imnotsayinthisjust2bnasty said:

YOU MET BONO? Oh lawd. That's one of the only people I can imagine meeting who might make me act like a damn fool. For that reason, I hope I never meet him, despite his 'very cool' rating.

The only celebrity I've met is Prince. He was mostly cool. It was a long discussion, so his coolness varied.

There aren't many celebrities I'd care to meet --I didn't even especially want to meet Prince, though in retrospect I'm happy I did-- but I would be curious to chat with Larry Graham.

Youe Ming from the celtics is cool
Kobie Bryant sucks he gotta messed up attitude
Beyounce suck she has a bitchy attitude
TLC T Boz and Chilli are cool they remind me of my sisters
Jermain Dupri is cool pretty down to earth
Alicia Keys is also a nice person
The nicest person I ever had a chance to meet in show biz is Maxwell... ladies he really is shy, it's not just a bunch of hype to make him look mysterious

i nearly met elvis .. 'cept that he was in america, and i was in australia...and he was dead, and i was alive ..etc... but it was a close thing... wanna touch me?

I work freelance for a video poduction company in NYC. We do a shit load of celebrity interviews and stuff, so I get to meet everyone through that. Some other celebs I also met through my old job as an usher at Manhattan Center Studios/Hammerstein Ballroom, where they used to have a lot of parties. I would meet some in the elevator or I would sneak back stage and just walk up to people an say hello. I met Drew Barrymore that way and godamn was she cool.

As far as stories go, let's see...

When I met Sigourney, she was waiting downstairs for her ride and I just asked if I could get a picture with her. She agreed and I got the pic. She's tall as fuck by the way. Then I started asking her about the next Alien project (Alien Resurrection). She told me something about her character being cloned from a fingernail clipping or something. She was really talking to me a lot but then I was being called back to work, and I'm literally walking backwards as she continues to give me Alien info. I couldn't believe I had to walk away from her like that.

It was a trip meeting Gwen Stefani, cuz I really dig her. She came walking into the interview room, real "girly" like with the nails all done, high heels, and super-tight jeans. She gave me the softest handshake ever. I got to talk to her and Tom Dumont(guitar player) for a little bit about a show they did the night before. They were cool to chat with. I really wanted to get a picture with her, but the producer of the segment wasn't having it.

Queen Latifa was cool. Ater the interview, she pulled some fireworks out of the trunk of her car and started blasting them off in the street. It was July 5th and she said she missed her chance the night before.

Cindy C. was a bit of a cunt. My best friend used to buy her calendars religiously, so I decided to ask her if she had a new one coming out. With an almost snobbish attitude she says, "I'm a little too old to be doing calendars." then she see's Ricki Lake and gets all friendly with her. She just kinda rubbed me the wrong way.

P Ditty was cooler than I expected. After the interview for MTV he shook all our hands and thanked us. Then he fed the whole crew, and holy shit was the grub good. The peach pie was the best. He hooked us up.

I met Jerry Springer when I was working the coat check at a club downtown. He came walking in with two hot blondes. He only stayed for a few minutes, but we said hello and shit.

We shot a music video with Carly Simon in her house/ranch at Martha's Vineyard. She was mad cool. She's from the Bronx also, so we were talking about the hood, and even some people we both know. I even got to play some of her guitars and basses while we waited for the shots to get ready. She later signed a picture for me an my family, since they were big fans.

The Busta Rhymes experience was fun cuz I was in his video for the remix of "Ante Up" with M.O.P. and Remy Martin. I was just an extra, but I managed to appear in the video about 35 times. Busta had me in a kind of a headlock for one shot and we're bouncin around together. At then end I walked up to him and said, "Cool headlock man." then gave him a pound.

I met Howard Stern backstage at the Dysfunctional Family Picnic 2000 concert in Jersey. I walked up to him as he was talking to Cane, from K-Rock. I just told him I was a big fan and shook his hand. He didn't say a word, just gave me the look like, yeah, so what. I was a little annoyed, but I knew that's how he was, so my opnion of him didn't change. It was such a difference meeting Jackie Martling earlier cuz he was so damn friendly to all of us. Then 2 years later I met Fred Norris in the street. He was cool too. Now I just have to meet the rest of the Stern crew.

I met Mohammed Ali and Michael J. Fox at the same time when they were doing a photo shoot for the Parkinson's foundaton. Ali was cracking jokes and Mike was hugging everyone. I was actually chatting with Ali's wife and Mike's mom for a while. I was talking to them about Parkinson's cuz my dad has it. They were really supportive. Then later I got pictures wih Ali and Mike.

I met Tretch (Naughty By Nature) when I worked as a bouncer for a hip hop club downtown. He would be loaded when he came in so he was always real friendly. Once I had to take a small knife from him when I was doing the search. He didn't give me any shit and he got it back at then end of the night.

John Waters was also fun to meet. I met him at another club I was working as event manager. He was at the bar with some friends and I just introduced myself. I forgot what we talked about but he was real cool and friendly.

The Tom Cruise story is one of my favorites. We're set up in a fancy hotel room wating to interview him as the E! channel was presenting him with some award. He comes in about an hour late. There are a few crew guys standing by the door and I'm further in the back. Tom walks in, aologizes for being late, passes the guys that are closer, then walks straight to me, shakes my hand and says hello, then does the same to the rest of the guys. At then end of the interview, the crew starts joking with me saying, "Hey, Tom walked right over to you first, I think he likes you." This was of course when all that stupid "Is Tom Cruise gay?" shit was going on. he was mad cool though.

That's pretty much it. I've been lucky enough to meet all these folks and discover that they're actually really down to earth and not just a bunch of assholes.
[This message was edited Sun Apr 20 21:20:53 PDT 2003 by EvilWhiteMale]

A few summers ago I was sitting on a bench at Nice Airport in France. I was listening to U2´s Achtung Baby on my portable CD-player and was lazily looking at the pictures in the CD´s booklet. Then all of a sudden this guy sitting next to me (I hadn´t looked at him) starts pointing at some of the pictures in the booklet. I got a bit annoyed and looked up. It turned out it was Bono and when he saw my surprised face he smiled. Beside him was the Edge but he didn´t even look our way. Then Bono made a few remarks about the pictures and said they´d been taken in Germany etc. It was a pretty cool and very relaxed encounter.

simon lebon - not so cool
nick rhodes - also, not so cool