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tapu
01-14-2014, 07:52 PM
Having lived in San Diego, LA, the Carrmel-Monterey Peninsula, SF, and Boston, I have had many a celebrity run-in. Usually celebrities whose heyday was, say, the 70s.

Like, I was in a Pebble Beach (circa '92) bar when I saw Diane Carroll (Julia, remember?) try to take her top off. The bartender stopped her.

I got a million of these, which I'll intersperse throughout the thread if it takes off.

Anyone got a story like this?



:candle::candle: :cigar: :candle::candle:

Gráinne
01-14-2014, 07:58 PM
I used to play competitive chess, and met former World Champion Mikhail Tal at a competition. He didn't speak much English that I know of, and I didn't speak Russian, but he signed my scoresheet for a game I happened to win :).

I was in the audience during a taping of The Phil Donahue Show and met him afterwards. Too bad the topic that day (ca. 1988) was "How To Get A Man" . If I'd come the day after, he was interviewing John F. Kennedy Jr.

My sister-in-law used to live in Carmel, California and worked in a department store. One day, then-mayor Clint Eastwood came in and asked her where the towels were. All she could say was "Hi....". He was really cool about it, and laughed (and found his towels).

Julie
01-14-2014, 08:02 PM
I was 10 years old and picking garbage for a garage sale I was having. The next thing I knew... Jane Fonda was walking down her drive asking me what I was doing. (She had the best junk). I told her and then she offered me a job to baby sit for her little girl (Vanessa), more like a mother's helper for $1 an hour. So, I did and it was fun to do for the summer. They lived up the street from us.

tapu
01-14-2014, 08:13 PM
My sister-in-law used to live in Carmel, California and worked in a department store. One day, then-mayor Clint Eastwood came in and asked her where the towels were. All she could say was "Hi....". He was really cool about it, and laughed (and found his towels).


Yes, I ran into (or ran past) Clint a number of times, as he was mayor when I lived there. He's the only celebrity I've ever seen who looks exactly like he does on screen. He's huge. And he holds out that big hand and says, Welcome to Carmel, or whatever. What a time that was with him as mayor. It made Carmel always feel like a movie set.

DapperButch
01-14-2014, 08:55 PM
My sister lives in Thousand Oaks, CA.

A few years ago she was sitting next to Cindy Crawford and her husband at an information session about the private high school my nephew subsequently went to. My sister didn't know who she was (because she is not attentive to Hollywood), but when she came home mentioned to my brother in-law that she was next to someone who must have been a "celebrity" (evidently, you can tell who is and who isn't and she knew she looked a bit familiar). Based on her description, my brother in law pulled up a picture of Cindy on the web and my sister was like, yes, that is her!

My brother in law sometimes plays golf with "Puddy" from Seinfeld.

My nephew is friends with the stunt double for one of the kids on Modern Family. The kid's father is a huge stunt double and is a friend of my brother in law.

There are other stories.

I met Meatloaf at an airport in England, but that's it.

C0LLETTE
01-14-2014, 09:01 PM
I once arm-wrestled Frank Zappa... it's a long story.

tapu
01-14-2014, 09:19 PM
At least tell us who won! :)

C0LLETTE
01-14-2014, 09:25 PM
He did. I could lie about it cause he's dead but it just wouldn't feel right. At least I didn't end up with kids named Moon and Dweezil.

TruTexan
01-14-2014, 11:15 PM
I once met Frank Beard from the band ZZ TOP; he was friends with my sister and brother in law at the time back in late 70's.
I was 13 yrs old and had seen them in concert in Houston. He lived in Spring Branch just outside Houston in a very nice home there. My brother in law at the time was playing drums with Frank in the back yard in a contest to see who couldn't keep up drumming for an hour non-stop. True Story. I knocked on the door and Frank opened the door, I was shocked and stunned and in awe cause he was in a very popular band back then. I got to eat dinner with them and watch the drumming session. It was cool to me back then.

I haven't met anyone else yet. But that was an awesome experience to me as a kid back then.

QueenofSmirks
01-14-2014, 11:24 PM
When I lived in NYC (for 5 years), I saw quite a few celebrities: Hilary Swank and Chad Lowe having lunch in the same café that I was picking up lunch on my break; Janeane Garofalo, Lily Taylor. I also saw Chris Meloni (Oz, Law & Order) while at the Metropolitan Museum.

Rockinonahigh
01-15-2014, 12:34 AM
I met Bill Ray Sirus and his band many years ago when I worked for horseshoe casino.He was putting on a consert so my staff was in charge of the after dinner bash,this was back in the early 90's.

Gemme
01-15-2014, 05:15 AM
Hulk Hogan was at the host hotel for the last Reunion in Little Rock. Joe Jackson was spotted there a couple years before that.

I used to live in Daytona, half of which was spent less than a mile from the Speedway. I saw a variety of drivers and their crews at work and at the restaurants in the area. A local newscaster came through my drive thru one day. Of course, so did the infamous jerk off guy.

:blink:

tapu
01-15-2014, 07:21 AM
I was shopping at a grocery store in the Carmel Valley when I saw Doris Day, also shopping for groceries. And buzzing around the aisles with her was Regis Philbin, talking non-stop.

Daktari
01-15-2014, 07:27 AM
Phil Collins...played bass in a band with him for a week in the 80s
Prince Charles...met and chatted about parachutes the same week I played with Phil
Brian Jacks...UK judo olympic medallist. Was his demo bunny in the aforementioned week in the 80s
Victoria Wood...at the checkout in Sainsburys (Lancaster)
George Hamilton IV...getting an autograph after a gig
Vicky Entwistle...Janice Battersby in Coronation Street. Got a selfie with her in a local bar.

There's some others but can't recall off top o'my 'ead.

torchiegirl
01-15-2014, 07:52 AM
I once arm-wrestled Frank Zappa... it's a long story.

o, c'mon n' tell it!?
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torchiegirl
01-15-2014, 10:46 AM
I walked along the paw prints of the old Tiger Stadium with Al Kaline on the final day of play... o.k., so I stumbled into the throngs of fans who were chasing him for an autograph.

I saw the Sheriff's motorcade transporting ex- Detroit mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick off to prison. Such a long and convoluted road to fame. Quit sad, actually.


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C0LLETTE
01-15-2014, 10:57 AM
I met Oprah at a reception. All guests got individual photos taken with her. If I ever post the pic and you want to know which one she is, she's on my right.

QueenofSmirks
01-16-2014, 08:39 PM
I forgot one! I played poker against Dan Harrington (famous pro poker player and author) at Caesar's in Atlantic City a few months after I started playing poker in casinos. I actually didn't know who he was, but other people at my table were talking about him, so I assumed he was a famous, professional poker player. When I got back home, I asked one of my buddies about him, and he told me who he was. Ironically, my buddy (also my poker mentor) later gave me his (Dan's) books to read to help improve my game. LOL

tapu
01-16-2014, 08:55 PM
Excellent!!! And here's another one:

I know the woman who sang the song in the Rice-a-roni commercial: RICE-a-roni, The San Franciso Treat.

Her name is Jackie Ward and she's in her 80s now. I used to hang with her son Kevin (another story--one of the original Mc Donald's kids) when we both attended UC San Diego. Actually, we lived in this all-gay household in Del Mar in the 80s, and we're still in touch via Facebook now.

The Rice-a-Roni spot is the longest running commercial in history. Jackie made a fortune off that. She also sang for Dinah Shore in all the bank commercials, and for Shirley Jones in the Partridge Family.

The Wards, the whole lot of them, are music copyists, proving that the "hidden" people in The Industry is who really make the money--and keep it.