Let's liven things up ping!
Met Walter Keonig (Chekov from Star Trek) at Texas A&M circa 1990. Pretty nice fella, hawking a sci-fi movie he had recently completed. Got an autograph.
I met Heather Locklear at an amusement park I was working at, my coworkers and I took a picture with her and the group she was with. Yes guys, she looks as good in person as she does on tv, and at the time she was wearing a baseball cap and hardly any make up.
When I was in Grad School. I worked at a coffee shop/appliance store where I served the following people:
Antonio Banderas
Melanie Griffith
Francis Ford Coppola
Lou Reed
Elvis Costello
Chris Kattan
Holly Hunter
Sarah Jessica Parker
Matthew Broderick
Gerard Depardieu
Diana Krall
Since she was a regular shopper, Sarah Jessica Parker suggested our shop as a location for Sex and the City. As a result, I am featured on an episode during the last season, working the expresso machine in the background.
Other celebrity encounters:
Met and talked with Peter Gabriel on the 7 Train going out to the US Open
Rode next to Jaye Davidson (The Crying Game) on the 1 train. Also sat next to Wyclef Jean (the Fugees) on the 2 train.
Stood next to Al Franken at Starbucks.
Met Gene Simmons at Sam Ash music store.
Sat next to Ace Frehley at the bar at Arturo's Pizza. Also sat across from Randy Newman at the same bar.
Chatted with Louis Lasser (Mary Hartman Mary Hartman) at a Starbucks.
Sat next to Ron Jeremy in a movie theatre.
Met Vanessa Del Rio outside a Barnes and Noble.
Stood behind Jason Alexander while waiting to get into a movie.
While living in Chicago, rode in the same Red Line car as Joel Grey.
Julia Louis-Dreyfuss was sitting at the table next to mine in a restaurant in the Poconos. The guy she was sitting with was, well, kinda dumpy looking, surprisingly.
Anyway, I didn't say a word, and I was SO about to take something off her plate and eat it, but my dinner partner didn't have 50 bucks to wager me.
That's about it. My sister has a ton of brush with the stars stories. Joe Montana hit on her the day after he won the super bowl. She declined, and then promptly showed him the (back) door (Hyatt Regency Monterey). And she also used to work for Clint Eastwood at the Hog's Breath Inn in Carmel.
Oh, and my friend's husband looks JUST LIKE Nick Lachey. Dead Ringer. No word of lie. But I don't think that counts.
Drank beer with Sonny Eliot...
I've met a lot of movie folks in the course of my work but the first celeb I ever encountered was Red Skelton. My dad and I were in the same elevator with him in a Las Vegas hotel in the late 50's, when he was a headliner there. I remember he was genial, extremely tall, and that hair was fire engine red.
Eddie Albert while I was in Kansas City on a high school trip and John James from Dynasty(I think).He lives nearby.
I met this guy Clemenza a few times, talk about star power : ))
OK,
I met Don Franks, Matthew Ferguson, Gene Glazer and Alberta Watson several times during fan conventions. (yeah, La Femme Nikita)
And I still get to hear from Alberta because she's the friend of a friend (big whoop, I know).
Didn't get to meet Roy Dupuis though (~~sigh~~)
Lets see, I danced once at a swanky affair and Celeste Holmes was there. Very sweet lady.
And when I was a teenager and working as a desk clerk, checked Foghat into their rooms. Oh and Lynrd Skynrd too...or was it the Alman Brothers?
The End
Can't compete with #7.
I met Agent 99 Barbra Feldon on a plane to LA about 27 years ago.
Waited on John Phillips of Mamas/Papas way back when, before he died. (haha)
Met Aida Torturro from Soprano's this summer.
Waited on that Zimmerman guy late of the Yankees. He showed us all his world series ring. Very impressive.
My sister used to work at Gurney's in Montauk, Long Island. Lives there too. She meets a lot of celebs. Has nothing but bad things to say about them.
Probably more I can't think of right now.
I drove Lionel Richie's Mercedes once.
Very nice guy.
That's it...not much.
William Shatner
Tom Green
Ed Asner
Meredith Baxter-Birney
Bruce Dern
Ann Margaret
Beverly Garland
I live in SoCal and have worked for studios, so I've met a lot of celebs. But when I was still a teenager and living in Chicago, I had one of my favorite encounters. I rode on an elevator with the comedian Buddy Hackett. The elevator was very crowded and we were all squished. I held my purse in front of me and tried to make myself as small as possible. Hackett turned around and said to me, "Are you holding my @ss, my dear?" Later on a friend told me that I should have said, "If I were holding your @ss, you'd know it!" But you never think of things like that until too late!!
Don't know about celebrities, but a buddy of mine was a seal platoon leader in the late eighties. Noriega got stupid, we invaded, and my buddy's platoon destroyed Noriega's personal plane so pineapple head couldn't escape. However, in the process, my buddy got killed along with his entire seal platoon. Now IMHO, he was much more than a celebrity, he's an american hero. much more than a lot of these slack a$$e$ I've seen listed here. sorry to be a party pooper.