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Epic OT: Most famous person you ever spoke with?

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Passed Bill Walton while leaving a hotel in Philly, exchanged brief greetings...
Passed Fred Couples while entering a hotel outside DC, exchanged greeting...
Met Daniel Snyder and talked for a while...I was helping to care for a relative of his in the ICU...also spoke to a few Redskins...
Took care of a few Senators and Congressmen while they were admitted to Bethesda...
Met General Austin and presented some of our medical capabilities to him, last year when he was Commander of CENTCOM ..
Met Admiral Mike Mullen (Chairman of Joint Chiefs) when he was visiting patients at Balboa...
Shook hands with Adam West and Leonard Nimoy at Comic-Con...
 
George W. Bush (down to earth guy)
Earl Campbell (nice guy, made time for everyone)
Darrel K. Royal (legendary longhorn coach, 2 nc's, a real gentleman)
Doug English (all pro with the lions in the 70's, very friendly, nice guy)
Louie Kelcher (all pro with chargers in 70's, huge hands)
Jerry Sisemore (all pro with eagles in the 70's, nice guy)
Willie Pep (boxing Legend, when I was a kid on an international flight)
Dick Butkus (all pro, not real socialble)
Rennie Stennett (played with the Pirates in the 70's, taught us some baseball skills)
Bill Schoening (voice of the Spurs, real outgoing and nice guy)
my Grandpa (Retired Detective Captain for the Hartford PD many, many years ago)
 
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I don't live a life anywhere near as exciting as a lot of you but I was in Boston for the Ray vs Ben Celtics/Bulls series and ran into Howie D at a bar right near the garden, he's not that famous but I had to give a mention, and to Travis Knight at a charity event, both were gracious and talkative once they heard I was a die-hard.

Saw Alonzo Mourning at the airport maybe 15 years ago, gave him a subtle "Zo..... Zo" and he reacted, was a total dick, I didn't make a scene or reveal to anyone else that he was famous, he was laying low. Got a nice photo with a clearly annoyed Zo

I was on vacation in Poland over the summer and Skrillex sat down 2 tables behind us, but we didn't talk to him because some dancer chick was annoying the hell out of him already. (he's a world famous DJ to the olds in the building)
 
Rita Moreno flirted with me in a hotel elevator. Really impressed my date at the time. To this day the EGOT winner is still the best wingman I ever had.
 
storrsroars said:
I don't really know who would be the "most" famous. I've had some odd conversations over the years.

I speak to Pirates' FO (Hurdle, Huntington, Coonelly, Nutting) every year.
Nomar (across aisle on a flight from Dallas after he injured his arm vs Texas)
Bob Novak (bizarre conversation about Scott Peterson case on a plane)
Jim Carville (often spoke at a grocery in Alexandria)
George Will (conversation about Mussina trade morning after it happened at a National Airport bookstore)
Ed Rendell (his photo op at our store to "support local businesses")
Dick Durbin (epic half hour baseball conversation with a sprinkling of Obamacare thrown in during campaign stop at our store, love this guy)
George H.W. Bush & Brent Scowcroft (at Cape Arundel GC while they were getting ready to drive to first tee and we were held hostage by Secret Service. Amusing guy, that Bush. But the SS guys were a real scream.)

Odd thing is, I've never been in politics.
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I left out the politicians but I met a bunch of them when I was dealing with an international trade issue at my old job. Lieberman, Dodd, Chris Shays, Rob Portman, Mark Pryor.
 
Ronnie James Dio (had dinner at my house)
Tommy John
Willie Upshaw
Chris Smith (often, plays golf at the club where I work)
Ryan Gomes
Jim Calhoun
George Blaney
Joe Walsh
Mark Bavaro
Redd Foxx (sat and talked with him in Vegas for half hour, nicest guy)
 
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Mano said:
Bob Backlund
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Bob Backlund came up and introduced himself to ME this summer.(long story, but he was doing a book signing at a festival I was playing at) I marked out big time. I was a huge wrestling and Backlund fan as a kid and the fact that he went out of his way to seek me out and tell me he enjoyed our music was one of the cooler things that ever happened to me. I then proceeded to bore him by asking questions about his most famous matches for 30 minutes. He was patient and humored me. One of the nicest guys youll ever meet. Dude is still in serious shape too.

I asked him to put me in the cross face chicken wing.
 
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Gordie Howe (and Mark and Marty...Marty was a neighbor in Manchester)
Scott Brown
Howie Carr
Played foosball with Cliff Robinson at Teds.

My wife...who's dad was in the record business, has an epic list.
 
Deepster said:
Ahhhhhhh, finally the answer to a long standing riddle on another board here.
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We had already figured it out. :) But now "Christine Taylor" has me intrigued.
 
August_West said:
Bob Backlund came up and introduced himself to ME this summer.(long story, but he was doing a book signing at a festival I was playing at) I marked out big time. I was a huge wrestling and Backlund fan as a kid and the fact that he went out of his way to seek me out and tell me he enjoyed our music was one of the cooler things that ever happened to me. I then proceeded to bore him by asking questions about his most famous matches for 30 minutes. He was patient and humored me. One of the nicest guys youll ever meet. Dude is still in serious shape too.

I asked him to put me in the cross face chicken wing.
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Backlund's wife was my high school gym teacher. He came in a few times and did workouts with the class. Guy was in incredible shape.
 
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Not the most famous person I've spoken with, but most in-depth and interesting conversation was a 3-hr train ride from PA to NYC with Donald Gregg, former US Ambassador to South Korea, a player in Iran-Contra*, CIA operative etc.. Really bright guy, incredibly interesting conversation ranging full gamut of life from education, family & personal values to torture, humanity and nature of the truth.

*he was understandably obtuse in not referencing Iran-Contra directly, but topics of public perception, courts, testimony & complexity of right & wrong were telling & I think echoes of his experience.
 
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upstater said:
I sort of spoke to Marvin Hagler once. He was walking down the street with short shorts, white socks pulled up to his knees, carrying a boombox like Radio Raheem. It was the night of a Hit Man Hearns v. Sugar Ray fight. I said, "Hey Marvelous, who's going to win the fight tonight." And he said, "I don't know, and I don't care!"
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My dad was a huge Hagler fan, so naturally so was I. I remember crying like a little girl (or a little boy) when he lost to Leonard.

Your story makes me love the guy even more.
 
I was eating in this Texas diner in Manhattan and the movie critic Rex Reed sat down next to me. We spent about 40 minutes bullshitting. I never once brought up the topic of movies, figuring he was sick of that subject.
Most important: met a former employee for the state department in the waiting room of my doctor's office. His achievement: Wrote the treaty of Pyongyang.
 
Jimmie Dean, the sausage guy, my son walked into him, literally, in Miami and 25 years later ay Montauk. He had the ugliest steel yacht painted blue. Never did talk to Him though except to apologize for my 3 year old walking into him.

Ran into a movie star at my vet she was living with child star Dickie something or other,talked about our dogs. Can't recall her name, petite blonde, had a quite a voice.

Paul Newman.
 
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