KCMasterpiece sauce lover wrote:
T wrote:Jenifer Garner (not that famous but she had just run a leg in a triathlon which was cool)
The most famous person you met wasn't famous??? That blows!
Funny
KCMasterpiece sauce lover wrote:
T wrote:Jenifer Garner (not that famous but she had just run a leg in a triathlon which was cool)
The most famous person you met wasn't famous??? That blows!
Funny
JFK in 1960 in LA.
Reagan in 1980 in Sunnyvale.
Both were campaigning. I was close but did not meet them.
Janice Joplin (numerous times in the mid to late 1960's. Knew her too).
I met Kurt Vonnegut around that same time ('88 or '89 maybe). Set up his microphone when he spoke at my college. He autographed my copy of Slaughterhouse Five. Still my most prized possession.
My boss had a private dinner with Michael and Juanita Jordan once at his original namesake restaurant in Chicago. I wish I could top that!
met and had conversations with,
Gerald Ford
Muhammad Ali
Jack Dempsey
Joe Louis
Joe Frazier
Jesse Owens
Jackie O
Diana Ross
GReg Lemond
Lance ARmstrong
just to name a few
Ummm...Spiro T. Agnew? (Former vice-president of the US)
When I was in DC for Presidential Scholars, Nixon was out of town so STA actually gave us our medals/shook our hands. I remember that he was a big dude. Same occasion: Teddy Kennedy, Everett Dirksen, Pat Moynihan, bunch of other late-1960's pols.
Otherwise: I live in Greenwich Village so periodically encounter celebs--not as frequently as would be the case in certain part of SoCal, though. Chris Noth (and a bunch of other L&O folks), Uma Thurman, Ethan Hawke, Rip Torn (my kid went to school with his kid), Jeanine Garofalo (haven't seen her in the nabe for a while), Whoopie Goldberg, Wallace Shawn, Sofia (sp?) Coppola (sp?), Matthew Broderick, Alan King (a while back, obviously), John Turturro, Ed Koch, etc.
Etc. Etc.
I dunno, a bunch but, spread over 20+ years, maybe not so many, really.
My dad has been heavily invested in the sports world for years so I have met quite a few athletes and coaches:
Michael Jordon
Doug Collins
John Paxson
BJ Armstrong
Bart Star (very inspirational!)
Johnny "Red" Kerr
Rick Majerus
Tom Waddle
I was just a few weeks from being born when John Wooden stayed at our house.
Running world: Bill Rogers, Joan Samuelson, Jenny Spangler, Jeff Galloway (several years ago he tried to convince me that I could break 3 by running/walking . . . I broke 3, but I sure as hell didn't walk!), Tom Derderian, Marius Bakken, Cindy James
My Father went hunting with Larry Bird...
Personally, I've met K.C. Jones, Robert Parish, Will Ferrell, Katie Holmes (actually ran with her for a bit) and Matt Damon.
I sat next to the actor who plays Father Crilly in Father Ted when waiting for a flight home from Dublin Airport. DRINK!!!!
Maybe the best so far ... ?
oldwise wrote:
met and had conversations with,
Gerald Ford
Muhammad Ali
Jack Dempsey
Joe Louis
Joe Frazier
Jesse Owens
Jackie O
Diana Ross
GReg Lemond
Lance ARmstrong
just to name a few
wineturtle wrote:
gimpy old guy wrote:Anyone else have a date/dinner/drinks with a famous person? And being a guest at a banquet honoring them doesn't count.
HUGE unfair advantage here I ran/worked in high profile NYC restaurants for years and many of the women in my life were sucessfull working models,dancers and actresses.
Mayor Bob Wagner was a guest at my parents apartment, John and Mary Lindsay at mine, Joe Namath and Rod Gilbert and Malcolm Forbes(just for a few moments) were about the most visible or famous to visit my home.
I share my favorite restaurant with a wonderful cast of characters many having stories of some note. Over the years we have become friends. One of the doctors on Mother Teresa's cancer team, a best selling author, Sonny Grosso the French Connection cop and I all have favorite tables along the same wall. Last time the Dillions were down to visit we sat at Tony Bennets regular table and the Italian Trade Commishioner was hosting some of the Italians marathoners running NYCMarathon in the party room while an actor from the Sopranos had a family(wife&kids family !!) dinner in the front room. NYC has this kinda of thing happen all the time.
Counting the summer share house there have been Emmy, Golden Globe, a 5 time Tony winner another with one win, an Academy award nominee and at lest two technical Grammy winners over for dinner or drinks. Had a NFL QB sleep on the couch, the apartment was staging area for a suprise party thrown by a model for her NFL hockey player hubby. Even Norm Tate stopped by after the Millrose one year. Fred Lebow,Tom Fleming and The Dillons other runners of note who have been to one of the Chateau WiT's.
One 1970's Thanksgiving table included a guy who would be convicted of murder, an actress(slash waitress) who would have Hil&Bill at her wedding some years later,a guy who was the garbage collector on Fire Island and a stockbroker who once was Sandy Weils partner. Only in New York , only in New York.
VERY cool
I take it you did a lot of drugs in the '70s.
I forgot my first year in college raced against Tim Broe and RIP David Kimuina before he blew up in the SEC
When I was ten my father performed the wedding ceremony for John Provost's sister and he and I were almost identical in size/energy inclinations and we played around the church for an hour, hiding in places etc. He play Timmy in Lassie.
my 2nd cousin is Jeff Koons--- Famous artist, I dont know how many people know him but right now he has the most expensive work to ever be sold or something like that. Ive also met Lance and Floyd Landis.
OK, I've got one for you.
In 1985 I was at a place called the Bebop Cafe on 8th Street in NYC. Walked up to the bar, two guys were getting drunk. They're flipping through a handful of record albums as they stand there--WEATHER REPORT, mostly.
The tall guy turns out to be Jaco Pastorius. We got drunk. I had about four pints of draft Heineken. Then we went out on the street, the three of us, and strolled through Washington Square Park. Jaco was a trip. He had a very funky pair of $5 sunglasses, and at one point they fell to the sidewalk. I grabbed them up. He didn't want them back. I kept them. I still have them. He ran into some small old lady. "Hey Rosie!" he said. "Remember that summer when it was me, Bob Dylan, and Jimi Hendrix living in your little place down on St. Mark's Place?"
"How could I forget?" she said. They hugged.
A month later I ran into Jaco again, a few blocks away. "Jaco!" I said. He was trudging along the sidewalk, holding a bass guitar case.
"My gig in Italy was canceled," he said. He seemed to vaguely recognize me.
Then he put the case down and walked away.
"Jaco!" I cried. I picked up the case and ran after him. I put it in his hand. "You can't just walk away from your bass!" I said.
He took it, reluctantly.
Weird but true.
runguru wrote:
My best bud back in the early 80's, Mike Koepke, had a sister (Connie) married to Willie Nelson for 27 yrs. Met, and partied with, some of the gamut of that cadre. Oh my!
In retrospect I might trade up for Uma though.
I'd like to hear about some parties with Willie and some of them.
Def. better than Uma
bronco wrote:
I went to school with Tom Hanks and Tim Robbins was one of my students when I was a TA at UCLA. I worked on a plays with William Hurt and Annette Benning.
Tim Robbins and Annette Benning are two of the most vitriolic, non-fact based liberals I've ever seen. Its your fault. You commie.
1983- at Veteran's stadium, Oriole's won World Series in 6 games. I saw:
Harry Kalas- the voice of NFL films, Campbell soup and long time play-by-play announcer for the Phillies (got his autograph too).
Larry King
Howard Cosell- for those kiddies out there, he was better than Chris Berman when it came to doing halftime highlights on MNF. Long before there was an ESPN & NFL Primetime.
Pete Rose- I wonder if he was betting then?
Mike Schmidt- the greatest 3rd baseman in MLB history
As a South FL resident- celebs are common, especially in South Beach. I've seen or met the following:
Frank Shorter- after running the Reston 10miler, which he won. I did a post race 2 mile cooldown with him.
Paul Rodriguez- in Las Vegas
Marcus Allen- in Las Vegas
Julio Iglesisas Jr.
Bono- Delano Hotel pool.
Dennis Rodman- he moved to Ft Lauderdale recently.
Dan Marino- Ford Championship at Doral Resort
John Elway- at a house party
Michael Irvin- Voodoo Lounge, Ft Lauderdale.
Rony Seikaly- former Miami Heat center and Syracuse star, in South Beach with his hot wife Elsa Benitez (she was an SI cover model)
Nicollette Sheridan- Rose bar at the Delano Hotel.
Alice Cooper- at Phoenix airport.
Robert Wagner- at Phoenix airport.
Al Sharpton- while he was browsing books at Northwest terminal, Detroit Airport.
steve buschemi lives in my neighborhood in brooklyn and i frequently see him at the bagel store and other stores. i've held the door to the bagel store for him on numerous occasions (mostly because i go to the bagel store a lot so he happens to be there some of the time, and its small, so chances are you're going to hold the door for someone while you're there). and he's my favorite actor so it works out well.
michael jordan, in fresno at the basketball camp i went to. he played some kids one on one and went easy on them.