The Most Famous Person You've Ever Seen/Met In Person..?

Thirty years ago, Farrah Fawcett was making a movie in NYC just after leaving "Charlie's Angels" and she was staying at an apartment on the same floor as my parents' place. I was waiting for the elevator when she walked down the hall and came into view...and stopped about 15 feet from me and waited for the rest of her party to catch up with her because God forbid she should be alone in the company of a member of the "general public." I rode down in the elevator with them all. She didn't impress me much.

I have seen Sigourney Weaver and Brooke Shields and Cheryl Tiegs (long ago) in Manhattan and they are all giants. Also saw Christie Brinkley, who was more normal-sized. Kyra Sedgewick smiled at me.

I met Dave Barry once for literally 10 seconds. At a Special Olympics fundraiser.

I saw Pete Rose the same day that you did in the forum shops in Vegas. Let's see...when I was 7 I was in Lake Tahoe staying at the New Horizon and Kevin Costner got into the elevator with his first wife. Then, last year I was in New York eating at the Modern restaurant and they sat us down next to Diane Keaton and Sarah Jessica Parker.

I've met and seen a lot of runners. Too many to think of.

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I met Salma Hayek, and believe me, she is just as beautiful (and STACKED) in person as on screen.

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Well this made the whole thread worthwhile for me.. Thanks from the deepest part of my heart - somewhere near my crotch.

In the same vein, I've bumped into a bunch of names over the years, but shaking Telly Savalas' and Derek Trucks' hand (at different times, of course) ranks at the top. Both of these guys were very nice down-to-earth people - Savalas was little more restrained, since we bumped into him at the back door in the kitchen of the hotel he lived at. We were shocked, cause we literally bumped into him going out the door when he was going in.

Almost running over Tommy Lee Jones was a real thrill, though. He was looking at me as wide-eyed as I was looking at him.

KudzuRunner wrote:

I was in a weekend workshop with New Age speaker Marianne Williamson and when she heard that I played harmonica, she made me come up front and play.

I had a fiancee that insisted we go to see Marianne Williamson at an angel fest in LA about ten years ago. After a particularly thick part of a "prayer" for angels to be carrying us and holding us and flying protection around us, etc. ... my fiance looked over at me with tears streaming down her cheeks. I knew that this relationship was over immediately...

I had beers with Dr Joe Kerwin, the first physician in space (on Skylab, the first space station) one time. In terms of meeting the famous - that's the big one for me. Such a nice guy, generous with his time and insight.

Heck, I seen 'em all, purty much ever one y'all listed on here. Ain't you guys got TV?

Danny Bonaduce when he has working at a radio station in Detroit........Yuck!