Only Robert Redford. Brief meeting on the street in downtown Dallas. Just smiled and said hi. He smiled back.
I did sit in traffic next to Noah Wylie (from ER) once. He had a convertible Porshe with the license plate “DR”.
It was very cool. Until he started shooting me dirty looks because we were staring so much (I wasn’t alone…I was driving a 15 passenger van with 12 teenagers in it, all pointing at him).
[U]Red Wings I met while working at the Red Wings merch store:
[/U]Chris Chelios
Curtis Joseph
Pavel Datsyuk
Dino Ciccarelli
Mathieu Schneider
Jiri Fischer
[U]People I interviewed as part of an internship with the Pistons:[/U]
Kevin Jones (Lions)
Kevin Johnson (Lions)
Dre Bly (Lions)
Michael Phelps
Troy Gentry
Tommy Hearns
Steve Mariucci
Tom Izzo
I also work for the Pistons now, so I’ve also interviewed a lot of the players, but that doesn’t really count.
I saw Stacy London and Clinton Kelly of What Not to Wear in Miami Airport, but they just walked by me, I didn’t talk to them.
Probably my best celebrity meeting would be Henry Rollins. We waited in line to meet him after one of his spoken word shows in Ann Arbor. It was really cold, but I got his autograph and shook his hand. He was really nice, and also really short!
I’m always at a loss of what to say when I do run into a celeb, so I generally tend to “admire from afar”.
I met the band Ugly Kid Joe. Does anyone remember them? They did quite well in the UK, but were from California. They were really nice. I had a summer internship in the US Embassy in London, in the Immigration and Naturalization Dept., and they needed some paperwork. I just treated them like they were regular people, which I think they appreciated. Plus, it’s not like I was a huge fan, because I was more into classical music, and they were a heavy metal rock band. :teehee:
I met Ian MacKaye http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_MacKaye once in Knoxville TN. I was living in Atlanta and we were following Fugazzi on thier southern leg of a tour (some of my friends went all the way to NewOreleans!) When we got to Knoxville, we got the last 3 tickets but we needed 3 more. So we were hanging around the venue to see if anyone was scalping tickets and Ian and the rest of Fugazzi showed up for a sound check. He started talking to me and he asked if we needed tickets and I said yes and he got a manager and put my name and two others at the top of the guest list! He was so nice. It was soo cool he took the time to talk to me.
Also met Ric Ocasic (sp?) lead singer for the Cars at a bar in the Chesnut Hill Legals sea food. He is soooooo tall. He was nice thouogh.
I met Susan from Sesame street when I was 10. She gave me her autograph and hugged me.
RuPaul used to come intot he movie theater where I worked. He would come in as a man, go into the bathroom and come as a fabulously beautiful woman. I went to art college then and there was this guy who would make movies with RuPaul a la John Waters. He was kinda like Devine. So we used to go to the open nights of all his movies. One night we went out dancing and we were all drunk except him so he took a few us home to pass out so we would be safe. And made pancakes for us in the morning! He came t our graduation wearing a huge chandalier on his head. I don’t think he’d remember me if I saw him again. I was just part of the crowd. But he super nice when I would talk to him.
Flew from DC to NYC on the same flight as Al Sharpton. He sat in first class. His “person” sat next to me in economy. He was a big guy–I felt bad that he was stuffed in a tiny seat.
Met Bill Clinton. He went to Harvard with a (now former) employer & came by one afternoon. He was very nice.
In college, I worked at a hotel in downtown New Haven. Several tennis players stayed there for one of the tournaments (it’s changed names so many times–I have no idea what it’s called now). And some of the bands that played at Toad’s Place stayed there. Marc Cohen (“Walkin’ in Memphis”) was incredibly nice, and one of the Black Crowes tried to get me to give him my vest (I said no).
Forgot I also met Elvin Hayes (Houston Rockets basketball player from the '70’s), he was nice. Vern was soooooooo nice and patient and talked with ALL his fans, I was the last one! I’d post a picture but I look awful! LOL!
When I was 4 my parents drove us from Michigan to California for Disney world. On the way back we stopped at a rest stop and I left my dolly there. We turned around and when we got back Willie Nelson had it and personally gave it back to me! Willie Nelson saved my dolly!
I belonged to a health club that had previously been a co-ed club. A woman bought the club and turned it into a Ladies only gym. That didn’t seem to bother Harvey Fierstein.
I’d be on the treadmill and he’d come in and get on his treadmill, put on The Price is Right and make all of us play along while we worked out. He was such a panic – he’d be talking to the tv the whole and making jokes the whole time.
My family and I chatted with Della Reese about the long wait at the Firecracker Factory at WDW. My DH and I sat at the next table from Don Ameche (Cocoon) after a performance of No No Nanette. Also, we had lunch at an out door cafe in Kennebunkport and chatted with George Herbert Walker Bush (Babs had gone to the powder room). He was the ex-prez at that time. But in '92 we took our then 3rd grade DD to a rally for Bill Clinton. She wanted his autograph and the Secret Service practically tackled her to the ground because she had a pen in her hand. As if a 7 year old was a danger. Bill was very gracious and frankly, very good looking. (I know, he’s not very popular.)
AND, I know my Daughter, Liz. She’s currently anchoring/reporting at the NBC affiliate in Yuma AZ and she’s definitely going to be more famous than Katie what’shername.
I met the guy that plays Tad on all my children when I used to live in NY during the Italian Fair in Little Italy.
I met Keanu Reeves in Baltimore at a restuarant when it was only my party and his party eating. he’s GORGEOUS!!! and SOOO NICE!!! He saw that we recognized him saw came over and talked to us, and we had a little girl with us, who told him his hair was so pretty and that she wanted to touch it, so he picked her up and let her!! he told us to wait because Gene Hackman was coming if we wanted to meet him. They were in town, filming the Replacements.
I know Marisa from Apprentice 3.
I met Stacy and Clinton because the made over a coworker. They are so pretty in person. Stacy’s hair is SOO SHINY!!
I know Joey from the Contender. He was my study partner in school, he’s was a very sweet guy. I was so sad he lost.
I met Mark Walhberg when he still was in the funky bunch. very nice guy and down to earth.
I met football player Leslie o’neil. he actually asked me out. though he is too old for me.
The only actor I ever met was Marc Singer (of the “Beastmaster” movies) I was an extra in one of his movies being filmed in Charlotte. I used to have a photo of us standing with our arms around each other, but it was in a purse that was stolen from me years ago. :pout:
I’ve met lots of NASCAR people, because I used to teach private piano lessons at a school where a lot of their kids went. I met Ricky Rudd, John Andretti, Ricky Craven, Jeff Burton, and Teresa Earnhardt. When I was a little girl, I met Cale Yarbrough.
I also met several contemporary Christian musicians when I was the organist for a very large church. (10,000 members) But, you all probably would not recognize their names.
I used to work with Michael Jordan’s sister…I think. I never actually believed that she was his sister. :teehee:
I thought Bill Clinton was very popular still. Maybe it is being here in Massachusetts? Don’t want to turn this into a political debate thread, but I like him.
Well, I have this thing about celebrities. I kind of have this, “they put their pants on the same way as I” attitude so I have never been enamored of them, except one person, Lucille Ball, who I wished I could have met before she passed. I don’t care who or how famous they are, I don’t approach them. I know, they wouldn’t be famous if people didn’t want autographs and such, but that is the way I am.
Anyway, you would think with as many times as Jack and I have been to Vegas we would have seen some, but nary a one. We did see Wayne Rogers sitting in our boarding area the first time we went to Vegas. He was flying to Palm Beach though.
I grew up in South Bend, Indiana and we lived there for 12 years after Jack retired from the Navy. I was picking him up from a business trip at the airport once and the big mouth Dick Vitale was in the airport as I think his dd went to Notre Dame. He was being “Dicky” that was for sure, holding court so to speak.
Jack sat next to Timothy Busfield when he was on a business trip once. He said he was really nice to talk to even though Jack recognized him but didn’t watch the drama series he had been in (can’t remember the dang name of it)
Oh, I worked at a law firm in Indiana and was at lunch and the kid who played Screech on “Saved by the Bell” was in the same restaurant having lunch with I imagine his girlfriend. Why he was in South Bend is anybody’s guess.
I guess the best celebrity story is this one. Jack was stationed aboard the USS Kennedy, an aircraft carrier, in the 80’s. It was the one and only cruise he had to go on in 20 years where he would be gone for Christmas. My children were 6 and 10 at that time, I believe. Wayne Newton performed for the guys on the ship that year and really went above and beyond. You have to understand there are over 5000 men on a ship that size, but he told the men that if they were married and would give their wive’s names and phone numbers to his assistants, he would call them for Christmas when he got back to the states. He DID! He is a really kind and sweet man and I cannot ever say enough kind things about him.
Henry Rollins.
