with me, who was really into hockey, so he wanted to meet all the NHL players (others there were Roenick, Tkachuk, Bourque (as asshole), Anson Carton, etc). At the 11th tee, I called Orr's assistent over and asked if there was any way my nephew could get his autograph. The guy went over to Orr, and a second later Bobby called my nephew over and invited him to ride along in his golf cart for the rest of the round. Needless to say, my nephew found a new hero real fast. :)

I spoke to Orr afterwards for a couple minutes and he was as gracious as you could imagine. We're talking about a guy who gave his salary back to the Chicago Blackhawks one year because he didn't feel he had earned it.

[Kat45]

38. I got Bobby Orr's autograph at a charity game as well.

I think it might have been a charity softball game, but my memory's not what it used to be. :D

[Forkboy]

41. He seems like a real nice guy.

very humble, despite his stature in the NHL, and here in the Boston area. We need more athletes like him, but that's easier said than done. :)

[Kat45]

43. Agreed. n/t

[abq e streeter]

39. at the very least, equal to the greatest ever; Gretzky, Howe, Richard ...

always hard to compare players from different eras----and I think Bobby Hull belongs right up there too ( showing my age ,aren't I?) but nobody ever better than Orr; certainly a case can be made for his being the greatest ever... anyway, I was just backing you up that there could be no question whatsoever as to Bobby Orr being a 'celebrity" with a capital C.:toast:

[Forkboy]

40. That would make a hell of a team!

:)

[BlueJazz]

25. Julie Andrews (when I was a Studio Musician). She has the sweetest, nicest...

...personality and can charm the socks off of you! :)

[kentauros]

26. Paul Newman in Westport, roughly 1967

and I was only six at the time. I was best friends with his daughter, Melissa, and she took me over to their house to meet him one day. To me, he was simply her father, and he was a nice guy. We really didn't talk because he was just getting out of the shower and only had on a towel as he dried his hair with another one :D

[Robeson]

28. Gore Vidal.

[Orrex]

30. That totally stuns me, in a positive way

For some reason I'd had the impression that he's an asshole. I'm very happy to learn otherwise!

[realisticphish]

33. Lewis Black

my college's ACLU chapter sponsored his tour; all the members got to meet him, get an autographed picture, etc.

Very cool guy; surprisingly mellow

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

34. Ray Stevens.

In his garage at his home in Nashville.

Great guy.

[AllenVanAllen]

35. The coolest I've met would have to be

James O'Barr creator of The Crow. I had a chance to hang out with him at a convention and had dinner with him and his then girlfriend. We talked about many topics at length including the tragic death of Brandon Lee. He is great guy with a big heart...

[Initech]

37. I met Kevin Smith.

I got my copies of Clerks and Mallrats signed. Also the signing we went to had the guys who play Dante and Randal, and Jason Mewes was there as well. They were all pretty cool. :woohoo:

[IcyPeas]

42. Gilda Radner late 70s (didn't actually meet... but)

I went into a little tiny newspaper/candy store in greenwich village (corner of 6th and Greenwich Avenue) and she walked in. All I could manage to do was smile and say Hello and she smiled and said Hello back. My knees were all shaky. I get like that.

Also didn't meet --- but, I saw John Lennon at an IHOP in Cos Cob, Connecticut in the early 70s and didn't have the guts to say anything to him (he was with Yoko and another couple)in a booth -- didn't think it would be cool to invade his privacy (or his pancakes ha ha) -- my knees were shaking just seeing him.

I guess I have shaky knees.

[underpants]

50. John Lennon at an IHOP

Too cool

[csziggy]

45. Sen. Spessard Holland (Former Florida Governor) was pretty cool

My Dad made arrangements for us to go to his office when we were tourists in Washington back in the 60s. We talked for a few minutes and then he invited us to go the the opening that day in the Senate since he was doing the prayer that day. He took us through the underground tunnels to the elevators. While we were waiting a page spotted the Senator and was telling us to get out of the way for the Senator. Senator Holland just coolly told him, "They are with me."

We sat up in the VIP seats in the balcony as special guests and watched the opening and a few minutes then went on to visit the typical Washington places.

Sen. Holland's wife was a friend of my grandmother and my family went to the same church, so I guess that earned us points.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

46. Roald Dahl

OK, didn't actually meet him personally but he came to my school and he gave a talk. He also passed by our classroom on the way to meet with the headmistress and he waved to us. It was a year before his death.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

47. Also John Dean

Nixon Watergate official turned author and political/legal commentator. He came to Australia to give a talk as part of a Writers Festival. We had a Q&A where I asked a question. Afterwards he came out to autograph copies of his books. He was really nice, down to earth, warm and friendly

[Trailrider1951]

49. One evening in 1972, I had the pleasure of meeting one of my heros,

Rod Serling. I was a freshman at Ohio State, and Mr. Serling put on an all-night-long production of Twilight Zone episodes. Between each episode, he would be on stage giving a commentary on them. My friend and I both smoked at that point in our lives, and at an intermission, went out the back door for a cigarette. And there was Mr. Serling, finishing one of his own. My friend and I told him how much we loved and appreciated Twilight Zone, and how we wished he was back on TV with new stories (Night Gallery came along a year or so later). He was every bit as intellegent and articulate as you would expect, and was very gracious to what probably seemed to him to be a couple of giggling girls in their teens. The only thing that surprised me was how small he was. I'm 5'7", and he was shorter than me. He looked 8 feet tall on TV!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evnNy541L9Q

Also, a couple of years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting George Noory at a book signing. He is another gracious gentleman, and cares very much about the fans of Coast to Coast AM.

[underpants]

51. The entirety of the "Big Red Machine" back in the 70's

Rose
Bench
Geronimo
Foster
Morgan
all of them

Seemed like everytime we went to a Reds game we would go into the parking lot and they would come out and sign autographs on their way to the car. We weren't "connected" or anything we just went there. I had to have had all their signatures 5 or 6 times over but at that time that was no big deal so I tossed them in the process of moving over the years. A nice chunk of change those would be worth these days.

[Glorfindel]

52. Rosalynn Carter - when she was first lady of Georgia

Warm, friendly, charming, and delightful.

[dorkulon]

53. Kurt Vonegut, John Waters, Al Franken

All really cool.