What was your brush with greatness?

[AngryAmish]

When I was a kid I used to caddy, so I met a lot of celebrities. However, as an adult I rarely see celebrities that much. Who is the most famous person you have seen and was the interaction weird?

[JVS]

1. As an infant Franco Harris held me at a party

This was either 1979 or 1980

[AngryAmish]

2. There is a joke in there

Soemthing like, then did he run out of the party and drop you on the ground?

[JVS]

8. He made the immaculate reception.

He doesn't drop things

[AngryAmish]

10. But he did always run out of bounds

[Rockholm]

3. I have a couple....

1. Vanna White used to date my cousin. Her mom was my my aunt's best friend.

2. Alicia Silverstone was in Boston in 2003 doing the Graduate. I ran into her one day while she was walking her dogs (and I was walking mine). We chatted a bit. My oldest dog went right into her crotch for a big ol' "how do you do!" It was funny. She was very sweet. I saw her a few times over the month she was here.

[mrboba1]

4. Brush, nothing.

I am famous!

:evilgrin:

[phantom power]

5. I once had dinner with James Gleick

he was on his "Chaos" book tour, and our physics prof arranged dinner with a few physics students. Pretty cool. It also means that my Erdos-number must be only 2 for a bunch of famous scientists.

[Worst Username Ever]

6. I was at a wedding at the St. Paul Hotel and was taking a piss.

I looked over at the next urinal, and there was Mn Sen Norm Coleman (R) (well, senator-to-be at that point) also taking a piss. I wasn't sure what to say, so I finished up, washed my hands, and left the bathroom. He exited and I struck up a brief conversation about how his campaign was going (this was a week or so before Wellstone's plane crashed). I wasn't as heated into politics as I am now, so I wished him the best, as he was nothing but cordial to me. Didn't realize at the time he was such a prick. To think I could have looked down and..umm.. sized him up.

On a side note, after he left, I made a comment to my female friend that I would not be voting for him, and was immediately accosted by a pro-life zealot ranting about what a great man he is, and how I am pro-abortion, etc etc etc.

[MrsMatt]

18. I met Norm at a gala

about 6 years ago - he has a terminal case of "elevator eyes". I felt pretty dirty after that encounter.

I received communion from Desmond Tutu last March (at Westminster Abbey). I cried - the whole experience was very moving.

[Sporadicus]

7. I Once Passed Within a Couple Feet of Jackie O

in the early '70s at JFK Airport (ironically enough). She was getting off a plane, but I don't recall from where it originated. I was so enthralled that I didn't even check out who else was in her entourage.

I saw Leslie Nielsen at O'Hare later that same decade.

I actually spoke to Grace Slick in SF...at a hair salon. She was reading a Cosmo, I recall. I went up to her and said, "you're Grace Slick, aren't you?" (real smooth, huh?) She eyed me warily and replied "yes." I told her how much I enjoyed Starship's latest (Red Octopus)(I lied), she thanked me, and I beat a hasty retreat, seeing that she wasn't interested in chatting up just another sycophant.

[redqueen]

9. Bill Shatner hit on me at a Star Trek convention.

:scared:

Met some other stars too, the nicest one was Eddie Albert Jr. And he's cute too! (Wish *he'd* have hit on me... lol)

[BigMcLargehuge]

30. Did he mention his really big phaser?

[redqueen]

36. lol... no, thank goodness!

Maybe he had been drinking and it was just the alcohol, but he was pretty obnoxious.

[BigMcLargehuge]

41. obnoxious? HIM?

Say it isn't so...


KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNN!!!!!

[redqueen]

45. lol... Well I didn't know!

I was only there because I was dating an artist who was showing work there... I mean... I knew his acting was atrocious, but at the time didn't really know a lot about him.

Now if I'd have heard the .mp3s of the stuff that was in Mystery Men before the incident, then yeah... I guess I would've expected as much.

Eddie Albert Jr is awesome, though. Really down to earth. :)

Most stars I met weren't obnoxious, just aloof, which is understandable. One other jerk was Jay Acovone.

[olddem43]

11. Shook hands with both Sen. Kerry and Sen. Edwards

July 7, 2004 in Dayton, Ohio. It made standing in the sun for 6 hours worth the wait.

[skypilot]

12. I got to do a little flirting...

...with Dan Savage of "Savage Love" fame.

[Mara Steele]

13. Bet that was fun!!

I called his old radio talk show a couple times...

[skypilot]

15. It was fun.

But I couldn't bring myself to flirt as much as I usually would because I knew at that point that he had a boyfriend and had just recently adopted a child. That'll put a damper on things.

[Ivan Sputnik]

14. Me and Kate

OK, the day I met Katherine Hepburn--well, almost: It was about 20 million years ago, and I was working in New York as a gofer ("editorial assistant") for a children's book publisher. The company was in the Crown Building on Fifth Avenue at 57th Street--a very chi-chi address for a book publisher, especially this one. (Their claim to fame was <I>Disney's My First Encyclopedia,<I> for which I actually wrote a few entries. It was illustrated with Disney characters, and we always called it The Mickey Mouse Encyclopedia.) One day, I had to take some papers to an office on another floor. I got into the elevator, noticing that two older women were in it also, but I didn't really look at them. Then I heard an oddly familiar voice. I looked up and realized that one of the women was Katherine Hepburn. She looked like she was in her late 70s, and she was talking with the other woman, who looked even older. Eventually "Kate" (ahh, why not call her that, at this point?) sensed that I was staring at her. She slowly turned her head and gave me a very imperious look and a little smile--"just like in the movies," as they say. I was too shy to say anything, and embarassed about staring, so I quickly looked down at my papers. The elevator stopped at my floor and I got off. As the doors closed, I heard the two women chuckling softly, and the "other one" (Hepburn's companion?) said, "Well, that was easy." I guess they had expected that I would ask for an autograph or something dumb like that. I later learned that Hepburn's dentist was in the same building, so presumably that's what she was doing there.

I saw many other celebrities while just walking around in New York: Jackie O in Central Park, Dustin Hoffman on 3rd Avenue, Jimmy Carter on Park Avenue, etc.

[Khephra]

16. I was served a drink at a bar by Timothy Leary while I was underage

He didn't know it, of course. I got in with the sound crew when I was 18.

[TheSeventhStranger]

17. I once bowled with Drew Barrymore and Jake Busey

It was like 1:30 on a Wednesday afternoon in Austin, Texas. My girlfriend and I went bowling on a lark at a big bowling alley with like 30 lanes. There was one other group of bowlers, and to my aggravation, the tweener working the register sent us to the lane right next to them. Then my friend noticed that the other bowlers were Drew Barrymore and Jake Busey, along with a couple of other people we did not recognize. They were drinking beer and chatting, and seemed oblivious to our presence. Drew was really little, and covered with tatoos. Jake was scary and had a gigantic cranium. It was a very odd experience. They did their thing and we did ours. My girlfriend kept begging me to ask them for their autographs, but it was obvious that they just wanted to drink their beer and bowl, so we left them alone. I think she was there filming the movie Home Fries.
Oh, I also ran into Anne Heche filming some CBS movie in the French Quarter of New Orleans a few weekends ago.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

24. I saw her in Austin at the same time............................

she came into a certain Lake Travis park (:eyes:)I was working at, looking for directions to the Oasis restaurant. She was very nice.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

19. Angie Harmon

and I sat side-by-side on a Delta flight out of Newark about two years ago. We had a very pleasant converstation. My wife was not pleased :-)

theProdigal

[sangh0]

20. I had a conversation with Miles Davis

who I didn't recognize at the time. I was in a jazz bar, and had just bought a pack of smokes from the machine when a tall man commented "One day they're gonna kill you". I responded "Yeah, we all got our bad habits", which got a "I know that" from Miles. So I said to him "You don't look like you been in too much trouble" which he found pretty funny.

When I returned to my friends, they asked "What were you talking to Miles Davis about?"

And once, I almost got punched out by Jaco Pastorius

[redqueen]

21. Wow

......

:wow:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

22. I used to see Jodie Foster around the Yale campus all the time

For some reason, she was usually wearing pink overalls.

I also saw Lily Tomlin standing in front of the circulation desk at Yale's Sterling Library. I couldn't figure out what she would be doing there until I heard from someone else that she was visiting a nephew who was a student.

Also at Yale, I attended a play that a friend was in, and Dick Cavett (a Yale alum) came backstage to congratulate him.

I saw Meryl Streep performing in Yale Drama School productions. She's utterly riveting on stage, and none of us were surprised when she became famous, although she is not as compelling on film as on stage.

Also at Yale, I sang in a musical group with Henry Kissinger's daughter.

I saw the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in the Amsterdam airport in 1967. Unfortunately, no Beatles were with him at the time.

I stood behind Hubert and Muriel Humphrey in a drugstsore checkout line in Wayzata, Minnesota, which was on the way to their home in Waverly, MN. This was in the 1960s, when he was still Senator.

My eighth grade science teacher was Kevin Sorbo's father.

In college, I was on an intramural broomball team with Peter Agre, who won the most recent Nobel Prize in chemistry.

I am told that someone I knew at Cornell was dating Christopher Reeve and that he used to come to parties at our dorm, but I don't remember that. I'm surprised that I would not have remembered meeting Christopher Reeve, since I do remember his then-girlfriend, but I can't place him in that environment.

However, I did meet John Megna at Cornell. He was a child actor in the late 1950s-early 1960s and was in a couple of Twilight Zone episodes, played Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird, and was in the Star Trek episode "Miri."

Ann B. Davis, who was the housekeeper on The Brady Bunch and "Schultzie" on the old Bob Cummings Show, showed up for services at my church in Portland once.

[Hawkeye-X]

23. I shook the Big Dog's hands

I have a photo of it somewhere. I just have to find it.

Hawkeye-X

[phillybri]

25. I got Randall Cunningham's autograph in 1987...

At Philadelphia Eagles' training camp in West Chester, PA.

Coooooooooooooool....

[LynneSin]

26. I got trashed one night with Rich Gannon

He was a backup backup QB for the Vikings - how was I suppose to know

:shrug:

[LynneSin]

33. I also had drinks with Barry Larkin and a few other members of the Reds

we closed the bar. Jose Rijo, Mariano Duncan were a few other notables in the group

[flamingyouth]

27. I took Emo Philips on the Flight to Mars ride at Seattle Center

My friend's boyfriend was the director of student productions at our university and we had to entertain him for the afternoon.

Too bad the Flight to Mars is gone - crushed by the boot of "progress" and that ass-ugly Experience Music Project.

[kariatari]

28. I got a hug from Bono.

Best. High. Ever.

[Kadie]

29. Diane Feinstein told my husband he had beautiful eyes.

We were at a parade in San Francisco. She actually looked our way and told him that. All I could do was look at hubby and shrug. He gets all the attention. LOL

[sangh0]

31. I love your avatar

.

[AlCzervik]

32. I have a couple

Will Pitt was my niece's teacher a few years back and i've met Roger Clemons----total asswipe if i might add, met Adrian barbeau, she was very nice, and Pauly Ssore was eating breakfast next to me in Hawaii with his porn star girlfriend who later went on to kill herself, Pauly asked me if i wanted his autograph and a picture with him and i said no but thank you anyway, he was pretty pissed.

[BigMcLargehuge]

34. Doh, you dissed the weasel....

LOL... Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudy

[AlCzervik]

37. Yeah i did, The Weasel aint my cup of tea, ya know?

i did feel bad when hearing about that porn star offing herself though, she seemed nice, she was very polite and made fun of him when i said no thank you.

[BigMcLargehuge]

39. I'd have asked him for a $6 refund for Biodome

and hit on his girlfriend.

[AlCzervik]

42. This was before Bio-dome, c'mon like you didn't know it would be a piece

of crap before you saw it.

[nini]

35. Met Estelle Getty through a friend

Was on a plane with Tommy Lasorda who asked me about my broken leg.


Went to the same high school as Vince Ferragamo and Freeman McNeil (need to be a football fan to know these guys)

[yvr girl]

38. I had dinner with Princess Diana

I was at a dinner with Prince Charles and Princess Diana. I was at the table next to hers, about 5 feet away. It was the day that she fainted while on tour. Prince Charles teased her a bit about it during his speach. I gave her a sympathetic smile, and she smiled back. A couple of observations:

1. She was way prettier in person.
2. She had an enormous cranium.
3. I can't imagine living my life with that horde of photographers who followed her.
4. She pigged-out on these fancy cookies that we had. She ate a plate and a half by herself

[medeak]

40. kissed and carried to bed

that got your attention eh? by Andy Williams...was 8 yrs old and fell asleep on his couch.

family in show business...came across lots of people. Some nice most not. Johnny Carson was one of the nice ones.

[GOPisEvil]

43. I took a piss next to Oliver Platt.

I was on the Paramount Studios VIP tour, and we stopped to look at some of the sets of "Executive Decision" with Kurt Russell and the aforementioned Mr. Platt. Kurt was in a conversation with someone (maybe the director), but he waved at us. There was a restroom across the way, and I went in to use the facilities, and in walked this BIG guy. I kinda glanced and recognized him as Oliver Platt. Following the guy rules of pissing, I didn't say anything, but we exchanged brief pleasantries while at the sink.

Also on various other Paramount tours I have seen: Angela Bassett in Tina Turner wardrobe and Rene Auberjenois (sp) in his Star Trek make-up. I also had dinner at the same restaurant with the guy who played the sports radio guy on "Frasier".

Here in Austin, I have had dinner in the same restaurant with Crosby, Stills and Nash. If I got out more, I'd see more famous people, I'm sure.

Oh yeah, I met Ben Stein who we annoyed when we asked for a picture. :P

I met Jim Hightower last night! :D

[regularguy]

44. The Cos. My basketball seats (Temple Owls)

are right behind where Bill Cosby sits when he's at a game. Super nice guy, jokes around with everyone and is real patient about people coming up to him. When he's had enough of the barrage instead of being an asshole he just goes and hangs out in one of the VIP luxury box thingys for a while.