Celebrities You Have Met

Not going to go to the list, but my favorite celeb experience was getting sh!tfaced with Peter Graves on vodka martinis while I was supposedly working for our mutual alma mater. I weighed 130 at the time, was unable to keep pace, despite trying.

Also did a video shoot once with Eddie Albert (Green Acres). Total pro.

My buddy once delivered a shotgun to Eric Clapton at a houseboat in Seattle, was invited in for a few lines with the band. That has to be best brush with fame I personally know of.

Though Eddie Albert comes close.

Malmo,

Leonard Elmore? My vote for coolest celeb meeting on this thread.

Squid, do you mean Elmore Leonard? Or basketball player, Lenny Elmore? Lenny Elmore couldn't swim. At 6-10 he couldn't drown either!

Nah, Martin Lawrence was. When I first saw him on TV, HBO or sonmething, I said to myself "I know that guy." Watched his entire set just to get his name. When the MC said "Martin Lawrence," the first thing that came to mind is the knucklehead kid with the crossed-eyes and his blue pool card in Landover Maryland.

not many -

Arlo Guthrie and his band (ate breakfast at hotel coffee shop next to me) would be the only bonafide household name.

Sports/running celebs of note would include,

Bill Koch (only U.S. Oly medalist male in nordic skiing)

Lorraine Moeller (she chased my slow [but scared] derrier in an all comer's 3000m, ca. mid-late 1980s)

Lynn Jennings

Mark Plaatjes

various and sundry Olympians and near-Olympians

Kevin Federleazy

Here's a few: sports are ones outside of autograph signings at card shows:

Ted Williams

Johnny Bench

Goose Gossage

Al Kaline

Nolan Ryan

Tony Perez

Most of the '84 Detroit Tigers, (a friend of mine is good friends with Kirk Gibson)

Frank Robinson

Anthony Munoz

Bill Rodgers

Catherine Ndereba

Peter Githuka (sp?)

Katie McGregor

Musicians:

Bonnie Raitt

James Cotton--blues harp

Kenny Neal-blues

Tab Benoit-blues

Guy Clark

Lyle Lovett

Nanci Griffith

Rodney Crowell

Roseanne Cash

John Prine

Emmylou Harris

Michelle Shocked

k d lang

Joe Ely

Darden Smith

Good Times,

What do you do? I worked in motorsports for 10 years and have met most of those you listed. Also workedon the motorcycle side. All with Elf Fuel out of France.

1500Master

Alan Webb

Bob Hope

Shaq

Mike Platt

Reese Witherspoon

Bill Rogers

Joe Namath

Matt Laurer

Jewel

there's a few others

Wanda Funkle

Art Kaswalski

Leland Morrison

Wayne Mack

Roger Hughes

Larry Hagensen

Jerry Rossenheimmer

Wanda Funkle

Leonard Long

Preston Prudente

Elliott Henry

Aarvid Anderson

Judy Parkenson

Stephanie Stuffeny

and

Wanda Funkle

If any of these people ever get fameous I will be sooooooooo cool cos I have their autograph and nobody else does!!!!

Wrong

Elliot Henry is a real cool dude but he needs to call his parents more.

Met:

Bruce Willis (cool)

Clint Eastwood (cool)

Sylvester Stallone (cool)

Andy Garcia (ass)though his daughter was smoking hot

Alice Cooper (cool)

Halle Joe Osmont (a kid)

Matthew McConnehey (cool, I know I spelled his name wrong)

Butch Patrick (Eddie Munster)

Trained with Jay Novacek (Dallas Cowboys TE)

Pretty much everyone track mid-late 90's

Guess that is all but enough

I've met lots. The only one that matters: Muhammad Ali.

Jerry Springer - while he was campaigning for Senate or whatever the hell it was...hes actually kinda tall

Adam Nelson - on at elevator this year in NYC while I was volunteering for the Reebok Grand Prix meet, he seemed really nice

George Voinivich - former Ohio governor turned representative

Marion Jones - so I didn't really meet her, but just held a door open for her at the NYC meet this year and she said "Thank you"

stood behind Pam Anderson in line at a Starbucks, back in the mid 90's in Malibu.....I was surprised at how small and petite she actually was in person.

Just an hour ago ... parked next to Ralph Sampson's car at Kroger, he was getting out to shop as I was getting back in to leave. He had his little girl with him.

Carnivore-

Do you live in the 'burg? I thought Ralph was here right now, but I might be wrong.

Anyway, my short list:

Sandra Bullock (went to HS with her)

Charles Haley (went to college w/ him)

Brooks Robinson

TJ Duckett (Atlanta Falcons)

I seriously can't come up w/ much else. Guess I haven't had many brushes with fame.

In no specific order.....

Bill Cosby (alumnus of my HS)

Joe Paterno

Ki-Jana Carter

Kerry Collins

Jack Ham

CJ Hunter (biggest dickhead I have ever had the misfortune of meeting)

Eammon Coughlan

Lasse Viren

Bill Rogers

Frank Shorter

Herschel Walker

George Rogers (1980 Heisman Winner)

Fergie Jenkins

Dontrell Willis

Ken Stabler

Bum Phillips

Andy Reid

Ron Jaworski

Haile Gebreselassie

Frank Lampard (of Chelsea and England fame)

Blair Thomas

Hillary Clinton

Jim Bunning

Harold Carmichael

Matt Suhey

Matt Damon (he really is a nice guy)

Leonardo DiCaprio

Mary Kate Olsen

Ellen Barkin

Busta Rhymes

Joan Rivers

Probably many others but I forget and also a lot I didnt recognize in real life and didnt talk to.

- Phil Passen

Attorney.

I think it should be limited to people you spoke directly to and/or shook hands with

I saw Cosby at the 86 Penn relays..he was right in from of me in the paddocks but I would not say I actually met him..he was pretty funny...

Everyone was pretty cool

Jackie Mason

Kevin Young

Grete Waitz

Martina Navratilova

Eamonn Coghlan

Yo-Yo Ma (Thee Nicest guy the list..he kept talking to me even when I turned to leave (I was on a run) so as not to bother him toomuch)

Eliot Spitzer (on a run)

Leonard Marshall

Andrew McCarthy from St. Elmo's Fire (very nice guy)

Sen. Joseph Biden

Sen. Bill Roth

David Ho (AIDS doc, Time man of the year 96)

Lynn Jennings

Charles Moore (52 Gold medalist in 400H)

Maricica Puica (one year at the MIlrose Games)

Al Joyner

Billy Olsen

Oliver Sacks

Torsten Wiesel (Nobel Laureate)

Linus Pauling (the same)

Ha Jin (writer)

EL Doctorow (Writer)

Diane Sawyer

Jimmy Carter (book signing)