Cynthetiq

I bumped into Micky Dolenz at the cafeteria last week.

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First of all, Damn you, Synth! That would be cool to meet any of the Monkees....call me a wierdo....

oh boy, well i used to work at 2 radio stations about 7 years ago.........

-Korn (except Jonathan, he was getting wasted)
-Deftones
-Dave & Chris from Foo Fighters
-Verve Pipe
-Modest Mouse (when they were known as Modest who?)
-lead singer of Sister Psychic
-Goldfinger
-3rd Eye Blind
-SuperDeluxe
-Moby
-Bloodhound Gang (nothing to brag about there......)

Latch

I was on a flight/shook hands with Jesse Jackson once.

JohnnyCarson

Ed McMahon and Doc Severinson....

Actually:
Hubert Humphrey
Wade Boggs (played against him in high school)
Gary Gaetti (lived in my dorm at college)
The guys from the band America (autographed CD)
Charlie Daniels (autographed CD)
Trisha Yearwood (Autographed 2 CD's)
Suzi Bogguss
Bob Seger (picture and autograph!)
Maureen McCormack (Marcia Brady--picture and autographed CD--bitchy though)

I know there are others, but can't think of them right now...

Guthumba

I ran track with Lee Flowers (NFL safety for the Steeler and Seahawks), lived next to Jonathan Byrd (PGA golfer) when he was a kid and Peter Bouwlare (NFL linebacker for the Ravens).

James Dickey (author of 'Deliverance') taught me to play "Dueling Banjos" on the guitar. I met Joseph Heller (author of 'Catch-22')

I had drinks one night with the members of Collective Soul and then another night with the members of Hootie and the Blowfish.

I met Tom Ford (the designer for Gucci)...it was funny to see the girls watch him and then him checking out the guys. I ran into Cal Ripken Jr. one day after a ballgame in Baltimore...super nice guy, was very gracious.

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dksuddeth

I met Kyle Petty, even have a picture with him, when I was 10.

Spent an afternoon in Shirley Maclaines house in New Mexico a couple of years ago.

Met Robert Urich on the set of 'the lazarus man'.

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Zeppelin2Heaven

I met Robert Planet when Led Zeppelin was on tour.

Guthumba

If you were born in 1980 and LZ disbanded in December of 1980, when did you pull that off?

The last LZ tour was from May 1980 to September 1980. Bonham died on 9/25/80.

The only other times the remaining members played together was for one-shot-only deals at Live-Aid in 1985 and Atlantic's 25th anniversary concert in 1988.

Plant and Page did do the MTV Unplugged thing and the "No Quarter" tour in 1995, but that wasn't LZ...that was just Plant and Page. Big Difference.

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Locusts and honey ... not since John The Baptist has there been a voice like that crying in the wilderness. ... Every man knows he is a sissy compared to Johnny Cash -- Bono.

Shady

I worked for a catering business in highschool. I took Neil Armstrong's plate when he was done eating..........god i'm lame.

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martinguerre

alan shepard-one of the original Merc 7 astronauts
robert ballard-discovered titanic
and apparently, ran in to cindy crawford in a tony little market out east. too young to remember...

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Charlatan

Helena Bonham Carter (hung out in her hotel room)
Sandra Oh (dinner, drinks and she sat in my lap!)
Colin Firth (sat in front of me and I held the door for him as we exited the theatre - he thanked me very much)
Keneth Welsh (dinner)
Gordon Pinsent (on a few occasions)
Angela Featherstone (dinner)
Charlton Heston (held open the door for me)
Andy Garcia (shared an elevator)
Joshua Jackson (ate dinner at the next table)
Fred Ward (had breakfast with him - he was very cool)
Pierre Trudeau (passed me on the on the street)
Rosanna Arquette and Nicholas Cage (stood two inches from me at a party... I was tempted to touch her to see if she was real)
Giullermo der Toro (interviewed him)
Kim Deal (hung out in the green room with her)

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maleficent

Just reminded me--
Diane Sawyer and Mike Nichols - had dinner at the next table at a very cute little restaurant in Westchester NY.
Phil Simms (Former quarterback of the NY Giants and now a broadcaster) had gone to Christmas Eve mass with my parents, and the church was super crowded, so I gave up my seat to some elderly woman and I went and stood in the back of the church. I couldn't help but notice my mom turning around every so often and laughing and then poking my dad and him turning around and laughing. Now, thinking my parents have gone daft, couldn't figure out what their problem was... Until I looked to the left, and standing not 6 inches from me, is this big, huge tall, blonde speciman of a man... YUMMMMM... (at that point I was oh so grateful for the part of the catholic mass when you give the sign of peace to the people around you...

One of my last jobs, I've worked for two different news magazine, I worked with and saw on a regular basis, a lot of people that you'd see on the Sunday Morning news shows... and we always saw famous people in the building there for interviews. Walter Cronkite was one of the most impressive people I ever met, and Katherine Graham was one of the most gracious (though I am told she could cuss like a sailor when provoked)

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matthew330

Vincent Schiavelli
The ghost on the subway who teaches Patrick Swayze how to "move" things in that movie "Ghost"

Sitting on a bench outside of an italian resteraunt i live next to. Just a creepy looking in real life.

Redjake

I've never seen or met anyone famous

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Faygo

I've seen a few met a few but only hung out with one. I went paddling and hung out with David Suzuki.

Avail

Wow, I've only met one famous person so far in my 19 years of existence. That was Bill Walton during a basketball camp in middle school, he was a very cool guy.

sashime76

Steffi Graf - got her autograph at a tennis tourney in San Diego
Karch Kiraly, Kent Steffes, Craig Buck... beach volleyball tourney in San Diego
Jermaine O'Neil - got his autograph at a company promotion
Rick Berry - sat next to him in between flights in Minneapolis
Diane Feinstein - during her visit to my former company
Randy "Duke" Cummingham, same as above
Robert Townsend - in the same waiting area at O'Hare International
David Cassidy - EFX show in Vegas
Ron Jeremy - in Vegas while attending CES, he stayed in the same hotel
I guess I have met a few famous people.

powerclown

A friend and myself once picked up Jeff Ward from the airport. Yeah, groupies.
Walked past Jackie Mason on Worth Ave. in Palm Beach. He looks like a puppet. Glanced at me like I owed him money.
Steffi Graf at a tennis tournament in FL. Great legs.
Walked past and exchanged 'hi's' with Jana Novotna on an early morning solitary walk.

TexanAvenger

Let's see... I knew Clay Aiken before he was on American Idol. But then again, everybody else in Raleigh claims to now.

I've met Stephen Lynch a few times too. Great, genuine guy and funny as hell.

My aunt painted some murals in the house of some wrestler who's name I can't remember at the moment and invited me to go see them (murals) with the permission of of his wife (who was, if it matters to anybody, one of the nitro girls). Apparently however, the wife failed to mention this to her husband. I drive up and park next to my aunt's van and get out and start looking for her. Up comes this huge guy holding a bat. I just about jumped back into my car and hauled ass out of there. But my legs seemed to have their own agenda, which was apparently stand as rigidly as possible until the big man with the probable weapon reaches you. So he gets to me, asks me what I'm doing here, and apparently my voice was steady enough that he understood and, if gruffly, was really nice and took me to find her. The other thing that really got me about them was that they were complete, if you'll excuse my terminology, jesus freaks.

The only time I ever met somebody who was already famous and didn't immediately realize it was on my way home from San Antonio. This guy was at the curb of the airport having some problems getting his luggage out of the trunk of the car, so I walked over and helped him. He thanked me and when he finally turned towards me I realized he was Bruce Willis. I talked to him for a while about how much of a pain in the ass flying is getting to be and then, for fear of seeming like every other person that meets him, I didn't ask him for an autograph. Instead I said it was great talking to him, and went inside to catch my plane. Of course, without that autograph, not a single one of my friends will buy that I met him... Oh well.

thecoldone33

My family has met alot of famous people. Will smith, Montell Jordan, and even Michael Jackson (before we got all wierd, so this was around 1985)

Me personally
Cobi Jones (soccer star)
Black Eyed Peas
Sinbad

I know im missing some but my mind is blank right now.

keyshawn

my list doesn't seem too impressive, though I'm still pretty young

carlos boozer/jay williams/some other guy from duke: after a basketball game @ mich univ.
, willing to give their autograph, chatted with them for a min or two.

Lead vocalist of dirt [don't know his name] - came by the movie theater I work at.

bob taft ohio gov. - meh, he's okay.
O'conner - the former Lt. governor,

all of them were pretty nice and amicable. Some of my classmates right now will eventually be famous [at least locally] or maybe even me :P

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jay-g

Walter Payton-he was at his son's soccer touranment in Wheeling, IL
Dan Patrick- talk to him at O'hare International

bendsley

Jerry Rice: he was taking his son to Oklahoma for college, and stopped into a best buy I was shopping in.

Jim Clark: CO-FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, MyCFO; CO-FOUNDER, NETSCAPE COMMUNICATIONS CORP. AND HEALTHEON/WEB MD CORPORATION. He also founded Silicon Graphics. I know him personally. He's a good guy, and we go out for coffee/food when I go to San Francisco.

Tucker Max

Larry Page/Sergey Brin (if you don't know who they are, look them up on Google Search)

Larry Ellison: Saw him at a starbucks in San Jose, and spoke with him for about 20 minutes.

Michael Dell: Went to visit a friend who works for Dell in Round Rock, and he came up behind us in the Starbucks line in one of the buildings on campus. He was wearing a hawaiian shirt and shorts with flip flops. I guess when you own the company, you do pretty much whatever the hell you want to.

Paul S. Otellini: I met him when I was at a Networld/Interop conference.

Linus Torvalds: met him at a linux conference when Transmeta came onto the scene and he's even an orkut friend

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eyeronic

Used to chat with Wally Shawn frequently. He's a great guy.

Also, living in NYC, I see celebs a lot. Saw J-Lo and Ralph Feines in Central Park filming "Chamber Maid" which became "Maid in NY." Saw Sean Combs a month ago. Ralph Lauren was funny to see on the street because he's about 4'11". Anyway there's many many more (Gael Garcia Bernal at the NYC premiere of Y Tu Mama Tambien was cool too).

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stevie667

Served Robert Winston a couple of times at work, damned nice bloke.

flat5

I've met and played with some famous (and some who SHOULD be) jazz musicians.

When I was 15-17 (1963-1965) I played lots of parties in Bel Air & Berverly Hills but did not know or care who I was playing for :-) The piano player (Betty Boop's son) in that band is now 'executive in charge of music for Universal Pictures' and has been for quite some time. Guess he's famous in some circles. Harry Garfield. We got the first job by way of The Rifleman's son, Johnny Crawford, who I never met.

Paradise Lost

Nothing ever seems to happy to me when it comes to famous people, or even remotely famous people. But, my Aunt was once lab partners with Jerry Seinfeld; her brother was friends with Alec Baldwin.

My Dad sat next to the daughter of one of the members of the Mama's and the Papa's, on a flight home from Dallas, TX (I was on the flight too, but stuck in coach.) Not sure who though.

Don't know if this counts, but a former Pro Football player lives our town and is an assistant coach to our High School Football team. I forget the guy's name, but he played for the Oakland Raiders. (How he ended up in NE Ohio is a mystery to me.)

And my friends got to meet a bunch of celebrities in early October when they were going around the country registering voters (or getting them to register.) My friends even got Deidrich Bader to do some queer "promo," I guess you would say, for one of their home movies. Kinda weird, but cool!

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raeanna74

Shook hands with and actually spoke with Robert Steiner and Owen Gromme both artists who won Master Wildlife Artist of the year and their works were used on the Duck Stamps for the years they won. My mother purchased a print of one of Owen Gromme's works and he signed it for her personally. I was just a kid but I thought that was SO COOL.

Also Kevin Hermening, one of the Iranian hostages back in the 80's spoke at my high school graduation. There were only 3 of us students graduating that year (homeschool group graduation) and so we got to spend some time just actually talking to him. He mostly spoke about how the experience of being imprisoned was and how amazing a feeling it was to be free. He talked about being led out in the blindfolds and not even realizing he was going to be released. It was even a shock to be released. I digress. It was something I'll never forget to get to talk to someone who was a part of world history while I was growing up. My kid someday will say "What was the Iran-Contra affair?" I'll know, possibly better than some because I spoke to a part of that history.

As for celebrities? I'm not that interested. People who are movers and makers in our world - those are the ones I'm interested in meeting or hearing about.

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anleja

Paradise Lost, was it Bijou Phillips?


Reanna, that is pretty cool to have been able to chat with one of the Iran hostages. It's not everyday you get to speak with someone who was involved in something so historical.

I was like 2 feet away from John Glenn in the basement area of the Capitol. This was during my trip to D.C. for Close-Up in, I think, 1996, so before he went back into space. Met Spencer Abraham, as he was a senator of Michigan at the time, before becoming Bush's Energy Secretary. Shook Al Gore's hand a couple months ago at a church he was visiting.

Hmm... any musicans I've met are not exactly big stars... Johnette Napolitano and everyone else from Concrete Blonde, Chris Randall from Sister Machine Gun, Kimya Dawson from The Moldy Peaches, all of the Verve Pipe, all of the Von Bondies.

Oh, I also met Buster Mathis Jr, who you may know as the guy who got his ass whooped by Mike Tyson in 96. He came into the pizza place I was working to ask for directions to some mortgage place. This was after he won some settlement from his old manager or something.

Me and Kelly Curtis looked at each other. He's Pearl Jam's long-time manager.

Okay, I guess I'm really scraping the bottom of the barrel. I'll stop.

Rdr4evr

I don't care for famous people, but a lot of rappers live close to me.....snoop use to live across the street about 7 years ago. Aside from him I've seen/met WC, Dre, Ice Cube, and maybe another one I can't remember. They also shot "the wash" about 5 minutes away from me, which had several rappers.

Strange Famous

I've talked to Mandy Moore on AIM and in AIM chats - before "A Walk To Remmber" and her career took off, but the most famous person I have ever met in person is probably Kieron Dyer (England soccer international, not sure if it counts, because I went to school with him). I've also spoken to and got the autograph of Richie Richardson (West Indies cricket legend) but not sure that that counts, had a drink in a pub with Iwan Roberts (Walsh international soccer player) and been ten pin bowling in the next lane to Craig Forrest (RIP) - who used to be Canada soccer teams goalkeeper.

In England, Kieron Dyer is more famous than Mandy Moore, I guess in the rest of the world probably the opposite!

I hope there is no other thread like this, I couldnt find one!

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Charlatan

Helena Bonham Carter - did the PR on a film she was in... spent some time drinking with her...

Sandra Oh - did PR on a film she was in and travelled with her around Canada

Fred Ward - had breakfast with him

Kim Deal - hung out in the green room with her prior to her interview on our campus station

Guillermo Del Toro - the director of Hellboy - interviewed him for my radio show

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Carno

Kelly Slater
CJ Hobgood
CT Taylor

All of them are pro surfers..

Konichiwaneko

lou ferigno

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warrrreagl

Many of mine are sports-related, since I used to work for the Auburn Athletic Department. These aren't just people that I know, but they are people who could call me by name as well:
Bo Jackson
Charles Barkley
Pat Sullivan
Chris Morris
Chuck and Wesley Person
Frank Thomas
Tim Hudson

Also, Victoria Jackson (taught her to play the ukelele)
The Commodores
Mac McAnaly

Probably more, but I always draw a blank when asked this question.

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saltfish

Kenny Bernstien
Teo Fabi
Rick Mears
Richard Petty

Rob VanWinkle a.k.a. Vanilla Ice
Fiddy-Cent and the G-unit
Dr. David Martin
Kenny Wayne Shepard Sr.

Thermopyle

I have only talked to swedish celebrities, but there is one you might know:
Ebbot Lundgren, singer in The Soundtrack of Our Lives. (I have actually talked to the whole band).

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bollocks

I've exchanged a few short convo's with a small number of celebs, Mike Skinner (the streets, a british band), Harry Kewell, Gary Kelly, Alan Smith, Ian Hearte, Rio Ferdinand (all ex leeds united players), Jenna Jameson.

Also, my best mate's father is Rick Wakeman (keyboard for the band Yes) so i've sat down to dinner with him a few times.

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Fo' Drizzle

Strange Famous

where is Gary Kelly playing now?

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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."

The Gospel of Thomas

waltert

hrmm....

Larry Widmer- race engine builder