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Have you ever met a celebrity?

NorthernRedneck

NorthernRedneck

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If so, who?

Myself...I've met several famous bands while working at the Music Jamboree back in my home town.

I've met a couple famous nascar drivers up close and out of the spotlight of the racetrack, so to speak. Also met Roger Penske face to face.(actually bumped shoulders with him as we left his race shop in north carolina)

I had an upclose and personal encounter with a couple more famous bands. Not planned or anything. We were at a wedding in Sault Ste Marie Ontario. Next to our hotel on the river, there was an outdoor concert stadium. I didn't know who was playing that night. I soon found out though. The morning after the wedding, we were getting on the elevator when 4-5 guys and a girl got on with us. My son was only six months old at the time and in his car seat. The girl did the typical "Awwe, cute baby!" and played with him for a few minutes while we were on the elevator. We got off on the main floor. They went down the hall and we walked past the main desk. The hotel clerk said to me casually, I see you met the band(s). I asked who they were, totally clueless. The hotel clerk replied "Sum 41 and Avril Lavigne". So now, I tell my son how he met some famous people when he was a baby.
 
Coming out of Rhode Isdland back in 1997 or 98 I felt myself lucky as I was upgraded on an overbooked flight to a first class seat.

But then the plane got held at the gate for 1/2 hour because somebody was late. Kinda annoying to everybody. Turns out it was Christopher Walken.

He sat down accross the aisle from me.
Took me 1/2the flight to get up the nerve but I finally just began talking to him. Like it was no big deal. Turns out he is areally nice guy except that he is exactly what we see on the screen in Brainstorm or Man on Fire.

Since I had acted so causual, I was too embarassed to ask for an autograph. Flight ended and all I have is memories of our conversation.
 
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Met Del McCoury at a local blue grass festival years back. Then about 7 years ago I was working on his furnace and he came down in the basement and chatted while i worked. He is a real down to earth guy and has a great band.
 
My dad is...not allowed to say was...a Marine and he took us to reunions all over the country. A different State every year. We would go camping on the way to the reunions. Then we would stay in a Hotel in what ever city the reunion was in that year.
1964 it was New York and the Worlds Fair. Another time it was Florida. I met and had dinner with Chesty Puller. My dad served with him in WW2. He was the guest speaker that year.
Another time we stayed in The Pfister Hotel in downtown Milwaukee. Dad got us tickets to see The Pack play the Bears. The Packers were in the same Hotel and at one point my sister and I road up to our floor with Bart Starr, Ray Nitschke and Vince Lombardi. My sister was taking French and Bart Starr was behind her and need passed so he said excusez-moi....my sister said : dire s'il vous plaît...which is say please. The last I saw of Bart Starr he was spinning around to look back at my sister as the elevator door closed. :)

I met a bunch of Marine Generals over the years but I don't remember all the names. I think one was Wallace Martin Greene, Jr. and in 1973 dad was the host of a reunion and the commandant was the speaker that year I think that was Robert Cushman, Jr.

Oh I almost forgot. Dad knows Birch Bayh and when he was a Senator I went with dad to his office once.
I think that is it.

I never cared about any of those guys though. The only famous person I wanted to meet was Roy Rodgers. Saw him at the state fair and touched his horse trailer. But I didn't get to meet him. I thought it was cool he dove himself to the fair though.
 
My daughter and I were in Flagstaff Az. standing in a long slow line to pay at a popuar dinner club. din't notice that she had grabbed the coat of the guy standing in front of us and gave it a jerk. He turned around smiled at me and looked down at my daughter, put out his hand and offered to shake hers...As they shook hands he introduced himself as Roger Staubach....and his lovely wife.

After the formalities were out of the way we struck up a conversation that lasted for 15 minutes or so. Very nice down to earth fella, up at Flag for some skiing that weekend.

Another time in the pits of the Road America road race track in Wisconsin, I had the pleasure of sharing the only table with empty seats with a guy I literally had a small collision with at the condements bar, while loading up what are still the only double bratts I have ever eaten...We talked for a while before introducing ourselve. His name is Dan Gurney...I had the pleasure of going to his paddock area for a short tour after lunch. Very nice fellow...IF I weren't I fan before I definately was after.

Worked with the SCCA on security at the one and only ill fated Denver Grand Prix. Met lots of folks of note from the era of CART, and the like of Danny Sullivan, The Unser boys, Eddie Cheever, (nicest guy) and others, including some long haired rock bands that couldn't seem to confine themselves to the bleachers the M TV folks had placed behind the pits for them. The third time we rounded them up and put them back I got P.O. and yelled at them that the next time they were going outside the fence. I was pissed.....And they stayed put the rest of the afternoon.

Saw Paul Newman several times up close, but never had the chance to meet him while he was road racing. Not just a great actor, but a very talented road race driver. He would be turning the fastest lap times, yet his car sounded like it wasn't working all that hard, he was that smooooooth.....

So yes I guess I have....Then I got married and had kids:yum::yum::yum:

Regards, Kirk
 
Talked with Peter Fonda and his wife in Hawaii during a Harley Davidson awards trip. Saw Ryan O'Neal in Las Vegas about twenty feet away.
 
met tv chef rick bayless. he was @ a mkt. district. he lacked personality, glimpsed @ u fer a second, seemed bored. i really would have preferred to be there when sara moulton was there. almost met the cake boss there, too, another day, 'cept missed him. he brought a gorgeous cake of the iconic stuff from here. they have celebrity Chefs there once in a while.

almost met a few Stillers when hines ward owned a sports bar,- they were on the 2nd floor when we went there.
 
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Only two celebrities worth mentioning that I have meant are John Havlichek of the Boston Celtics at Logan Airport in a bar in 1969 and Roger Penske on a construction project I was working on in Essex Vermont in 1978. We were installing six of his turbine generators at an IBM site.

I say worth mentioning because both of those guys were real down to earth individuals and put on no airs.
 
I lived in Aspen, Colorado for a couple of years around 1970 . One day I was trying to bum a used ski lift ticket off people at lunch time and happened to ask Lucille Ball for one. Took me a minute or two to realize who she was.
 
Went to the premier of K-19 starring Harrison Ford, and managed to lie our way into his private after-party at the Russian Tea House in NYC.

Ford was rather smitten with my wife, as they talked most of the night. She got all kinds of glares from his wife Collista Lockhart (whatever her name is). Rubbed with all the stars at the non-stop martini fountains (one gin, one vodka - my god, they can get drunk, just like everyone else) Al Pacino, Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Kevin Bacon, Jeremy Irons, Tom Selek. Bunch of other, directors and women stars I don't remember names of. The little commie shrimp Tom Brockah was there for some reason. Even took a leak next to well-hung Liam Neeson.

Whata hangover.
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I haven't met any myself, but I do have a couple of stories.

When my sister was 6 weeks old her and Mom had gone to the local J.C. Penney store for something. Don't know what was going on or why he was there, but they introduced her to him as his youngest fan. He took her from Mom and he held her for probably 10 - 15 minutes. His name was Little Jimmy Dickens.

Then unfortunately I heard this story at my Uncle's funeral. His son-in-law told the story of when Al was in the Army and was a drill sargeant he had a young recruit come in basic training and was having a hard time and couldn't figure out why no one would leave him alone and let him do his job. That young private's name? None other than Elvis Presley.
 
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