Posted on 03/17/2019 8:10:39 AM PDT by Leaning Right
“He said Rose was extremely nice to him.”
I bet he was. LOL
I grew up with Merle Haggard, Buck and Bonnie Owens. My mom was best friends with Merle’s first wife Leona. Merle had a huge crush on my aunt. I was pretty good friends with one of Buck’s boys and Bonnie was my best friends hubby’s aunt. Knew them all and saw them all the time.
Merle was an azz. Always. I threw him out of one of the nightclubs I was bar tending in. I heard he got nicer many many years later when he quit drinking. Last time my mom saw him was about 10 years ago and they had a coke together at Trouts. Buck was a truly nice man and Bonnie was just in love with Merle the rest of her life. We used to ditch her when we’d see her out drinking because she’d do nothing but cry in her beer over Merle.
I met Mary Lynn Rajskub (Chloe from 24). She was very nice.
Was that Shawn Weatherly who went on to be Miss USA/Universe?
I think so.
Politicians not celebrities…
… not too long ago I spoke at a luncheon along w/ Ed Meese and with Gov George Allen in attendance. Got to share time w/ both — Meese was as sweet as can be and Allen was a super dinner table companion, very engaging and interesting.
Everybody says great things about Hugh Jackman, Will Smith, John Stamos. Everybody says bad things about Bill Maher, Paul Simon, Alec Baldwin.
I sat directly behind Keith Richards at a Tom Waits show and he was charming and nice as hell to everybody who came over and bothered him before the show.
He walked like he was 30 years old....
I met Laura Bush in the lobby of a Boston hotel during the primary campaign of 2000. She was very polite and gracious.
Forgot to mention...Dr Edwin Land (founder of Polaroid) came to my mother’s funeral in ‘72.
Agree with your Tom Selleck. Sold him (his secretary) a typewriter...very nice guy.
Once was repairing a typewriter at Dodger stadium, in Peter O’Malley’s office. Had a great conversation and he genuinely seemed interested in what I was doing.
Jay Leno. A couple of buddies and I were having lunch in Burbank when in he walks. My buddy started chatting old cars with him and we spent the next half-hour getting a personal tour of the 1918 Pierce Arrow he was driving. Cool guy with a cool car. He’s featured that car in one of his shows.
#4 and you were 28 years old.... : )
I spent a couple days with him. My impression was an absolute prince of a guy.
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I had a very brief thingie with a known 80s actress
But I ain’t saying.
No way
One of my best buddies now is a sorta celeb who attracts paparazzi when we go out in La (mostly due to his girlfriends) who is in that world as a producer
Other than the women he sleeps with and the fact he’s movie star dreamy as my wife who adores him says
He’s very normal and takes care of his mom and gramma and deaf autistic nephew
He’s a damn good guy and is conservative for Hollywood ...very
I like interesting people period
I think we all do celebs or not
Thanks.
Good points.
Buddy of mine was his high school drama teacher and they became friends. Stamos would drop by his house periodically for a visit, long after he had graduated and became a star. (I never met him though). My friend said that he was always very genuinely nice guy.
40 years ago, I was a delivery boy for Vendome liquor in Beverly Hills. Yes, you meet a lot of celebrities - here are some memories - the good, the bad, and the ugly.
The Good:
Glen Ford: It always said “not before 10am” on the delivery ticket. When I got there, he answered his own door in his bathrobe, and let me wheel the load in the house instead of carrying it. Told me: “I’m just a guy like you that got a lucky break.” Super friendly and soft spoken, he is in a tie for the nicest guy I’ve ever met with...
Vin Scully: He used to come into the store when he needed some wine. He had no clue about wine, and let a young kid like me help him pick out the proper wines for his dinner parties. He shook my hand in thanks when he was done, and always bought a half gallon of Johnny Walker Red for himself.
Paul Newman: Delivered a stack of beer and booze to his house on a hot summer day. He answered the door, and walked me around back by the pool where he had a bar. “Hey, I’ll bet you’d like an ice cold beer!”...as he pulled out a Heineken from the fridge for me. Sat by the pool for a few minutes talking about the Dodgers, when I suddenly realized he’d already had more than a few beers! And he tipped well!
Dean Martin: I delivered the exact same order every week to his house in the Trousdale Estates. 1 case of Heineken, a case of French Bordeaux, 1 case of soda, ginger ale and Coke, and two cartons of Carlton cigs. Oh, and a case of Martin’s VVO Scotch! I only saw him once, he was in the kitchen eating a sandwich. He looked over, said hello, and gave me that Dean Martin wink. I had a smile all day.
Alice Cooper: As crazy in person as in public, he is a super friendly guy that I found myself very comfortable with. Most celebrities you felt nervous around. He answered his own door, and talked to you the whole time you were making the delivery. He had this ‘57 Chevy with “Machine Gun Alice” airbrushed on the sides with a Tommy-gun spewing fire and spent casings that was simply brilliant. Plus he gave me a $20 tip - which was like $100 today!
Jacqueline Bisset: Sweet lady who again answered her own door in her bathrobe. Even wrapped up and without makeup, you could just see her beauty. Great smile, and good tipper!
The Bad:
Bob Newhart: Mean and nasty-mouthed, he always complained about....the PRICES! He then used it as an excuse to not tip you.
Harry Morgan: Imagine Colonel Potter with hemeroids, the clap and a hangover. Another mean-assed SOB who really thought of himself as a “Star” who didn’t have to tip.
...and the UGLY:
Buddy Hackett: I think poor Buddy had lost his marbles by then. He used to order at least five cases of 8 oz Coke bottles every week. He chucked the empties out the window by the side door landing, where most of them broke on the concrete, forming a sticky mess of broken glass, syrup, ants, and whatever else. He demanded that you take the “returns” - which meant sifting through the mess for the unbroken bottles. When you were done, and informed him that he only had 2 cases of returns, he screamed bloody murder demanding credit for five cases. When you showed him there were only two cases, he called the store and complained using every foul word you can imagine, plus a few more. The store would say OK, and he would tell me that I didn’t deserve a tip, and he was going to make sure I was fired for being such an “asshole.” When I got back to the store, they told me not to worry, they ripped him off for an extra 20% on every case of wine he ordered, and they gave me $5 for my trouble.
Michael Landon: Meanest, most condescending POS I have ever met in my entire life. he was waiting for you when you arrived, and he always complained that we were late, despite the fact he only placed the order an hour before. He then SCREAMED at you that the order was all wrong, and when you showed him the order sheet, he ripped it up and said he wasn’t going to sign it. When you told him you were going to have to take the order back to the store, he got even nastier and immediately called the store to complain. After several minutes, he would come back out and scribble on the remains of the order sheet while yelling that he wasn’t going to tip an incorrect order. I have to admit when I heard he died years later, I cracked a smile.
Special mentions:
A few years after that job, I used to go to a local bar called the Sportsman’s Lodge. George Gobel was a regular there, and several times I sat next to him for a few drinks. Funny you know, but he often bought a round of drinks and treated everybody there like his best friend. He was another celebrity I felt really comfortable around.
Jack Lemmon - I bought him a drink at the Stone Canyon bar while we were watching an L.A. Raider playoff game. Super nice guy, and very funny, but I was surprised by how foul his mouth was. I was in top hat and tails for a wedding there, and he looked me up and down and asked: “What are you, the f@ckin’ magician?” - with a big smile on his face. We broke up in laughter and that was the start of an hour of drinking and swearing at the Raiders - who lost - but I was a big winner that day.
Actors...what can I say?
I was about 7 years old and eating out at a nice restaurant on Miami Beach. My parents were whispering to each other and eventually put a piece of paper and a pen in my hand and sent me to a nearby table to say...
“Mr Ford, Mr. Mantle, could I have your autographs?”
Very nice men. They asked if I liked the Yankees. I said I did, but that my parents were Mets fans. They said they wouldn’t hold that against them.
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