Who have you met that is a "celebrity" or what have you done to get your 15 minutes of fame?
Who have you met that is a "celebrity" or what have you done to get your 15 minutes of fame?
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"Nobody beats Vitus Gerulaitis 18 times in a row." - Vitus Gerulaitis on beating Jimmy Connors after 17 failed attempts.
Well... I know Roy Jones Jr, and I went to middle school with Emmett Smith.
Other than that, I met the real "Joe Clark" (i.e. "Lean on Me" story was about him) and I've met Warren G. who shares the exact same identical birthday with me (born on the same day.. but he sure makes a sh@tload more money than I do...)
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Growing up in a spring training baseball town I've met tons of current and former stars. I ate lunch with Ramon and Pedro Martinez when I was 11. I met Reggie Jackson at a game (he was a jerk.) Met all the Dodger greats. Met Sandy Koufax at a 7-11. I was the assitant to the Dodger's team photographer during spring training when I was a senior in high school and got to meet all the Dodgers that year.
And when John Kennedy Jr. was in town for his flight training I met him because my mom was working at that facility and I happened to be there and he came in. Same thing with Joe Montana. I saw JC Chasez or whatever his name is of N'Sync try to buy drugs from one of my friends (who wasnt a drug dealer but for some reason JC thought he was) at Club Roxy here in Orlando. And one night downtown orlando my friends and I ran into Kevin Garnett at a Subway restuarant, i guess the T-wolves were in town for a game earlier that night. Thats all I can think of now, but I think there were more.
I played blackjack with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon when Oceans 11 was filmed in Vegas at the Hard Rock. They asked me where I was staying and I was staying at NYNY. They both started laughing and said that it gets blown up in the movie. It was later edited out due to 9/11. They were pretty cool and we had lots of pretty ladies swarming around our table.
the little sister of a good friend in high school is mila kunis. very...enthusiastic little girl. my sister actually was in the same 5th grade class with her as well. every single day my sister wanted to beat the crap out of mila. haha.
Ooo, I worked at a movie theater once and got to meet that one big white guy from Bloodsport. I forget his name.
More recently, I happened to meet Shaq at a shooting range in Inglewood a couple years ago because we were assigned to adjacent lanes. And I ran into Kobe at South Coast Plaza one day last summer.
The most fun was this one time that my friend who likes to pretend he's a club promoter got us VIP listed at Baby's, in the Hard Rock, LV. So we got to chill in the VIP room that night and it just happened to be the same night that Ken Shamrock was having his afterparty for the Ken Shamrock vs. Tito Ortiz fight. As it turned out, he got beaten up a bit too badly to make it - but I got to meet a lot of other fighters...I met his brother Frank Shamrock who turned out to be a really nice guy
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-Mike
I went to JR high with Jessica Alba
As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.
Look at the freakin jugs on that girl!
Anyway, I used to work at Nickelodeon, so I met some celebs there, but celebrity doesn't excite me very much. Although I did get my picture taken with Master P. Got his autograph, too. "Make em say uuuuuunnnnhhhhhh"
I was within spitting distance of John Glenn this past weekend. Of course I didn't spit...
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yea but that was all because of you...
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i've met brian andreas (relativly famous folk artist) and got some signed works.
I've met and gotten autographs from Earl Scruggs, Del McCoury, and Jerry Clower.
When I went to Oak Hill Acadamy I met some dudes the eventually played for Carolina and some who are now pro, but I don't know who because I didn't care then and don't follow basketball now. The only reason I know if b/c a good friend of mine who is a bball freak told me, based on when i went there.
yeah, pretty much we missed the boat on that one. but it's still here. get you some.
I spent a long weekend at Darrell Hammond's house a couple months back. His wife and my wife are close friends.
Paul Beasi
I am not sure if theater counts, but I saw a number of celebrities on Broadway, off-Broadway and so fourth.
I guess the most memorable was "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui" with Al Pacino, Chazz Palminteri, Billy Crudup, Steve Buscemi, John Goodman and Tony Randall and number of other great actors ... the play was awesome ... acting ... obviously great.
As for celebrities in NYC, I had a friend visiting NYC two years ago from Montreal. Being a big celebrity buff, she was hunting for them through out the city. Nearly everyday she'd spot somebody famous ... I on the other hand had no idea who those people were ... I constantly see groupies in Manhattan running around somebody famous.
70% of the world is covered by water. The rest is covered by Bob Sanders
Yes, that guy on the left seem to be familiar ... I think I've seen him around ... around got|apex.
So which one of them is celebrity and who is he?
I have seen and met many famous people but the only famous person that I really knew was Brad Paisley. I went to HS for 3 yrs with him. My gradudating class had 60 ppl so everyone knew everyone pretty well. Actually now that I think about it I knew Willy Clay who was a safety who played for Detroit and New Orleans in the 90s.
Boooooooooooooo! Yankees suck!
I knew the wife of Thurgood Marshall. I didn't know who she was and just called her Mrs. Marshall until I saw her on TV when her husband died. I can't recall if I ever met Mr. Thurgood Marshall but I've met and talked a bit plenty of times with his wife.
I also have the dubious distinction of shaking the hand of Marion Barry for a photo op I didn't really want to do.
[Chris Rock] "Don't vote for smack, vote for crack!" [/Chris Rock]
Yes, that guy on the left seem to be familiar ... I think I've seen him around ... around got|apex.
So which one of them is celebrity and who is he?
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70% of the world is covered by water. The rest is covered by Bob Sanders
ain't he the "funny" one?
no offense to any gay/les members intended.
yeah, pretty much we missed the boat on that one. but it's still here. get you some.
I've met and chatted with quite a number of musicians in my days.
There was a man named Juliano who owns a restaurant in San Francisco devoted to all raw vegetarian food preparation. The name of the restaurant was originally called "RAW," though its since changed names, and may no longer even exist. Anyway, he was a minor celeb for a brief period, came out with a raw "cookbook," got a spot on Good Morning America one day, etc. Anyway, I knew him through a mutual friend, and we've partied and hung out a few times.
I once walked into a bar I've been to regularly a few blocks off the 42nd St. theatre scene. I walked in, stood at the one vacant space, said hi to the bartender I knew there, ordered a drink and chatted her up for a bit (I had the big time hots for her, more on that below). Anyway, after talking for a bit, she let me know that the gentleman I was standing next to the whole time and who had just walked out was Ed Norton Jr. I never even noticed him.
And that girl? She's married to the bassist of a one-hit wonder band who had chart topper somewhere around '97 or '98. We nearly had an affair together (Her marriage started out as one of "convenience," cause she was about to be deported. I think she's since grown more attached to him), but I made the typical dork move of falling in love with the girl instead of just going ahead and getting me some, so of course she backed off. It was really too bad, too. She was a sex fiend and cute as Hell, and it was there for the taking if I wasn't such a hopeless romantic. Yeah, I still regret it, especially since I gave away my feelings and now she even won't return my emails. Bah, women. I won't name the band due to the sensitive nature of what happened and all, and the fact that I could very well bump into them again.
Oh, and I saw John Goodman and a couple buddies marching up the sidewalk at a Mardi Gras parade one evening years ago.
Common sense is what tells you the Earth is flat.
my only brush with fame was when Chris Berman (ESPN) walked into the dining hall at Brown. He's an alum and he came back to see us play Princeton or Penn (forgot) for the Ivy title and a pass to the tourney (we lost).
He may not look like it on tv, but he's HUGE. He's like 6'6 or something and big. Man...
oh wait, I remember another one. When I lived in Houston there were rumors that a football player lived two doors down. We doubted the rumor because we didn't live in a rich area (houses in the neighborhood were around 140-150k). But sure enough Houston Oiler safety Bo Orlando lived there. He was a starter, but not a star player. I think he got cut or traded by Houston and then it really didn't matter since the Oilers moved to Tennessee.
Supposedly there were celebrities at brown but I never saw any. Bill Cosby's daughter (or something) graduated from Brown and we gave him a honorary degree and apparently he now shows up at graduation as an alum, but I never saw him.
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i never have brushes with fame, even living in NYC (given that i wouldn't recognize most celebs in real life, it's not too surprising). so i was pretty pumped a couple weeks ago when i was down in the west village with some friends at magnolia (a little bakery). me and another girl had already paid and were standing outside, waiting for the rest of our group. suddenly, the girl whispers in my ear "alec baldwin is standing on the street corner!"
sure enough, there was mr. baldwin, with his VERY HOT asian girlfriend/wife. they walked within a foot of me and into the night.
i was just like w00t! i saw a celeb!
I went to school with Jessica Biel, and she lived the next suite over from my ex-girlfriend's. She wound up transferring out I think. I used to see her around campus all the time. My roommate and she were in the same acting class so I occasionally got to talk to her.
Geeez where do I start????
Jerry Rice
Joe Montana
and various other 49ers/Raiders.
Mark McGwire
Chris Mullin
Rod Higgins
Dana Stubblefield
John Madden
Vida Blue
Paul from The Diamond Center (For those of you who know who he is)
Ray Fosse
Probably more but those are the ones I remember. I have yet to see famous people down here in LA. All of the above were really nice. I played basketballw ith Chris Mullin and Rod Higgins and that was a blast. The rest i've seen around town and said hi to them and talked to them for a few. McGwire was creepy because he was at my gym and I never realzied how big he really was.
Peter: Lois, you've got a sick mind!
Lois: Peter, I'm talking about making love.
Peter: Oh, I thought you wanted us to murder the children and harvest their organs for beer money.
gone with the wind!
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Lou Rawls jumped in front of me in line at Jim's on South St. Jerk.
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aliens hover
making home movies
for the folks back home,
of all these weird creatures
who lock up their spirits,
drill holes in themselves
and live for their secrets
Wow, Obby, you had Reyes? I honestly had not heard of anyone surviving it. It scares the crap out of me because there has been a tick epidemic in the area where I grew up. I think about all the time I spent as a kid out playing care free in the woods and streams behind my house, and now if I go back there I have to tie off my pant legs around my ankles and check myself over when I get back inside. Buggers
Common sense is what tells you the Earth is flat.
I thought he said it the other way around...
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