What Famous People Have You MET? ;)

[DrummerDeanna]

I also forgot a couple...!

I met Matt Groening - the creator of the Simpsons back in the late 80's when The Simpsons were still part of the Tracy Ullman show. He was in my town giving a lecture about his Life in Hell series....and I remember him talking about an up and coming show of the Simpsons on Fox - then he made fun of Fox and said he wasn't sure how successful it would be lol...little did he know at the time.

I was 7 or 8 possibly 9 - I can't remember - but I got his autograph (I LOVED the Tracy Ullman show and therefore already knew the Simpsons). He drew a picture of Bongo for me on the program and autographed it...very cool...

AND - Tiffany

She came to my college like two years ago and gave a free concert - all of us old school Tiffany/Debbi Gibson fans skipped class and went to it - she signed autographs afterward...it was awesome

[wondergirl9847]

I'm a Debbie Gibson fan, never liked Tiffany, but that's cool she signed autographs.

[ThePenguin]

I'm still reeling from Chili's list.

I met Sandy Duncan as a kid and got her autograph. She was in 'Peter Pan' on broadway.

Saw actor Michael York in museum in NY once.

As an adult I've only met FM related 'celebrities'....John, Stevie (just a quick handshake) Peter Green, Brett Tuggle... Briefly met John Courage. Had lovely long visit w/ George Hawkins. Met Todd Sharp that same night.

Have spoken on the phone w/ Bob Welch, Billy Burnette, Rick Vito...does that count ?

--Lis

[chiliD]

Originally Posted by ThePenguin

IHave spoken on the phone w/ Bob Welch, Billy Burnette, Rick Vito...does that count ?

--Lis

If phone calls count...I did speak briefly on the phone with Waylon Jennings

When I worked for the now defunct Record Bar chain back in the late '70's, our district manager (whose name was Al) had received a press kit from RCA records...in it was a business card-sized blank card except for the note "call me", a phone number, signed "Jessie". He was skeptical, but he had ME make the phone call from our store...a deep male voice answered and I asked "May I speak to Mrs. Jennings, please?" The guy responded, "Nah, she's at the grocery store, this is Waylon, can I help you?" I said, "Well, just a moment" and I handed the phone to our district manager...Al never would say what happened after that.

[rbs3676]

Originally Posted by Lux

Ok, that's a big list. I don't get it though. I don't understand the want to meet random people. I'm sure some are nice, but then plenty of complete nobody's are nice too. It really has always baffled me, so I'm just curious. Unless you're Lindsey or Jimmy Page (I would add John Lennon, but if I saw him I'd probably run in the opposite direction) I personally would struggle to give hoot....not because I lost my voice though.

Music is my first true love. So, if the opportunity arises where I can meet someone who wrote something that touched me and tell them thank you, I am going to jump on that!


rbs

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by Lux

Oh I highly doubt that. There's a difference between holding a place for the person you spend your life obsessing over, where you desire to meet them, and being excited by meeting any of an endless number of people. I wouldn't think that these people are completely infatuated by a general, infinite group of people. I encountered my first, well and only, celebrity spotters whilst trying to meet Lindsey. They could see my eagerness to meet him and were going on about all the people they had met and how easy it would be for me. Then there was a group exchanging their 'achievements'. It was baffling because I couldn't comprehend actually giving a **** about meeting these people who's names I heard of. It was the autograph and photo they were obsessed with and not that it was Lindsey. I wanted to tell them that I couldn't give a f*ck about meeting these random people just because they're famous, and that it was insulting to get to meet my idol with these people who honestly wouldn't have cared a great deal for him. As if his autograph and one (minor) celebrity encounter (Bowie was in town too so they'd come for the double Stevie & Bowie encounter) could have meant as much to them as thrill of meeting the man I'm admittedly obsessed with, meant to me. I really just don't get the fascination with desiring to be in the company of any of some infinite number of people who might have been on television.

Okay - but by the same token - there are actually people who care deeply about a great number of celebrities and are not simply "star ****ers" though there are a lot of those out there as well....

When I went and saw Weird Al...there was a large number or absolute whorish girls who were standing about who I'm sure couldn't even name one weird al song - and I felt so bad for all these cute little nerd boys who just love and adore Al -not to mention my sister and I who've love AL since the beginning of his career...I mean I LOVE al...

Uh..anyway - don't know if that applies...

There are lots of different people in the world...it just sucks that the people who are star struck by absolutely anyone famous usually do interfere with those who truly care about meeting a specific person....

Just rambling now...so I'm stopping.

[Violet]

Holy cow! You all have met a lot of famous people!
My list is MUCH less impressive....
In 1990 or so we went to an All My Children location shoot in Orlando. They were shooting a car accident, and a friend of mine was doing audio for it.
So the list is:
Kelly Ripa - this was right when she started on AMC. She was super nice. There were tons of mosquitoes, so we "shared" a cigarette to keep them at bay. Neither of us smoked, so we got someone to light it for us, and we just held it.

Julia Barr (Brooke) --She was really nice, too, and has a great laugh, and laughs a lot.

Walt Willey -- (Jack) didn't really talk to him, but he spent a LOT of time flirting with my friend's wife.

David Canary -- (Adam/Stuart) Very nice, quiet.

The guy who played Trevor. Can't remember his name. But he was a bit of a ladies man. i know he was married at the time, because I read a lot of Soap Opera Digest then, and we saw him hugging and kissing a woman who was not his wife while going into his room...

Aside from meeting Soupy Sales YEARS ago when I was a kid, that's my list. I did sit behind Dr. J, Julius Erving, at a movie in '88 or '89. Does that count?

My husband has met a lot of sports people through work. This week alone he did two interviews with Donovan McNabb....

Carol

[wondergirl9847]

Star Collector by The Monkees
written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King

Hello...
Think I'll let her keep on going
Where ever it is, she's goin' to
Give her an autograph and tell her
It's been nice knowin' you

She's a star collector (collector of stars)
She only aims to please young celebrities
Yes, she's a star collector (collector of stars)
How can I love her, when I just don't respect her?

When everything is goin' my way
She wants to be close at hand
She moves to some other doorway
When things don't go the way she planned

Yes, she's a star collector (collector of stars)
She only aims to please young celebrities
Yes, she's a star collector (collector of stars)
Whoa, it won't take much time before I get her off my mind

[break]

For she's a star collector (collector of stars)
Whoa, she only aims to please young celebrities
Yes she's a star collector (collector of stars)
Whoa, it won't take much time before I get her off my mind

[outro]
Bye bye, bye bye...

Thought it was appropriate to Deanna's post. LOL Seriously tho, my mom and I use to go to various functions and stuff because she knew people, but these days, there is no celeb hunting for us. I really don't care about meeting movie stars like I love meeting musicians, because as rbs said, music is my passion, and I love to tell the singers/musicians I love how much their work means to me.

[ShamHy89]

I met Stevie Tyler in Marshfield, MA two summers ago in a restaurant. Everyone was watching him eat but the people were respectful. We had a quick pointless discussion and he left. The next day he and his daughter (the other one, not Liv) were on the beach. My brothers and I climbed the rocks with her...she was pretty nice. I never learned her name.

Shamus

[amber]

Originally Posted by Violet

Holy cow! You all have met a lot of famous people!
My list is MUCH less impressive....
In 1990 or so we went to an All My Children location shoot in Orlando. They were shooting a car accident, and a friend of mine was doing audio for it.
So the list is:
Kelly Ripa - this was right when she started on AMC. She was super nice. There were tons of mosquitoes, so we "shared" a cigarette to keep them at bay. Neither of us smoked, so we got someone to light it for us, and we just held it.

Julia Barr (Brooke) --She was really nice, too, and has a great laugh, and laughs a lot.

Walt Willey -- (Jack) didn't really talk to him, but he spent a LOT of time flirting with my friend's wife.

David Canary -- (Adam/Stuart) Very nice, quiet.

The guy who played Trevor. Can't remember his name. But he was a bit of a ladies man. i know he was married at the time, because I read a lot of Soap Opera Digest then, and we saw him hugging and kissing a woman who was not his wife while going into his room...

Aside from meeting Soupy Sales YEARS ago when I was a kid, that's my list. I did sit behind Dr. J, Julius Erving, at a movie in '88 or '89. Does that count?

My husband has met a lot of sports people through work. This week alone he did two interviews with Donovan McNabb....

Carol

wow, those are good ones. I don't watch it now, but we are an All My Children family. I really like Brooke (Julia Barr) she's always seemed smarter and more real (better actress?) than many of the others...
AMber

[xdreamsunwindx]

I met Clem Burke of Blondie fame about 6 months ago before a concert. He was really nice, and not to mention totally cool. I got his autograph, too.

-Kate

[RavenOfRhiannon]

Wow. I love this thread!

Here it goes:

Jamie Lee Curtis and Dee Wallace Stone. On the same day standing in line at an amusement park in CA. I ran all over looking for a pen for authographs. Dee was so sweet, and I told JLC that I loved Queen's Logic. To which she replied: 'I didn't think anybody saw that.'

Chuck Yeagar and Robert Crippen at a fundraising dinner.

But here's the real kicker:

The movie Friday Night Lights is about the city where I live. When the book came out, the town was outraged at the author over his portrayal of the citizens (which actually was not too far off the mark) so much that he had to cancel all appearances for fear of bodily harm. (Can you imagine?) In any case, the rights to the book were sold to Ron Howard's production company. They filmed portions of the movie here last year. We met a lot of the production crew. They were very nice. One night while I was meeting with my staff, one of the girls ran up and whispered, "Billy Bob Thorton is shopping here!!!" No one wanted to greet him or make eye contact. Overcoming my natural shyness, I walked over, introduced myself, and asked him to read at our Dr. Suess 100th birthday bash the next week. He agreed. The next week he came and read to over 200 kids and parents. I kept it a secret until the last minute. It was so cool.
It also paved the way for the author to come into the store a few months later. Again, I overcame my shyness and asked him to a booksigning. He showed up and signed for 300 people.
He came back the night the movie premiered here and signied for more people. I also got to accompany him to the premiere. There I met the director Peter Berg, actord Derek Luke, Lucas Black (HOTTIE) and Garrett Halmed, Harrod, Haggndaas...something...They were all very cool.

I'll shut up now

[madformac]

Originally Posted by estranged4life

Paul Reed Smith who creates some of the best guitars imaginable??? Man, I would like to meet that guy too...


Brian j.

Yeah, he was a really cool guy... Considering his wealth and the size of his company he was just a normal guy.. He even let some young dude play his own personal PRS guitar! haha. I met him backstage at a guitar clinic he was holding at a small village here in the UK. It was a cold wet November night last year (exactly a week before seeing Mac at Earls Court) but he came and not only answered questions but played a gig with his band too and stayed until he had signed guitars, photos and everything else for all the people (about 100) that attended. He charged $7 a ticket just to cover the hire of the hall for a full nights entertainment. Everything else was free.

[WelshWitchPMD]

Well, I have met Mick, John, and Stevie before. I have met Lindsey a bunch of times so many that he knows my name.

I have seen John Mayer 3 times in the last year and a half. I do not like him and I did not go up to him, either. The first time was in Boston when his band was checking into a hotel last summer 2003. The second was just randomly while I was walking down 6th Ave in NYC this past winter. The third was in Atlantic City this past Sept 11 the day after the Mac show in AC. It is just odd how I always see him.

I saw Brooke Shields at the Fleetwood Mac concert in LA on 7/12/2003.

Tom Brady (QB from the NE Patriots) was at the Boston Mac concert last Sept 2003. I did not even know who he was, however and I really did not care.


I saw Paul Simon at a hotel in Philadelphia this past June. I saw Judd Nelson at a hotel bar in Boston last Sept.

I think that's it. I am going to Boston for the day on Saturday so who knows who I will see with the World Series starting there this weekend.

[GODDESS6]

all of bon jovi
joe walsh < loved 2 party
all of foreighner
paul revere & the raiders < w/ my ma
tommy lee
tim wakefeild < boston red sox
mike greenwell < boston red sox
david copperfield
dick shawn< funny comedian, now passed away
mr greenjeans from capt. kangaroo<< I SWEAR!!!, i was 3 yrs old~
gunner hansen< leatherface
kane hodder < jason from fri the 13th
sen. bob kerrey < used 2 b my state governor

i can't think of any1 else right now, tho i think i am 4getting some 1~

blessed be~
jill