Who are the famous people you've met?
 

Anne Rice
Darryl Hall
Some folks from a 60's revival tour; I don't remember their names @ the moment (I've got their autographs someplace...)
Ted DiBiase
Amanda Palmer
Brian Viglione
David Byrne
Lord Alfred Hayes
Lead singer of the group Gollum (forget his name @ the moment, too)

Two celebs whom I've got their autographs but never actually met them:
Yoko Ono (hers was personalized to me, which was way cool; I'll tell the story sometime)
Rick Ocasek (from when he was filming a video in NYC many moons ago; a kind roadie/video crew person got his & the model's signatures for me)

I've gotten into arguments w/wrasslers @ a house show, which was fun. I know there are others, but I'll most likely remember them @ 3am... :D

Geez, I ain't hardly ever met anyone.:(
Well, long ago, there was Alan King. Yep, related to Martin Jr., and yes, in second grade we got into a racial fight with others. I was the one on his side. Weird, huh? But an achievement I'll never forget.
Then there was this time I was a private courier, and had to take an envelope to Burke Lakefront Airport to met a private jet with Elvis Presley in it. All i got to see was a big goon in a suit, so I said, "It has to be signed for personally." He said, "Bullshit !". So I backed off coz I was lying:rolleyes: , and missed meeting the King, by that much.

how about instead of doing a laundry list we just name the unusual ones? i used to work on "aqua teen hunger force" so i've got a good handful of weird ones.

like george lowe

I love Aqua Teen Hunger Force. :)

I once stood right behind Kim Bassinger when I was doing extra work. It was a scene in a Starbucks, and I was behind her in line. I was not allowed to make eye contact with her. It was interesting. She is not really any taller than I am, and very, very pretty.

the island I lived on was seething with off-duty celebs, but I never met any of them.

I once saw Heather Graham in a local restaurant. she wasn't wearing makeup, and looked a bit tired. my cousin rented a boat to Michael J. Fox. she said he was really nice.

I met a fugitive former international hash dealer on the run from INTERPOL - does that count?

I was an extra in a movie with Gerard Depardieu, but I never met him. I got paid $75/day to pretend to drink fake beer, though.

i was on an airplane with Tom Jones-- he has a suitcase with his name stitched on it :eek:

I walked past Matt Parkinson (who appears but perhaps quite wisely doesn't speak in the clip below) in the street yesterday.

today i'm having lunch with henry mcleish.

joe biden was in my office a couple of months ago.

MY husband is related to Sonny Bono, but I never met him in person.
My best friend's grandpa went to the same school and class as Kissinger.
My dad went to school with Brian Dennehy.

I walked around the Biltmore House with Jack Klugman once.
I met Billy Taylor at a jazz festival.
I ate dinner with Dizzy Gillespie and Freddy Hubbard after the same jazz festival. It was at a friends house, his mother cooked dinner for all the performers and they invited me. My friend and his mother, not the performers...

did they fumigate after he left?

michael bolton.


i don't want to talk about it.

:eek:

auntie, you're amazing!

I haven't had many celebrity encounters, except in the music world:

Yo-Yo Ma
Richard Stoltzman
Janine Jansen
Ok Go
They Might Be Giants
Billy Cobham
+ assorted quartets

Whoa! What were they like in person, daverbee?

Billy was amazingly friendly and gracious. He was co-hosting a television program on the festival with Steve Allen.
Dizzy and I didn't talk much as we were both pretty hungry, him from performing, me from not eating all day. I did talk to his wife outside while their chauffeur used his limo to jump start my car. Yes, you read that correctly.
Didn't talk to Freddy at all. He spent most of the dinner trying to score some cocaine.

You've met Janine Jansen? I have a major crush on her. She is the only person I can think of who makes Baroque Music sexy.

I'm jealous of Tunes' list. :D

Some of mine are only famous in odd circles:
Ann Richards
Molly Ivins
John Henry Faulk
Dave Barry
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Robert Rauschenberg
Sat in front of Tommy Lee Jones at a play. He has an embarassing personal habit. :eek:

My dad shared an elevator with Richard Simmons once. He told my dad he looks "like a winner". :D

I gave Michael Douglas the finger after he cut me off on a snowy mountain road in Snowmass. He was driving a Cadillac - I was driving a BMW. I almost went down the mountain. I still think he's an asshole. :mad:

Me too. I have a crush on the bald guy in Ok Go.

Sat next to Carrot Top on a plane. He's kinda...not a good seatmate.
Everyone in REM
Dave Grohl twice
lots of hockey players
Bill Clinton
Ron Jeremy
Wayne Brady
Various Elvi in Vegas :D
Col Bruce Hampton
Many many years ago I also saw Kim Basinger, but I didn't meet her. She was shopping at the Kroger in Athens, GA. She is GORGEOUS and seemed really nice. I didn't want to intrude, so I didn't say anything to her but she did smile and say hello. Then two minutes later some obnoxious frat boys spotted and started tailing her so she put on sunglasses and a hat and left. I felt badly for her--she looked all content and relaxed before they saw her.

i want to hear more about this encounter.

^He was nice enough, very friendly (almost overly so) and a bit stinky. All I wanted to do was sleep.

Well, seebe just quoted me in the "Post something that made you laugh" thread, so I think I can add him? her? to my list. :p

i have met a few mostly muscians
marion meadows
chuck lobe
cheili minucci
ken navarro
nelson rangell
boney james
ramsey lewis
deedee bridgewater
i met this past october dave brubeck
who was and is an extremly nice man.
i have also met terry alexander
joey pants
chris hansen from dateline
earl hindman who played wilson on home improvement
there are more but i cant remeber

^^^ where did you meet them? at clubs?

Not sure if Rupert Murdoch counts.

Princess Diana waved to me once.

Rick Stein.

isaac hayes III.

he played the broodwich on the broodwich episode of ATHF. i cut all of his dialog. he was extremely nice and didn't talk much about his dad. it was is first cartoon voice and i hope it's not his last. he's got a great set of cartoon-worthy pipes.

Oh why not? :-)
 

I worked at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for a while and met dozens of celebs at screenings. I can say absolutely that Jack Lemon was one of the sweetest, nicest guys I've ever met. Jeff Goldberg is as strange in person as he is on screen, but very engaging.

I recently had a callback for Gus van Sant.

I sat next to Michelle Pfeiffer at a birthday dinner as a very young actress and chatted with her until I realized she was actually quite busy seducing Michael Keaton across the table from us - spreading her legs, licking her lips, etc.

I did scenes with Richard Dreyfus and Gleanne Headley that unfortunately didn't make it into Mr. Holland's Opus because they changed Gleanne Headley's storyline. I accidentally offended her on the set the day of the shoot by admiringly bringing up John Malkovich's name when she mentioned working at Steppenwolf Theatre and she was mean to me for the rest of our time together.. Whoops
That's probably my worst faux pas on a set. Ever.

He doesn't remember, but I also waited on Dreyfus once. He's an annoying diner and a very stingy tipper, but he's actually very generous to day players on the set as far as improvising and expanding their roles goes.

Ricardo Montalban, on the other hand, is the most charming man alive and a very good tipper. Madonna is nice to waitresses too. Stevie Wonder requires seven mugs of hot fresh lemonade after a concert or session. Crispin Glover came in every Saturday morning and ordered a rare hamburger with peanut butter and bacon on it for breakfast.

I went to school with Tim Robbins, and belonged to his theatre company, Actors Gang. I had a major crush on him.

You can see my good friend Lee Arenberg as one of the bald pirates in the latter two Pirates of the Carribbean movies:D

I guess one of my favorite celebrity encounters was when I was dating Sissy Spacek's personal assistant. She called him in the middle of our date and needed our help wrapping her Christmas presents for the cast of Raggedy Man because she was stoned (this was before she had kids). She's one of the most interesting people I've met, stoned or sober.

I worked in a restaurant a zillion years ago. Carol Channing came in with her business manager. She brought her own bottled drinking water and some vegetables, which she requested the chef to steam.

I went to a club in Chicago (a few years ago!) with a friend who was a serious amateur autograph collector to see Chuck Berry with Henny Youngman as the opening act. We got there early and my friend started talking to one of the employees about his hobby. The show started and half way through my friend got a written note from CB's manager inviting us to join CB in his dressing room after the show. It was a Twilight Zone experience, trust me!!! Joining Feeling No Pain Chuck, his big/buxom/blond/beautiful babe AND! Henny Youngman in one room was burned into my brain forever!! My friend got both of their autographs and some pictures of all of us but I can't remember where they are. I could write a book about the the "celebrities" my friend exposed/introduced me to get his prized autographs. Most of them were sweet and human - but some were stupid, stuck-up bobos.

I have another memorable one, at least for me. On my way to work and stopped at one of those trendoid chain coffee venues for an espresso, I recognized Spaulding Gray minding his own business and quietly reading at a table by himself. I marched right up, introduced myself and gushed all over him. He was reserved yet extremely gracious to me.

T, you forgot Joe Lieberman, twice, and also, you've met me. How could you forget that?

very true. also lowell weicker. but politians dont count. but i did tell lieberman someone should blow bush so we can impeach him.

laura claps with gusto!!! :D

He actually said that.

I believe you.

:D

Brynn's life sounds really interesting. :D

I forgot to say I sold a butter dish or pasta bowls or something many years ago to David Robinson. He is very, very tall. He was looking at the display things on the tippy top shelf that I used to use a ladder to arrange.

And last year, I rolled my eyes inwardly :rolleyes: as I passed by Tony Parker, who was standing in the largest isle of Target whilst talking SO loudly into his cell phone in French that no one for 80 miles around could fail to notice him. He's shorter than you might expect, and apparently rather more insecure. :p But he is an excellent basketball player, and I hope he is enjoying his honeymoon with no desperate housewife in sight.

the studio where i worked was a frequent recording venue for outkast. andre 3000 wears mesh shirts with nothing underneath on any old day of the week. it's pretty much going shirtless, i don't know why he bothered with the mesh.

usher recorded there a lot, too. he can't get through a session without going out to his car a few times to smoke pot. also, his girlfriend/wife/whatever always walks behind him at all times and only refers to him in the third person. she also doesn't use pronouns when she talks about him, so when giving us his list of requirements instead of saying, "he would like cool bottled water and he would also like these magazines available" she would say "usher would like cool bottled water and usher would also like these magazines available." i never heard him address him or refer to him with anything but the name usher.

so that was weird. also, i spoke about her in the present tense there but this was back in 2003 so who knows if she's even still with him.

Then I haven't met anyone famous.

Olivia Newton-John!!!
This afternoon at this fortnightly lecture afternoon (always taking place at one of the Berlin unis or research institutes) of the research sub-project of the German Research Association that pays me.
Usually it's quite boring, and today I thought it only slighly more interesting (125th anniversary of Max Born's birth), but they indeed have gathered the whole bunch of Born's relatives from around the world and Newton-John is his granddaughter (I haven't known that :o), she gave the last speech, very nice and warmly (although she has never met her grandpa, always postponing the trip as a teenie) but then wanted to get out and meet all her unknown/long-not-seen cousins and grand-cousins, stood next to her for a while at the buffet, she looks very young imo :)

I saw Bjork last week on the corner of Sixth Ave and Houston. It would have been easy to miss her because she was standing with her back to the sidewalk, talking to her driver, but she was wearing some green tights and a silver jacket with lots of reflectors on it, with her hair tied up in buns. It made me happy to see that she was going to go into the deli without any bodyguards.