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What famous people have you met?

posted 5 years ago by Adam60z (3767)
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I've met quite a few at celebrity events and such.
Just a few:
Martin Landau.---2015 in L.A. I had breakfast with him and he was yelling at the waiter: "No good, no good, this egg isn't hard enough, I need a HARD boiled egg. Now PLEASE!" So over the top, obviously still acting. He was funny. Later he went outside for a smoke. I guess when you're in your 80s you can do whatever you want. But had he quit he'd probably still be alive.
Barbara Eden- 2014--Chicago-- Just asked how her dog Djinn Djinn was and stuff.
Ed Asner-2017 Chicago.-- Met him while he was eating lunch: a tamale. He's funny too.
A few others:
Chuck Negron (of 3 Dog Night)
Kim Darby
Lesley Ann Warren
Robert Clary (Lebeau)
And 1994: Jay Leno interviewed me in the NYC subway for a segment for the Tonight Show that never aired. I don't really like him anyway (he's not as bad as Letterman though, but so far below Carson).
1994-- Sarah Silverman in NYC before she was famous handing out flyers for a comedy club. I said I wasn't interested. Then she started a kind of comedy bit at my expense (if you know her type of humor). I should have gone, oh well.

[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 4 years ago

Worked as a stage hand for a stretch a few decades ago here in socal. Met too many musicians to list all but I'll include some.

Brian Setzer (chill)
Kenny Loggins (uptight)
The Rolling Stones (lofty)
Adam Ant (crazy)
Joe Walsh (cool/stick-in-ass combo)
Tom Hanks (cool)
Teller of Penn&Teller (spoke with him briefly off stage)
Morton Downey Jr (aloof)
Randal Cunningham-former Eagles QB (nice)
Sonny Bono (super cool)
Mary Bono (caught her checking me out)
Mandrel Sisters (business machines)
Diana Ross (diva of the worst order)
Bette Midler (mean)
Gary Busey (nice)

More but that's what I can recall at the moment.

[–] snepts (11123) 4 years ago

Lauren Bacall
Jane Fonda
Steve Miller
Brian Dennehy
Cheap Trick (band)
Little Feat (band, plus Billy Payne a second time)
Richard Dent (NFL Bears)
Joe Mantegna, sorta
Saw Roger Moore but I didn't speak to him,
same with Vicki Peterson of the Bangles
I think I'm forgetting a couple

[–] Adam60z (3767) 4 years ago

I would have liked to have met Lauren Bacall. i would put my lips together and blow!

[–] snepts (11123) 4 years ago

The story behind that is -
I worked at a Record Store in the big mall on Michigan Ave in the heart of the Million Dollar Mile, or whatever it was called.
Water Tower Place !
My somewhat slight in the slippers co-worker comes into the office and breathlessly announces Bacall is in the store!
Trying to be a cool dude myself, I went out and said, "How's the Woman Of The Year?" (the play I believe she was in or at least known for at the time).
She's tall already and maybe was wearing at least short heels. I'm only about 5'10".
She looks down at me and bristles, straightens up - the impertinence ! Huff !
Immediately I realized my mistake. I bowed slightly, apologized and said it was very nice to meet her.
Her shoulders relaxed and she smiled and took me in as just another groundling in a world of people who will never get what it was like to be -- LAUREN BACALL !!
I felt like I got played, but by a master.
Will always love Lauren Bacall.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

AWESOMENESS

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21470) 4 years ago

Aside from Claudio Fragisso who I mentioned earlier, there are a few others:

Adrienne Barbeau
Tom Savini
Jeramie Rain
Fred Lincoln

Ed Guinn who played the truck driver at the end of Texas Chainsaw Massacre who throws the wrench in leatherface’s face. 😀

[–] 000 (471) 4 years ago

used to be good friends with adam brody. he had plans to try to be an actor, i told him it was too hard to make it

[–] Jones70 (6534) 4 years ago

I remember meeting several in dreams like
Bradley Cooper
Ben Affleck
Tom Cruise
Michael Fassbender
Joseph Gordon Levitt
Benedict Cumberbatch
Harrison Ford
Ray Nitchke(Packer player from the 70s)

[–] Vastuntitled (5695) 4 years ago

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[–] Quasimodo (16388) 4 years ago

Leonard Teale (actor)
- I didn't speak to him because he looked out-of-sorts, probably due to the colt from Old Regret having got away.

David Gulpilil (actor)
- I gave him a lift to a pub.

Greg Evans (actor)
- I asked him how he was going and he told me that he was "kicking ass".

Jeff Kennett (politician)
- He stuck his nose in the air and swept past me.

Don Dunstan (politician)
- He didn't say anything but did smile at me for a longer time than was comfortable.

Ian Stanley (golfer)
- He asked me if everything was okay and I said yes.

[–] slimone (7996) 4 years ago

I met Elvis Presley when I was about 5 years old. He was staying at a hotel in San Francisco while he was making a movie.

[–] CinemaDemon989 (1286) 4 years ago

Arnold Schwarzenegger and George W Bush