luv4all7 said:

He is Eddie's....FATHER!

TMPletz said:

Is that HIM?????
EW!!!!!
Do ya think Prince would do me then??

luv4all7 said:

You're killing me today.

Just Prince. There are all of, like, maybe two famous people living in Seattle.

Emmitt Smith- I met him in the mall and got his autograph

I think he was trying to get my attention. We were in the Music Store.
He walked in front of me,behind me,then he grazed my right shoulder

I stopped him and asked him if he was Emmitt Smith. He whispered yes and I asked for his autograph.

Ok....here's who I've met.
Salt N' Peper
Bryan Adams
The Corrs
Alanis Morrisette
Joshua Kadison
Ben Folds
The Cranberries
Crowded House
And a few Australian singers.

George Lucas. Bryant Gumbel. Michael Jackson.

Celine Dion
Belinda Carlisle (& Go~Go')
Sheila E. (& her father an brother)
Wendy & Lisa
Jerome Benton
Jody Watley
BeBe (singer from Spain)
Marcella Detroit (from Shakespear's Sister)
Lisa Lisa (from LL & Cult Jam)
Ben Stiller & Christine Taylor
Rene Elizondo
Jewel (before her fame)



i'm sure there are a couple others tht i can't remember. so i guess they're not that famous

ThreadCula said:

Emmitt!

july said:

i forgot, I met Chubby Checker..he was at a trade show hawking his own line of beef jerky.

Various people, one of whom I'd call infamous:

George W. Bush.

the most excruciating brush with fame i had was when laurie anderson sat next to me at a karen finley performance.

she came in right as the lights went down and i tried SO HARD through the whole show not to get all fammed out and screech "OMIGOD LAURIE I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU" in the middle of the performance. i was very good, and i told myself i'd fam out after the show if i behaved during it.

laurie left right before the curtain call, so i didn't get to fam out.

coincidentally, karen finley sat next to me at a different light bookstore reading not long after, and, learning my lesson, i politely went into fammy fam mode with her before the reading. she was very sweet.

i'm remembering my other wacky NYC famous people stories (it's a great place for 'em):

going to a friend's house for an informal dinner party of about 4 guests, and discovering one of the guests was ed koch.

standing in line behind lauren hutton at a deli and my roommate realizing she'd forgotten her purse at the counter, and us running down the street after her yelling "MISS HUTTON! MISS HUTTON! YOUR PURSE!!!"

accidentally belly-flopping jon stewart while attempting to cross Avenue A during a crowded friday night.

being drunk and seeing diamanda galas on the street and screaming "I LOVE YOU!" and diamanda marching right up to me and kissing me on the mouth.

there've been a couple of brushes with fame since i left nyc, but nothing quite as quirky or random.

matt said:

Where'd you meet him?

Anx said:

Omigawd, you belly-flopped Jon Stewart?

HereToRockYourWorld said:

yeah, but it was pre-daily show...it was back when he had that lame talk show on mtv, so when i realized who it was, i was all "good, i hope it hurt him."

dude's SHORT.

Anx said:

that ROCKS!!!

Anx said:

gotta love nyc!

karen just did a show here at the cutting room where i see jackie beat all the time.

Being in the 'biz' in LA you see alot of famous folks....My highlights...

WENDY-One of the best days ever...so sweet. Introduced me to Susannah

RANDY JACKSON-Met him twice...very laid back guy

MARIAH CAREY-during the 'Rainbow' tour...she was nice but I think I scared her as I was a bit too excited (and drunk)

QUEEN LATIFAH-Very cool...funny as hell!

ELIJAH WOOD-At Coachella '03 stood next to me during White Stripes..very nice

VINCE VAUGHN-Drunk after hours on Sunset Blvd..singing 'Sweet Home Alabama' w/transiant fellow with a guitar. It was outside Skybar and we just happened to pass buy and he asked us (well forced us) to sing along!

OUTKAST-Not friendly at all...

NIKKA COSTA-Sweet gal

VAN HUNT-Cool...very quiet

JOSS STONE-Before she blew up...sweet as hell...hung out with her actually

LISA LAMPANELLI-Insult comic...funny as hell..called me 'Cornholer' and I loved it

RYAN SEACREST-We work in the same building...small fella!

MERLE HAGGARD-The Hag was cool as fuck! Grew up listening to him. A legend indeed.

JARED LETO/30 SECONDS TO MARS-Drove them to a meet and greet during their first album/tour. He was alright...his brother (drummer)..a prick

Fun sightings:

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE at Ryan Seacrests morning LA radio show

KEVIN COSTNER at a traffic stop

ALISON JANEY (West Wing), JASON LEE both at Joss Stone show

ANGIE STONE at Van Hunt show

MICHAEL DOUGLASS at a Tower Records store in Sherman Oaks, CA

ASHTON KUTCHER at his restaurant Dolce

DORIS ROBERTS (Ev Loves Raymond) at a Restaurant

LETOYA JACKSON at a Restaurant in Beverly Hills (we thought it was Janet!..waiter said...'No.it's LeToya'

LANCE BASS at a Kathy Griffin show


thats all I can remember for now...

peace

cborgman said:

i saw a bunch of karen finley shows in nyc when i lived there - i loved all of 'em. between her, diamanda, princess superstar and kiki & herb, i don't know who i saw perform the most times!

Anx said:

i saw finley in austin, and i have to say, i liked her earlier stuff a lot more. "we keep our victims ready" is an incredible peice. by the time i knew who she was and saw her, she was way tame. it kinda turned me off from wanting to see her again.

ooh, k&h - forgot to tell you about the show. it was okay. not as good as "would die for you"

we had to go to a mantinee, unfortunately, because of 4 very different work schedules. only time we could go as a 4some was saturday afternoon. we were the only reasonably young ones in the whole place and were 5th row back, so she played most of the show right to us. we laughed our asses off. there were a few other hard laughers, but mostly it was old people having no idea what they were seeing. i am sure it affected the performance some.

it was really funny... while smoking before goign in, we witnessed an old woman realizing for the first time kiki is played by a man while reading the giant review outside the theatre. she totally weirded out and was calling her freinds. "yes, a man! i swear! it says "justin"! no really!"

My friends & I hung out with Sheila E's brother, Juan, and some other band members at a mall in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He was touring with MC Hammer, TLC & Boyz II Men on the 2 Legit Tour. We got invited to the hotel afterparty but we were all under 18 and the cops wouldn't let us in. (Probably a good thing in retrospect.)

I got Eldridge Cleaver's autograph in my copy of Soul on Ice when he and Bobby Seale spoke at my college.

Roger Guenveur Smith (from several Spike Lee joints) did a program at the MCA (where I worked) and pretty much hit on every girl that worked there during the week leading up to his performance.

Famous artists:
Yinka Shonibare--I got to interview him as part of my job. My favorite celebrity interaction to date. He is SO nice and I love his work.

William Kentridge--shook his hand & told him I was writing my Master's Thesis on one of his works. He didn't seem to care so much.

Christo & Jeanne-Claude

shared an elevator with Sol LeWitt when he was installing his show at the MCA Chicago

Took classes from:
Okwui Enwezor(he curated Documenta 11)
Rosalind Krauss(very influential art historian in terms of post-modern theory)


Seen at various museums where I've worked:
Julianne Moore
Mick Jagger
Julia Roberts
Tom Hanks
Robin Givens
Barbara Bush (the daughter not the former First Lady)
Martha Stewart
Lou Reed
Tom Brokaw
Paul Pfeiffer
John Currin
Andreas Gursky

cborgman said:

i took my mom to see kiki & herb once, and she didn't realize until WAY after the show that kiki wasn't really an old lady.

Anx said:

purplerein said:

I saw Chubby Checker at Glam Slam in LA.

psychodelicide said:

Roy Jr. had a cool Bono story. Bono worked on Roy Orbison's last album, and he came to their house to meet for the first time. The Orbisons lived on the side of a mountain overlooking Malibu and the ocean--an amazing view.

Bono came in the front door and the first thing you see when you walk in is the incredible view all across the back of the house though windows & sliding glass doors.

In awe he walks towards it and slams into the sliding glass doors, knocking himself on his ass!

Not so many.

Well, a shitload of everyone related to Prince (Morris Day, Jerome, St. Paul, and a ton of other band members and all that)

Jonny Lang

Al B. Sure

Cyndi Lauper

Gene Hackman

Alfonso Ribiero

Anthony Michael Hall

I think that's it though.

actionthisday said:

During his 2000 presidential campaign, he came to Indianapolis, where I was living and attending law school. One of my classmates had some connections to the Indiana Republican Party, and she gave me an invitation to a political rally where he gave a speech. (Turns out I didn't actually need the invitation -- they later announced the event to the public.)

They held the rally in a hangar at the airport, and due to an odd setup, I was toward the back of the crowd, but against the ropeline. After his speech, he came down off the stage to work the ropeline. I don't remember what I said to him, but he shook my hand, put his hand on my shoulder, and said, "Thank you for coming out."

(For the record, I didn't vote for him.)

In retrospect, it's somewhat disturbing to have met the guy who's probably done more than any other one person to screw up the world in the 21st century.

* * *

I've had other interesting experiences at political rallies. The 1996 Dole campaign wanted to put me in a group of people behind him on stage during a speech. (I politely declined.) I guess they were trying to assemble a "diverse" collection of people, because I can't think of any other reason they'd want someone with long purple-ish hair and piercings as part of a backdrop for the potential next President of the United States.

NDRU said:

Ouch!