Have you or a friend or family member ever known someone famous?

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42. I first met Leonardo DiCaprio when he was 4 years old...

...at the time I was working on a comic book called "Timothy Leary NEUROCOMICS," which was written by his father George.

Also met with Dr. Leary several times during the course of the project, which took over a year to complete. Dr. Tim offered George and I a beer during one of our meetings with him. So we drank a beer with the Acid King!

In 1984, I started doing costume graphic design for live stage shows, movies, and tv shows.

My first project in '84 was airbrushing costume graphics for Madonna. Also did the same for a tour she did in 2001. She was very nice.

Worked on lots of other entertainment industry projects through 2010, met quite a few celebrities.

The first movie I worked on was a Lorenzo Lamas break dancing movie called "Body Rock" in '84. The last movie I worked on was "The Hannah Montana Movie" in 2010

My favorite movie projects I worked on were "To Wong Foo: Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar," "Enemy of the State" and "The Phantom" starring Billy Zane.

I met Val Kilmer when I was hired to work on "The Doors" movie around 1991. He is a "method actor" who stays in character 24/7, even when not on the set, until the completion of shooting. So it was more like meeting Jim Morrison.

In 1978, the first band I was in (Scott Thomas Lowe & Atascadero) had the former Buffalo Springfield drummer Dewey Martin as their drummer for around a year or so. When Dewey left the band, he sold me his Camco drum kit which he used for recording with Buffalo Springfield, and many other artists before he was in the Springfield. I still have those drums.

Other musical artists I met and/or shared a stage with included some well knowns of the day like X, Top Jimmy, Black Flag w/Henry Rollins, The Minutemen, Oingo Boingo, and The Mentors featuring the late "El Duce." I used to occasionally hang out with him at the Cathay de Grande in Hollywood - we mostly talked about Camco drums, which we both used. Some say Courtney Love hired El Duce to kill her husband Kurt Cobain. We'll never know since the train ran over El.

In the fine art world, I met Andy Warhol on my first day of art school in Chicago, in 1974. More recently, I met Cheech Marin, who collects the art of Jaime "GERMS" Zacarias, as do I.

In the early internet days, I developed the first significant Marcel Duchamp web site on the web. I was contacted by the (now late) scientist Stephen Jay Gould and his wife to build a Duchamp site for them. They later flew me out to Cambridge Mass. for a Marcel Duchamp Harvard symposium in late 1999 (that's what the web site I made was about).

While there, I met and shared a cab ride with Duchamp's leading biographer, Arturo Schwarz.

There are more, too many to easily remember at the moment.