... Either emotionally, or proximity-wise...
... C'mon; spill the beans!!!!!!
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I live in LA so it's fairly common... even have talked to Chevy Chase on the phone for a few minutes by accident (I called for someone else but he picked up).
The weirdest for me had to be when I met with Henry Silva in Beverly Hills to have him sign some posters for me and Magic Johnson came in and sat down at the next table over. The two of them apparently knew each other well and greeted each other quite warmly.
Not exactly "celebrities", but something similar happened meeting with John Saxon for signatures in Brentwood and Jsu Garcia happened to be eating at the next table over... it was an impromptu Nightmare on Elm Street reunion!
Oh and once I conducted a 10 minute conversation with Wilmer Valderrama outside a bar assuming he was some up-and-coming actor trying to get into the biz. We shared a few awkward laughs and I walked away only to then be told by my date that "Will" was Fez from "That 70's Show". I had no idea who he was without that silly voice.
Oh, and Jason Patric stole my lamb-burger!!!
Oh man, John Saxon and Jsu Garcia? I would be stoked - I love ANOES!
You must share more details about the Jason Patric story!
"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?!"
There's a small restaurant in Santa Monica called "Thyme" on Ocean Park Blvd. where I've seen a few celebs like Robert Vaughn, Alberta Watson, and Jason Patric in line on multiple occasions. It's the kind where you order food at the counter and then wait around for it to cook either to dine-in or take it to go.
Once about 5 years ago I was standing in line and Patric got in right behind me. It's quite the awkward situation for me standing near a celebrity I'm a fan of as at one point in the past I was in line at the McDonalds in the Palms Casino in Vegas right in front of Dean Stockwell and awkwardly asked him some things which he just ignored so had learned to leave celebrities alone. Hence, I respected Patric's privacy and pretended not to notice him.
I ordered the lamb burger special and he ordered some massive to-go order, presumably for his family. Being as hungry as I was, as well as acutely aware of who ordered what and how quickly they were served, only to be dismayed to see his order filled before mine was. I asked at the register and they told me that it had been served already - which meant to him instead of me. They were nice enough to make me another, but I hope that he or some member of his family enjoyed that lamb-burger. If I ever see him again, I'll have to bother him with a snarky comment about that.
I hope he appreciates that you sacrificed your food, in the name of his privacy! Sorry about the Dean Stockwell thing, too; here's hoping that Jason would've been friendlier... It's horrible when a bad experience puts you off, if you had innocent intentions.
"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?!"
This was many years ago - It was Matt Dillon - he was in Minneapolis filming the movie "Beautiful Girls" and I was standing right next to him at a deli in a department store. He had on yellow lensed sunglasses and I didn't realize it was him until he started talking to the server. He bought some flavored cream cheese of some sort.
shareAwesome. Glad he's a fan of dairy!
"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?!"
Saw Sam Waterston on the street in NYC in the late 90s.
Saw Lloyd Bentsen ("Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy") at the airport in San Diego waiting for the same flight to Houston as me. Saw him again on the plane. He and his wife were in first class, naturally.
Another first class flyer I ran into was Tim Robbins on a flight from Frankfurt to Berlin. He was going to the film festival they have there every February.
Rubbed shoulders with a lot of Nobel prize winners at biological conferences. Once poured a glass of wine for James Watson, who determined the structure of DNA with Francis Crick.
I love the DNA claim to fame!
"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?!"
Actually, I've had a few very brief encounters with a few celebrities but, I think my favorite brief celebrity encounter was with Jim Belushi about 20 years ago, and here's how it happened...
Back in the mid-90's (when I was still in my mid-20's) I ran this nightclub in Scottsdale, AZ which exclusively featured blues music performed live by local bands in the area. Well, one rather slow Wednesday night back in early '95, Jim Belushi and his entourage of about 4 other people walks into the club at around 11pm. Belushi immediately starts dancing to the music with a really hot looking blonde he arrived with while smoking a cigar and smiling from ear-to-ear.
During the bands break, I approached Belushi at his table to introduce myself as the manager, and then politely asked if I could possibly get them anything special to drink. I think Belushi ordered a few beers, but then said that he would like to perform a few numbers with the band during their next set.
Over joyed that he wanted to perform at the club that night, I immediately reassured him that it would be absolutely no problem at all for him to do a few numbers with the band after the break. I then quickly turned and walked across the room to inform the band of the amazing news that "Jim FREAK'N Belushi" wanted to do a few numbers with them during the next set.
Unfortunately, the guy who was hired to play that night was Barry Holman, and he was a alcoholic, drug attic, douche bag who thought he was a lot more important in the entertainment business than he ever really was. Question, in the last 20 years, has anyone ever heard of a famous blues artist named Barry Holman... anyone? No, I didn't think so. And you probably never will because he's more than likely dead by now.(but I digress)
Anyway, after informing Barry Holman that Belushi wanted to do a few songs with him and his band, Barry's immediate response was that he refuses to share the stage with anybody, even if it's Jim Belushi. So, I essentially had to threaten Barry with never booking him for anymore gigs at the club if he didn't change his mind about performing with Jim Belushi.
Well, Barry quickly reconsidered and I ordered Barry his favorite drink on the house to sooth things over between us before going back to Belushi's table to inform him that everything was great, and Barry was more than pleased to perform with such a great talent as he is.
Belushi and The Barry Holman Band performed Joe Cocker's, "Feeling Alright" followed by, "Let the Midnight Special". After the performance, Me, the staff and even Barry had our photos taken together with Belushi. During the photo shoot Belushi told me that he had a really good time and would definitely come back to the place in the near future. I never saw Belushi again.
Special flying visit!
"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?!"
I don't know if gangsters count, but in the late 80s I used to see Santo Trafficante every morning at the post office, always flanked by a guy who could have been James Gandolfini's stunt double.
I was a messenger for a lawfirm in those days and he was always polite, mild mannered and waited his turn in line.
I held the door open for him (just being polite, not trying to suck up or anything) once and from then on he and the bodyguard always said good morning to me after that.
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Pretty close. Touched Bowie's left big toe during a show! I kinda caressed it and he sorta smiled a little. Pretty epic. That was in 1997.
Other than that I happened to interact with Bono during an autographs occasion and a big girl nearly knocked him to the ground by insanely jumping on him while hugging the poor millionaire fellow. He was all smiles even during that. Say what one may he is a gentleman like few others in my book after that! No cameras about or anything like that either. If it were Joe Pesci he would have used her pen to you know what and she'd be sleeping with fishes or somethin'.
I must say celebrities were overwhelmingly courteous and exceedingly patient with just about everybody in my few interactions with them on random casual errands.
I think they ought to be like Jerry in the film which even after all that duress was still remarkably humane.
Even Jimmy Saville managed to amass considerable charity (which is way more than whatever the average Joe and Mary will ever help to accomplish in that regard, let us all face it).
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