Your brush with celebrity

[kichijai]

Here is my old man with Jane Fonda. She's in love with my father's best friend! She was too cool. Limo waiting outside. It was too much.

[dew042]

I am a celebrity.

dew.

[2DualsNotEnough]

The mall downtown had a kiosk where you could push a button and ask a question on a built in camera.I was there going to a Dbacks game,so I asked a question,and they put my ugly mug on the news,and the reporter answered my question.That was 5 or 6 years ago,and I think my wife still has the tape she made.
Jimmy

[winters860]

When I was little, my father was famous. He was the greatest samurai in the empire, and he was the shogun's decapitator. He cut off the heads of 131 lords. It was a bad time for the empire. The shogun just stayed inside his castle and he never came out. People said his brain was infected by devils. My father would come home to mother each night and he would forget the killings. He wasn't scared of the shogun, but the shogun was scared of him. Maybe that was the problem. Then, one night the shogun sent his ninja spies to our house. They were supposed to kill my father, but they didn't.

[onepixel]

Originally Posted by winters860

When I was little, my father was famous. He was the greatest samurai in the empire, and he was the shogun's decapitator. He cut off the heads of 131 lords. It was a bad time for the empire. The shogun just stayed inside his castle and he never came out. People said his brain was infected by devils. My father would come home to mother each night and he would forget the killings. He wasn't scared of the shogun, but the shogun was scared of him. Maybe that was the problem. Then, one night the shogun sent his ninja spies to our house. They were supposed to kill my father, but they didn't.

Wow...what happened next?!

I've met piles of celebrities. Actors, singers, writers, technologists, climbers, surfers, photographers, atheletes. My favorite was Julia Child. She was a crack up.

btw...on the cover of Jane Fonda's Workout Book for Pregnancy, Birth and Recovery the woman holding the baby is a friend of mine.

[thedelihaus]

Originally Posted by winters860

When I was little, my father was famous. He was the greatest samurai in the empire, and he was the shogun's decapitator. He cut off the heads of 131 lords. It was a bad time for the empire. The shogun just stayed inside his castle and he never came out. People said his brain was infected by devils. My father would come home to mother each night and he would forget the killings. He wasn't scared of the shogun, but the shogun was scared of him. Maybe that was the problem. Then, one night the shogun sent his ninja spies to our house. They were supposed to kill my father, but they didn't.

Oooohhh... then you must be Lone wolf and Cub!!! son of... Shogun Assassin!!! Assassin with Son!!!!!!

[thedelihaus]

Met the Dali Lama.

I was working international. So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

[JohnVF]

I'm in advertising and one day I was in a recording studio recording a radio spot and had to piss really bad so I leave and walk pretty fast down this hall and when I'm flying around this corner I run right into an older gentleman and I look up and see that it's Kirk Douglas and I had to pee so bad all I could think to say was "Oh, hello Kirk Douglas" and he said "oh, hello" and we both smiled and went on our way. But I could tell from this 10 second encounter that he was a really nice man.

[MAXZ28]

I was in L.A. two weeks ago and as I was walking through LAX I walked past Eric McCormack [ played Will Truman on Will and Grace ]. He was shooting a scene for something in one of the terminals.

A few years ago, Monica Lewinsky cut in front of our group as we waited in line for the front seat of the Millineum Force roller coster at Cedar Point, Sandusky, OH. How rude!

Most memorable brush with celebrity was meeting Sam Kinison at the Crazy Horse II in Las Vegas two weeks before he died...a really cool, personable and approachable guy. He didn't scream at me or nothin'.

[marantzfan]

Originally Posted by thedelihaus

Met the Dali Lama.

I was working international. So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

That's from a movie isn't it? Hmmm.....

[Sandy G]

I been to Sneedville, & none of the rest of y'all have...So there ! N'yah, N'yah...(grin)

[poohsan]

I was sitting in sea-tac once waiting for my flight when some dude wlked up and asked "got the time?" I looked up, not very far mind you, and it was Eddie Vedder. This was after Ten had been out for a few months.

going back years ago Tammy Maida became famous at my high school for being the starting quarterback on the freshmen's football team

Other than that, I've got nothing.

[Fred Sanford]

Originally Posted by JohnVF

I'm in advertising and one day I was in a recording studio recording a radio spot and had to piss really bad so I leave and walk pretty fast down this hall and when I'm flying around this corner I run right into an older gentleman and I look up and see that it's Kirk Douglas and I had to pee so bad all I could think to say was "Oh, hello Kirk Douglas" and he said "oh, hello" and we both smiled and went on our way. But I could tell from this 10 second encounter that he was a really nice man.

I worked for celebrities for a living for many years, so I don't count playing this game. However, this story came to mind after reading the post above:

Around 1987 I was rehearsing in Manhattan somewhere, lower West side-ish. While paying for our hour or two in the room I had to pick up something from a music store in the building (Rogue?), so I blasted out of the elevator and hooked a left and ran full-force smack into a tiny, beautiful, sweaty woman. All apologies, she was very cool, then I realize it's Patty Smyth.

"Uh, hommina hommina, big fan, REALLY sorry, love your stuff, guess you're rehearsing here, too, I'm a jerk, so sorry, duh."

She was really nice about it, and very sweaty. So, there you go- millions of calm, cool professional conversations with celebrities, and at least one blubbering idiot moment.

je

[ehoove]

I was interviewed by Katie C on the Today Show back during the last UAW strike. We were on vacation in Puerto Rico when my wife saw a guy drop his moneyclip when she returned it to the guy it turned out to be John Elway.

[clydeselsor]

I play in a band called The Mad Ants and we were signed to a small independent label about 17 years ago. We sold about 4000 albums so needless to say I neither rich nor famous. However we did tour with Molly Hatchet, Pat Travers, Foghat, and Robert Palmer. I met and partied with everyone except Robert Palmer (RIP), he was kinda egotistical!