Had to think about this for a bit.
While in uniform I ran into and had a short conversation with Marge and Gower champion on the streets of New York. Also Senator from Louisiana in 60.
Met the Everly Bros and Geo Hamilton IV as a teen in New Orleans.
Had a conversation and shook hands with Bill Clinton in Dallas when he came and spoke to a group of Americorps Members (of which I was one) - even have a picture.
When I was 5, I led one of the Mardi Gras balls in New Orleans as a lieutenant (hoop gown, and all).
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15 minutes of Fame
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Posted 4 years ago by artistabobbi TX 1/17 #
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How could I forget this? I once was on Geraldo (in the audience.) The show was taped in NYC. Early in the show, the camera zooms in for a close-up of my face as I watch intently. Later in the show is my big break--I am chosen to ask a question! We have been told before the show that we are not allowed to touch Geraldo, yet Geraldo put his arm around me while I asked the question...are you ready??? "Where is the father of your children? And where is your family--are there no other options than to raise your children on the street?" The girl (bald-headed and tattooed, her 3 year old twin sons had green hair and wore dog collars) snarled at me, "Their father is in JAIL. My mother lives in ATLANTA." Then the mother came out from the back--surprise! I'll never forget those two little boys and how relieved they were. They were sitting on her lap (while baldie rolled her eyes in derision) and one whispered "Grandma--I'm so glad to see you."
The funny thing was, I did not tell anyone I was on the show, yet people everywhere saw it and recognized me from the early audience shot. My sister-in-law was in her kitchen with Geraldo on in the living room and was startled to hear my voice coming from the tv as I asked the question. I was a Lancome counter manager at Macys and I became a minor celebrity, since this episode reran at least three times.
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Now that is neat. Is he cute in person, CW?
Posted 4 years ago by SharoninAustell46 #
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I meet Ted Nugent at the Heart of Texas music festival, and John Corabi, shortly after he was ousted from Motley Crue, in a guitar shop off Sunset Strip.
Posted 4 years ago by Crazycatman - CA #
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Well I'm so close to Hollywood here and must say everyone famous I ever met, was before I moved here...I come from the same small midwest town that most all of REO speedwagon (if anyone remembers them)members are from, and we used to listen to them playing at a local park(before Kevin the lead singer joined)..and I drank moonshine with Charlie Daniels (what a great guy)...partied with Alabama (very long time ago)...Oh and my Sisters vocal student is currently in the lead role of the touring Broadway musical Annie...(her name is Amando Balon)...Well thats about it for me...
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Hey, Catwoman--a girl who worked with me at my father's ice cream/yogurt/sandwich shop WAS ON JERRY SPRINGER!!!!!
Posted 4 years ago by FondaHonda #
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I remember REO Speedwagon. C'mon. :-)
The earliest encounter I recall was when I was about 8. Jerome Courtland was touring to promote his tv series The Viking. He and my father were fraternity brothers in college so we got dragged backstage for a meet 'n' greet with this very gorgeous specimen of a man. He was very gracious. Mostly my brother and I stood aside as my father tried to play "remember when" with a huge man dressed in furs backstage in Miami in the summer. Color us embarrassed. And let's see if anyone remembers that particular tv series. Ran the same era as Bonanza.Posted 4 years ago by SharoninAustell46 #
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I saw Merv Griffin at O'Hare airport w/entourage a zillion years ago, does that count?
Posted 4 years ago by SammyandOliversmama #
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Oh yeah, and the Naked Cowboy in Daytona Beach FL .... walked right by me and I NEVER SAW HIM! Everyone around me was howling w/laughter.
Posted 4 years ago by SammyandOliversmama #
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Now, don't get jealous ladies (esp. Huddy's Mama!) but I've met Alice Cooper a few times. My father is an avid golfer and has 'played a few rounds' with him and then brought him home to have dinner with us. Extremely nice man
Posted 4 years ago by FondaHonda #
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I grew up in an small,affluent town in suburban Western Massachusetts and grew up living around the same block from the Spinney family whose father,Carroll,has since the beginning(I don't think he still does to this day;I'm unsure.)played "Big Bird" on Sesame Street.He would work all week at The Children's Television Workshop in N.Y.C and commute home by rail on weekends! I never really had the chance to meet him closely,as he worked tirelessly,of course. But his daughter was in the same grade as me,and for years I held a secret crush on her.
I also,in 1998,had an extra's role in the small budget movie that starred Sandra Bullock,Nicole Kidman,Aidan Quinn,Dianne Wiest & Stockard Channing called "Practical Magic" that was released on Halloween of that year. It's principal scenes were shot in Coupville & San Juan Island,WA.,where I was living then.The story revolves around a family of Wiccans that dates back to the 1600's and is set in Coastal Maine.As an extra I potrayed with others the Puritans in the opening scene where the family's ancestor is set to hang for her "crimes".If you watch carefully the scene at the end of it,I'm the last one in the crowd fleeing.If you rent a movie that was released around the same period(1998) and see previews of "Practical Magic",I'm the Puritan that is highlighted against a sunset sky backdrop.I've never seen the trailer/preview but was told by my girlfriend at the time who HAD seen it that it was indeed me! :) -
I don't suppose you guys have heard of an English pop duo called Dollar, but I did their lighting effetcs once when someone didn't show...
Posted 4 years ago by MadcatwomanintheUK #
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Hmmmm...I've never met anyone famous...ever.. I was on the local news in 1980 at about 8 months pregnant. I was pumping gas into my MGB and they were doing a piece on the rising cost of gas (ha-ha!) and filmed me at the pump. My white maternity top was billowing in the wind and I was LARGE! I received several calls from friends and family when it aired on the evening news...and they weren't kind..ha-ha! No speaking role, however.
Posted 4 years ago by CatRancher #
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Oh, CatRancher--are you sure we're not related? Now, I'm cracking up!!!!!
Sorry, but the visuals of an extremely pregnant woman and an MGB--isn't that an oxymoron?Posted 4 years ago by FondaHonda #
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I recently met Carlos Santana. He came over to my parent's house for lunch one weekend a couple of months ago. This was due to my aunt and uncle bringing him with them. He is a really amazing person.
I have met the following:
James Hetfield of Mettalica
Jerry Garcia - really a nice person
Michael Bolton - stayed and chatted with myself and some coworkers
George Lucas - Made eye contact with him while working as a cashier
Sean Penn - he almost hit me in a local grocery store parking lot
Pete Wilson - Channel 7 San Francisco
Pete Giddings - Ch 7 SFI forgot I was interviewed on TV doing a taste test for when they put Olestra in potato chips. I was on the 6pm news prime time. It was about eight years ago. As a child I was on the Bozo the clown show once that was taped in SF. I also got to be in the ice capades when they came to SF. They picked children from the crowd and carried them around on a special seat attached to a broom. I was 8 yrs old when that happened, it was my birthday and will never forget that. It was actually the last event I got to spend with my Mom before she died.
Posted 4 years ago by SylvesterMiasMomma #
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Hmm... in no particular order:
Least recent: Isaac Asimov
Walter Peyton
Mike Singletary
Patrick Swayze
Wesley Snipes
John Leguizamo
BB King (and Lucille)
Howard Dean
Bill Clinton
Claire McCaskillMost recent:
Derrick Johnson (current LB for KC Chiefs; helped build a playground for Boys & Girls Club)Posted 4 years ago by anncetera2 #
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Oh, I forgot Itzhak Perlman and Sir George Solti.
Posted 4 years ago by anncetera2 #
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FH..ha-ha! Maybe we are related. I could barely fit behind the wheel of the MGB when I was so very pregnant..gettin out was no easy task either. I pulled into a store parking lot one warm day in the MGB when I was preggers...had the top down on the "B" and was wearing a strapless black sundress. I noticed a couple of teenage boys hanging out and looking in my direction, hoping to get a little show when I opened the car door and swung my legs around. Well...I opened the door and swung my legs around and with much effort and grunts and groans hoisted myself out...you should have seen the look on their faces when they saw my belly...abject horror...like they'd accidently french kissed their grandma. I still laugh when I think about it. Ha-ha-ha!
Posted 4 years ago by CatRancher #
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Let's see now. All my life I knew the Vince Dooley family--If you have coached/been AD of all those National Championship teams and gotten so many of your players national awards (Heismans on down), that ought to count.
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My brother's speech therapist was the niece of Jimmy Carter. This was when the self-serving, vindictive so-and-so was still Governor.********
The first person I met whom I considered to be a celibrity was James Brown when I was 12. I still have the football program he autographed (he was the halftime show, performing a song he'd written for Vince Dooley--see above).********
When I was in college, one of my co-workers was this guy named Ralph who had this sarcastic, dry humor that I could listen to forever. He was the token conservative on the student newspaper staff, and whenever he wrote an op-ed ("OPpposite the EDitorial page--where the opinion columns go) piece, the newspaper would be FLOODED with hate mail. Ralph loved the fact that he actually got read! His other job was night desk at an all-girl dorm across the street from mine. When I worked the Close shift and got back at 2AM all wired and not wanting to wake my roomie, I'd walk across the street and talk to Ralph until about 5 or 6 and watch stupid ancient shows like "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet" on USA. It's amazing that I didn't wake the whole dorm laughing at his humorous take on life!About 10 years later, I was flipping through the channels, and accidentally stopped on "The 700 Club," a show I NEVER watch. Imagine my shock when I heard the voice (which, after all those years I recognized immediately), and a few minutes later, saw the still-boyish face of my old friend, Ralph Reed! At the time, he was still president of the Christian Coalition, but last year made an unsuccessful run for Governor of Georgia. I'll bet he's still doggoned funny!
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I have also briefed a 2-Star General, met a Speaker of the State House, a U.S. Senator, a Lieutenant Governor, various and sundry State Senators/Representatives, and a couple of Olympic atheletes (the best known being Michael Phelps). I have also seen in person two Presidents, the Great Bird of the Galaxy (Gene Roddenberry), G. Gordon Liddy (what a story THAT is!), Clarence Clemons, and saw both Lewis Grizzard and Hulk Hogan twice (actually spoke with Grizzard briefly once--he was the man who made me want to be a writer)!.
**and that Sealy H.S. coach's wife couldn't for the life of her figure out why I didn't genuflect when she identified herself**
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Oh...I forgot...I met Captain Verns, the host of our local after school cartoon ShowBoat! That was in 1963. I "starred" in his special Halloween show with about 12 other kids and got candy and bobbed for apples and it was fun! I never received any offers for roles after that, however, and so my career ended...I was a shooting star...burnt out too quick.
Posted 4 years ago by CatRancher #
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2bpurring - I remember REO Speedwagon. Years ago, I used to work with a woman who was married to a guy who used to be in REO Speedwagon back wherever they came from, before they were famous. At the time, he was coach or our women's softball team. He must have come from your home town, and you probably knew him as well! There's that 6 degrees thing!
Posted 4 years ago by Rubia in CA, 4/28 #
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Back for more. I got to shake John Kennedy's and Ted Kennedy's hands when they were campaigning. And a family connection with 15 min of fame. My greatgrandmother was Herbert Hoover's Nanny, "Miss Phoebe". And her several times greatgrandfather, William, had his head chopped off by the King of England for refusing to tithe to the Anglican Church. (He was one of the early Quakers) Fortunately for me, he had sent his son to America with William Penn to escape the persecution. Can you tell I enjoy researching family history?
Posted 4 years ago by paulajeanne #
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Ginny: ha-ha! I really would rather stay in the background anyway...I love my privacy. From what I have seen of those that have fame...most of them, while loving the adoration and receiving affirmation and, in some cases, adulation...sometimes would just like to get a hamburger without having it assessed and examined --ad nauseum-- in the media. Little fish...little pond..that's me and I am happy!
Posted 4 years ago by CatRancher #
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I forgot, I met the man who played the captain on Gilligan's Island. I was visiting the local radio show that allowed live audiences and I had the day off from work. He walked to all of us and shook our hands. Very nice guy.
Paulajeanne, I am related to Madonna, Celine Dion and Hillary Rodham Clinton because of my French Canadian ancestors. Can't say I am thrilled to know this.
Posted 4 years ago by SylvesterMiasMomma #
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Why not Karin? All very strong, spiritual and intelligent talented women! Who don't have to believe in their lifestyle or politics to appreciate their bravery and talent! I would be thrilled!
Posted 4 years ago by CatRancher #
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You have a good point CatRancher. I am related through some seventh generation grandparent. Seems I might be related to quite a few other Canadians.
Posted 4 years ago by SylvesterMiasMomma #
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French-Canadian blood is thick,Karin! One-quarter of mine is Quebequois as my Grampa was from St.George,County Beauce.I had forgot to mention earlier that when Bobby McFerrin came to perform in W.Mass in '86,I was part of a group of 12 people invited onstage to sing along in a capella harmonies with 2 of his own songs.He divided us into 2 groups & had each sing a separate harmonic to his lead.I never found out if it made it onto any recording,but there were soundboards on either side of the theatre,so I'm sure it exists somewhere out there!
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I saw Jack Black in the street when he was in Wellington filming King Kong. And I shared a small plane with NZ/Hollywood actor Cliff Curtis - he offered to carry my daughters car seat when we got off and I foolishly refused.
Posted 4 years ago by KapitiKats in NZ #
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