Meeting famous people

[thepaulo]

Always was excited when I met famous people partly because I see they're just plain old people. Met lots on the show but I actually met a lot before I was ever involved with the show.
One of the best days was sneaking into the press section in front of the stage of the Carol King free concert in Central Park where Joni Mitchell and Jack Nicholson were hanging out and then later that night seeing a performance of Uncle Vanya starring Nicole Williamson and Julie Christie and being a stage door johnny with Christie spending a few moments with me while signing the playbill while Nicholson and Warren Beatty cooled their heels looking pissed.

http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=3555

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole_King

[SonOfSmeagol]

that really is an awesome story, paulo

in contrast, the only famous person I ever met was Spiro Agnew, at Transpo '72 Dulles Airport. he came down in a helicopter and I shook his hand over a fence with a bunch of others. at the time, I was impressed. what a fucker he turned out to be

[SatCam]

ive met phil donohue plenty o times and thats aboot it

[spoon]

Had some drinks with Claude Lemieux and Ian Laperriere at the draft, and hung out with the top picks, the Subbans and many many other cool hockey world peeps! And I call that Sunday!

[realmenhatelife]

Amy Wynn Pastor from Trading Spaces and Jimmy Pop from The Bloodhound Gang used to come into my starbucks a lot. Jimmy Pop was always super nice, Amy Wynn drank caramel macchiatos.

I also saw Jimmy Rollins using my post office box one night when I was dropping off netflix.

[A.J.]

Ronnie Wood bummed a smoke from me at the Four Seasons in Doha.

[spoon]

cancer merchant!

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[ihaveabadmonkey]

Philip Seymour Hoffman almost ran me over on his bike while I was walking around Soho a few weeks back. Does that count?

[realmenhatelife]

Philip Seymour Hoffman almost ran me over on his bike while I was walking around Soho a few weeks back. Does that count?

What kind of bike was it?

[ihaveabadmonkey]

What kind of bike was it?

I don't remember. I remember thinking holy shit I think that is Philip Seymour Hoffman.

[thepaulo]

I don't remember. I remember thinking holy shit I think that is Philip Seymour Hoffman.

You should have gotten on your cellphone and called your lawyer.
"Philip Seymour is going to give me whiplash!"

[sailor]

Nick Nolte asked me where he could find porn at 4 am like a decade ago.

[spoon]

If he asked for gay porn, he found the right guy.

[sailor]

No and no.

[SonOfSmeagol]

doesn't really count, but I used to work night crew in a grocery store and one night when I was out sick Bob Hope came in at 1:30 am and asked one of the other guys: "where's the canned fruit?"

[spoon]

Boooooo

[SonOfSmeagol]

Boooooo

totally true, for what it's worth. poopy boo bird

[deliciousV]

When I was about 10, a long long time ago, during the era of the Big Red Machine, we lived on a dead end road outside of Fairborn Ohio. One day while I was riding my bike in front of our house a car pulled up, Johnny Bench rolled down his window and asked me if I knew where Greene Country Club was, I stuttered out some directions, it was a couple of miles away and we passed it all the time on the school bus ride to and from school. I ran into the house and told my mom, who pretty much dismissed it. When my dad came home with the paper (he worked at the Dayton Daily News) I told him, while reading his paper later he found a story about Johnny Bench speaking and playing a round of golf at the Greene county country club. Face Mom!

[KnoxHarrington]

doesn't really count, but I used to work night crew in a grocery store and one night when I was out sick Bob Hope came in at 1:30 am and asked one of the other guys: "where's the canned fruit?"

Along the same lines, when I was doing tech support for a certain computer manufacturer, one of my co-workers got a call from Faye Dunaway, who was a complete and total bitch and wanted him to send her a new computer even though the computer she had was out of warranty for ages.

I would have been so tempted to say, "Does this computer belong to your sister, or your daughter?"

[spoon]

When I was about 10, a long long time ago, during the era of the Big Red Machine, we lived on a dead end road outside of Fairborn Ohio. One day while I was riding my bike in front of our house a car pulled up, Johnny Bench rolled down his window and asked me if I knew where Greene Country Club was, I stuttered out some directions, it was a couple of miles away and we passed it all the time on the school bus ride to and from school. I ran into the house and told my mom, who pretty much dismissed it. When my dad came home with the paper (he worked at the Dayton Daily News) I told him, while reading his paper later he found a story about Johnny Bench speaking and playing a round of golf at the Greene county country club. Face Mom!


I hope your mom slapped u in the FACE!

; )

[deliciousV]

I hope your mom slapped u in the FACE!

; )

only when I kept talking when she told me to stop, but that was more of an open handed pop on the mouth, the offending orifice.

[spoon]

good

[deliciousV]

good

Mom's a fair lady, if she brought the thunder, I'd earned it. But she was wrong on the Johnny Bench thing.