Who's THE most famous person you've ever met??

[SmileyBoy]

Think about all the people you've met in person, then tell me the most famous.

As for me, I once met Isaac Hayes before a Timberwolves game. He signed my ticket and did the Chef voice for me.

I also met Walter Mondale at my brother's old Junior High school.

[yvr girl]

1. Princess Di

[ronnykmarshall]

41. Oh my god!

When, where, how and tell!!

[yvr girl]

72. They came to Vancouver in 1986 to open Expo 86

I was invited to a youth banquet and they were the guests of honour. My table was right next to hers, I was about 5 feet away.

I grabbed her menu as a souvenir.

She was much prettier in person, had an enormous head and she pigged out on cookies.

[Radio_Lady]

215. I met and DATED Larry King in the 1950's -- and again in the 70's,

but didn't marry him.

Other radio interviews that I did include many names you won't know if you're very young:

Carol Channing (who brought her own vegetarian food and shared it with me)
Arlene Dahl
Bill Bixby
Peter Benchley (author of "Jaws")
Orson Bean
Dear Abby (Abigail van Buren, now retired with Alzheimer's Disease)
and many, many more.

[imenja]

291. self delete

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

2. Bob Dole twice

Chris Isaak. Amy Goodman. Richard Gephardt. Arthur Fiedler. Shook Teresa Heinz Kerry's hand at a rally.

[Fenris]

3. I sat next to Matthew Perry during a showing of Star Wars

At Mann's Chinese theater.

[arwalden]

79. I Sat Next To Harry Anderson (Night Court)

at the 3-D movie/ride at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, VA.

[Fenris]

91. Did he enjoy it?

:7

[arwalden]

98. I Don't Recall...

... but if he had noticed me sitting next to him, I'm sure he would have been thrilled. I was much cuter 15 years ago.

Oh wait... oh!... silly me! You were asking if he enjoyed the MOVIE, weren't you? Never mind.

[Fenris]

217. No actually, you answered my question correctly.

:D

[Birthmark]

4. Zsa Zsa Gabor

[tk2kewl]

5. Big Dawg.

Bill Clinton.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

7. I met Kenny Rogers.

But I got my picture "made" with Elvis Costello.

[Lindacooks]

6. Senator Paul Wellstone.

[ernstbass]

8. I waited on Eudora Welty once

and I shook John Edwards' hand last Summer. Saw Liz Taylor but didn't actually meet her.

[TheMightyFavog]

32. I shook his hand, too!

He was in Stevens Point last September. My Brother in law, a Stevens Point Alderman, managed to get me tickets that would get me up close to the stage. I told him to "Give 'em Hell!"

[ernstbass]

117. I chased him down Carolina Beach on July 4th

My 14 y.o. neice and her friend had my camera but they were too timid to break thru the media and snap my pic with him (damn!) Nonetheless it was a thrillling experience!!

[bertha katzenengel]

9. Jackson Browne and Penny Marshall

And I saw Robert Redford. (Redford & Marshall at the same event, a pre-release screening of "The Natural.")

[GumboYaYa]

21. I know Bob as well, but to be honest,

he is such an ordinary guy that I don't think of him as famous. I helped produce the first Sundance Online Film Festival and worked closely with him through that process.

[bertha katzenengel]

33. 's coo. He was being sneaked into the theater after the lights went

down, but that profile is unmistakable. GREAT movie, of course. It hit the theaters about three months later. We got the tix while at the batting cages. :shrug:

After the movie, in the parking lot, I talked to Penny Marshall a bit. She asked, "What'd ya tink a da scowah?" I swear to god, I almost said, "It was three to two, they won..." :blush:

[GumboYaYa]

34. So she really talks like that.

I bet Penny is one cool lady.

[bertha katzenengel]

43. She was VERY cool. I, on the other hand, was a total starstruck

geek. GOD, I wish I could recapture that moment and change it. I wanted an autograph (:dunce:) but was too afraid to ask for it. So I asked my friend to ask. I ripped one of my checks out of the book. Penny goes, "so what am I endawsin' heah?" :D still makes me laugh, even though I was goofy enough to ask for an autograph in the first place. :eyes:

Yeah. She was cool.

[ronnykmarshall]

46. That "sounds" just like her.

Ah, cousin Penny.

[bertha katzenengel]

51. um

you're kidding?

John Denver was my cousin. I'd rather have Penny.

[ronnykmarshall]

53. I wish it were true.

You don't think my happy ass would be in "the business" if she was my cuZ?

[bertha katzenengel]

63. I'm sure we'd all be seeing your happy ass, and the rest of you.

:hug:

But Mrs. V. and I will see you in November. :bounce:

[SW FL Dem]

142. I met John Denver when I was an intern

for my congressman in DC in the late 70s. I got see a screening of a film he had produced about Alaska. I was late so I ended up at the rear of the theater. John Denver came in at the last minute and took the seat to my left. The funniest thing was that in the middle of the movie a polar bear decided to relieve himself. The editors had missed it, John Denver said "Oh shit, that bear is pissing all over the screen".

[skygazer]

10. Howard Dean

Jim Jeffords, Bernie Sanders, Pat Leahy (Vermont's a small state - live there long enough, you meet everybody).

Oh, and I met Ron Howard at a flea market.

[Shell Beau]

11. Jerry Rice (49ers) can't think right now! I'll have to think some more.

Brett Favre

[SmileyBoy]

26. I also met Cris Carter as well.

But I was in the 4th grade, and that was a long time ago.

[Bonhomme Richard]

12. How about Infamous? - Kissenger n/t

[GumboYaYa]

13. Stevie Wonder...

I sat next to him in a restaurant once. I also met Hugh Hefner at a party at the Playboy mansion. I'm not sure which one of those two is more famous.

[SmileyBoy]

19. You've been to the Mansion??

DAMN, I'm jealous...

[GumboYaYa]

It's actually pretty cheesey.

I even got to go into the world famous Grotto. It is like a set out of Austin Powers. The hot tubs are run by one of those big 70's control boards with the flashing lights and big controls.

[ariesgem]

I went to a party once at the Playboy Mansion

I worked at production company that provides dressers and stylists to models for most of the major fashion shows that are held in Los Angeles. There was a charity event fashion show and after-party held in his backyard. After we wrapped up the show, we all were invited to stay for the after-party.

He has pink flamingos running around his yard along with exotic monkeys. Hef came out after the show with his traditional red smoking jacket and thanked everyone for attending. He was pretty cool.

[Bunny]

Jimmy Stewart.

[MrScorpio]

14. My own great uncle. Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis

He came home to Detroit for a family reunion right before he passed away.

[SmileyBoy]

18. AWESOME!!!

Actually, now that I remember your pic, you do look somewhat like him!!

[MrScorpio]

35. Here's his father Munroe Barrow

My great grandfather


The resemblance goes back pretty far, I think

[gollygee]

69. That is too cool!

[redqueen]

81. Wow...

Glad you got to meet him.

[Gemini Cat]

209. Wow!!

Joe Lewis is one of my biggest hero's!

[whirlygigspin]

261. best cake ever

available only in Canada, pity.

[WhoDoYouTrust]

283. My dad was in the army with him.

Said he was a great guy.

[democracyindanger]

15. Carl Lewis. Spike Lee.

Lewis tried to talk me into become a vegetarian. I kept telling him that a meal without meat wasn't a meal.

[TheMightyFavog]

16. Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings.

He came to Stevens Point for the big Trivia Contest this year to get material for a book he's writing. I got to meet him while shooting footage of the floats gathering for the Parade that precedes the event. I shook his hand and welcomed him to Stevens Point.

[lpbk2713]

17. George Jones & Tammy Wynette

I did some work at their house many years ago. They were good people.

[evlbstrd]

20. Arlo Guthrie,

he stepped on me while I was waiting to get in to his concert.
And I waited on Ray Davies.

[ronnykmarshall]

50. Prince stepped on my foot one time.

I had on sandals at an under 21 gay club in LA. It was 1978, he wasn't that big yet. I swear he was cruising me.

[evlbstrd]

55. Maybe we should start a "Who's been injured by somebody famous?"

thread.
In Minneapolis, a guy claiming to be Prince's cousin hit on my daughter.

[HeeBGBz]

120. I met Arlo a couple of months ago at his concert.

Love him.

[Radical Activist]

175. I met him last year

at the Woody Guthrie folk festival. Great guy. I seriously have a crush on one of his daughters. What a babe. I acted like an idiot. :loveya:

[Gildor Inglorion]

22. Jimmy Carter, God bless him!

One of the best moments of my life.

[LibDemAlways]

222. I met Pres. Carter at a book signing. I was holding

my daughter who was two at the time. He reached out, touched her hair, and told me how pretty she was. I was so impressed that even though I only had a few seconds to have him sign the book, he made the effort to make the moment personal.

[cestpaspossible]

23. Tiny Tim

I was in a music store buying strings, he was in there buying the sheet music to 'Like A Virgin'

[hippiechick]

24. The Unknown Comic ...

well, ok he's not the MOST famous, but he was the oddest.

Al Gore
Howard Dean
Evan Bayh
Rusty Wallace
Sterling Sharpe
Ray Lamontagne (will be more famous before too long) ...

[Modem Butterfly]

25. Jimmy Buffet and Charlton Heston

We met Jimmy Buffet in Key West over Thanksgiving weekend one year at his bar, Margaritaville. Nice guy. He bought us drinks even though my friend insulted his bar (my friend is an architect and, in all fairness, had no idea who he was talking to).

I met Charlton Heston in college, also over Thanksgiving weekend. I went home with a friend of mine who's dad had some Hollywood connections on the production side (no one you've heard of, and not very powerful). He came to dinner and made an ass out of himself. Not a nice man.

[fudge stripe cookays]

168. This sounds interesting!

Made an ass, how?

FSC

[sundog]

27. umm...

Tracey Chapman, Danny Glover, Deborah Harry, Cheech Martin, Winona Ryder...

working at Whole Foods in Pacific Heights was interesting... I guess they have to shop somewhere :P

They were all friendly too :)

Danny Glover was the most famous of them all... I had to nervously prepare a sandwich for him as he watched... very cool guy.

[autorank]

28. Richard Nixon

[Rowdyboy]

29. Jimmy Carter

Shook hands and asked him a question about South Korea in the 1976 campaign.

[SW FL Dem]

146. I met him in 76 too along with the other

Dem primary contenders in New Hampshire. I got his autograph. Where did you meet him?

[Rowdyboy]

160. I was going to college at Millsaps in Jackson Mississippi and he

spoke on campus to a couple of hundred students. Thats when I asked him the question about US troops in South Korea. After his speech, he shook hands with the crowd and we spoke briefly. He wasn't my preferred candidate that year (Mo Udall and Fred Harris were) but I was struck by genuine a human being he seemed. Also by how short he was.

Shortly after that most of the Dem candidates attended a meeting in Atlanta and six of us drove over for it. I went to a reception funded by the Kennedy's, heard half a dozen candidate speak (Sargeant Shriver, Udall, Harris, Carter and Milton Shapp that I remember). Later I bumped butts accidentally with Fred Harris's wife, LaDonna, a Choctaw activist.

We drank and smoked lots and had a fabulous time. I remember it so clearly...

[SW FL Dem]

188. I met him when I was working for Mo

I was on Mo's staff - I took a semester off from college to work for him. I met all of the Dem candidates that year, Fred Harris, Jimmy Carter, Scoop Jackson, Sarge Shriver are the ones I can name after all these years.)

[Rowdyboy]

207. That is so cool.....My major professor was Fred Harris's campaign

manager in Mississippi (he spoke at my commencement in 1976). Mo Udall is my all-time hero in American politics. I never had the privilege of meeting him, but my respect and admiration for him are infinite. I'd love to hear any memories of that campaign you have. You should post a thread telling about your experience-it would be fascinating. If you do, please pm me so I won't miss it.

I envy you that experience. I truly believe Udall is one of the finest presidents America never had.

[grace0418]

30. I've met David Sedaris, Neil Finn and I'm related to someone

on a pretty popular t.v. show.

[micrometer_50]

31. Edgar Bergen n/t

[Ernesto]

36. John Kerry

We were both Vietnam Vets Against the War back in '72.

[Jessica]

37. Leslie Nielsen

Bout as good as it gets for me.

[redqueen]

84. That's pretty darn good.

I love his movies. :D

[unsavedtrash]

38. Jane Goodall

:bounce:

[CottonBear]

90. Wow! Just wow!

She's awesome!

[smbolisnch]

213. I'm Jealous!!!

I adore her....

[Mz Pip]

39. Frank Zappa

That was years ago, in the late 60s.

Next up would be Wes Clark. That was in the fall of 2003.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[rbnyc]

70. Awesome!

I would love to have met him.

:)

[deutsey]

243. I met Zappa in '87

Sat and talked with him for over a half hour. One of the best moments of my life.

I've also met Chuck Berry, Howard Dean, Joe Trippi (I've actually been to his house a couple times), and Davey Jones of the Monkees.

[ronnykmarshall]

40. Al Gore

I was just very brief at a book signing.

If you want to say the most famous person I've spent time with chatting, that would be Mary Wilson of the Supremes.

[yellowdogintexas]

192. I met Al Gore twice; once when he wasjust out of Harvard

and later when he was still a Congressman.

[madinmaryland]

42. Jim Lovell, the real Apollo 13 astronaut,

Also, Arnold in NYC about 10 years ago, John Anderson (presidential candidate), Chris Shays several times at the train station in CT.

[saltpoint]

44. Former NY Sen. James Buckley (on a Wall St.-bound subway!) --

-- also Robin Williams (at the Telluride Film Festiva)l, Candy Crowley (at a Kerry-Edwards event in Tampa), and pianist Gina Bachauer (when I was 13 years old).

All these were quick and instant -- no more than a howdy-do, really.

But still kind of fun.

[Writer]

45. Martin Sheen and Wesley Clark n/t

[txaslftist]

47. The Skipper from Gilligan's Island. Sad, huh?

[Psst_Im_Not_Here]

48. Tom Cruise

I suppose he was the most famous of the famous I've met. Let's see...Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, Dana Carvey (He did the "church lady" for me!), and Foghat. I think that's it.

Tom Cruise by the way, is an arrogant ass!

[ronnykmarshall]

52. No, no say not so!

Why doesn't that not surprise me?

[Psst_Im_Not_Here]

60. Afraid so

Seems he has a very bad case of short man syndrome. Makes one wonder where else he fall short! :wow:

[ronnykmarshall]

95. Two words

Power bottom.

[lildreamer316]

190. Umm yeah

..I have to agree. Someone I know VERY well used to work in Hollywood and was a fairly well known "gay" porn star (he's not, but the porn was). He said TC was using an escort service, but it could be rumour.

[ronnykmarshall]

191. Not a rummor

TC is a big ol' bottom boy.

[WI_DEM]

49. Roy Rogers, Jimmy Carter, Jerry Lewis, Howard Dean, Sonny Bono

In the late 70's me and my siblings went with our parents to visit Roy's museum in Victorville, California--he was a very nice man and spent a good deal of time talking to us.

Sonny Bono--went to his restaurant, at the time in Hollywood, "Bono's" and he greeted us at the door and even seated us and also put up with a few autographs.

Jerry Lewis--Went to a tv taping at Metro Media in Hollywood. They were giving away tv tickets and it was for a talk show pilot hosted by Lewis. I remember Charlie Callas was his announcer and Carol Burnett was one of his guests. Afterward Jerry lingered on stage talking to people and a group of people went down to try and talk to him. He took a few minutes and shook hands and signed autographs. You always hear horror stories about him but he was very nice that night.

Jimmy Carter: shook hands and asked him a question when he came to Wabasha, Mn on the Delta Queen in 1979. A great honor, I'll never forget.

Howard Dean: Three times during the '04 campaign when he came to Madison. Another great honor.

[ronnykmarshall]

56. Sonny always seemed like a nice guy.

Everyone says that Cher is the most down to earth person in Hollywood.

[CottonBear]

54. Michael Stipe, Bill Berry and Mike Mills of r.e.m.

They're from my town. They know my husband because they all played in bands in the late 1970's and early 1980s in Athens.
Mr. CottonBear's band even opened for r.e.m.

I met Danny Ongais at the 24 Hours of Sebring sports car race in Florida. He raced for Porsche and also drove Indy cars. He was a very nice and polite person who took time out to talk to a young fan and take a picture with me.

I met Don McClean (American Pie), the singer, and got his autograph which I've managed to lose.

I met George Takei (Sulu) when he was in Chattanooga for a public transportation conference. He worked for the CA public transit agency at the time.

[redqueen]

86. I heard George Takei was really cool.

Wish I'd have taken the opporutnity to meet him.

[CottonBear]

94. He was very nice and polite

to some very young and geeky Star Trek fans! We waited in the lobby of the CARTA offices and he came out and met us and took a picture with us! It was nice for him to take time out of his workday.

[hyphenate]

135. Did he laugh?

George has got one of the strangest laughs I've ever heard. We had him to dinner one time for the Star Trek group I used to belong to, and the restaurant staff all found excuses to come by the table during the dinner.

George is very involved in the politics in L.A. as well. In fact, he told everyone that his parents has been in one of the internment camps in California during part of World War II. Sad.

[CottonBear]

152. No laugh, but he had a deep voice and a nice smile! n/t

[CottonBear]

57. The actress who played the mom of the ugly baby on Seinfeld.

She's the sister of a friend of mine. :) :eyes:

[phaseolus]

58. absolutely nobody

closest I've gotten -- I was a few feet away from Gerald Ford when my high school band played for him in '76, and in '94 Kato Kaelin sat in the row behind me on a flight home from Los Angeles. I didn't even recognize him until the flight was over, at first glance I thought he was just some homely woman with horrible hair...

I always like these famous people threads, it's fun when Tandalayo Scheisskopf shows up...

[stpalm]

59. Whoo boy

Michael Richards- Kramer on Seinfeld. Met him after a play in London. He visits my hometown for this bookstore because he is a hebraic scholar.

Condoleeza Rice- I saw her scowling through the capitol building.

TED KENNEDY!- Walking his dogs in the capitol building. He said that they only bite republicans. One dog had a tennis ball in it's mouth.


That's it. Eh. Also, I stood by the road in the country with my Kerry/Edwards shirt when the shrubs massive campaign bus drove by.

[ikojo]

96. MICHAEL RICHARDS is a Hebraic scholar?

Whod've thunk? I didn't think he was stupid, not by a long shot, but to hear he's into Judaism surprises me!

[stpalm]

249. Yes!

Crazy, huh?

[RevolutionaryActs]

61. Will Pitt.

:rofl:


:D

[JohnKleeb]

62. I was gonna say the same thing

:shrug: then again I met the Flirt Queen once as well.

[Richardo]

64. Frank Sinatra

I was 13 at the time.

Runners-up:

Dyan Cannon (in an elevator in L.A. Said "Hi.")
Maureen McCormick (in a liquor store in L.A. She asked me to buy some beer for her. Unfortunately I was also under age at the time.) :(
Buck O'Neil (Negro League veteran - Player/Manager of the Kansas City Monarchs.)

[richmwill]

65. Getting ready to be laughed out of the building...

...By saying "Captain" Lou Albano (THERE'S a name for you old-time wrestling fans. And he was also in a few Cyndi Lauper videos, most notably playing her father in "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"). He lives in the same town I do, so I've met him quite a few times. I actually got to talk to him twice (in-depth) at a local Applebees, we were both at the take-out counter. He's a great, funny guy.

Also met Rob Newman ("Josh Lewis" on Guiding Light, for all of you soap-opera fans), as he lives near me. Another good guy.

[Abelman]

66. Hmm...

I've met Bruce Campbell, Chuck Palahniuk, Wesley Clark, Jr., and I think that's it for famous folks. Oh, the Governor of MI, Jen Granholm.

[rbnyc]

67. Who's more famous? Ted Kennedy? Lou reed? David Byrne?

Patti Smith? Ted Danson? Graham Chapman? Ertha Kitt? Al Gore? Hillary Clinton? Whoopie Goldberg? Iggy Pop? Keanu Reeves? Chris Farley? Sade?

I think those are the most famous people I've met, but I've met loads of famous people. I've opened for some great musicians, I've worked in clubs with some great musicians, I've met a lot of famous people as a bartender and as a waitress. And I've also met many famous people as a non-profit development professional.

And my best friend is an actress.

But I've only been really star struck by less famous people--Kim Deal and Kristin Hersh especially.

[Magrittes Pipe]

73. I told Lou Reed: "My God... you're so SMALL!"

And Drew Carey flipped me off.

[rbnyc]

74. LMAO!

I would have flipped Drew Carey off.

[redqueen]

89. hehe... that's pretty much what I said to Tony Dorsett

Actually my first words to him were, "You're much shorter than you look on TV."

[HeeBGBz]

124. I met Lou Reed's band back in the day.

Went to a party.

[MissB]

68. Not many.

One was a long time ago- a pro football player that was related to my father's best friend. I was still a kid. I think he played for the Cowboys. :shrug:

The other guy is some computer dude. That's all I'm sayin.

[Bonhomme Richard]

71. And for those from Philly - Frank Rizzo n/t

[AngryAmish]

75. The Dali Lama himself!

[fleabert]

231. wow. You and the person who met Diana win. (so far) nt

[AngryAmish]

236. Have you ever seen "Caddyshack"?

[fleabert]

257. many many moons ago...why? did I miss something? nt

[AngryAmish]

263. Yes

Carl, the groundskeeper tells a story about looping in the Himalayas and getting the Dali Lama.

[arwalden]

76. Harry Wayne Casey ("KC"), Pat Summerall, Ben Cardin, Wally Schirra

[Vinca]

77. This is for all you oldies out there.

Mal Evans, the Beatles road manager; Peter and Gordon (kissed Gordon); went to school with the Ohio Express ("Yummy, Yummy, Yummy"); knew the Music Explosion ("Little Bit O' Soul") and some of the Lemon Pipers ("Green Tambourine"). I'm sure there were others, but we were pretty stoned at the time. :rofl:

[redqueen]

78. Dennis Kucinich - got my book signed

or one of these people, not sure if they're famous enough :)

Adam West - got hit on :eyes:
Ron Perlman - introduced (he looks mean)
Roy Dotrice - nice guy - met
Edward Albert Jr. - hung out with (cool guy!)
Jay Acovone - eh - met
Ren Woods - nice guy - hung out with for a bit
Jo Anderson - met
Armin Shimerman - met
David Greenlee - nice guy - hung out with for a bit
Dave Abbruzzese - hung out and watched him jam with friends pre-pearl jam days
Tony Dorsett - heh... childhood friend of old boss... he's a funny guy

There's some more I'm forgetting I know it...

[colinmom71]

233. I'm gonna guess...

That you were a fan of "Beauty and the Beast"? ;)

*Sigh!* Now that's a show I want on DVD....

[redqueen]

247. Heh nah, dated someone who did artwork for the fans, though.

I've only seen one or two episodes. However I've heard from lots of people all over the world that it's a fantastic show. :hi:

[malta blue]

80. hard to pick who is most famous...

Queen Elizabeth & the Queen MUM(garden party at the palace...passed on the Charles and Di line figuring they would be there the next time.

Tony Blair

Paul Wellstone was my undergrad advisor at Carleton College

Hunter S. Thompson

Isabel Sanford (Weezy from the Jeffersons) on line at an LA DMV when I was 6

David Crosby

Dave Matthews

Trent Reznor (NIN)...took him to the dog park on a tour stop in Louisville

Tori Amos

Felton Spencer (NBA player)

Jerry Garcia & Phil Lesh backstage at a show the summer Jerry died.

David Gilmour in Israel

I'm sure there are more....

[LynneSin]

82. Depends on what type of famous people - I've met plenty

Politics: I've met Howard Dean. I also have a picture of myself with PA governor Ed Rendell.

Music: I met Billy Idol last month in Austin and even gave him a hug (I'm still not sure why, but everyone else was)

Baseball: I spent a night drinking with Barry Larkin, Jose Rijo and a few other players from the Cincinnati Reds. I also got to try on Rob Dibble's World Series ring (that thing was massive - bigger than my thumb)

Football: Spent a few nights drinking with Rich Gannon; however, he was like a backup,backup QB for the Vikings and who knew a QB from UDel would be that good :shrug:

[LiberallyInclined]

83. Al Gore and/or Oprah and/or Leon Spinks and/or Walter Payton

nt

[Wapsie B]

85. Jack Anderson

The newspaper columnist.

[doubleplusgood]

87. Monte Markham

Around 1970 or so, I went down to the corner to pick up a pizza at Tony's Bellavista in Burbank, CA. I opened the front door & walked into the lobby, at which point a guy with a nice looking girl on his arm, thrust out his hand to me & said, "Hi, I'm Monte Markham"...

[tammywammy]

88. I rode in an elevator with some New York Knicks once

It was in San Antonio, they were there for a pre-season game. I think one of them was really famous, but I don't really keep up with things concerning sports. My friends and I got on the elevator and noticed there were some really really tall guys on there. Anyways, we got to the lobby and there were all these people waiting to get the players autographs.

When I worked at Six Flags in their customer service dept we hooked up Lauren Hill with tickets to come in. So she gave us free tickets (awesome seats) to her concert the next night.

When I was like 10 I was in the Reba McEntire fan club and got to meet her after one of her concerts.

Oh, and a really good friend of mine is in a band, which is releasing their first album in June, and so one day he'll be really really famous and I can say I knew him when.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

92. The most famous? Very few, I'm afraid...

I like to go to book signings, so I've met some authors:


Dick Francis (the English ex-jockey who wrote mysteries involving jockeys)

Jonothan Kellerman (the Alex Delaware books)

And my personal favorite, a local boy made good:

JOHN MORGAN WILSON (known him for years; wrote Blind Eye and others) He also started a local paper called the Easy Reader which I used to write for, and which is still going on.

[ikojo]

93. Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir

A couple of friends and I embarked from Chicago to Cleveland in March 1993 to see the Grateful Dead. This was during a blizzard. The closer we got to Cleveland the less traffic there was because roads had been closed and others had been warned not to travel. The only vehicles we saw were cops and other Deadheads.

The first night's show was cancelled due to extreme temperatures and snow conditions.

We were supposed to meet a friend of a friend and stay with her in her hotel room, at a Holiday Inn. Well when we got to Cleveland we could not get in touch with her. One of the people with me knew someone who was staying at the Ritz Carlton. She called him and he said we could come up.

In order to get to the guest rooms at the Cleveland Ritz you took the elevator to the lounge level and then crossed the hall to get the elevators leading to the guest rooms. Well as we were walking across the hall we glanced into the bar and saw some people we knew, so we tried to go in but were held back because only guests could go in at the time. We were able to see two persons of interest sitting at the bar.

It was at that moment that we decided to stay at the Ritz! We checked in and took our things to the room and immediately adjourned to the lounge. One of my friends went up to the bar and said something to Jerry so I piggybacked on his conversation and thanked Jerry and Bobby for all the good times I had.

They were very gracious. Phil Lesh was there as well but he was at a table and not the bar so I did not approach him.

I was on cloud nine for WEEKS! Little did I know that when I returned to work I was going to be laid off but hey, I met JERRY GARCIA!

[trof]

97. God. Story follows.

I saw Him at a Bill Frist meet-up.
I asked Him what he was doing there.
He said "I would ask you the same."
I said "Just checking out the wingnuts.
Wondering what makes them tick."
He said "Me too."

[mcscajun]

99. In no particular order...Alex Trebek, Jason Carter, Zachary Richard,

and Steve Riley (of Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys).

Alex Trebek when I was on Jeopardy (and won). :woohoo:

Jason Carter (of Babylon 5) on a porch chit-chat during a con. I correctly pegged his age on a guess, and startled him somewhat. I also had a very late-night phone call from him that same weekend. Get your minds outta the gutter! B-)

Zachary Richard, a well-known Cajun singer-songwriter; I met him at a little club in Piermont, NY.

Steve Riley, another Cajun musician, at various venues; I even got a hug from him when I visited down in LA. :)

These folks aren't on the caliber of many of the other posters, but hey, we can't all be extremely fortunate.

[lpbk2713]

100. Spoke with Jeb Bush for a few minutes.

Oh, never mind. The thread says famous not infamous.

Needless to say I'm not real proud of it.

[MrScorpio]

101. Here's a list of people that I've met in the past

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=2384824

[SoCalDem]

102. Pres.Eisenhower ..........and I played touch football with John Riggins

and Dorothy LaMour kissed me and sang a lullaby to me onstage (I was about a year old)

[Dees]

103. Johnny Rivers, Ann Margaret, Jack Danforth, Tony Dow..n/t

[ComerPerro]

104. Jon Fishman

His side project, Pork Tornado, was playing a concert here in Lawrence 2 years ago, and I got to meet him at the venue since it was so small. Nice guy

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

105. Juan Pablo Montoya

[Parche]

106. met

John Kerry
Martin Short
Bernadette Peters
Clyde Drexler
David Wu (My congressman)

[WilliamPitt]

107. Bill Clinton, Muhammad Ali, Jesse Jackson, Timothy Leary, Ted Kennedy

Steven Colbert, they guy who plays Toby on West Wing, Joseph Wilson, Gary Hart, John Kerry, Chris Heinz, Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich, Wesley Clark, John Edwards, Al Franken, Art Spiegelman, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Frank Rich, Eric Alterman, Jacob Weisberg, Jonathan Alter, the drummer from the Pixies whose name I forget, Bruce Hornsby (sans Range), Peter Jennings, Ted Koppel, and some little short guy who sings in a band called 'Ewe Two' or something.

Yeah, I get around. :)

[GirlinContempt]

110. -10 points

for forgetting David Lovering's name

[jobycom]

111. Will, you could stopped after the first three and we'd have still been

duly impressed. And in awe. And jealous.

Anyway, you left off GOPisEvil. He's got to be more famous than the drummer for the Pixies. :-)

[yvr girl]

115. You forgot me!

That's quite a list.

[SmileyBoy]

130. Have you met Kleeb yet??

He's pretty famous.;)

[JohnKleeb]

154. Did he?

I got drunk at his place :).

[jobycom]

108. I worked for Ralph Yarborough, met Ann Richards. Grew up by Brett Favre

Actually, Brett Favre grew up near me, so I ran into him a couple of times. My best friend's sister had a crush on him. I remember her once telling us all that "He thinks he's so good because he plays quarterback. He only plays because his daddy's the coach!"

I worked for Ralph Yarborough just before he passed away, for about nine months. Great man. The stories I've read about Paul Wellstone make me think they were similar people.

And I met Ann Richards at the Governor's Mansion once, at Ralph Yarborough's 90th birthday party.

I also worked in a store in Dallas where I met Roger Staubach, Ed Jones, Edie Brickell, Ross Perot, and even George W. Bush, but it was more like seeing them than meeting them.

[GirlinContempt]

109. Hmmm... most pop-culture famous? Green Day

I spent a weekend with them.

[sugar magnolia]

112. Shawn Eckhardt

Remember the guy who whacked Nancy Kerrigan's leg?

I was at a little dive bar playing shuffleboard and he was there.

[HeeBGBz]

113. A few that I remember

Pat Paulsen - I told him he was my hero. I would always vote for him.

Freddie King - Awesome bluesman.

Mick Fleetwood - I told him he wasn't really him. Dummass moment 4 me.

Josh Groban - Schweet.

Queen - In a bar.

Eric Estrada - Way flirty.

Bob Eubanks - My coworker had a wicked crush on him.

Mel Tillis - Nice guy.

John Loudermilk - Wrote Tobacco Road.

[MrMonk]

114. Madonna (when she was 17)

[MrScorpio]

116. I met Will Pitt and David Brock

But I only got to hug Pitt

[Rabrrrrrr]

118. Philip Glass, Mario Cuomo, Desmund Tutu, Henry Kravis, and I used to

talk to John Corzine's secretary a lot about the time he was running for Senate, though I never met him.

Also Dick Fuld (CEO of Lehman Brothers), and Sigourney Weaver.

[Rabrrrrrr]

121. Oh, and James Levine! Met him in the parking lot of the Met

before the world premiere of Glass' "The Voyage". I happened to be with someone who knew Levine, and we just bumped into him.

[Seabiscuit]

119. Mickey Mantle, Leonard Bernstein, Michael Crichton, Martin Mull,

Arthur Rubenstein, Aldo Cicolini, Muhammed Ali, Jane Fonda, Pete Stark, John Burton, Phil Burton, George Moscone, Willy Brown, Diane Feinstein, Harvey Milk, Honey Bruce, Huey Newton, Jerry Garcia, Grace Slick, Vincent Bugliosi, Frankie Avalon, Jerry Springer, Cameron Diaz, Denzell Washington and Tony Bennett.

In that order.

Chronologically.

Only Michael Chrichton and Martin Mull weren't famous yet when I met them (in high school).

It's taken me a few edits: it took awhile to realize I'd met so many. I guess that's the kind of thing that can happen to you when you live to be an old fart, and then you begin forgetting about things like this.

I would forego meeting all of the above for the opportunity to have been Howard Dean's campaign manager (with the benefit of hindsight).

[Seabiscuit]

264. OMG! Forgot Martin Luther King, Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola,

Summer Sanders, and Carole King.

[koopie57]

122. Hubert Humphrey

My daddy died in 1962 and I was five years old. I remember a very tall gentleman (he was tall to me at the time, but everyone was) reach down and shake my hand and look into my eyes and say he was sorry my daddy died. There was a crowd around us (at the time it seemed huge) and I remember thinking about that man often. I asked my mom who he was and she said Hubert Humphrey. She said that he always said if it weren't for my dad he wouldn't be where he was today cuz my dad helped him get through Latin. I don't know, I was going to check out where he went to college to see if it fit, cuz my mom was never really right after my dad died, but I tend to believe it is true.

I also talked to Allen Shephard on the telephone and with Mr. Wizard's agent on the phone.

[johnnie]

123. THE most famous?

I guess everyone is listing everyone they have met. I haven't met too many that are famous except to me.
I did shake hands with Clinton. I worked with the Stones and Dylan, but didn't really meet them meet them.
My most famous would probably be (that I actually spoke more than a few words to) would be Paul Butterfield. See... who's he right?..lol.

[Beaverhausen]

125. All the members of Yes, Bonnie Raitt, AntonioVillaragosa...

Al Franken, Dawn Wells, Al Stewart, Jorma Kaukonen, Jane Siberry...god I'm forgetting people but those are a few.

some of course are more famous than others...

[DawgHouse]

126. I met Bill Clinton a couple of times

when he was the gov, not president. He was so good at getting out and meeting the people around the state.

[xmas74]

127. I don't know. Depends on famous.

Todd Park Mohr (from Big Head Todd and the Monsters), Dave Matthews, Billy Joe Armstrong, John Popper, Buster Brodie (incredible harmonica player-and he was just a little one when I met him).
I have met a few senators and congresspersons, along w/ our former governor Mel Carnahan and I have met his wife Jean. I (ok, don't flame me please) met former president Bush Sr. when I was a teenager (and wasn't impressed). I have met Donald Trump (real asshole). I met Al Molinaro from Happy Days-he sang Happy Birthday to my aunt at a restaurant in my old hometown (I think that he wanted some cake). Supposedly I have met Orson Welles but was too young to remember it (but would have loved to have remembered that!) Same thing w/ John Belushi (too young to remember it). My friend Jay has met a ton of people and has a few of the pics to prove it (he's a studio drummer). He says that I have met other people when I used to visit him but I was either too drunk or high to remember or I just didn't know who they were. I'll ask him sometime.

[hyphenate]

128. I can't pick out any one

in particular, because I've worked at a studio, and met quite a few people through work. I've also attended many conventions (SF) over a 30 year+ span, and met quite a few through them as well.

I guess, for me, the one I had wanted to meet the most, was Rod Taylor. I have had a crush on Rod since I was 15, so it was a huge thrill to meet him.

My brother drove me to the airport once, and we met Lyle Alzado at the airport. Chris knew who it was; I had no idea. Also saw Katherine Helmond at the airport once as well.

When we were in one particular office, one of the producers of a couple of TV shows was in the suite, and he used to have casting come through on occasion. I met Robert Foxworth, Roger Rees and Michael Ironside there, as well as quite a few more people (including William Sanderson, who was on the Bob Newhart show--he really is a very soft-spoken gentleman!) through the year and a half we were there.

We were at an awards show once, and I met Richard Kiley, who I was able to talk with for a moment. I told him that several years earlier, I had him sing "The Impossible Dream (my favorite song!) directly to me, when were at a performance of "Man of La Mancha" and we were in the front row, center. It was fun.

Many others through the years as well. A lot of them "famous" but a lot of them more famous in some circles, and not others.

[hyphenate]

129. Oooh, I forgot!

We were in New York City around 1985, I think it was, and we went to an off Broadway production (on its opening night) of Singing in the Rain, and I walked down the stairs afterward next to Dick Van Dyke. He is very tall. I asked him politely if he had liked the play, and he said it was different, at least (they actually had "rain" coming down during the dance number).

[progmom]

131. RevolutionaryActs04

Yep. Just about the most famous.

ok, and here are a few more:

Jesse Jackson
Patti Smith
Oprah (well, ok, I walked past her in the West Village)
Ethan Hawke
kd lang
Duran Duran
Kevin Bacon
the guy who played Greg Brady
Chaka Khan
Aretha Franklin
Joni Mitchell
Joan Baez
Miles Davis
Ella Fitzgerald
Sarah Vaughan
lots more

[GaYellowDawg]

132. Mostly sports people...

I met both Winston Dunn and Ned McWhorter when they were running for governor of TN. Dunn seemed kind of like a used car salesman and McWhorter was genuine, although I didn't like it when one of his staff cracked on Jimmy Carter. I was in charge of escorting them around campus at a junior college.

I asked Al Gore a question at a town hall meeting in Morristown when he was a senator from TN. I was a high school senior but he took the question completely seriously and I appreciated it. I also got to see him speak at the TN Intercollegiate St. Legislature in 1987. He was really genuine. It's a damn shame that he got cheated out of the Presidency. Without the immediate de-emphasis on terrorist funding, the focus on Iraq, and the obsession with a missle shield, we might have headed off 9/11.

I met Lillian Carter in 1976.

I've also met:

Ken Griffey (Sr.) - he was at a hotel where I was visiting a friend. Not very friendly.

These three were at a benefit golf tournament - they stayed at a hotel where I was a front desk clerk:

Dean Steinkuhler - Very friendly, especially after I told him that I remembered the Fumblerooski that Nebraska ran in the '84 Orange Bowl

Anthony Munoz - Also very friendly. Talked to me for some time.

Boomer Esiason - Not too friendly at all, but I think he was just having a bad day. Who knows?

I was also a TA for David Pollack, who was a recent 1st round draft pick out of UGA. He was always friendly.

Not exactly a sports figure, but I also met Bam Bam Bigelow when there was a WCW wrestling event in town. Really, really nice guy.

[rainy]

133. Henri Mancini and Joe Theisman

They came to a restaurant that I was working in years ago.

[LizW]

134. George Wallace was the most famous person I ever met.

But I also met Dizzy Gillespie while he was eating dinner at a friend of mine's house. He was sitting at the kitchen table, eating chicken and stuff.

[Longgrain]

136. Former Red Sox pitcher Bill "the Space Man" Lee

At an autograph signing about 15 years ago.

My dad did get to me both Ted Williams and Fats Domino tho.

[NoPasaran]

137. The Big Dog

Just today, at a book signing.

[Sacajawea]

138. James Watson and Barbara McClintock (both Nobel laureates)

Richard Roberts and Phil Sharp, too (also Nobel winners).

Back when I worked at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (NY).

:woohoo:

[Sacajawea]

139. And I had dinner with The Animals, circa 1964!!!

Top that!!!!! (Shades of "House of the Rising Sun")!

[SW FL Dem]

140. It's hard to say

I've met many political figures, including Jimmy Carter, George McGovern, John Kerry, John Edwards. I ran into many celebs when I lived in LA. Chevy Chase lived nearby and I saw him at a Christmas tree lot. He told me my kid was adorable :). I saw Rodney Dangerfield in his bathrobe when he came to the office I worked in for a deposition. I met many NBA players at a fund raiser, including Magic Johnson, Isiah Thomas and Larry Bird.

[Squeegee]

141. Let's see...

I met Jane Fonda two weeks ago during her book tour.

I talked with the band members of Metallica backstage at the 1999 Bay Area Music awards (actually, the California Music Awards).

I shook Bill Clinton's hand when he was campaigning in Seattle way back in 1991.

[TK421]

143. Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes and 812 Wiernowski from Clerks

[SmileyBoy]

183. Oh man, I would do ANYTHING to meet those guys...

I LOVE their movies!!!

[TK421]

266. Kevin Smith is SUPER nice, Jason Mewes talks just like he does

in the movies. About four years ago, me and some friends took a Clerks pilgrimage to Leonardo, New Jersey ( thats the town it was filmed in ). We took pictures of me holding up Navy Seals at RST Video and the guy working at the quick stop let us behind the counter to take a picture. We also met Walt Flanagan at Jay and Silent Bob's Secret stash. It was a blast.

[njdemocrat106]

274. I've been to the Quick Stop many a time

I sure live close enough to it (about 35 minutes away from me).

[TK421]

281. Neat little town, but I'm sure the locals are sick of people

asking them all kinds of questions about the movie;-)

[nuxvomica]

144. RFK

[ariesgem]

145. During my years working as a dresser on the fashion show curcuit

in Los Angeles, I worked with and met quite a few. Backstage at fashion shows, each model is assigned a dresser. The dresser helps the models get in/out of their quick changes and hangs up the clothes when their done.

I worked with or met the following -

Naomi Cambell - Worked with once, NEVER AGAIN. (after the show she wanted me to carry her bags to the car!)

Kate Moss - Worked with once, very nice

Tyra Banks - Worked with once, very nice

Vivica Fox - Worked with once, in San Diego a few years ago when the Superbowl was in Cali. There was a celebrity fashion show given the day before the event. I was assigned to be her dresser.

Jane Seymore - Worked with once, very nice

Hugh Heffner (Nordstoms had a charity fashion show in his backyard at the mansion)

Dean Kain- Worked with once - THE BOY IS FINE!

Magic Johnson/Elizabeth Taylor (They do an aids benefit fashion show every year for Macys called Passport)

Will Smith

Calvin Klein

Kate Hudson - (the show was held in the backyard of Goldie Hawn)

Anthony Keidis (Chili Peppers played at an aids benefit)

Mick Jagger - (The Rolling Stones came out with their signature line of clothes and held a show in Beverly Hills. He came back stage and thanked the crew)

Oprah Winfrey (Years ago she did her show in L.A. for a week and had one show featuring the year's new swimsuits. We had to dress the swimwear models). Cindy Crawford, Lauren Hutton and Daisy Fuentes were her guests.

Fran Dresser (spelling?) - If there's a fashion show in L.A, you'll find her there.

Florence Henderson - Like Fran, if there's a fashion show in L.A., you'll find her there

Nancy Regan

Valerie Harper

Here in L.A., if you work with a crew that caters to special events (catering, security, production, tents/stage/props, valet etc..) celebrity encounters are common place.

[Dukkha]

147. Just 2 weeks ago: George Lucas

also from Star Wars:
Carrie Fisher
Billie Dee Williams
Anthony Daniels
Dave Prowse
Jeremy Bulloch
Peter Mayhew
Kenney Baker
Ray Park

also:
Linda Blair
Joe Montana
Flea
The Edge & Larry Mullen Jr
Trent Reznor
David Crosby
Jerry Brown
Bruce Campbell
Sean Astin
Lou Ferrigno
June Lockhart

and if a motorcade counts: Bill Clinton

[MrsMatt]

148. In my previous line of work

I used to meet many classical musicians, when I worked for a very well-known chamber orchestra (Yo-Yo Ma, Pinchas Zuckerman, etc.), and I frequently meet stage actors through my husband's line of work in freelance theatre (Chris Mulkey, Kristin Chenoworth, etc.) but the encounter that is most meaningful to me is when I received communion from Desmond Tutu at Westminster Abbey during the Easter season in 2004.

[Blue-Jay]

149. Dizzy Gillespie. I win.

I was introduced by a mutual friend in 1988.

If you've ever wondered how cool he is, you should overestimate and multiply that by 100. I was a mere undergraduate music major at the time, and Diz spent over a half-hour asking me questions about my studies, my professors, my influences, my goals.... The great thing was that he actually seemed interested in what I was saying. He told me that nothing was more important than playing the kind of music that you love, no matter what the genre is. He was like a monk or a prophet or something.

Lovely man.

[Chomskyite]

211. I dont think the greatness of Dizzy can ever be overstated

He was a giant in music. Every bit the equal of Charlie Parker or Duke Ellington. I rate him above Miles Davis and John Coltrane, too.

[progmom]

216. I met him 3 times. I win!

I met him when I was 16, 17, and 18.

He was always very kind to me. The first time I met him, I had just read his autobiography (I was the geekiest of 16 year-olds!). I saw that he had gotten hit by a car in Geneva NY, and spent time in the Geneva General Hospital, which is where I was born and spent a little time when I was in 1st grade. I sat at a table with him for 20 minutes or more laughing about Upstate NY. He was awesome.

What I loved about him, besides his very serious approach to music, was his amazing sense of humor. And he always had a sparkle in his eye - like he had three or four more little bon mots he was holding back.

Ray Brown and I talked about Diz one of the last times I saw him. He and I agree - Diz should be worshipped at least as much as Bird is for what he did in jazz.

[sir_captain]

277. I performed at his memorial service

I win!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

150. Bono or willie nelson

4 years ago and last fall, respectively

[youthere]

151. This is so pathetic..

I met a guy who lost a bid for the Iowa House.

[Name removed]

153. Deleted message

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[Bzzzz]

155. All the way from Bill Russell to...

Buddy Ebsen. I've met the gambut. But, the most interesting I'll have to admit was Kenny 'Babyface' Edmonds.
I was snowed in on a flight from Chicago to Indy...no change of clothes...It was suppose to be a quick trip to Chicago to meet w/attorneys for my company and back to Indy. Snowstorm hits...I'm stranded at O'Hare for 2 days...end up on a plane back to Indy sitting beside 'Babyface'...what a gentleman.

[baldguy]

156. Jack Kemp

And Irv Weinstein

[bettyellen]

157. jackie o, smoking in the girl's room, mick jagger blew me a kiss from the

back of his cab, andy warhol a bunch of times, ethan cohen (of the brothers) i got to talk to a long time and i kissed ray charles, which was awesome.

[Sugar Smack]

158. Betty Friedan, regrettably.

I'd have done the whole thing over if I could. She was horrible, and rude, and treated her assistants like shit.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

159. Last Christmas Senator Graham was in the Keys

on his last day in office, doing public service in the form of wrapping Christmas presents for underpriveleged kids. I was there wrapping away, when all of a sudden a hundred reporters from Miami descended on the place. I tried to sneak out the back door, but since I was the only one in the room wearing a Santa hat, they chose me to stand next to him, and the next day, there we were, the Senator and I on the front page of the Miami Herald. My face was as red as the Santa hat!

[Amonester]

161. Celine Dion

[LTR]

254. Is she really the "vorld's greatest zinger"

as they say on SNL?

[Reverend_Smitty]

162. I need to get out more!

You guys get to meet all the famous people

I've met Al Franken, Bill Bradley, Jon Corzine

the rest have all been baseball people Bob Feller and Bob Gibson are the only 2 hall of famers that come to mind

[iconoclastic cat]

163. Chip Z'nuff.

Don't ask.

[Jara sang]

164. Angie Dickenson

[sharonking21]

165. Lyndon Johnson, . .

Lady Bird Johnson, Lynda Byrd Johnson, George Hamilton, Sam Houston Johnson, Wes Clark, John Kerry, Teresa Heinz Kerry, Tom Poston, Johnny Horton, Donnie Brooks, Carlos Montoya, William F. Buckley, one of the Brothers Four but cannot remember which one.

[KeepItReal]

166. Muhammad Ali

He was the first and only star I've met that *really* had me in awe/impressed/humbled.

He was with folks in ATL's Cheesecake Factory. He (and his people) was nice enough to let my date date take a picure with him. (She asked them before I could tell her to leave them alone!!) Next thing I know someone asked me if I wanted to take one with him also... Damn camera refused to flash! :mad:

[mtnsnake]

167. John F Kennedy when I was a little kid

My dad took me to the Dutchess County Airport in NY, where Kennedy was flying in to make a campaign stop at that small airport. My dad put his sunglasses on, waited until the plane landed, and then walked right up to it like he was a VIP or something as JFK got off, and he greeted Kennedy as he stepped off. Then Kennedy walked right by me and I stuck out my little hand and he shaked it and said "Hi" to me!

Imagine trying something like that nowadays where you'd walk right up to the plane with the future president on it.

Kennedy was absolutely worshipped, even when he was just campaigning to be president, and everyone in my family told me I shouldn't ever wash my hand again after it got shook by JFK.

[Bossy Monkey]

169. Is Pat Buchanan famous?

He came to my Poli Sci 198-1 seminar at Penn. He and I got in an argument about integration. He raised his voice first, which is supposed to mean that I won. Subsequently, though, I figured out that it just means he's a bully.

[alittlelark]

170. i met John Kerry... but I almost got run over by Queen Elizabeth's

'chariot' in Edinburgh about 8 years ago. It was during the meeting of all of the old empire colonies that happens every 10 years. Hubby and I needed to get tickets from a station that was 2 blocks from the meeting that day.....roads blocked and misdirected everywhere... no parking w/in a mile or so....UGLY.. We had been driving around for over an hour trying to get even close.... I snapped, and said 'Just Let me out, I'll find you on this road in 20 minutes or so!'

I was feeling in a gripy mood and start stomping off to the station. I did the classic American 'look left first' as I pushed through a crowd to get to the station - I stepped out into the road about 4 steps a motorcycle had to swerve to miss me. It was part of her motorcade... Bottom line - I made eye contact w/ the queen - I was probably 6 feet from the the coach - she looked at me w/ minimal shock, and didn't stop waving. I stood there for another 10 seconds or so in shock.

I did get the tickets, and had a non-stop smile for 2-3 days afterwards.

[El Fuego]

171. This is really really SAD

But I have to say this guy, who was in MTV's Jackass, who is a friend of a friend.

[Radical Activist]

172. Al Franken. Al Gore.

I guess those are the most famous.

[charlyvi]

173. Mick Jagger, Brian Jones.

Met them backstage before their concert in Chicago, 1968, at the Arie Crown theater.

[SmileyBoy]

174. I didn't realize this thread would become so popular.

Keep 'em coming folks!!!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

176. Peter Frampton.

I did the maintenance on his home landscaping irrigation system-- I can truthfully say I hung out at Peter Frampton's poolside. Nice man. Very down to earth-- no Superstar Syndrome about him at all.

[nevergiveup]

177. I once spent 30 minutes with Richard Nixon

I was 19 at the time and he was arrogant and condescending.

[SmileyBoy]

179. No.... Not NIXON????

The HELL you say...:):):)

[katinmn]

178. I met John Kerry this Tuesday

that's the most recent.

[mondo joe]

180. Howard Dean or Tommy Thompson

thank goodness I didn't have to shake GW's hand.

[elshiva]

181. M. Shawn Copeland, theologian and professor at Boston College

She gave a talk at our Religious Studies Circle and she sat at my table. Lovely personality and extremely smart.

[yewberry]

182. MOST famous? Stallone.

Whadda jerk.

Also Angie Eberhart, Ray Liotta, "Mean" Joe Green, Brendan Frazer, Dave Matthews, Stone Gossard, the dudes from REM, Dale Chihuly, the English guy from "The Jeffersons," some random politicians.

Waitress, not hoi polloi.

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

184. *SWEETNESS* Walter Payton

I was lucky enough to work in same building with him for 2 years. Amazong human being, he was... RIP, pal - yes, we agreed that the Cowboys sucked ass!

[coffeenap]

185. Andre Sakharov, Pierre Trudeau, ROBT. MCNAMARA (!)

[Ksec]

186. Cher, Kurt Russell, Muhamed Ali, lots of sports figures

and John Kerry

[Az]

187. Richard Dawkins and Stephen J Gould

Seperate occaisions. Having them in the same room at the same time would have been dangerous.

Got to meet Stephen J Gould during a speech on evolution vs creationism. Shook hands, quick chat, typical stuff.

Got to talk with Prof Dawkins a bit more. During an atheist convention he was present to speak. After his speech he hung out with a few of us and even went to the zoo (Chicago) with us. To really see a zoo go with a world class biologist. It takes on a whole new meaning.

[satya]

228. "Typical stuff" with Stephen J Gould? I'd have been speechless. n/t

[graywarrior]

189. I talked with Dennis Kucinich (we have a mutual friend)

I met Willie Nelson
Peter Wolfe of J.Geils
Went to high school with Boston (band)
Edgar Winter
I promoted concerts in the 70's so I met lots of bands.

[Lorien]

193. I dunno-Michael Jackson? Henry Kissinger?

Jimmy Carter? Brittany Spears? George Lucas? I used to work in a film studio, so I met lots of people. :shrug:

[samplegirl]

194. Paul Newman

signed a six pack

[katamaran]

195. I swapped butt germs with Captain Picard

My dad worked with the woman who used to run Patrick Stewart's fan club. She asked him to be the fan club's photographer for a few months in 1991...conventions and such. As payment, the club paid for all four of us (mom, dad, sis and me) to go to NYC to see a Patrick Stewart play. We got to sit at the table up front and when he made his rounds, he sat right between me and my sister and talked to us for a good while. Later on, we all got to go up to his suite, where my 13 year old little bladder went into overload. He let me use his bathroom :D

So I swapped butt germs with Captain Picard. We're that close.

[Burma Jones]

196. Well

Jerry Garcia
Maynard Ferguson
Dizzy Gillespie
Miles Davis
Bill "Count" Basie
Muddy Waters
Isaac Stern
Kelly McGillis
Stacey Keach
Vanessa Williams (our kids went to Little Gym together)
Peter Schickele (PDQ Bach)
Ravi Shankar
Itzhak Perlman
David Bromberg
Edward Albee
Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Martha Stewart

Bunch of others


I knocked Barbara Mikulski over at the Preakness one year

[A HERETIC I AM]

197. Paul Newman, A.J.Foyt, Mario Andretti..........

Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top)
Alice Cooper (About 3 weeks ago)
Al Unser Sr
Al Unser Jr.
Rick Mears (4 time Indy 500 winner)
Walter Payton
Dozens of other famous race car drivers (I've worked in the biz for 12 years)
Reggie Jackson (He was a dick)
Mary Lou Retton (She was a doll)


I guess Paul Newman would have to be the most famous.

[Twillig]

287. I dunno, Mario was world champion.

He's about the only person on the planet I'd ask for an autograph.

(nevermind the political opinions)

[yellowdogintexas]

198. Retired Speaker of the House Jim Wright: he is the sweetest guy!

Earl Scruggs (actually went to his house once) he is a very nice man.

Met Chet Atkins in an elevator in Nashville.

[margaritamama]

199. My husband

He is as famous as I ever want to get!

[the Princess]

200. Darlene Cates

She played the mother in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape". And she is just one step away from Johnny Depp. LOL WOO HOO

[HEyHEY]

201. No Idea, you tell me

Dan Barry
Warren Moon
Mike Pinera
Gordon Campbell
Dick Dale
Gino Odjick


That's all I can think of at the moment.

[RetroLounge]

202. No one all that famous

Al Jourgenson of Ministry - We were in the studio at the same time.

The 2 guitarist/singers from The Bodeans and The Bassist from the Violent Femmes. Hell, if you lived in Milwaukee on the east side in the 80's you would see them at a bar all the time.

I got a few feet from Howard Dean and John Kerry, but never "met" them.

I've met some authors and poets while I was in grad school, but their names have fallen down the memory hole...

RL

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

203. BRIAN RITCHIE???!!?!?!?

oh my!! I am the biggest Femmes fan ever! I was front row at the Rave in December. I proposed marriage to Gordon Gano, but he didn't hear me x(.

[RetroLounge]

234. Brain Ritchie lived across the street from me

When I moved here. I used to see him all the time. No big deal, just another musician on the East Side.

RL

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

242. Wow. I am... in AWE!!!

[RetroLounge]

248. He used to walk around the neighborhood playing a Banjo.

I just thought he was another freak...

RL

[Maestro]

267. Love Ministry and the Bodeans

How was Sammy?

[Maestro]

268. Carlos Fuentes

Mexican intellectual and author.

Carlos Fuentes

[SarahB]

204. I had a good one a couple days ago.

It involves work and I'd get my ass fired if I breach confidentiality, but it was good. :thumbsup:

[TahitiNut]

205. Louella Parsons, Annette Funicello, Cesar Romero, Prince Phillip, ...

... Margaret Thatcher, Governor Soapy Williams, Roger Staubach, Claiborne Pell, James Martin, Ken Iverson, Grace Hopper, Gerald Ford (rope line), JFK (sideboy), Ed Cole, etc. etc. etc.

[Liberal In Texas]

225. Ooooh Annette....

I'm so jealous.

[TahitiNut]

245. Well, it was before she was famous. She was my 4th Grade ...

... playground "girlfriend." :shrug:

[GreenPartyVoter]

206. Ummm Mary Grace Canfield I guess

[borlis]

208. Bobby Hull and Brett Hull

We used to see them all the time when I was a kid. Bobby was really good friends with my uncle and cousin and they would come to our family get togethers. I actually have a picture of me and Brett Hull playing in my sandbox when I was about 4. I saw Alex Trebek of Jeopardy in the Westin Hotel/Chicago. I was standing up in a wedding there and they were holding Jeopardy tryouts there that same weekend. I had a date with an old Chicago Blackhawk player, Ken Yaremchuk, but he blew me off. :cry: I was supposed to meet him after a game to go out and that night they had just lost 4 straight to the Maple Leafs and were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs. Needless to say, he really wasn't in a party mood. I was leaving for a Florida vacation the next day and he was going back to Canada for the summer. Over that summer he was traded to the Maple Leafs and I really didn't see him again. When my husband and I were dating we went away for the weekend to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin and saw the guys from ZZ Top in a restaurant. It was full of older people and when they saw us come in they hurried up and left.

[Terran]

210. Pat Buchanan

I checked him into the hotel where I work--does that count as "meeting" him? He seemed pleasant enough, a lot more so than many of the state politicians who stay there.

I guess if you're a Missourian, I've met lots of famous people--Becky Cook, lots of state reps and Senators, Lori Hauser Holden (Bob's First Lady), a very cool person.

[Chomskyite]

212. My collection of brushes with greatness

Shook Bill Clinton's hand in 1989 at an event in the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock. Interviewed Senator Dale Bumpers in person.

Met Ralph Nader, Al Franken, Henry Louis Gates and David Sedaris at book signings.

Got to meet Lucinda Williams, get CDs signed and chat after shows twice.

[barackmyworld]

214. John Edwards (pic)

[Left Is Write]

218. I'm not sure.

I met a ton of country music stars during my tenure at country radio, but I'm not sure how to rank them by fame. Among the more famous of them were Trisha Yearwood, Billy Ray Cyrus (back in his heyday, with that long mullet of his), Marty Stuart, and all the members of Sawyer Brown. The rest of the list is as long as your arm, and some of them even *I* have forgotten.

I also met several Minnesota politicians, including Rudy Boschwitz, Dave Durenberger, Paul Wellstone, and Mark Dayton. I suppose I'd better include Jesse Ventura in the "politicians" category. I'm also somewhat ashamed to admit I met and shook the hand of Norm Coleman. Yes, I washed the hand afterward.

I once stood just a few feet away from Prince and his entourage at The Fine Line Cafe in Minneapolis, but I didn't meet the man.

There's this niggling feeling in my brain that I'm forgetting someone who is a biggie.

[Rhiannon12866]

219. David Cassidy. Sorry, that's the best I've got.

I met him at Saratoga Race Track, because my mother was talking to him and introduced me. He was very nice and, I think, pleased to be recognized, since he was between careers, and also probably drunk. But he really couldn't have been nicer. I am much more impressed with those you've met, especially Walter Mondale, a great man.:shrug:

[the Princess]

237. *ACK*

Oh I had such a crush on David Cassidy when I was 14!!!!!!!!

[Rhiannon12866]

259. He was extremely nice and seemed pleased to be recognized

I wish you'd been with me.:D

[Liberal In Texas]

220. Issac Asimov ... not to name drop too much ...

Sir Arthur C. Clark
Clive Cussler
Richard Condon
Ann Rice
Jerry Lewis
Ed McMahon
Vincent Price
Fergi (Princess or something?)
The Dixie Chicks
Sen. George McGovern
Vice-President Ford
Carl Sagan
Loren Greene
Coach Tom Landry
Garrison Keillor
Walter Cronkite
Connie Chung
Ann Richards
Dick Cavett
Gary Busey
Judge Judy
H. Ross Perot
Mr Food
Jane Seymour (what a fine looking woman in person!)
Gordon McCrae
-All of Mannheim Steamroller; Chip, Jackson, Almeda, etc.-
Sen. Jim Exxon
Peter Citron, Tom and Mary Harvey (Franklin Cover-Up)
Igor Sikorsky, Jr. (son of the father of the helicopter)
Mindi Abar (Sax)
Dennis Means (AIM)
Curtis Sliwa and his wife (Guardian Angels)
Harold Sakata (Oddjob, Bond movies)

and Issac Hayes


- and a host of lesser known people and ones I can't remember...

[fleabert]

232. Damn! nt

[Kurovski]

221. Katherine Hepburn. n/t

[LibDemAlways]

223. I met Jimmy Carter and Al Gore briefly at

book signings. I once shook hands in church with Martin Sheen during the "sign of peace."

[Hardrada]

224. The Democratic Presidential Candidates of last 25 years

They all come to Iowa for our caucuses. Others:
Robert Bly, Arnold Toynbee, the current Lord Acton, Frederick Pohl, Jack Vance, Elia Kazan, Admiral O.M Hustvedt (commander of North Atlantic US battleship group in WWII, grandfather of a good friend of mine), Ted Berrigan (later beat era poet), Martin Luther King, Jr.

[NewJeffCT]

238. wow, good list

That last one, especially...

[Starbucks Anarchist]

226. George W. Bush

I was in my freshman year of high school at the time (1994) in Texas. Bush was running for governor back then against Ann Richards, and he decided to make a stop at my school. He showed up 20 or so minutes late, which was odd, considering his reputation for punctuality.

I don't remember the content of his speech, but I did get his autograph afterwards. I didn't get a chance to talk with him or shake his hand, but in retrospect, I'm glad I didn't. Back then, I had no interest in politics, but the day he took office in 2001, I knew there was a bad moon rising.

I still have that autograph somewhere and need to sell it on eBay ASAP.

[satya]

227. Ethan Hawke told me he liked my "BUCK FUSH" t-shirt at the Vote for Change

finale show in DC last year. And I finally met John Kerry last weekend.

Also a lot of rock and country performers during the late 70s/80s. The nicest was Dolly Parton.

[fleabert]

229. good question...nobody crazy famous...but

there's a few on my list, none for long, just brief hellos and that was mostly it. Except for David and coppola, I talked to them for a bit.

Several spurs basketball players-David Robinson was the most famous one

I went to high school and dated one of the guys on Desparate housewives (that doesn't count really, he wasn't famous then)

robert rodriguez
francis ford coppola
The bassist from Barenaked Ladies
all of the members in the bands Toad the Wet Sprocket and Matthew Sweet
Lance Bass and Joey Fatone (sp?) from NSync (I only went as a favor for a friend! long story, needless to say, it was awful- but they were nice enough)

You get to pick who is the most famous!

My dh has met a bunch of singers and bands, he worked at a venue...
Metallica, NSync, & Britney Spears are the ones I can remember, it was a bunch - concerts every weekend for two summers.

[AgadorSparticus]

230. Gina Gershon. It was after one of the Cabaret shows.

While she did sign my playbill, she was completely uninterested in people and because of that, it turned me off completely. It wasn't like there were throngs of people gushing after her. Her attitude & nonverbals just sucked.

I remembered thinking: if being famous means being that snobbish, then I could do without being ever famous. What a horrible way to live. I'm hoping she was just having a bad day. :shrug:

[GalleryGod]

240. Gina's a los-er! She probably turned down the Hatcher role

in Desperate Housewives :argh:

[terrya]

235. I took a picture of Doug, my b/f, and Stephen Sondheim.

It was right after the opening performance of Sondheim's latest show, "Bounce" at the Goodman Theater here in Chicago. Doug...who knows Sondheim....and I waited after the show was over. We walked upstairs and sort of crashed the cast party. Doug saw Sondheim and I took a picture of them together. Sondheim kept saying upon the picture taking "This isn't good...this isn't good". It was a nice picture. It was just as well that Doug didn't introduce us...I would probably been babbling or something.

I did get to meet Richard Kind, who starred in "Bounce". He's a very nice guy.

[GalleryGod]

239. The Kennedy Brothers

JFK when I was 10.

RFK, on April Fool's Day, 1968.

Teddy...a dozen times down through the years.







Big Dawg...3 times.

[Rhiannon12866]

260. WOW! Mother of God, I'm impressed.

Who are you, The Pope or Jimmy Carter?! Just kidding. Thanks for sharing.:-)

[NewJeffCT]

241. Joe DiMaggio, Bucky Dent, John Anderson, a ton of NBA guys

I met DiMaggio when I was really young at the then Sammy Davis Jr Greater Hartford Open golf tournament. Probably some time in the mid 70s.

Dent I met at an autograph signing when he was at his most popular - '79 or '80.

A few years back, I was in Florida & took a rental car shuttle to the airport and John Anderson, the moderate Republican who ran as an independent in 1980, was on the shuttle with me. Seemed really nice.

I've met a ton of NBA players before they were famous - Lamar Odom (nice kid); Antoine Walker (not so nice); Ray Allen (very nice); Stephon Marbury; Richard Hamilton; Elton Brand; Kobe Bryant; to name very few. I used to do some sportswriting on the side, so I met most of the top high school players of the 1990s.

[Tsiyu]

244. Pele

he came to the Pediatric hospital where I worked. When he walked in the door to greet everyone, he walked straight to me first, which totally freaked me out. He was sweet and in great shape for a man his age (this was in the late '80s).

Working in Radio, I met quite a few "famous" folk, even forgot to pot up Zel Miller's mike ( boy, am I not embarrassed about THAT anymore!) and met quite a few folks in my concert days- Zappa, Steve Miller....blah blah blah. And I had personal audience with Queen Beatrix. She hosted a bunch of Americans as a thank you to Carter for doing the same for the Dutch- celebrating our 200 years of peaceful relations ( 1982).

[galadrium]

246. John Kerry

[Lindsey]

250. President William Jefferson Clinton...

at his book signing - I have to say he was even more charismatic in person than he is on T.V.

[shrike]

251. Tim Allen

And Timothy Treadwell, the guy from Grizzly Diaries. The one who was attacked and killed by a bear in Alaska a few years ago. He was a great guy. It bothered the hell out of me what happened to him.

[lumpy]

252. Will Rogers and Wylie Post

This goes way back. Will Rogers shook my hand and with a big smile patted me on the head. I was 7 years old and was proud to have met the 'great man'. Post's plane was refueled at our dock on the Chena Slough in Fairbanks,Alaska before they took off on their trip further North that ended in tragedy. Most of you guys probably don't know who Rogers was. He was terribly popular as a social/ commentator/ humorist and made a few movies.

[happyphantom]

253. Prince Charles

....curtsied for him and he kissed my hand, I was five and was very impressed! Also Tori Amos, Johnny Ramone and Yogi Berra.

[LTR]

255. Tony Robbins, Verne Gagne, Gina Schock (Go-Go's drummer)

Robbins is the informercial guy. Co-star of "Shallow Hal".

Went to one of his seminars. Very friendly guy. Freakin' tall!

When I worked my way through school waiting tables, I served Verne Gagne, the legendary wrestler. He was pretty old, and pretty banged up. Nice guy, though.

Can't say the same for Ms. Schock. Attractive lady, but kinda snotty.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

256. What a fun question!

Sugar Ray Leonard at a high school football game, Kevin Costner at a bar in DC when he was in town filming "No Way Out," Larry King and Mike Wallace at National Airport (I refuse to call it Reagan National), Smokin' Joe Frazier at a party on Capitol Hill for NJ Dems, and Adam Sandler and Soupy Sales (who?!) at restaurants in NYC.

[khashka]

258. Paul Mc Cartney, O J Simpson.

Of course I have no tact. I told Paul and Linda how much cooler it would have been if I'd met George Harrison and asked OJ who was he and why was he supposed to be famous.

I've met a lot of lesser celebs. With equally less tact.

You can't take me anywhere.

Khash.

[NYsocialworker]

262. Picabo Street

John Amos, Boog Powell, Cal Ripken, Barry Sanders, David Dinkins, Alan Alda.

[Aiptasia]

265. George Bush senior, Kansas, Wayne Coyne, Jack Black, Robert Schuller, etc.

George Sr.: on the campaign trail in 1988 at my high school. I wrote for the school paper and was allowed to ask my two questions and shake his limp hand.

Kansas: My uncle owns a recording studio and did some booking for a local venue, and he enlisted me to roadie for a Kansas gig. Nice guys.

Wayne Coyne: Lead singer of the Flaming Lips @ the plex in Charleston, SC in 2003. Pre-concert hero worship. Very nice guy.

Jack Black: @ The Ritz in Raleigh 2002. Right after the "d" album came out but before it went big, they pulled a meet and greet after the show. I got to spring some "Bob Roberts" dialogue on him. He was impressed. Kyle Gass asked if my friend's fiancee was "made of love."

Robert Schuller: Parents were members of his Crystal Cathedral church in Garden Grove, C.A..

Others:

Dennis Hopper: During the filming of "Chasers" in my town. There's a film prop shop not more than 1/2 mile from my house that did a lot of work for Delaurentis studios in Wilmington, NC. Dennis was riding around my neighborhood on a WWII era harley while I was mowing my lawn one day. I waved. He stopped. He said, "like the bike?" I said, "of course, where's tom's?" (Tom Berringer was the lead in Chasers). Then he laughed, cranked it back up and rode off.

Aaron Freeman: Lead singer of the band Ween. Pre-concert 2004 in Asheville, NC. Wandering around the Blue Note record shop before the show, and there he is: digging for jazz vinyl. Shook hands, "love your music, see you tonight" and I let him be.

Michael Chang: Tennis star. I grew up with him in Yorba Linda, C.A.. We went to the same middle and high schools. Prick with a capitol "P."

Mickey Spillaine: Lives in my current hometown. Has a sports fishing tournament every year named after him. Shows up at our local Barnes and Noble from time to time (where I used to work).

Orson Scott Card: Lives in Greensboro, NC. Wrote "Ender's Game, Prentice Alvin, etc." Big time fiction writer. Very very large man (tall and wide) also stopped in for an impromptu book signing.

Vannah White's Dad: The postmaster general for Mytle Beach for decades. Haven't met Vannah, don't really care if I do or not.

[renegade000]

269. Buzz Aldrin

probably

[IntravenousDemilo]

270. Pick one

I'm one of those who have no fear of going up to famous people and introducing myself, egalitarian "starfucker" that I am, but it doesn't always happen that way. Here's a selected assortment:

Stephen Sondheim, a number of times as well as a lot of correspondence, and the last time with my wonderful boyfriend Terry who posts here. Terry took our picture, in fact. SS and I had known each other for years, but I had never had my picture taken with him.

Katharine Hepburn, totally by surprise the day after I'd met Sondheim, though she knew I was coming and seemed quite pleased with my reaction. Sondheim had given me an LP, and stupidly I left it behind at his townhouse, and he called to say that he had to catch a flight to Majorca, but he'd leave his gift with "the next-door neighbour". Nice practical joke, and she was of course in on it.

Spalding Gray, who, I guess ironically, asked me why I looked so depressed ("Why so glum, chum?") and then I explained that my wallet had been stolen the day before somewhere in Greenwich Village on the second day of an eight-day working vacation, and then almost exactly one year later in the lobby at The Best Man, where he signed my poster and remembered our conversation one year earlier.

Pete Seeger, whose birthday party I went to with this nice left-wing woman I'd just met after having my wallet stolen.

Ron Howard, Russell Crowe, Renee Zellweger over the space of a couple of weeks last year during the filming of Cinderella Man.

Joe Clark a few times, including at PC leadership conventions.

John Diefenbaker one Dominion day when I was a kid back in Saskatchewan.

Ed Broadbent, whom I debated when he came to our high school when he was NDP leader, and when I was young and stupid and further to the right politically than I am now.

Paul Rudd, totally by accident, though my producer and I had been trying to contact him only a couple of hours earlier.

So I don't know which one is the most famous. You choose.

[DDLinder]

271. Famous folks...

Have you ever met anyone famous?

a few people... *laughs*

Musicians: All the members of Danzig/The Misfits/Samhain (yes... ALL of them, at one time or another), White Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Korn, Type O Negative, Queensryche, Suicidal Tendencies, & Morbid Angel -plus- Trent Reznor, Ice T, Henry Rollins, & Michael Stipe from REM (before "Murmur").
Artists/Writers/Actors: James O'Barr (creator of "The Crow"), Joseph Linsner ("Cry For Dawn"), Tim Vigil, Charles Vess, Neil Gaiman ("Sandman"), & Joseph Phillips... "The Crow" film cast members Michael Wincott, Bai Ling, Angel David, and Ernie Hudson, Tony Todd ("Candyman"), David Prowse (Darth Vader from "Star Wars"), Tom Savini (spfx artist/actor, "Sex Machine" in 'From Dusk Til Dawn'), Linea Quigley (the goddess of screem queens)...
Pro athletes: Basketball: Larry Johnson, Mugsy Bogues, Kurt Rambis (when they played for played for the Charlotte Hornets), Rhonda Mapp & Andrea Stinson (WNBA Charlotte Sting). Hockey: the entire '97 Carolina Hurricanes ice hockey team (plus Ron Francis after he got traded there), Eric Boulton (Buffalo Sabres) Baseball: Eddie Murray, & Cal Ripkin Jr( when they played AA ball for the Charlotte Orioles). Pro Wrestling: Ric Flair, Ricky Steamboat, Greg Valentine, Blackjack Mulligan, Tony Atlas, & Andre the Giant,

oh... and let's not forget Laurie Cabot, the "Official Witch of Salem, MA!!!

[ET Awful]

272. Wavy Gravy!

:hippie:

oh yeah, and Phil Lesh.

[Bullwinkle925]

273. Sammy Davis, Jr. & Smokey Robinson

Not together - 2 different times eons apart.
Sigh!

[njdemocrat106]

275. Not much, really.

My brother dragged me to an autograph signing with 3 of the New Jersey Devils back in 1995 (He did all the talking). And supposedly Joe Namath and former Secretary of State Alexander Haig had houses down the road from where I live, if that counts :) .

[Hand]

276. The Dalai Lama

Back in 1979, well before he won the Nobel Prize, I was in charge of his motorcade during his visit to Washington, DC. He was there for three days or so, and I was pretty close to him all the while.

Nowadays, of course, he gets a much higher level of service, but at the time, the government didn't want to touch him--too delicate with the Chinese.

He was (and is) a wonderful human being.
:toast: :loveya:

[UrbScotty]

278. The Honorable Jennifer Mulhern Granholm (nt)

[midnight armadillo]

279. Noam Chomsky

.

[ok_cpu]

280. David Bowie

With his wife, the supermodel Iman.

And the guys from Radiohead.

[Liberalynn]

282. Soap Stars/Rocker/Reporter

Brian Patrick Clarke( Meryl Eight is Enough and Grant on General Hospital) signed my program at a Hollywood All Stars Game.

I met Drake Hogestyn (John Black)of Days of Our Lives at a charity luncheon held in Pennsylvania. I had my picture taken with him and he thanked me for a few letters to the editiors that I had gotten published about him in some soap publications and a letter about him that got read on E-Entertainment TV's soap update show (no longer on the air.) He gave me a hug. Man that guy has gorgeous blue eyes.

I also met Lynn Scherr who signed a copy of her Susan B. Anthony biography for me. I had put together an exhibit on Susan B. Anthony at the museum where I used to work and Lynn was making an appearance near by.

I also met Rick Springfield (Grammy Award Winner, General Hospital) who in my book was the most famous. I won a radio contest and got to go back stage and have my picture taken with him. He seemed very nice and is extremely handsome in person too.

[LoZoccolo]

284. Probably Ron Jeremy.

Or Howard Dean.

[MrSlayer]

285. Bill Clinton.

Of all the famous people I've met I'm pretty sure he is the most famous.

[FourStarDemocrat]

286. I've met famous people in two groups: politicos and rockers

Two 'hobbies'of mine I guess you can say...hehe Of the politicos, I recall meeting Tom Daschle, Chuck Shumer, Wesley Clark, Charles Rangel. Wesley Clark I've met the most time with, as an enthusiasic Clark supporter, at fundraisers and other events.

As for rock & rollers, people I've met and chatted with include my longtime hero Joe Strummer of the Clash several times, plus other members of the Clash, Dee Dee Ramone, Eddie Vedder, Lenny Kaye, Nick Cave, rock photographers Mick Rock, and Bob Gruen, Jesse Malin.

[hippywife]

288. Dennis Kucinich, Michael Berg, Eliza Gilkyson, Tracy Grammer,

Jim Belushi, Lyle Alzado, Gordon Jump.

On edit: If I could meet anyone I wished, it would be Howard Zinn. He's my hero and I would love so much to give him a grateful hug! :loveya:

[warrens]

289. Joe Strummer, Bo Diddley, Sid Vicious, Mickey Mantle, Pele

Stan Musial, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Michael Jordan, Barry Goldwater, Mark E. Smith, all the Ramones, John Smoltz and Tommy Glavine on an airport shuttle, Ronald Reagan, Dick Durbin and Barack Obama, Mick Jagger. A lot of others. Most very briefly, but some for a long time.

[MnFats]

290. Mick Jagger, Jerry Garcia, Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

three of my heroes.
just lucky.

[imenja]

292. Quentin Tarantino, Garrison Keeler, and Bob Mould

Come to mind.

[n2mark]

293. I met

Ed Muskie -- have his autograph on a voided check. I had my picture taken with Nancy Bayh. Met this super wonderful idiot from Az,, he called himself Hayworth -- what a loud mouth!

[ailsagirl]

294. I'm embarrassed to add mine cuz other than Matsui...

I didn't meet any of these people but they were in very close proximity to me.

Here goes:

Robin Williams (restaurant in Noe Valley (SF)) the day before he married his current wife (Marcia)

Grace Slick in supermarket (Mill Valley) (in 1989)

Peter Coyote in restaurant (Sausalito)

Kenneth Branagh at premier of "Hamlet"

Robert Matsui (Met and shook hand-- that's all I remember. But we did get a VIP tour of the WH out of it...)

Oh, and Ray Davies winked at me at the end of his concert.
:blush:

[Bouncy Ball]

295. Chuck Berry, Dick Clark, Howard Dean.

Sandra Cisneros (wrote The House on Mango Street), Henry Thomas (the kid who was in ET).

[pilgrimsoul]

296. I met Michelle Kwan last year

I had backstage passes for a Champions on Ice show and was able to meet her (and also Dorothy Hamill and Nancy Kerrigan). Michelle was so gracious - she autographed my skates and posed for a picture, too. I really hope she wins the Olympic gold next year - couldn't happen to a nicer young lady.

[muchacho]

297. my big three

Frank Zappa, Timothy Leary and Kurt Vonnegut.