linda, this is such fun! i can’t believe i just read through every one of the previous posts (i’m supposed to be working, but it’s my BIRTHDAY, so who cares!) and i’m so glad i did.

i live in KC and made an ex-boyfriend stand outside of the music hall on a freezing december night so that i could get harry connick jr’s autograph. he was uber-hot back then. (i think he’s been looking weird ever since his wil&grace stint.)

i regularly visit a flaky friend in LA. back in march, he booked himself in an acting workshop on the afternoon that we were supposed to hang out, so i chilled out by myself at the grove shopping area. that place is THICK with celebs. i saw:
– melanie griffith as she was coming out of the movie theater with her kids – that woman needs to stop with the plastic surgery already
– leslie jordan was walking around talking on a cell phone – he played beverly leslie, the tiny little guy with the southern accent from will&grace
– owain yeoman, saw him with another celeb at the bar at the whisper lounge – he is on “the ni9e” as the nice bank robber, and “kitchen confidential” – HOT with an accent, and nice as could be. i went up and talked to him and his girlfriend…
– lucy davis (owain’s girlfriend) – she played lucy on the now-doomed “studio 60”. oh, how i loved that show. such smart writing, great actors. i talked to both lucy and owain about their shows. they were very gracious.
– peter dobson was also in the whisper lounge by himself wearing a suit. i loved him in “sing,” a really bad movie from the early 90s.

during the same trip, i also saw:
– nicole richie in the car next to me as i drove down melrose. those sunglasses are enormous.
– marisol nichols on the sidewalk in beverly hills – she plays nadia on 24.
– jon lovitz in a jewelry store in beverly hills – he looked like a lounge lizard wearing a hawaiian shirt with too many buttons unbuttoned and too many gold chains.
– james cromwell in the lobby of the century city hyatt where we were staying – he played jack’s evil dad on 24 this season.
– nathan coddry was eating at the indian restaurant (electric lotus in los feliz) where my flaky friend works – flaky friend had to work a shift, so i hung out at a table and worked on my laptop for the evening. nathan played tom jeter on the ill-fated studio 60. didn’t talk to him, but he seemed to be a very nice guy.

man. i’ll shut up now.

When I was 12, I was in this play in Colonial Williamsburg, and the play was apparently a big deal, and Jodie Sweetin came to see it (she was like 8, I think), and then she came backstage to hang out with all the young actresses in the play. So that was pretty exciting. She didn’t really say much – she seemed shy.

I live in New York now, so I’ve seen my fair share of celebrities wandering around (usually I only see them after someone points them out, though, I’m not that good at recognizing people myself, sadly)… off the top of my head: Hugh Grant (who I swear totally smirked at me), Harrison Ford, Chloe Sevigny (okay, really just her ass), Geraldo Rivera (running at top speed in business attire across Park Avenue), Sting, Max Weinberg, Peter Gallagher, Keri Russell (that one was at a restaurant in Big Sur, and I said, “That’s totally her!” and she totally heard me. i am suave.), Salman Rushdie (I think, anyway!), and once Matt Besser (of Upright Citizen’s Brigade) ate right next to me at a Chipotle but I was too nervous to be like, “hey, I’m a fan.” And my boyfriend once talked to Al Franken at a Starbucks. :)

My favorite encounter by far happened in my hometown, though. I’m from the same area in Virginia that William Styron was from, and when I was in college, the town had named a part of this new development after him, and he came down to speak at the groundbreaking ceremony. One of my theater professors did a short staged adaptation of Styron’s first book, and I was performing in it, and after the performance, I was introduced to him, and he was just so so so so amazing and kind. He shook my hand and said, “Hello Peyton.” (which was the character I played). I didn’t appreciate how awesome it actually was to meet him until I read Sophie’s Choice a few years later, and man, that dude could seriously put a sentence together. William Styron was rad.

Full on geek-out in effect…

I too worked at a hotel, and met some peripheral celebrities – like the people in the posses and whatnot. First off, my boss used to “hang” with the Rolling Stones (and judging from his coke problem, maybe be their supplier). I was blatantly hit on by one of the security guys for the Fugees — I’m not sure what made this huge man think it was ok to stroke my hair when I had already expressed my disinterest in him, but I wanted to deck him. Keith Sweat accidentally left one of his suits in the closet of his suite, so I spoke to him on the phone multiple times while making sure it was overnighted to his next concert venue. He was very nice and sent me a pile of cds from his label as a thank you.

The best one (for me) was that by a random set of circumstances, I became friends with Chris Connelly, MTV News guy. He visited my college newspaper while he was in town one time, and chatted with us for quite a while. He sent us “thanks for hanging out” emails later, and so I responded. We ended up having these awesome and really hilarious email exchanges. He would call and take me to dinner when he came to town, and would give me lots of cool dirt on all the celebs du jour — it was the pre-crazy Britney days, along with N’Sync and Backstreet Boys. He sent me 24 roses on my 24th birthday and would call me from various places. “Hi, just thought I’d say hi before I go and do red carpet interviews for the Oscars” or “Hi, just got back from the MTV Superbowl special and here’s what happened!” It was very cool. He’s a super nice guy and not skeezy at all — the chats and the gifts were all on the friendship tip and never made me feel like he was trying to hit on me.

I also met the Indigo Girls, but it was pretty uncomfortable because we had gotten backstage passes from a friend and we were CLEARLY not who they were expecting. They were very gracious about it though. Which was nice because I LOVE them.

Sorry for the novella. Told you I was a geek…

Oh and I saw Jason Bateman and Nick Lachey at a Dodger games. I know there’s more I just can’t think of them.

I’ve met queens, princes, politicians, but the best was when I ran into (literally) Matthew Mc Conaughey (Mc Conna-hubba-hubba) at the Texas v OU football game a few years ago. He is as delicious and handsome as you imagine. Taller than average, but a bit shorter than I expected. He reminded me of every Texas fraternity guy I ever dated (in his dress and manner), but way, way HOTTER. The funny part is that I was looking for my husband, who is taller, and the game is at the state fair, so there are a million people and I ran smack dab into Mc Hubba Hubba without even realizing it until it was too late.

He doesn’t need photo-shopping. That’s for sure.

My friend ran into him years later while he was promoting Sahara. She said he was pretty scruffy looking, but still HOT.

I sat behind Nicole Kidman at the movies once. She spent a lot of time talking about the onscreen dog. If it was anyone else, I would have seethed quietly. But it was NK, so I was too distracted by her shiny hair to do any seething, quiet or otherwise.

Ok, so I left out my favorite on accident. Famous to me and some New Orleanians. The band Cowboy Mouth. I’ve met them a few times but the best was riding the Boston T to the venue with guitarist “Griff” after they had their voodoo party at the record store. Such a nice guy and he seemed to remember us at the next few shows he saw us at.

My best friend from high school became a part-time movie reviewer on the side, and now he’s got photos of himself with nearly every celeb imaginable: http://www.dannyminton.com/ (plus: early access to nearly every movie released on DVD). With your writing skills, I’m sure you could easily become a movie reviewer for some local Kirkland magazine or newspaper…

I did some contract work for Mitt Romney, does that count? No?

Well, I ran into Debbie Gibson at the Petco in Peabody, Mass., and she was an asshole. She actually believed that she was being followed (by, ah, ME), because we kept running into each other in the aisles. The truth was, despite my Electric Youth, I didn’t recognize her until we left, and I was SO IN LOVE with the pug puppy her friend had in her arms, AND we just happened to be in the same aisles. See if I ever listen to Out of the Blue ever again, Debbie!

I had lunch next to Jennifer Aniston in Laguna Nigel once, and honestly, she was so, so nice. So nice and normal and a good tipper. And I am embarrassed to admit, I’ve adored her unconditionally ever since. She was SO GRACIOUS, honestly.

I ran into Kevin Bacon multiple times in Boston, and sweet baby Jane, he’s TALL. So tall. And hotter than one would expect.

And finally, I met New Kids on the Block en masse in New York City. I was wearing my Pepsi t-shirt with the sleeves rolled up, and giant glasses and oh yes, THE WORST PERM EVAR. But I got their autographs, and Donny Wahlberg tried to give me money for no good reason, and it made me uncomfortable.

Joey McIntyre was a douche AND I met him, years later, as an adult in Boston, and he tried to take my friends and I home for a threesome — and this was before his “comeback” so it was as pathetic as can be. True story. I dislike him immensely. He’s a dirty, dirty bird.

I forgot to mention that I eventually exacted revenge on Mr. McEntyre, several years later, when I was with a different group of friends, and we were drinking next to him at Daisy Buchanan’s in Boston. One of my friends was a little on the drunk side, and after hearing threesome story, was not having any of Joey’s crap, despite the fact that, ah, he wasn’t dishing out any. She tortured him by loudly singing “I HOPE YOU ALWAYS STAY THE SAME, JOEY” (to the tune of his non-hit of the same name) in a snarky tone until people started to stare and eventually figure out who he was. A scene ensued.

He left shortly thereafter. And thus, I helped run Joey McIntyre out of Daisy Buchanan’s.

Hmm…when I was 14, I danced onstage with Gregory Hines.

I saw a lot of famous people when I went to the Concert for Diana, but I was sitting pretty close to the princes and I must say, they really enjoy dancing to Nelly Furtado. And Prince Harry really enoys making out with Chelsea Davy.

I’m a big theatre geek, so I’ve met lots of people doing Broadway/West End shoes, most recently – Honor Blackman, who is now old and playing Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret in London, but who was once PussyGalore in Goldfinger. She was with her husband and in a hurry to get to dinner, but she said she noticed me standing there patiently so she came to sign my playbill.

Actually, I stood outside that stage door several times, and I think some of them started to recognize me (I have a bit of a distinctive look anyway). But the first time I was there, the guy who plays Cliff came up to me like he was going to say something, but I was so starstruck that I turned and walked away. He said something after me, but I kind of laughed and kept walking. The next night, he saw me again and asked me not to run away this time because I had broken his heart. (!) What a charmer, that one.

I live in LA, so I have had a lot of sightings. But my first encounter is still the most memorable. I am walking into a video store and out comes this angry looking guy and we do that thing where we are trying to get past each other while blocking each other. I look up at his face and it’s O.J Simpson. This was post trial. The weirdest part was, he got into a black Bronco and drove away.

We saw Muhammud Ali at Sea World in San Diego. And we got a picture of Dillon sitting in his lap. Awesome. It made me cry.

When we first moved to LA back in the mid 80’s, we saw Bruce Springsteen coming down the escalator at the Beverly Center. I wasn’t sure it was him until I saw two teenage girls at the bottom of the escalator bent over double quietly freaking out.

In LA you have to be cool about your celebrity sightings.

When I was 14 my whole family went to the Puyallup Fair to see Randy Travis (country singer). We saw the early show and then went back to the hotel to settle in. I put on the shirt that I purchased at the concert and stepped into the hall to fill the ice bucket. About 4 doors down a bunch of big men stepped into the hall along with a really tall more slender man. One of the big buys turned around and smiled and said something and the slender guy turned and it was Randy Travis. He smiled and said, “I like your shirt!” and my 14 year old heart stopped beating for a few seconds.

I met Johnny Depp before he was a really big star because my sister was friends with friend of his during the 21 jump street years.

In a similar manner I met Jim Caviezel (Most known for playing Jesus in passion of the christ) and Hilary Swank although not at the same time. They were both friends with older siblings of my friends back before either of them were famous. So it wasn’t until later in their careers that I even remembered having met them so I don’t know if that counts.

My husband and I are big fans of a dutch band called Within Temptation. They have just released their first american album last month so some of you may have heard of them by now. Anyway, we were in the Netherlands visiting family and happened to catch a concert. I was in my first trimester with my daughter and my husband wanted to get a curry sandwich. I couldn’t handle the smell and went to stand off by the fence in the corner. After a few minutes I noticed some movement behind the fence and security guards opened it up and Sharon den Adel (the lead singer) and a few other band members slipped through the opening. I introduced myself and said that I had come from America and she was really sweet and oh so small. That is probably my favorite star sighting.

The funniest one to me was one night at Burger Masters. For those that don’t know it is a drive inn type burger place where you pull up in your car and they wait on you curbside. Really yummy greasy burgers and shakes. My husband and I were waiting for our order and I glanced into the car next to us and did a double take. It was Bill Gates by himself behind the wheel practicing what I assume was a speech of some sort off of notecards and chewing on the end of his glasses. After his food came he took it and drove off. It was so weird to see him just in normal daily life. He just looked like someone’s dad… er… grandpa. (He did look pretty aged in person but I do know that he has young kids)

Madonna used to jog down my street when she shot A League of Their Own. I was pissed that she wasn’t Tom Hanks. More excitingly, Billy Gibbons (of ZZ Top) and I stood next to each other in the produce section. I envy Jerry Seinfeld because he got to go to my cousin’s wedding and I didn’t.

Danger–I was an extra in A League of Their Own. I got to meet everyone in the movie, and got my hair done in the Big Star Trailer. :-) Tom Hanks is very very nice, and so is Rosie (offered me gum) and Madonna (actually smiled at me -!!-). Lori Petty, not so much. Geena Davis was kind of spacey, and Laverne – er, Penny Marshall – talks just like she did on TV. I kept expecting to hear “Shirl!”.

I used to work at a popular nightclub and got to meet tons of musicians and various other high-profile people: Joe Jackson, Duane Allman, Jimmie Vaughan, June Carter Cash, Elizabeth Shue, Patrick Swayze, and others that would be impressive to a hard-core music fan, less so to anyone else (Irma Thomas, Clifton Chenier, Robert Cray…)

Also, major stalker of Joan Jett in my headbanging youth.

(You have to excuse me if I go on and on, I just get so excited while talking about these stories…)

My two favourites –

Meeting Sebastian Bach (ex Skid Row, and it should be mentioned that he is kind of my hero in an ironic sense, watch Supergroup to see what I mean) at the Rainbow in LA, getting to drink with him for a couple of hours and he even offered me his joint. And finding out that he is exactly like what he seems on his show. He even asked “Why is everyone so mean to Axl Rose? He’s my best friend! He’s been texting me all day” (I said “I guess we make fun of the ones we love”) Then he went home with my friend. awesome. I also met Lemmy from Motorhead a couple of days later, and Vince Neil from Motley Crue (for the third time) in Vegas a couple of days earlier, making it incredibly weird that I ran into my 3 favourite singers within a week…

But the best ever was meeting Motley Crue a couple of times (my favourite band), and getting the best picture ever with them – Nikki Sixx, another hero of mine in a more true sense of the word, grabbed his crotch in the photo and pointed at me, Tommy Lee had his arm around me, and Mick Mars was holding his pen like it was a boner. Man, that was so awesome. I also got a photo of Tommy grabbing my tits (I didn’t even ask them to pose like this…) And then Mick goes to Nikki “Dude, why aren’t you signing her tits? You’re missing out!” and Nikki goes “I can’t man, my wife wouldn’t like it!”

Then later at the show, Tommy has this infamous thing called Titty-cam where he goes around making girls take their tops off. Man, don’t I sound classy? Anyway, I was front row, and he came up to me and they put the spotlight on me and he goes “Don’t pretend you can’t see me” and got the whole crowd chanting while he filmed me flashing him and it was up on the big screen. If you’re not into Motley Crue this sounds really trashy I suppose…hell, it is anyway, but I am not ashamed to say that was probably the most awesome moment of my life. Then I met them all again a few days later.

Other then that, I meet most of the musicians I like, stuff like drinking with Deep Purple as Nate has great connections managing the drum department of a music store and runs drum clinics and does drum teching and that sort of stuff…plus I’m not so much into the more mainstream music, I love 80s rock, so its easier for me to meet my heroes :)

OK, this is sort of cheating because the famous people I’ve met have all been in contrived situations, so less about the excited spotting of someone famous at the mall and more about it being part of my job (which kinda takes away the randomness of it, but is still pretty darn cool). Mostly musicians, but a few others besides – some of the more famous include:

Jennifer Aniston, Vince Vaughan, Jamie Bell, Adrien Brody, Naomi Watts, Andy Serkis, Ron Jeremy, John Cleese, Ben Elton, Franz Ferdinand, Kings of Leon, Shaggy, Crowded House, Muse, Sonic Youth, Snow Patrol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Good Charlotte, Interpol, Russell Crowe, James Blunt, Peter Jackson, Death Cab for Cutie, Scissor Sisters, Bloc Party, the Strokes, Ben Harper, Green Day, Anna Nicole Smith, Carmen Elektra, Jack and Kelly Osbourne, Xzibit, Silverchair, Jarvis Cocker, the Shins, Kaiser Chiefs, Kasabian, Violent Femmes

Wheeee! Lucky girl.

Well, I got to break up with a boyfriend at breakfast sitting next to James Taylor who was at the next table. That was fun.

I also watched Brad johnson (the NFL QB) ride a ride at the state fair where you get whipped upside down. Not too long after that I was a row behind him at a Sawyer Brown concert. Come to think of it, I think both times I saw him he was by himself. This was when he was a young backup for the Vikings.

My brother in law served Josh Hartnett, who he said was really nice and seemed to want to talk to someone. This was right after Blackhawk Down.

I also know someone who served Richard Simmons and his party. She said he was really nice and a GREAT tipper.

Well, I went to college in Malibu, so….

I saw Cindy Crawford at the grocery store; Nicholas Cage at Sav-On; Stephen Spielberg and I looked at Day Timers together (and he talked to me!); Mel Gibson, Oliver Platt, Cheech Marin, Emilio Estevez, and Candace Bergen came into Ben and Jerry’s when I worked there. My friend accidentally elbowed Martin Sheen at Malibu Seafood (Martin apologized profusely), I saw Tom Hanks at Coogie’, I met Mark Hamill at an event for my Mom’s old company, Electronic Arts…um…and assorted rock stars, I guess.

[…] *Peter Gabriel. Honestly, I’ve thought about this way too much, because I adore him in a slightly irrational manner, and today while driving to work, I was listening to Up and wondering really, what I would do if I ever ran into him, after reading about some celebrity encounters from Sundry. My current celeb encounters are rather lame, and I’ve never met anyone that would really make me swoon, nor could I think of anyone who WOULD make me swoon. […]

I feel like most of mine don’t count, because living in LA and working in entertainment means celeb encounters are at least a weekly (if not more often) event. But these are a few of my favorites:

– When I was nine, I sold Girl Scout cookies to Whoopi Goldberg. Then I ran after her and got her to autograph a box of Samoas for me.

– At my very first job, Wil Wheaton came in for an audition one day. I told him how much I liked his blog, and then he blogged about it, which was pretty cool.

– A few months ago, I saw Sebastian Bach at a newsstand, surreptitiously checking out an article about himself in Rolling Stone.

is there anyone who hasn’t met Sinbad??? hahahahaha!

as for me…well, my first cousin was the bass player in tom petty and the heartbreakers, so i’ve met them. and just this week i met Dennis Rodman.

and i once ate dinner beside Tom Skerritt, and saw William H. Macy in the airport.

and i went to the gala openings of tons of the toronto film festival movies and sat real close to lots of stars….including Jude Law. mmmm… JUde Law…

i used to live in memphis, which is like hillbilly hollywood. here are a few of my brushes with greatness:
– joe walsh of the eagles, helped him locate a sixer of st. pauly girl beer at the piggly wiggly
– chris o’donnell, claire danes and danny devito when they were making the rainmaker. i also got invited to the wrap party but couldn’t get a baby sitter.
– tom cruise while they were filming the firm downtown and later at a friend’s party. hubby got his autograph
– sat next to billy gibbons of zz top at a crosby, still & nash concert before the ushers took him backstage at intermission
– parker stevenson, buying ban roll-on deodorant at k-mart. he had an interview the next day at local station. this was during his hardy boy days. he lowered his sunglasses, winked at me and put his finger to his lips to keep me from blowing his cover
– james garner at a friend’s house while he was visiting them- they were cousins or something. great guy, he even took us kids to the park next to their house.
– dolly parton and porter waggoner at a friend’s house in the late ’60’s. they were recording at sun studio
– met rod stewart in a dark alley after he left his battered leather jacket backstage at his concert and a friend was working security. he asked us to party, my male friend said no. then rod asked, “how about the girl?” as if i weren’t there. total dick! i just said no and walked away and never regretted it!
– jimmy jamison of the band survivor (“eye of the tiger” was their one hit wonder!) lived a few blocks away. got high with him a couple of times. he told us that he had auditioned for a part in a movie about the doors with someone named oliver stone- whom we hadn’t heard of then!- but although he nailed singing like jim morrison, he was only 5’3″ tall. the part went to val kilmer about 10 years later, which shows you how long it takes to get some movies to the big screen
– saw david lee roth on a motorcycle while van halen was on tour. tried to warn him about the cops 2 miles ahead but he waved us off. this was the night he got arrested for going 100 miles an hour on the same street! serves him right!
– met john ritter before he was famous when he was touring with his dad tex. he gave me a lorna done from their tour bus. i was like 4 and throwing a tantrum because i was hungry. my mom was pissed!
– woody harrellson and courtney love during the making of the larry flynt movie. later i saw courtney buying some rolling papers at a store and she was being loud and complaining about having “swamp pussy”! she frightened my son as she made a monster face at him while dashing to her limo.

I was on Win Ben Stein’s Money a few years back. I made it to the final round and tied with Mr. Stein himself so I got to shake his hand and all that jazz. Pretty fun…I spent most of the show worrying that I would leak through my breast pads on t.v. while my little guy was at home waiting for “lunch”. All was fine in the end, and I made 1750 bucks!

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