Met any famous folks? (1 Viewer)

[WhoseLineFan]

Has anyone here met any celebrities?

 

[Johnny Angell]

I got Annette's autograph at Disneyland when I was in my teens.

Nothing will surpass meeting JFK in the summer of '63. My high school had a yearly trip to Washington DC for upcoming seniors and if you had the $300 you could go.

We were touring the White House when (what I now presume was secret service) someone cut our group in two as we were entering another hallway or room. I look to the left, sun is coming in from the outside and I see the silhouette of a tall man with big hair. JFK walks up to us with Adlai Stevenson and he chats with us for a few moments.

I'm at the head of the line. Kinds around me are sticking their hands by me to shake his hand. I sit there in a trance doing nothing with my cheap camera around my neck. Why couldn't I have just said "Mr President, may I take a picture?" Nope. He asked where we were from, someone said Chula Vista and when he paused, I said "That's south of San Diego." And they moved on.

Been nice to have taken that picture.

 

[Richard V]

If you count Comic Cons: I've met Julie Newmar, Lou Diamond Phillips, Edward James Olmos, James Marsten, Scott Wilson, William Forsythe, Michael Madsen, and from Sporting World, Reggie Jackson, David Robinson, Nolan Ryan, Harmon Killebrew, and Joe Montana.

 

[jcroy]

The only famous people I've met, were only really "famous" in their particular niche. (They're not in any widely visible niches like entertainment, politics, etc ...).

When I got to know a few of these particular "niche famous" folks better at a personal level, they were rather ordinary. Nothing "larger than life", even with the folks who had huge magnetic personalities.

Mundane or banality is the way to describe many such folks, when the "famous" persona is absent and/or they're out of their element and not in their niche of expertise.

 

[Clinton McClure]

I met Bill Clinton in the mid 80s when he was governor of Arkansas and met Gen. Wesley Clark (4-Star Army General) and Mike Huckabee on separate occasions while I was waiting tables at a country club 15 years ago. I’ve never met any famous actors, athletes, or musicians.

 

[Malcolm R]

Olympia Dukakis was the speaker at my college graduation. I got to meet her and had a picture taken with her.

Visited a bit with Lily Tomlin while waiting in the ticket line for her "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" in Seattle several years ago. She was impressed that I traveled all the way from Vermont to stand in line for tix to her show.

 

[Sky King]

Hi All,

I've met the the following celebrities so far, in my 61 years on this planet:

Paul Newman
Senator Edward Kennedy (not a celebrity, but famous none the less)
Ronnie Spector (of the Ronettes)
Jack Paar (Former host of the Tonight Show)
Douglas Edwards (CBS News anchor)
Ted Turner (CNN)
Dinah Shore (singer)
Patty Page (singer)
Jack Larson (Jimmy Olsen, Adventures of Superman)
Noel Neill (Lois Lane, Adventures of Superman)
Jon Provost (Timmy Martin, Lassie)
Tony Dow (Wally Cleaver, Leave It To Beaver)
Richard Thomas (Jon-Boy Walton)

I'm sure I forgot a few, but will add to this list if I remember.

 

[Carabimero]

Working in the entertainment business for thirty years allowed me to meet a lot of celebrities and even become friends with a few, but there are only two I ever brag about: Steven Spielberg and Muhammad Ali.

 

[jcroy]

Working in the entertainment business for thirty years allowed me to meet a lot of celebrities and even become friends with a few, but there are only two I ever brag about: Steven Spielberg and Muhammad Ali.

(On a tangential aside).

I grew up briefly in Los Angeles when I was a kid/preteen, in an area next to UCLA. I don't think I ever knowingly met any "celebrities" or the children of celebrities. In those days, I was probably too young to understand the notion of "celebritiy".

Over the years I tried googling the names of other kids I vaguely remember from those days. Nothing showed up.

 

[Carabimero]

(On a tangential aside).

I grew up briefly in Los Angeles when I was a kid/preteen, in an area next to UCLA. I don't think I ever knowingly met any "celebrities" or the children of celebrities.

My wife had one of Spielberg's daughters in her class. She's taught several offspring of famous folks.

 

[jcroy]

In hindsight, I was probably better off not being a teenager or young adult living in Los Angeles.

Some of my cousins that lived in the westside of LA their entire lives, seemed to be wound up tighter than a spring when it came to the "keeping up with the jonses" thing. It was as if life was a giant pressure cooker when they were teenagers growing up in LA during the 1980s,.

 

[dvdclon]

I doubt anyone will remember him, but Eddie Hodges was in one of my college classes. He kept to himself pretty much and I never spoke to him. I didn't really know who he was at the time.

 

[cinemiracle]

I have worked with the following famous people: Nicole Kidman , Dame Joan Sutherland (3 times) ,Lee Grant, Vera Miles, Julie Christie, Darcy Bussel, Karl Malden ,Otto Lang ,James Fox ,Michael Craig, Lou Gosset Jr, Dolph Lungren, Timothy West and Robert Helpmann,.I was also invited into Glenda Jackson's dressing room for a chat after seeing her perform on stage.

 

[BobO'Link]

Depends on who you call famous.

In HS, I met, and got an autograph from, Arthur C. Clark. This was shortly after 2001 was released.

I lived next door to Pat Daugherty (bassist for Black Oak Arkansas) for several years. It was pretty cool to see the gold records hanging on his walls.

For a local TV program I directed a cooking segment with Emeril Lagasse and chatted with him a few minutes before the show started.

For another local TV program I directed an interview program featuring Mike Huckabee, then Governor of Arkansas. It kind of freaked everyone out when I was introduced to him and said "Hi, Mike! How are things going?" and we chatted a minute. Coworkers said "He's the Governor and you called him Mike!" to which I replied "Well, that's his name. He didn't seem to be upset by it."

 

[TravisR]

For another local TV program I directed an interview program featuring Mike Huckabee, then Governor of Arkansas. It kind of freaked everyone out when I was introduced to him and said "Hi, Mike! How are things going?" and we chatted a minute. Coworkers said "He's the Governor and you called him Mike!" to which I replied "Well, that's his name. He didn't seem to be upset by it."

Not like I know but I think people that have a position are probably happy to be just be called by their name when it's a more casual setting. You get the respect when it counts but getting periodically treated like a more regular joe must be nice change of pace.

 

[EricSchulz]

Several! While working at Denver Marriott City Center back in the late 90's/early 00's I met Erin Brockovich and Walter Cronkite. Also met Roseanne on a book tour and she was amazing!

 

[Reed Grele]

Met George Lazenby wandering around the Yale campus in New Haven last fall.

When I was 5, I saw JFK ride by me (no more than 25 feet away) in an open top car while sitting up in a cherry tree in my grandparent's yard that overlooked route 8 in Seymour, CT. He was on his way to Waterbury to make a speech. His hair was blowing in the wind as he waved to me (to everyone actually) but it was a very special occasion that I have never forgotten.

 

[Bob Gu]

Outside of seeing politicians and local news types around town or in the supermarket line, I never met any famous people to actually talk to, But I have a JFK waves story too.

One Sunday, during the 1960 Presidential Campaign JFK's motorcade passed near my house. I was standing in the street and was close enough to feel the backwash of one of the escort motorcycles on my feet as they passed. Later that night the family went over to the local CBS affiliate TV station to try and see him again. He was at the TV station for a live interview that was going out over CBS live. The TV station parking lot was jammed packed with people and we were in the back and could not see much, or get any closer.

So we decided to leave. We left through the parking lot open gate, crossed the empty street and headed up the middle of a hilly street where our car was parked.

We heard the roar of the motorcycles and turned to see JFK ,in his open car, coming out through the same gate we did.

My father waved and yelled, "GOOD LUCK, JACK!!". JFK turned and stood up in his car and waved back to him!!!

My father met John Wayne in an elevator once. During World War II he drove Lucille Ball, from a train station, to and from a War Bond rally. At other Bond drives he met Wayne Morris and Mickey Rooney. When my father met Rooney, he was with a friend who was named Mickey Rooney.

 

[Tony Bensley]

I doubt anyone will remember him, but Eddie Hodges was in one of my college classes. He kept to himself pretty much and I never spoke to him. I didn't really know who he was at the time.

So Eddie Hodges never knocked on your door then, Bob?

A nephew of Wayne Gretzky's attended my High School, and that nephew's father worked in the Electronics Department of an Eaton's store in the Westmount Mall in London, which is less than an hour west of Wayne's hometown of Brantford.

The most famous person who I actually met was David Jones of The Monkees. This was at the 2004 North Bay Heritage Festival, where I actually shook his hand at the autograph booth, and he signed my Monkees Music Box 4 CD set, which I still have! I wish I had a photo, though!

CHEERS!

 

[TJPC]

30 years ago I was in Toronto walking to the car from a restaurant with two of my Aunts and my mother who were in their early 60s. We passed The Royal Alex theatre and my aunt shouted “There’s Cab Calaway!” The three women shreeked, surrounded him like it was the Beatles and clamoured for autographs, which he graciously gave. If we were going to meet a celebrity in Toronto with that audience, he was the perfect one.