Brush with fame

[Shadow]

In no particular order:

Frank Sinatra
Rex Harrison (a true gentleman)
Anwar Sadat
Walter Cronkite
Richard Nixon
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Barbara Bush
Jerry Lewis (what a a**hole!)
Sam Donaldson (another a**hole)

 

[Treamayne]

In no particular order:

Frank Sinatra
Rex Harrison (a true gentleman)

Now you're my Idol.....


For me, lots of low-mid level politicians from Mayors to Governors. Had dinner at (then) Gov. Engler's Mansion a couple times (before the triplets) and knew Mayor Coleman Young (Detroit).

Met David Hasslehoff and KITT (more important IMO) at a Detroit car show. He kissed my sister and that's all I heard about for a year.

Met Sir Mix-a-lot and Kid Rock in Detroit bars.

Grew up around Marshall Mathers (yeah....Him). He was at my rival HS and a year ahead of me, then my grade, then a year behind me........

Met Red Hot Chili Peppers and Joan Jett when my brother Roadied for them in Detroit.

That's about it.

 

[SFG75]

Met Ivan Koloff in a nightclub and almost got into a brawl wity Dirty Dick Murdock (he tag teamed with Dusty Rhodes) in the same club. It was a C&W club and a friend of mine was drunk... the music was playing and just the second the music stopped my friend shouts "Dick Murdock is a fag". Lucky Koloff, The Russian Bear (he was from Cleveland I think) was able to calm down Murdock before he got to my friend.

LOL-I got a great kick out of reading this Maggs. Glad to hear that your friend made it out with all of his teeth. Next time he wants to yell something, he should throw his voice behind John Stossel. :laugh: :laugh:

 

[AVB]

Anwar Sadat is rather unusual, got a story for that one?

In no particular order:

Anwar Sadat

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[jgohlke]

I walked by Brent Spiner (Data from Star Trek TNG) in the Orlando airport. Once, at Olive Garden, Curly Neal (Harlem Globetrotters) sat at the table next to us.

My most impressive celebrity encounter is when Peter Graves (TV show "Mission Impossible") almost ran me over with his bicycle. It was in Santa Monica, CA and I was playing tourist. I stepped off the curb to walk across the street and then I hear the squeal of bike brakes. I look up and Peter Graves is doing a two-wheel slide in full lockup right at me. He stops just a couple of inches from me, I jump out of the way and he pedals on by. We don't speak and he never even puts his foot down. I remember being impressed by his bicycling skills...that he could come to a complete stop and then go again without putting his foot down.

Whenever I'm in a bs'ing session about who you've met that's famous and cool stuff you've done with famous people, I always tell my Peter Graves story. It usually gets the same reaction....like the one you're having now!

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:


Joe

 

[Horse]

My highlights are:
Flew from Houston to LA with Kirk Douglas in '81.
Once in LA, chatted briefly with Danny Kaye at the farmers market.
Both are fine gents :thumbs:

Peter Jennings, he's not all that famous, just very well known. He's a HUGE barbershop fan. Particularly, a fan of Acoustix, quartet here in Dallas.

Nolan Ryan. He signed everything I could find at the moment. $100 bill, AL baseball, etc.. also got to talk about his opinion (which I had been preaching for years) of the decline in pitching over the years...mostly due to kids playing video games instead of playing bb every moment of every day possible.

Dick Van Dyke, he's an ambassador for our bbs organization.

Doc Severinson on many occasions. Used to show quarter horses with/against his daughter.

 

[Shadow]

Anwar Sadat is rather unusual, got a story for that one?

In no particular order:

Anwar Sadat

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I met him during the first Middle East Summit in 1978 at Camp David. I was working security since Camp David is located in the middle of a national park.

 

[lucasbuck]

I bumped in to John Travolta in Kona back in '84. He was very cool. Oh and David Lee Roth brushed by me while watching the Ironman Triathlon that same summer. I'm such a huge fan I was in complete disbelief and couldn't even say hey :blush:

Other than them I've met a bunch of my favorite artists that most of you have never heard of

 

[AVB]

Everyone has heard of Barney :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Other than them I've met a bunch of my favorite artists that most of you have never heard of

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[atvrider12764]

ive meet gerry cooney numerous times. his mother lives about 5 houses down from me and hes over there all the time walking around. i found out he likes to smoke cigars so next time i see him i might give him a cigar

 

[ree ree robusto]

In no particular order and mostly athletes...
Ken Griffey Jr. (got his baseball bat)
Randy Johnson
Lute Olson (visited my parents home several times)
Ken Shamrock (UFC Fighter)
Rickey Henderson
Emmit Smith (a$$hole)
Lauren Holly
Glen Danzig
John Christ (Danzig's old guitarist)
Will Clark
Mark McGwire
Sean Elliot
Steve Kerr
Gary Payton
Jenna Jameson porn film crew
that's about all I can think for now. I know there are more.

Ree

 

[AVB]

How'd you meet the crew and not the star? They film those things in a few hours, she couldn't have been far.

In no particular order and mostly athletes...
Jenna Jameson porn film crew
that's about all I can think for now. I know there are more.

Ree

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[Matt R]

My most memorable, besides DaveWF, has to be Christy Canyon. She has nice smooth skin. Her other parts are pretty nice too.

 

[cigarsarge]

Roy Rogers...as a kid
Carl Perkins..lived up the street from me, worked security at his funeral
George Harrison..met at Perkins funeral
Wynona Judd..met at Perkins funeral
Garth Brooks...met at Perkins funeral, real asshole
Ricky Scaggs...met at Perkins funeral, nice guy
Rufus Thomas..met at Perkins funeral
Billy Ray Cyrus...met at Perkins funeral...real nice guy
Randy Travis...met in a resturant
Johnny Paycheck...He was drunk :thumbs:
Roseane Cash...not very friendly
Bill Clinton...shook hands
Al Gore...shook hands, has relatives in my town he visits

 

[sir-smokes-a-lot]

Met President Bush when he came to my High School

Discussed finance with a member of the Fed Bank of Minneapolis

Performed on the trumpet with Allen Vizutti [big name in classical trumpet]

Met Nicholas Payton [great modern jazz trumpet]

Met w/ Doc Severnson after a concert back in Milwaukee [on a side note, he is a big cigar smoker and goes to the same cigar store I do at home, his faves are VSGs]

 

[golfgar]

I recently met Red Schoendienst after a duck hunt and we talked about baseball for more than an hour. I think he could talk about baseball without ever getting tired of the subject. He still has the interest in the game.

Recently rode on an airplane with Nelly and the band. It was a very interesting flight for me, probably not for them.

 

[Dawn]

I was personal freinds with Jason Miller
took a class from Richard Harris
sort of know Jack Palance a bit

met:
john kerry
john edwards
matt broderick
john cullum
victor garber
charles durning
anthony newley
donald o'connor
debbie reynolds
patricia tallman
olivia hussey
walter koenig
ruthie henshall
brian stokes mitchell
howard mcgillin
anthony heald
f. murray abraham
alan dershowitz
jason patric
malachy mccourt
mako
victor borge

and many others

 

[Eshaw99]

Just normal people with fat bank accounts and sh*tty golf games.

Hey, that sounds like me...except for the fat bank account...and I don't think my golf game is good enough to be classified as sh*tty...nevermind

 

[vewyphishy]

I met Carlito Fuente this past Thursday. Very classy guy.

 

[lucasbuck]

Hey Dawn - You forgot Anne Archer