You share a cab with a celebrity for a ten-minute ride.

[one_voice]

Who do you pick?


I'm thinking...

eta: Mark Ruffalo or Robert Downey Jr.

[Renew Deal]

1. Cab sharing (split rides) is illegal in NYC

But it can happen

[one_voice]

2. I didn't know that. I fixed it.

thanks.

[Reter]

24. Why?

n/t

[Ron Obvious]

3. Helen Keller

I'm not big on small talk.

[aidbo]

4. Assuming living? Lawrence Krauss.

[Duppers]

26. Me too!

I love him! I've actually met him in person 3 yrs ago in DC when he chatted a few mins with my son, a then grad student who's in Lawrence's field of physics!

He is gracious, friendly, warm, unassuming, etc....not to mention damn smart, as I'm sure you know.
Oh, and of course he intensely dislikes republicans.

I could spend hours with him.

[aidbo]

29. Sounds like you've got a smart kid!

So cool to be able to meet people like that.

I have to admit though, if we were talking about say a day-long train ride instead of a 10 minute taxi ride, I might have to choose Leonard Susskind. Either way it would be something to write home about.

[Duppers]

30. Thank you! I think so. ;)

He now has his PhD!

Susskind would be an excellent choice. Dick Cavett and Noam Chomsky would be too.

[PasadenaTrudy]

41. Nice pick! n/t

[Contrary1]

5. Wow...

Wouldn't want to do just 10 minutes. I would pay the cabby to drive around for a couple hours, so I could talk to:

Bette Middler
Helen Mirren
Ellen DeGeneres
Pope Francis
Bono
Bob Dylan
Cher
Jane Fonda
And so many others that I admire for numerous reasons.

Oh, and Dick Cheney...so I could beat the crap out of him. Might need to ride around for an extra hour or two with him.

[one_voice]

15. You have a bunch of good ones...

too.

[mnhtnbb]

33. LOL! Bette Midler would be first on my list, too!

[kentauros]

6. Alive: James May

Dead: Paul Newman.

[Archae]

7. I'm reminded of the "Taxi" episode...

Where Elaine had as a passenger Tom Selleck.

[Number9Dream]

8. Aisha Tyler - Liberal, funny, and beautiful

[one_voice]

16. I love her. good choice.

[CrawlingChaos]

9. John Waters

It would be a fun ride.

[MosheFeingold]

10. Kim Kardashion

I would order the cabbie out, then detonate my explosive vest.

[lastlib]

11. I once shared a 30-minute ride with Harry Chapin!

No, he wasn't my "Taxi"! I was his! He did a concert at my college one night, and I got to drive him back to the airport afterward! A fascinating and WONDERFUL individual!! Very engaging to talk to, VERY devoted to his crusade against hunger! We could all take lessons from that man! He is one of the reasons I am a progressive politically! One of the great privileges of my life!

[ailsagirl]

12. Very sad we lost him

But that was some experience you had!!

[lastlib]

13. Yes, indeed!!

On both counts! I will never forget it!

[ailsagirl]

14. He really was brilliant

Damn... it makes me sad to lose people like him. I saw John Lennon on the cover of Life magazine-- he'd be 75 years old. Think of all the songs he never got to compose... all because of some @#$%^&* who is happily living out his life in prison, boasting that he did in Lennon. Makes my blood boil.

But I digress. Thanks for sharing your experience, lastlib!!

[one_voice]

17. Very cool! Probably in the top 30 mins of your life....

[Mr.Bill]

18. Caroline Kennedy

I've been in love with her since I was seven years old.

Keith Richards would be fun, too.

[Laffy Kat]

19. Mark Ruffalo would be yummy, um... I mean interesting.

[GReedDiamond]

20. They might not be considered "celebrities"...

...but I actually did share a cab ride with Marcel Duchamp's main biographer, Arturo Schwarz, and an assistant to Salvador Dali, Timothy Phillips, who stated that he was the one who actually painted some "minor works" attributed to Dali.

This was in 1999, Cambridge MA, at a Duchamp symposium at Harvard University, to which I was an all expenses paid invited guest (!).

Arturo (who was about 75 at the time) was accompanied by his 40-something year old girlfriend.

To say the least, it was an interesting cab ride and symposium.

[GOLGO 13]

21. Alive & Dead

Alive: Eddie Van Halen but only with a guitar, otherwise it would be Bill Murray.

Dead: John Belushi or George Carlin with a keg of beer.

[kairos12]

22. One who has passed:

Groucho Marx

[hibbing]

23. Bob Dylan

Even if he didn't say anything.

Peace

[KamaAina]

25. Susan Sarandon.

And the cab gets stuck in a really, really bad traffic jam on the George Washington Bridge. Thanks, Christie!

[Duppers]

27. Bernie! Or even Obama.

Couldn't they be considered celebrities?

I'd like to tell our Pres a few things.

[Baitball Blogger]

28. Definitely would not pick Mark Ruffalo.

I would be too starstruck to ask him any productive questions.

I would pick Sandra Bullock or Meryl Streep. And only if it's a day when they are particularly feeling gracious, since there would be nothing in it for them.

[trueblue2007]

31. Hillary

[sakabatou]

32. Steven Blum, Johnny Yong Bosch or Yoko Kanno

[lunatica]

34. Michelle and Barack Obama

I have a message for President Obama which goes as follows:

I painted a likeness of him in black and white which I'm very happy with. At the time he was beginning to get gray hair but he was getting gray more rapidly than I worked, which I thought wasn't bothering me. But I had a dream in which I saw him sitting at a table in a restaurant. I, in my dream walked up to him and bent down and kissed him on the top of the head. I told him that he had to stop aging because I couldn't keep up with it. I told him that maybe I could finish the painting after his Presidency when he could finally get a life.

I love that dream!

[Rob H.]

35. Ian McKellen or Patrick Stewart

I bet either of them be fun to have a chat with.

[mainstreetonce]

36. George R R Martin

Or Joe Biden

[tavernier]

37. Once upon a time a friend of mine ran into Jeremy Irons

She said to him, "I'm not really your biggest fan but my friend Lily loves you. Could you sign a paper for her?"

He wrote on a piece of scrap paper, "Lily... Where ARE YOU?" (With his signature)

Made me laugh and let me know what a funny and kind man he is.

So... Jeremy Irons for me.

(Yes, I still have it. 💖

[Xipe Totec]

38. Jennifer Connelly

I would ask her how why she has so many double letters in her name.

Yes... That would be my first question...

I wouldn't lie, would I?

[yuiyoshida]

39. Shintaro Katsu

Yes, he's been long dead, as has been Toshiro Mifune, but I would love to sit in a cab with him and listen to him talk.

[GOLGO 13]

43. I love all his Zatoichi movies.

He was apparently quite the hell raiser. Anybody that can piss off Kurosawa must be a wild-man.

[PasadenaTrudy]

40. Jonathan Banks n/t

[DawgHouse]

42. Neil deGrasse Tyson