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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: warshawlaw
One of the benefits of living in LA is that you see famous people all the time. Occasionally it is someone you really want to meet. My wife and I went to dinner and then to a book store to kill a little time before picking up our daughter from a birthday party. My wife is great at spotting celebrities; I am not. She tapped me at one point and pointed out a man who I was 95% sure was someone whose work I’d loved literally all my life. I kept my eye on him and when he asked a clerk for a book about Voltaire, I heard his voice. I then recognized him instantly. I wanted to ask for an autograph but I was really torn. Normally in LA we are all too cool to bother celebrities, or so we think. I usually won’t even say hello and there are relatively few people in the world who I would hit up for an autograph (Lennox Lewis was the last one and that was at a promotional event for a fight). Tonight, however, I was dying to say hello and get an autograph. We had to go and I had decided not to do it. We started to leave the store and my wife remarked that my reluctance to approach him was silly; no one else had bothered him and it was evident that no one else recognized him. So I screwed up my courage, went up to him and told him that I was a huge fan and loved his work, had seen all his movies and followed his act all my life. He shook my hand, we chatted for a few moments and I asked for his autograph. I cannot believe I met Monty Python’s Eric Idle; for me it is like meeting a Beatle. THAT was a cool night! |
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: Paul
Pretty cool. The only celebs I've met out in public was Tatoo from Fantasy Island. He was in a Scottsdale 7-11 buying some Swisher Sweets. Also, met Father Guido Sarduchi in a San Fran record store. |
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: David Smith
"Look, there's a penguin on the television set". |
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Posted By: dennis
....close to meeting the beatles |
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: Julie
recognized standing in front of "Chez Panisse," the best restaurant in town. She wheeled over and said, I can't remember your name, but you were in "The Color Purple." Can I have your autograph?" He laughed. "Good eyes," he said, and gave her his autograph. |
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: jay behrens
throwing raves in San Fran for 2 years and driving limo for 10 years, I've met more than my fair share of celebs. Outside of those settings though. I don't really notice celebs. When I was married, then X would spot them all the time and I would never notice them. Guess it's becuase I've dealt with and been exposed to them so much that I don't really care. |
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: Robert
Growing up in Beverly Hills practically my whole life I have seen most of them from sports to big screen. The one thing I learned is they are human just like the rest of us and in most cases they starve for attention. When I was 16 many years ago my mom sent me to pick up my little sister at her friends house a famous directors daughter, I went to the wrong address and knocked on the door thinking it was the right place and Milton Burle opens the door. I asked if he knew where the directors house was and he told me...Then he says "Kid don't you know who I am" ..yeah I said "Milton Burle" and thanked him and left..his jaw dropped to the ground becasue I made no big deal of it. Recent sightings for me are Cindy Crawford (sat next to her at sushi roku), Shaq, dustin Hoffman, Meg Ryan, Jualia roberts, Kieffer, Charlie Sheen and his wife at my peditiatins office where I talked to her mostly, he did not say much... |
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Posted By: Julie
...but that was a while back... |
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Posted By: Dan Bretta
My only brush with a celebrity (other than sports stars at shows or Tom Osborne and Bob Devaney while a student at Nebraska) would have been during the filming of "To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar" which was a terrible movie, but they were filming it in my hometown. Christopher Penn was hanging out every night in the same little pub that was at one time my hangout. He sat down and bought us beers on a couple of occasions. At one point he got so intoxicated that the owner made him leave so he went out in the parking lot, threw up and came back in. He was staying at the Residence Inn right next door so some of the movie's crew members came and got him. Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes would come in to the same pub, but they just kept to their own little clique. I think the only other time I've ever seen a celebrity was when Debra Winger was dating our governor while she was filming "Terms of Endearment". |
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: Mike P.
This anecdote is really my wifes but I thought it was a cool story none the less. She told me that a few years ago she was with some friends and had stopped at this chinese restaurant in Williamsburg, VA (which is where she is from). I have been there as well on a seperate occasion but I can't remember the name. Anyway, she says that the evening went as expected with nothing unusual. She said that as she was leaving the restaurant she was trailing behind her friends. She had opened the door to leave and didn't realize there was someone behind her. She then realized she just let the door smack Jackie Chan in the face! She was apologetic and she said he was a good sport about it. I just thought it was funny, him being a martial arts action hero and he can't keep a door from smacking him in the face. To err is human! |
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: Judge Dred
I've done quite a bit of flying in my time. I've logged so much time in aiports and airplanes that it sickens me to think about how much time I've spent doing it: |
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: Glenn
I was on a flight to L.A. once with O.J. Simpson, in the days when he was best known for being a football player. A few years ago I flew out of New Orleans with David Crosby. And Elton John once told me hello, but that wasn't anywhere near an airport. |
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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman
I've met a handful of celebrities; however, the thrill of my life in that area is the dinner I had with Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson. |
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: barrysloate
Fred- Funny you should mention sitting next to Lyle Alzado, because I went to high school with him. He was big and mean and a bully and I stayed as far away from him as possible. He picked on everyone, even guys half his size. I had long hair (this was 1967) and he cornered me in the hallway one day and told me if I didn't get a haircut I was in big trouble. I knew he was so dumb he wouldn't even remember who I was by the next day, so I ignored him. But he was frightening. He had the perfect temperament for an NFL lineman. Nevertheless, I felt bad when he died so young. He was the best football player in Nassau County (western part of Long Island), but a gentleman he wasn't. |
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Posted By: Bob Marquette
in 1981. Nothing else and no one else comes close. Not even sharing a hot tub with Bill Clinton. |
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Posted By: barrysloate
Bob, |
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: Dan Bretta
I had heard just recently that Lyle Alzado was terribly abusive to his wife. I think it came up on a radio show when they started discussing steroids, and someone called in with a story very similar to yours Barry. You may have even known the caller because he stated he grew up with Alzado and can only remember him being a bully. |
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Posted By: Rhys
Since this is a baseball board I will try to keep this sports related. Stephen King lives in the town I grew up in, Bangor, Maine. When I was a senior in High School we were playing Bangor High School at the 3 Million dollar stadium Stephen built for the school when I made the second best catch of my baseball career off a ball hit by his son. I felt pretty good about it because we won the game and beat future Major Leaguer (and the guy who gave up Bonds' 660th home run, Matt Kinney) with my catch. After the game Stephen King came down and told me it was the best catch he had seen yet at that stadium he had built and asked my name and talked with me for about 5 minutes. I used to see him all around town though and he never wore a belt and had horrible plumbers crack. I didn't reallt think it was that cool until a few years later. |
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Posted By: E. Angyal
Halle Berry in the early 80's. Still have the yearbooks to prove it! |
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Posted By: Travis Jensen
Jay, are you located in the Bay Area? If so, hit me up. Let's grab a drink or something sometime. |
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Posted By: tbob
Barry- I sure did. Bill (my law professor), Jesse Clark who later played for the Green Bay Packers and I all drank a few brewskies in a hot tub on the rooftop of a hotel in Fayetteville. This was pre-Monica Lewinsky, pre-Paula Jones, pre-Jennifer Flowers back when President William Clinton was just Bill, a funny and crazy guy. |
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: jay behrens
Travis, haven't lived in the Bay Area since 1991. I miss SF a lot and is my all time favorite city. It jsut costs way too much to live there now. Now I live just north of Rocket J Squirrel and Frostbite Falls, MN. |
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: base2base
lmao. Thats some funny **** my man. |
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: barrysloate
Lyle had all this pent up violent energy and we all thought that he would end up in prison. To his credit, he found the perfect profession to channel all this energy and made a success of himself. Even as a ten year old I can remember all the tough kids in the neighborhood used to brag about his exploits. There were always stories about who he beat up and sometimes even unsubstantiated tales of people who may have gotten the better of him in a fight. But he was known to carry a switchblade, and was always looking for a fight. It was amazing in the end that he was able to do so well. |
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Posted By: Pete Z.
Re Jeff's dinner with Lou and Laurie, I'll bet "it was alllll-right". |
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: barrysloate
I met Ginsberg a couple of times and he was not particularly friendly. My friend and I were walking with him and Peter Orlovsky when we were in college and Peter asked my friend for a cigarette; when he complied Peter took the cigarette, ripped it up, threw it on the ground, then asked for another. He was making his statement on the evils of tobacco. But seeing him at Naropa must have been pretty cool. I think he was most instrumental in getting that school off the ground. |
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: Richard Simon
Just as being in LA is great for spotting celebs so is living in New York City. I have seen so many I cannot even remember them all. |
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: Darren J. Duet
I met Joe Montana at a drug company sponsored evening last November--had a nice conversation with him. Had dinner with Ron Guidry a while back. Spent some time with Dr. Debakey--a great guy. I meet a celebrity now and then but not very often....not many come though Cut Off, LA. |
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: warshawlaw
Stallone lives/lived in the hills above where I used to live so I'd see him all the time in various stores. Very nice guy for a "superstar"; always respectful of the fact that someone cared enough about him to say hello. |
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: barrysloate
Jack Klompus was played by Sandy Baron, who died a couple of years ago. |
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: jay behrens
The only pain the ass celebrity I had to deal with was Bill Cosby. He was the last person I ever expect to be a total jerk. Basically, he was pissed becuase he didn't get a Black driver like he requested and I got to hear about it the whole time I was driving him. Thankfully, only for 2 hours. |
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: Elliot
Ray Schalk was played by Gordon Clapp in Eight Men Out. Gordon Jump was in WKRP in Cincinatti and was the Maytag repairman. I think he has passed away. |
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: godvls
Back in the summer of '79 I attended an orientation for prospective fall enrollees at Arizona State. My roommate in the dorm they put us up in was a kid named Mike Donahue. As we got to talking it became apparent that his family had a good deal of money. Somewhere along the way I asked Mike what his dad did for a living.....he pointed to the closet and asked me to check his luggage. I pulled out his luggage and read the bagtag which read 'Phil Donahue'. "Your dad's not THE Phil Donahue, is he???", said I. "Yes he is and he'd coming to see the campus tomorrow". Sure enough, the next morning there was a knock on the door and Phil Donahue is standing in the doorway. |
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: DMcD
Eric Clapton held a door open for me at a Santa Monica mall a few years back. Would've made a better story if I had thought to air-guitar the opening riff of Layla but the best I could do at the time was "Gee, thanks." |
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: Anonymous
Back in the summer of 92 I played alot of softball tournments, they were usually Saturdays and Sundays depending on how your team did. One weekend we finished up on a Saturday early because there was a benefit softball game between the Detroit Tigers wifes and the mentally challeged. I got to meet most of the tigers and there wifes, all very nice people. Sparky Anderson was the best, just a down to earth guy. I also had Travis Fryman sign my glove, which I lost a year later at another tournment. I still miss that glove it was given to me by my uncle. And Jay I just got back from a cruise about 3 weeks ago and I talked to this magician his name I cant remember at the moment, but he had worked for Bill C. and said he was the biggest ---hole he had ever met, and a super big racist. Ive met several of the Detroit Redwings at a downtown bar in Detroit after games. All nice guys and alot smaller w/o there pads. |
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Posted By: warshawlaw
Gordon Clapp; that's who I saw. |
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Posted By: John Basilone
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: Nick
Living in a northern state of the USA its not often celebs want to come here. Who could blame them with all the snow and ice. Though i did have one encounter with someone famous. While at a Jesse James parade in Northfeild, MN I was asked by Dustin Hoffman to join him for lunch. He was a very nice and down to earth gentleman.... must say it was a very enlightening lunch |
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: Julie
who wrote songs in the '60s ("Little Boxes," "The Day the Freeway Froze") and I were both shopping in the Co-op in Berkeley. I recognized her, and smiled and said "Hello!" |
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O/T: Great Night Tonight
Posted By: Mark Evans
In 1974, I was interviewing for a job with a law firm in Atlanta (didn't get the job). One of the partners took me into the lobby to meet a client, Hank Aaron and his wife. Shook hands with the Hammer, who was very nice. His wife was especially outgoing, a tv personality as I recall. |
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