I'm a pretty spoiled kid. Well kind of. Mom's family is over the top, old money. Dad's family are garbage truck drivers...
-My grandmother used to be chairwoman of the Toronto symphony and used to throw these freaking monster bashes in Toronto. Sean Connery was there every year until I was like 10. Seiji Ozawa - the asian conductor with the crazy hair was there... then over the years i've met a ton of people..
-Ray Allen was my coach at UConn hoops camp when I was a kid. I feel like i've met almost everyone worth meeting in the baseball world.
-I'm actually *friends* with Andy Card from the Bush White House...
-I have Mick Foley's cell number, was John Cena's RA and RD at Springfield,
-Met John Callipari at a friend's 50th birthday party in Hadley, MA and got smashed with him.
-Carried MA Governor Charlie Baker back to his car after he got blitzkrieg'd at a bar in Springfield after an event.
-My best friend took Enrique Iglesias' sister to the prom
-Mamie Gummer - who is Meryl Streep's daughter, was part of my group of friends in high school.
-Meryl Streep was our swim team's team mom when I was like.. 10.
-Jane Curtain's daughter took riding lessons with my little sister for years. She was (still is) really close with my Mom.
-Roseann Scamardella - who was the lady who Gilda Radner made fun of with her Rosanne Rosanna Danna skits in the 70's - was my advisor in prep school.
-I met John Gotti because my dad worked on his horses at a race track in NYC (My Dad was a horse dentist). He had a lot of celeb accounts at the time... Linda Blair, the Bloombergs, Michael Chricton (he was TALL), Kevin Bacon and Keira Sedgewick, and a couple of others. I met a few, not all.
-Prince Ali of Jordan- who was almost President of FIFA - was my prefect in Prep School.
-And probably the weirdest/best fish story I guess - is Lily Rabe (of American Horror Story) was my girlfriend for 2 years. Probably my most serious relationship outside of my eventual wife.
So those are mine..