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Epic OT: Most famous person you ever spoke with?

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Dove said:
As a boy I met Dennis the Apprentice from Captain Kangaroo's show. He smelled like gin.
As a boy I met Emmy Jo of New Zoo Revue. I touched her butt.
As a boy I met the Lamont Sanford guy. Cool cat.

As a 20 something I saw Ralph Malph. I yelled "Ralph Malph!!!" He laughed.

I ate pizza with the band Third World right on York Street in New haven around 1988.

As an older adult I avoid famous people.
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You know Dennis was also the Dancing Bear, right?
 
Sugar Ray Seales

My best friend and I were on a road trip across the country. As we were checking out of our hotel near Kansas City, a middle-aged guy approached us and asked if we wanted to see a gold medal. He introduced himself as Sugar Ray, took a gold medal out of his pocket and put it around each of our necks.

We were both too awestruck and dumbfounded to take a picture. I had no idea who he was until I looked it up later to see that, indeed, Sugar Ray Seales won an Olympic gold medal in 1972 in boxing. Needless to say, that was the first, last, and only time I ever have worn an Olympic medal.
 
Dove said:
As a boy I met Dennis the Apprentice from Captain Kangaroo's show. He smelled like gin.
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I was a main character in a Childrens Book read on the Captain Kangaroo show in 1973.

Not the title character but his best friend.

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The most famous person I've been in the direct presence of: Mick Jagger in a London elevator. I said hello, he said hello back.

Most famous person I've had real communication with as an adult: Mark Cuban.

Most famous person I hung out with as a kid: Corey Haim (RIP) filmed a movie in my school and we hung out a bunch for a few weeks. I should've reached out to him a number of years later to see about getting Nicole Eggert's number after their movie.
 
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Getting in late. But great thread.

Sting
Mick Jagger
Elton John
MJ
Don Henley
( a ton of other musicians -but more current)
Steve Martin
Tom Hanks
President Carter
The Dalai Lama
 
prankster said:
Bo Derek
W. F. Buckley, Jr.
David Niven
Ted Turner
Sloan Wilson
Jackie Robinson
Rocky Bleier
James Carville
Colin Powell
John Riggins
Jack Palance
Treat Williams
Jack Cassady
Jorma Kaukonen
Carrot Top
George Will
Burt Rutan
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tell us the Jack Cassady story
 
I would say Muhammad Ali but thought of a better one. I met Jenna Jameson at LAX once when she was young. I wanted to shake her hand and say "It's nice for our hands to finally meet. I feel like I've known you for years." I chickened out and hummena, hummena, hummena'd.

Ali who?
 
husky8273 said:
tell us the Jack Cassady story
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Went to see Hot Tuna at the Lowell (MA) summer music festival, a few years back. Pretty open venue.

I was wandering around and saw Jack and Jorma.....Introduced myself ( for them, I guess) and got them to sign my nice new "If you don't know Jorma, You don't know Jack" t-shirt.

Right after that, Jorma's wife got a little POd that the venue was quite that open, and security strung up some more fence bits and yellow tape to...you know....keep the riff raff out.
 
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Kathy Lee Gifford
Shaq ( O'neal, not Goodwin)

Gary the Reatard and High pitch Eric from Stern, not at the same time but 2 separate occasions about 10 years apart.

Almost forget talked the Rip Hamilton years ago after a Chris Rock show at the Oakdale while he was at Uconn
Spoke to Randy White on the phone too
 
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Ray, Cliff and lots of other UConn guys. (Drinks with Ray, yes he drank some)
Rosie O'Donnell, shorter than I expected. Seems alright.
Larry Bird--despite what some say, always nice and willing to talk
Shaq, awesome dude.
Keifer Sutherland, drinks while filming Young Guns 2
Judge Judy
Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton, lots of other country music people
Bill Parcells, intimidating and I'm not easily intimidated at all.
Brian Dennehy, same as Parcells, tremendous presence, intimidating
The Madoffs, seemed like a great family. Sons were definitely innocent.
Rick Ocasek with Paulina Poriskova, never a Cars fan, slightly before my prime, Rick had huge star presence.
All the Whalers of their prime years. Ron Francis was all class.
 
I live in Los Angeles, so celebrity encounters are common. By the way, if you wish to see stars in the L.A. area don’t go to high-end Hollywood clubs or bars, head to the Whole Foods Market on Wilshire in Santa Monica. I have seen too many stars there to count.

A couple of stories…

I resemble Woody Harrelson, to the point that people periodically ask me for an autograph. When the movie White Man Can’t Jump was released, I played a lot of basketball with a friend who is a dead ringer for Wesley Snipes. We would get teased, until the ball started bouncing and they could see we could play.

My neighborhood basketball courts after moving to California were at Lincoln Park (now named Reed Park) in Santa Monica, which the band Linkin Park named themselves after. The first time I went there some dude called out “Hey, Woody!” and approached me. After telling him I wasn’t the actor, he mentioned he thought I might be because Woody often played on those courts while preparing for his role in White Men Can’t Jump. He said Woody is a pretty good baller, which I think you can tell from the movie.

So, I guess I’m the most famous person (a Woody Harrelson look-alike) I have talked to. (I often talk to myself.)

Also at that park, I was once shooting alone when the ball bounced off the court into the path of some dude walking with a woman. He picked the ball up and tossed it to me underhanded like a little girl. After they had passed, another dude walking by asked me, “Do you know who that was?” I responded no, and he told me it was Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner. Okay, I thought, he throws like a little girl.



Just for @prankster…

One story, not related to basketball. When my daughter was a toddler she would get fidgety in restaurants if we remained too long. To placate her, I would take her outside and walk back and forth on the sidewalk.

One evening, outside a Mexican restaurant in Santa Monica, Kevin Bacon was standing by the entrance chatting with several people. Every time we passed by he would flirt with my daughter, by no means in a creepy way—he was charming and she loved it. I guess this makes me one degree of Kevin Bacon, and, by extension, the Boneyard is now two degrees of Kevin Bacon.
 
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Forgot the new girlfriend's job ...

I recently met Gigi Hadid, Ginta Lapina & Dakota Fanning.

Somebody has to tailor clothes before fashion shoots - and I hang after hours for free wine & beer. I would not know any of these women 3 months ago; but, my college age daughter is impressed.
 
alexd. said:
Aaron Hernandez - Charlotte Airport
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You're lucky to be alive.

WhiteDressWes said:
Pierre Sprey, Ron Carter, Chico Hamilton, Amy Brenneman (always a sweetheart), Kelly Masterson (screenplay for "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead"), Victor Gerena, Jeff Davidson, prolific author ("The Joy of Simple Living")
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You're even luckier to be alive
 
Was fortunate to meet and hang for about 30 minutes with Katie Holmes in a bar in Dublin. Spent some time with Adam Duritz and the rest of the Counting Crows after a show once. Have also met Joe Namath, Shabazz, Donny Marshall and Ray Davies (one of my all-time heroes).
 
I once presented at a Microsoft conference just before Bill Gates. We shook hands as we passed as I came off the stage, and he said, "Nice job," though I doubt he saw any of my presentation. From the business world, I also worked with Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix briefly in his venture prior to Netflix. Very bright guy, obviously.

I've also briefly met Mick Jagger and Carlos Santana (separately) while in lounges at LAX. And I had a chat with Steve Guttenberg (of Police Academy and Cocoon fame) at LAX a couple of years ago waiting for the same flight to NY. He had the impression I was "in the biz" and seemed to be looking for a job. All of them were cordial and accommodating.

I was in a Boston club once with friends at the height of the Bird-era Celtics' run when Robert Parrish and his entourage came in. As a Lakers fan, I, of course, sneered at him. :)
As a tween, I met Willis Reed when his son was in my church confirmation with me. As a Lakers fan, I, of course, sneered at him.
 
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Got a very short list from my wife. It doesn't include everyone she met on a backstage pass. Dolly Parton used to call her house to talk to her dad. Super nice lady it seems.

Tony Orlando
Rick Ocasik and Ben Orr and Elliot Easton of the Cars (multiple times)
Peter Wolf (multiple times)
Cindi Lauper
Ray Davies, Ian gibbon and Jim Roderick of The Kinks
Tom Petty
Journey (all)
Chris Issak
Cindy Lauper
John Schneider
Cheap Trick (all)
Melissa Ethridge
Del Fuegos (all)
Peter Gabriel
Kiss - Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley
Dolly Parton
Conway Twitty
Ronnie McDowell
 
My boyhood idol - Willie Mays. Thanks to my son who dragged me out to the ball park. Dude must have been in his mid 70's and still had an amazingly strong handshake.
 
Jerry Seinfeld. He was engaged to my cousin in the mid-80s before he became famous.
 
So, I found out this week, a couple who won Amazing Race goes to my church and I see them every week. They are friends of some of our friends and I've probably met them. One of the couple actually won it a second time in one of those all-star events.

I Google Amazing Race winners and don't recognize them anywhere.
 
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