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In reply to the discussion: Have you met someone famous? [View all]Scrivener7
(51,021 posts)32. For some reason, just going about my very ordinary life, I have run into a lot of them.
There was one period when I lived in NYC that I must have seen Jack Nicholson three or four times in one month. And I SWEAR I wasn't stalking him. He just kept turning up. I think he was probably stalking me, don't you?
Another time, again walking on the street in NYC with my head down on Madison Ave, I literally ran into JFK, Jr. Head-butted his chest. Pretty hard. He was very gracious about it.
I could keep going. There were a lot of other incidents. It's kind of weird because, as I say, my life is very ordinary.
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I tend to cower when faced would someone famous. I would not like to be acknowledged
applegrove
Nov 2022
#1
Shook Senator Paul Simon's hand in Chicago; saw candidate Obama in St. Louis and in
Atticus
Nov 2022
#3
We live in Iowa, so have had the caucuses to draw famous politicians in to the state
rurallib
Nov 2022
#4
I had breakfast and a great morning conversation with Sandra Oh at her house FWIW. NT
texasfiddler
Nov 2022
#17
Sports related.....I met and had my picture with Max McGee of the Champion Green Bay Packers.....
a kennedy
Nov 2022
#23
Mr Lake is a Green Bay native. He's been to Lambeau but never for a Packer game.
LakeArenal
Nov 2022
#42
many times working for a hollywood messenger service dealing with entertainment biz only nt
msongs
Nov 2022
#25
Love K D Lang......what's happened to her?? Don't hear of her anymore. Just loved her.
a kennedy
Nov 2022
#34
For some reason, just going about my very ordinary life, I have run into a lot of them.
Scrivener7
Nov 2022
#32
Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, David Crosby, Lester Flatt, Steve Miller, Norton Buffalo, the Ramones
jojog
Nov 2022
#56
I met Gloria Steinem once at a vegan cafe in NYC. Just said a brief hello and thanked her
MLAA
Nov 2022
#58
Met the violinist Sayaka Shoji over tea and sweets after a concert. One of the great ones.
HUAJIAO
Nov 2022
#71
I met George McGovern once, only for a few seconds. Shook his hand after a meeting I attended with
Stuart G
Nov 2022
#80
Here are some famous-type people I have encountered, most in a work-related situation...
GReedDiamond
Nov 2022
#88
I ate birthday cake with Dizzy Gillespie and spent an hour with Jean Shepard
MichaelSoE
Nov 2022
#99
Most are Racing Drivers or involved with the business. That includes Paul Newman.
A HERETIC I AM
Nov 2022
#106
I guess it depends how famous is famous (or infamous), and I have been around for a long time, so..
DFW
Nov 2022
#107
Briefly exchanged greetings with Joe Biden, shook hands with Bill Clinton.
Tommy Carcetti
Nov 2022
#115
Jon Ossoff, all of the members of rem, George Takei, & Fred Schneider of B52s.
CottonBear
Nov 2022
#117
LakeArenal, I want to link to a couple of threads about President Biden and those kids,
highplainsdem
Nov 2022
#125
I was in a row of middle aged women who were screaming over him like he was a movie star.
milestogo
Dec 2022
#131
Jerry Garcia, Robert F. Kennedy (shook his hand when I was a kid), Art Linkletter. n/t
LuckyCharms
Dec 2022
#130
My husband received an award from Ted Kennedy. Later, we had dinner at his table. I could not figure
debm55
Dec 2022
#134
Sat on Earl Scruggs' couch while he played the banjo he had just sold
yellowdogintexas
Dec 2022
#135