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Tue May-13-08 03:57 PM
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Famous people I've seen this year |
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The last one was Alan Colmes, walking with a much younger blonde woman, at a street fair on Broadway in the 80s a couple of Sundays ago in NYC. Impressive, huh?
Before that, I saw Fyvish Finkel and David Garrison in a play by David Ives (who was also there, come to think of it), and the novelist and philosopher Rebecca Goldstein was on a panel to discuss it, and her friend and fellow philosopher Steven Pinker was in the audience.
I think that's it. How about you?
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Tue May-13-08 04:00 PM
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1. Mrs. BlueDog met Terry "Locke" O'Quinn |
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Tue May-13-08 04:02 PM
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2. Alan Colmes is famous?? |
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Tue May-13-08 04:06 PM
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3. More famous than his blonde girlfriend. |
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Probably more famous than Steven Pinker, actually.
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Tue May-13-08 04:18 PM
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4. at least I've heard of colmes. not so much pinker. |
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I need to get out more. or something.
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Tue May-13-08 05:04 PM
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6. He's actually the person I was most impressed with myself for coming upon |
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because a) he is one of the best-known public intellectuals of the moment (he had just written a lengthy piece for the NY Times Magazine on evolution and morality) and b) I hadn't expected to see him, as I expected to see his friend Rebecca Goldstein, who was giving a talk at the David Ives play I'd seen about Spinoza.
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Tue May-13-08 04:20 PM
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Very smart...and very funny guy! :-)
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Tue May-13-08 06:18 PM
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at the supermarket a couple of week ago. Best I can do. I'm not much impressed by people just because they're "famous" but still it must be fun to live someplace like NYC, not knowing who you might run into.
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Tue May-13-08 06:22 PM
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8. Let's see, Steve Mariucci was in my store the other day |
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I wouldn't have known him from Adam but someone pointed him out to me. Not a football fan, what can I say.
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Wed May-14-08 06:52 AM
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9. That us some real stargazing. |
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This is the most exciting celebrity thread I think I've ever seen on DU.
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Wed May-14-08 07:05 AM
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10. I sat across the aisle from the Kucinich(es) at an Eddie Izzard show |
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May 1 at Constitution Hall.
Elizabeth Kucinich is more stunning in person than on TV by the way.......
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Wed May-14-08 07:10 AM
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I shook his hand at a Democratic club dinner in 2004. He kind of swept into the room and walked around with a very serious look on his face, shaking hands and making no small talk or talk of any kind, from table to table, and then he was gone. Wish he'd known Elizabeth then!
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Wed May-14-08 07:12 AM
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12. Quite a few, actually |
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The most famous was probably Bill Clinton who was on the same train with me from New York down to Washington DC in January.
Plus the other usual suspects.............
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Wed May-14-08 07:22 AM
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13. We visited my stepson in March in LA |
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Saw Matthew Perry at a restaurant.
Saw another guy at the Home Depot in West Hollywood (I think), but I didn't know what his name was. Of course I was the only one who saw him. It was later when we got home that I saw him on an episode of Monk. I pointed him out to my wife (who had been dubious about my sighting in the first place). So I looked him up on the Monk website. Turns out his name is Vincent Ventresca.
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Wed May-14-08 07:31 AM
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14. I think I may have coaught a glimpse of Margaret Thatcher when I was in London last year. |
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I was walking down Marylebone road to the pub at the main building of the International Students House, and I saw this car go by with the license number 1 MAG or I MAG (I couldn't tell the difference) flanked by two police motorcycles. In the back seat was an older woman with curly hair who looked to me like Thatcher.
Earlier that year I met Ken Burns who spoke to my documentary film class. I still can't get over the fact he wore blue jeans and sneakers with a blazer, shirt and tie. That seems... just wrong.
That year I also met Michael Feldman from Public Radio's Whadda Ya Know? Amazingly funny guy.
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