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I not only know who Natalie MacMaster is, I took some workshops she taught at a fiddle camp a few summers ago -- even chatted with her in line at the cafeteria. She is such a nice person, and sooooo talented!

 

Dh and I went to a workshop she did around here a few years ago, too. People in NS are so proud of her, and she is a really nice person. I stood behind her in line at the airport, didn't know it was her, admired her babies for awhile and was about to comment to her about her babies, when I looked at her eyes and realized who she was. By then, she was going up to the ticket counter so I didn't get a chance. But it's neat because she didn't have this huge entourage following her. Just her family strolling through the airport.

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I worked at Opryland Hotel in the late 80's so I have waited on a lot of country music stars. My favorite was Grandpa Jones from Hee Haw. He and his wife were sitting through what looked like a most miserable dinner with two guys in suits. Grandpa asked me for a glass of wine about twenty minutes into the meal. I started going down the whole wine shpeel and he stopped me and said, "Darlin' just bring me anything. It all does the same thing." I said, "Amen, Grandpa." They were darling.

I am having trouble recalling many right now but I can remember Mary Chapin Carpenter, she was nice. My husband waited on Neil Sedaka.

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the country singer, Chris LeDoux (he had a duet with Garth Brooks, and played the rodeo circuit - he died a few years ago). He is my husband's 1/2 uncle. My father-in-law didn't even know about him until about 10 years ago when he finally found and met his real dad (his real dad left him and his mom when he was a baby). Anyway, it turned out he had a 1/2 sister and a 1/2 brother (Chris). They got together here when he came down for concerts and we had dinner with him and one of his sons that played in his band. He was a really great guy.

 

I went to LSU with Shaq when he was playing college basketball there. It was always quite impressive to walk down the halls near him; he is HUGE!!! I never talked to him or anything, other than just a hello or something in passing.

 

My niece's husband is good friends with Matthew McConaughey. In fact, he spends a lot of time in a town near our house. He gets massages and stuff at one of the local massage places, and does fireworks with the guys at our country club. I haven't met him and don't really care to. The ladies who've done his massages and stuff have said he is really cocky (I'm not surprised).

 

DD#3 had her pic taken with Johnny Knoxville when they were filming the Dukes of Hazzard movie near our house. We walked right beside Jessica Simpson in the mall too around the same time (she was in the movie too). Neither of those was too impressive to me, and the movie was HORRID!! Niece had her pic with Willie Nelson and the other little guy that starred in the movie (Sean Williams Scott I think). They basically stood on their porch in Clinton and watched all of the jumps and stunts with the car for the movie (it was right at the courthouse a block from their house).

 

I think that's the best I have to offer, not that I'm overly impressed with the rich and famous!

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She was born in Zacatecas, Mexico and was there during the raids. The family had moved their valuables into a secret compartment inside the couch, and when the raiders came, they sat my grandmother, who was a young girl, on top of it. (Their deception went undiscovered.)

 

But the raiders stole all the local livestock.

 

And my grandmother marched herself straight to their camp to demand her pony back! Pancho Villa himself spoke with her and said "We do not steal little girls' ponies" and gave it back.

 

Then her father nearly killed her when she got home with her pony.

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What and interesting read! I have met several christian bands. A long time ago I worked in the airport gift shop, saw several celebrities that way.

 

I went to high school with a former pro baseball player, Andy Ashby. Another classmate was a Blue Angel pilot.

 

My MIL is famous is some circles. She was in nursing administration and is currently writing murder mystery novels. She's just Nana to us.

 

My ds10 has a friend that has been has been a in national commercial and sings, I'm sure he'll be famous some day.

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I have met plenty of big name authors.

 

I also had an aunt who was a Christian rock groupie. She finagled meetings with all kinds of Christian rock singers. Actually her pushy, kind of embarrassing behavior made me decided NEVER to think of or treat famous people as any different than anyone else. That decision served me well when I worked in publishing.

 

Two authors who are really, really nice people are Francine Rivers and Jan Karon. Neither of them ever treated me (a peon at the time) with anything but friendliness and respect. I cannot claim to "know" either one. I dealt with Jan Karon over the phone a few times--she was lovely to me, and also to the others on our staff. We all liked her.

 

I did meet Francine Rivers--she is the one and only famous person that I gushed over. I didn't know she was due in our office that day, so when I recognized her I fell completely apart. Her editor, my friend, just about died laughing--she had never seen me lose my cool so thoroughly. I felt pretty silly about it, but Francine was really nice. I had a couple opportunities to hear her speak to groups as well as chat with her personally during that visit, and I came away with the highest respect for her character, spirituality, and work. She was also well-liked by all.

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I've read every single post and thoroughly enjoyed it. Now my turn and my pitiful list.

 

My paternal grandfather's brother was married to Lilly Langtry - she was a vaudevillian star of the stage and rumored paramour to the Prince of Wales. That's my most direct line to the truly famous. And many of you may have never heard of her LOL.

 

My daughter corresponded with Valerie Tripp who authored many of the American Girls books for kids. She came to a homeschool function I organized and taught the kids about writing children's books. I also organized homeschool events and met Jim Weiss (story tapes) and the couple who publish "How Great Thou Art" art curriculum.

 

In her capacity as a dancer my DD has met MANY famous ballet folks, a list that would soon get boring for many of you. LOL

 

Okay, now on the the Kevin Bacon connections (somebody who knew somebody who once stood next to me LOL)

 

My grandmother played as a child with the Gish Sisters. Lillian was a silent movie star.

 

My mother's childhood friend was Meg Randall - 1940's B-movie actress.

 

I hung out one afternoon in the garage of a neighbor - playing with his granddaughter. I was pretty little 5 or 6yr and she was about 12 or 13. She grew up to be Candace Bergan and her uncle was ... obviously ... Edgar Bergan's brother. Her uncle was known as "Bergie" in the neighborhood and was a beloved figure among the neighbor kids.

 

My "much older than me" sister was married to the drummer of the Deltones (1960s rock band) - Dick Dale and the Deltones - Dick Dale is STILL "king of the surf guitars!"

 

In that capacity, my sister once made spagetti dinner for Jackie DeShannon (sang, "What the World Needs Now ... Is Love Sweet Love ...") I was at dinner that night, about 7 years old.

 

I went to high school with Danny Gans - Vegas headliner singer and impressionist.

 

Once in the late 70's I went to a party in LA with Iggy Pop. I cannot elaborate.

 

My sister went to highschool with Olivia who married the Beatle George Harrison.

 

Shout outs to fellow WTMers:

 

I rented an apartment once - the tenant immediately prior to me was Buzz Aldrin (whoohooo Lorna in the Boonies) I used to think it was cool that feet that had been on the moon had also been in my tub LOL.

 

Whoohooo Caroline - you must have grown up in Howard County. I did not but I've lived here past 28 years.

 

JFS - Sounds like we were at UCLA at the same era. Coincidentally, my sister met Groucho Marx on the beach on vacation in Panama City Florida in 1952.

 

RegularMom - I don't know the Gallups, but you reminded me that I do the folks behine "Mason Dixon Polling" from my days in the local chapter of Republican Women. And I've met many politicians, including shaking hands with Geo Bush, Dan Quayle and a long conversation once with Alan Keyes.

 

Finally - the BEST (for this board) I've saved for last: I am friends thru church with SWB's sister in law. Their names are both SUSAN so my friend goes by "Suzie" so as to avoid confusion. They apparently married brothers! SWB's son once sat next to my DD in a Sunday School class but she didn't know who he was. LOL.

 

Okay, I think that's about it except for sitting next to Johnny Carson once at at tennis tournament and riding in the same elevator with Bert Convey. Okay. That's it. Definitely it.

 

Edit to shout out to Antonia - hey hey on the ballet dancer connections thru our DD's. Whoohoo.

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Since people are mentioning all kinds of Christian singers, I remembered something. I used to belong to a religious group that was founded by John Michael Talbot. I have visited his monastery in Arkansas a couple of times for group gatherings, and also promoted a concert that featured himself, his brother Terry, and Barry McGuire (of Eve of Destruction fame.) I have met and been around JMT quite a few times, and I met Barry and Terry twice. Once I was flying home from Arkansas and JMT and his wife were taking the same flight, so we sat and talked. A man walked up because he recognized JMT and introduced himself as Oren Paris, Twila's dad, so I met him.

 

Oh, and when Barry McGuire saw how interested my (then 3yo) son was in the guitar, he gave him an autographed copy of a children's music concert that Barry had taped.

Barry is a really, really nice man, and an incredible performer.

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I only "talk" on one other online group and it's a group of mommies. One of them I talk to quite a bit was once one of the best known porn stars in the industry. LOL! Of course I'm uninformed because I had to be told who she was and what they meant back when she joined. :) She's great though and seems to be a great mommy.

 

Hey, I've heard about her! She's one whose husband passed away unexpectedly while she was PG, and she had an unassisted homebirth with her second, right? I can't remember her name, though, LOL!

 

She was born in Zacatecas, Mexico and was there during the raids. The family had moved their valuables into a secret compartment inside the couch, and when the raiders came, they sat my grandmother, who was a young girl, on top of it. (Their deception went undiscovered.)

 

But the raiders stole all the local livestock.

 

And my grandmother marched herself straight to their camp to demand her pony back! Pancho Villa himself spoke with her and said "We do not steal little girls' ponies" and gave it back.

 

Then her father nearly killed her when she got home with her pony.

 

OK, now THAT is a cool story.

 

My own connections are very minor. I hung out with 80s movie actor (turned p*rn actor) Scotty Schwartz (The Toy, Kidco, A Christmas Story) in high school. I was dating a friend of his. When I was working in New York, I was at several of the same parties as Willem Dafoe. And our office was next to one of the hippest gyms in Manhattan, so I've been within 10 feet of Madonna, Brooke Shields, Kevin Bacon, and Kyra Sedgwick. I also gave Elizabeth Berkley directions on how to get downtown one night. She's about 9 feet tall!

 

My husband told Dustin Hoffman to get the heck out of his way at the door to his gym one day, because Hoffman was holding the door, blocking it while talking to Amy Irving, who was sitting at the curb in a limo. DH didn't see his face, and finally said something like, "Hey! Would you mind getting the heck out of the way?" And Hoffman turned and said, very apologetically, "Oh, I'm so sorry, sir!" and held the door open for my DH. DH was like, "Dude! Dustin Hoffman just called me "sir"!!!!!"

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Two of my best friends growing up are in 'the business' so I've met a few people through them. One of them was married to Dustin Nguyen from 21 Jump Street and I met the cast a few times. We also had them over for dinner often, and Dustin would tend to bring friends who happened to be in town, so we never knew who we'd end up with at our dinner table. I've visited a few movie sets with the other friend, and saw, but never met some of the stars.

 

The most famous person I knew was Johnny Depp...before he was somebody.

 

My dh met John Travolta without me once. He started chatting with my dh in a hotel lobby in Seattle.

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Ted Turner and Jane Fonda (they were our neighbors in New Mexico -- owned the neighboring ranch).

 

The late Steve Fossett -- just declared "deceased" unfortunately.

 

Dh has met many other famous people -- a perk of his job. Ross Perot, Lee Greenwood, John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, Yogi Berra, etc.

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dh has met...Diane Lane and Christopher Lambert. We both met Diane's mother and she took us through Diane's house that was on her property. We both have met a few Atlanta Falcons(do they count as being famous??)..I actually had lunch with all of them..like they noticed me 7months pg at the time!:D

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I'm married to someone famous! Well, he is somewhat famous but only within the circle of die hard comic book geeks. He's got a wikipedia entry, had artwork featured on a postal stamp (the DC Superhero series that was issued 2 summers ago.)

 

Does that count?

 

Totally counts, and my ds (age 7) will be so excited. He bought a sheet of those stamps (they are still in his treasure box, I think) 'cause he loves super heroes.

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I don't know anyone famous, but I met Adam West (1960's Batman) when I was 15 years old. I was at some kind of fair and Adam West was there. I stood in line with a young neighborhood boy so he could get his autograph. When we got to the table, Adam West stood up and kissed me! Boy was I surprised!

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I'm still feeling kind of lousy and this has been a GREAT thread to read.

 

I don't know any actor/movie types. In fact, this is a pretty pathetic list, but here it is...

 

1. One of the lead singers of D.C. Talk was my freshman drama partner in college. (Not a good experience, by the way)

 

2. I've met the lead singer of Jars of Clay a couple of times (he's a childhood friend of a good friend of mine)

 

3. Talked to Miss Manners at the last ALA conference. She's WONDERFULLY charming.

 

4. Had dinner with Sebastian Junger (author of The Perfect Storm) and Michael Lewis (Liar's Poker and a handful of other NYTimes best-sellers).

 

And...er...that's kind of it. The writing life isn't really all that glamorous. :(

 

SWB

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I worked "inside the beltway" for awhile, so I've met a few politico-types:

 

Letitia Baldridge

Secretary Lloyd Bensten

Tim Russert

 

I also received a very nice note from President and Mrs. Regan when I was a kid. I had asked for an autographed photo of both of them and received the standard Pres. photo. I wrote and told them that was not what I had requested (how snotty was that?!) and in return received a photo signed by both of them plus a note written by the President and signed by both of them.

 

My dh has met more famous people than I have.

 

He interviewed Sam Donaldson for a news article. (He was supposed to speak with Mr. Donaldson's press agent, but Mr. Donaldson got so upset about the topic my dh was calling about... he was about the millionth reporter to call... that he got on the phone himself to give my dh a piece of his mind. The interview ended on nice terms, though.)

 

My dh was also in a service frat with Carson Kressley in college and went to high school with Dylan Bruno (from Numb3ers) and Jay Lender (co-creator of Spongebob Squarepants and son of the "Lender's Bagels" guy). Small schools so everyone "knew" everyone, but they were just acquaintances.

 

He also has a friend from his master's degree program who is an actor, as is his wife, and they still chat regularly. I'm not sure why but because they are friends I don't feel right saying who without dh's blessing, and he's in class right now, so I can't ask him.

 

It must be genetic for my dh 'cause my FIL has a knack for meeting famous people. He's actually writing his autobiography because he has had such an interesting life and met such fascinating people. (Plus it keeps him out of my MIL's hair. LOL)

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I can't believe I left this one out. When I was a senior in high school, I met Lani O'Grady (Mary, on Eight is Enough). She was in the band room bathroom and I walked in to change out of my uniform. She was very friendly and chatty. Turns out she babysat my friend Michael, who's father was the actor I mentioned in my earlier post. She came to see him play the drums in the band!

 

She was so down to earth and nice to talk to. I was very very sad to hear of her drug problems and her death.

 

My dad once told me about the time he had to fly from NY to LA in first class with Jackay Harry in the same section. My father NEVER uses foul language but he did say she was a royal **tch. Very demanding of the flight attendants, loud, and very discourteous. He also had the pleasure of sitting next to Harry Anderson from LA to NY and said he was very nice and they discussed aerospace the entire flight! LOL

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How Fun...

 

My husband is a chef (with brief tv and print appearances) so he has met alot of famous people--some of the crew from Friends, Jerry Lewis, George Bush, the man who married Anna Nicole Smith (?). He met Mark Lemke and some really famous boxer (I think it was Evander Hollifield) and he used to cook for a professional basketball team after some of their games.

 

I met Arnold, Pres. Reagan, Barbara Bush...did some legal work for an individual involved with the Anna Nicole Smith inheritance situation. Oh and who is that guy from Full House--the cool uncle?

 

This is like a trip down memory lane and my memory is not serving me very well right now.

 

Laurel T.

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I went to college with Siobhan Fallon (who was on Saturday Night Live for awhile and was the bus driver in Forrest Gump).

 

I went to high school with Diana Georger (who is a Broadway actress).

 

 

ChrisN

who hasn't posted in a while, but I'm not tired nor do I have much work to do since we've taken this week off school.

and who's thinking you all most likely have *no clue* who these people are :)

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I waited on the Baldwin brothers' (Billy, Steven, Alan) mother. The manager knew who she was and told us. She was very gracious. (I think she is now deceased.)

 

Dh was in Muscle and Fitness magazine in a MetRx (fitness drink) ad when MetRx very first came out (1994) and they did before/after contests for the "average person" to enter; the prize was being in the ad plus a supply of MetRx. He still drinks MetRx today and considers it a good product.

 

When I was a baby, ZsaZsa Gabor (now there's an old timer!) was in JCPenney's, I think it was, because either she or her sister Ava had a line of wigs they were selling there and they were there promoting them. She told my mom I was one of the most gorgeous babies she had ever seen and I was sure to grow up to be stunning! My mom said she had on an amazing and very large necklace with diamonds, etc.

 

On the circus topic, my cousin as a young child had his picture in the paper with Emmett Kelly because he (and his two brothers) had just lost their father.

 

Jake the Snake Roberts (wrestler) asked me out in a bar once (a lifetime ago, pre-salvation by Christ's grace.)-I said no.

 

Just this past May we were in NYC (dd8, my mom and I) in American Girl Place for lunch and there were callbacks that day for the Kit, American Girl movie coming out. We met Abby Breslin (star of the movie and others that I haven't seen such as Little Miss Sunshine.) At first there weren't many other people around and dd got to talk to her for quite awhile, got her autograph, and we took their picture together. She was very pretty in person, but more than that, she was both personable and very humble.

 

And last but not least, I was on Romper Room when I was little, and also a Goodwill commercial (my grandmother had a high position in Goodwill and got both spots.)

 

This thread has to take the prize for one of the most fun ever! (It is WAAAAAY past my bedtime and I will pay for this tomorrow! Well worth it!)

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I was taught French by Annie Lennox's aunty :)

A friend of mine's dad crashed into Paul McCartney's car in his embarrassing orange Volvo.

My sister kissed Ewan McGregor on holiday in Crieff, Scotland.

My friend has a nude drawing of Sean Connery at the top of their stairs (he was an art student at Edinburgh College of Art when Sean was a model)

 

That's all the silly ones I can remember right now

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Went to elementary school with Wil Wheaton (Star Trek TNG, Stand by Me, etc.), met Pat Sajak and Vanna White on Wheel of Fortune (boy, they had to wear a lot of pancake makeup for the cameras!), met a few political types over the last few years... and since it's 2 a.m. I'm forgetting the rest of mine, if there are any.

 

My high school is used for a lot of TV/movie locations. They shot Heathers there when I was a student. We've had a few students who later went on to showbiz careers. I think the most famous were the Smothers Brothers.

 

When I was a kid, my mom and brother met the guys from C.H.i.P.s. They were filming on location at our local Kmart. Erik Estrada stayed in his trailer :cool:, but Larry Wilcox gave my brother an autograph.

 

My dad has fixed the air conditioners of several celebrities, LOL. Alex Trebek and Parker Stevenson come to mind.

 

A couple of years ago, a friend of mine worked briefly as the piano teacher for Madonna's dd.

 

That's all I can remember.

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Oh, and how could I forget??????

 

I met Susan Wise Bauer at a homeschool convention in NJ!!! :D

 

He was there getting a PhD while she was studying for her MDiv.

We were in Women of Westminster (WOW) together, although, to be honest, we didn't "know" each other. When we did meet (later, at a speech in Fort Worth), we realized the other one looked familiar, probably from those days.

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1. One of the lead singers of D.C. Talk was my freshman drama partner in college. (Not a good experience, by the way)

 

2. I've met the lead singer of Jars of Clay a couple of times (he's a childhood friend of a good friend of mine)

 

A good friend of ours here went to college (Liberty??) with one of the guys in one of these bands, and I can't remember which band or which guy!

 

This thread seems to have a lot of what I think is called six degrees of separation.

 

Very cool thread.

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dh has met...Diane Lane

 

4. Had dinner with Sebastian Junger (author of The Perfect Storm)

 

I forgot to mention that my dad worked on a location shoot for The Perfect Storm that lasted for months. Of course my dad met everyone involved, he worked closely with Mary Elizabeth Mastrontonio when she was piloting her swordfish boat in the film, and he bossed Wolfgang Peterson around because he was setting up the boats wrong for swordfishing, oy :o

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I remembered this from my whacky sister. For a while she worked for Disney as a pyrotechnician, which means she blows things up. She would do the fireworks show over Cinderella's castle and she also ran the Indiana Jones set in Orlando at Disney.

 

She confronted Michael Eisner about his smoking in one of "her" theatres once, when he asked if she knew who he was (she did) she replied she didn't care who he was, he wasn't going to smoke in her theatre. She did not get fired.

 

She told Huey Lewis to stop double dipping at a backstage party.

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She confronted Michael Eisner about his smoking in one of "her" theatres once, when he asked if she knew who he was (she did) she replied she didn't care who he was, he wasn't going to smoke in her theatre. She did not get fired.

 

She told Huey Lewis to stop double dipping at a backstage party.

 

Your sister and my father sound like two peas in a pod. :)

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I don't have anything very exciting, but...

 

I went to a school of the arts where Sam Waterston (Law & Order) was a guest teacher. He was very nice.

 

My husband went to high school with Stephen Davis of the Carolina Panthers, and his family is good friends with the team owner.

 

I have some friends that I see regularly on tv in commercials and on some shows, in small parts, but they aren't "known."

 

I was adopted and I used to dream that my "real mom" was famous - especially when I was upset with my parents (which I DO consider to be my real parents), but I spoke with her recently and, while nice enough, not famous! (My dream was a little dashed.)

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Well, I don't think I KNOW anyone famous, as in a personal aquaintance. However, I grew up in an affluent area of So. Ca, and there are many famous people there.

James Caan would drive down the street on our way to elementary school in his big Rolls.

 

I worked at Disneyland for 5 years during college. During that time, I can't even count all the famous people I was introduced to. I got to be a tour guide one night when they had a special star night. I was assignned to a kid from one of those evening shows I didn't watch, so I can't even remember his name! A head turner though. They were an average family, with a star of a kid.

 

Michael Jackson came for the big launch of his 3 D movie, and we had to clear out Space Mountain for him to ride his own car. He doesn't like to get near any regular people!

Most of the time, the stars attempted to come to Disney incognito so they didn't bring attention to themselves, but among us cast members, news spread pretty fast. But, again, I didn't really get to know any of these people.

 

I saw Kurt Russell at the ice skating rink where he was watching his son practice hockey. He looked like a mess, sweats, ruffled hair, face hair growth of several days... He wasn't hanging out with the rest of the parents, he was looking down form the top side, where we were just walking by.

 

We went to a water slide park this summer, and the wife of that black basketball player on the Lakers with the wild colored hair was there with her boys. They live nearby, and get all the neighbors mad because they use a helicopter to land on the beach where it is not allowed. She had his name tatooed on her back side and stuff about him on her arms. We were in line next to her and her kids for several rides. Interesting family.... (Rodney somebody maybe? ) See, I'm SO bad with names!

 

Unfortunately, I've never considered any of these people special, so I never bothered to remember the names of most of the people I was introduced to, or helped get onto a ride or simply noticed or was told who so and so was. I'm terrible with names and stars just don't strike me. Sorry.

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The guy who invented the Jacuzzi married into my hubbys family (never seen him...LOL).

 

Hubby went to hs with Megan Dodds, the girl who played one of the stepsisters in Ever After.

 

I don't "know" anyone famous, but have met some...

 

When I worked in Westwood when I was 18 I met Darrell Strawberry and the older brother on Wonder Years (can't remember his name).

 

I met the blonde kid who played the little brother on Growing Pains when I was 15 and worked at Baskin Robbins. LOL He was probably 9 and went on and on about how much he liked the bubble gum ice cream! :p

 

I spoke with Benny Hinn! :rolleyes: Not voluntarily though. LOL

 

Fernando Ortega chastised me for forgetting to call my mom when I got to a Campus Crusade Christmas Conference and Bill Bright himself announced in the main meeting that a Dawn _________ needs to call her mom! :o LOL

 

Can't remember anyone else....

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Author of "Doomsday Book". Okay, I don't "know" her. I went to her house once while hanging out with her daughter who was a childhood friend of one of my college pals. She was very nice and lives in a modest home with her physics professor husband who was a colleague of my father-in-law.

 

I had a good friend once who went to high school with Terry Farrell from Star Trek, Deep Space Nine and Becker. She was a Star Trek fan at the time but couldn't ever get into the Deep Space Nine character because she knew the actress and it was odd to her.

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Oh, and my sister called me a year or so ago to say that Willy Nelson was buying her a beer. :D She is an flight attendant and was staying in a hotel. He came in where she was eating alone and invited her over, buying her a beer and chatting. She said he looked stoned out and old.

 

I worked once at a resort where Val Kilmer stayed. I only got a glimpse of him but others who talked or worked with him directly said he was obviously out of it from drugs or something as well. Sometimes meeting people in real life is a way to shatter some of the celebrity worship. They are people and some of them are very nice, some are jerks and far too many spend much of their time in a stupor.

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Oh yeah, when I worked in accounting at a fancy hotel I was training a new Night Auditor and I answered the front desk phone. It was Jeff Foxworthy and he wanted a wake-up call. :rolleyes:

 

My friend works for DirecTV in cust svc and she got a call from a customer and she asked for the name on the account and the response was "THE George Lucas" (something like 26 receivers on the account). I know she doesn't actually know him, but I always thought it was interesting.

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. . . has been on Oprah. Does that count? Oh, and he was Time Magazine's America's Leading Theologian for that big thing they did in 2000, I think it was.

 

And Lauren Winner's husband is my son's Sunday School teacher.

 

*sigh*

 

That's the closest to fame I'm ever going to get. At least until Chef Isaac opens up his world-famous restaurant in Paris. :D

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She confronted Michael Eisner about his smoking in one of "her" theatres once, when he asked if she knew who he was (she did) she replied she didn't care who he was, he wasn't going to smoke in her theatre. She did not get fired.

 

Your sister is my new idol, mainly because I would get fired. I've told off a few "do you know who I am"'s in my day and my pat answer always was "yes, and?" It's one thing to be a celebrity/famous/important.. it's totally another to wear it like some sort of stinkin' badge of honor. I WILL call you on the carpet if you start doing that.

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