Ever Met Anyone Famous?

[MadMike]

I've met a few famous people/celebrities in my life-

1. President Richard Nixon, Homestead AFB, FL 1972 (shook his hand).
2. Tom Brokaw.
3. Richard Marcinko, Navy SEAL.
4. Stephen Ambrose.
5. Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan.
6. Two of the band members from the "Pretenders"; grabbed the last taxi running and BS'd with them, fun time.
7. Jack Kemp (on campaign swing).

Yours, Mike

[Oberon]

Dunno if Jarvis Cocker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarvis_Cocker) from the group 'Pulp' counts as famous ;) But I served him his breakfast a year or so ago.

[Happy Times]

Kimi Räikkönen, the F1 driver :roll:

[DeepSix]

Tim Duncan (in college)
Michael and Ken Wallace (NASCAR drivers)
Dick Gephardt (if he counts; breezed past the door I held open for him at Nat'l Airport without even an acknowledgement).

[Abraham]

I met a guy you all know, last year during the Big Subsim Meet: Neal Stevens.
:D

[The Avon Lady]

Off the top of my head:

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the late Lubavichter Rebbe
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, former Israeli Chief Rabbi, spiritual leader of Israel's Shas political party
Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, former Israeli Chief Rabbi
Ehud Olmert, Israel's current PM - hopefully not for long
Yitzhak Shamir, former Israeli PM
Binyamin Nentanyahu, former Israeli PM
Anatoli Sharansky, Israel Knesset member and former Soviet prisoner of Zion
Shimon Peres, big loser, snake, Nobel Prize winner, Israel Knesset member and former everything else
Leonid Kuchma, former Ukraine President
Dan Kurzer, former US ambassador to Israel
Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post "Column One" commentator
Benny Begin, former Israeli Knesset member, son of the late Menachem Begin
Aharon Barak, chief justice of Israel's Supreme Court
Half a million other Israeli politicians
Dustin Hoffman, actor
Arnold Shwartzeneger, Governor of California, actor
Yitzchak Perlman, violinist

I almost went to a meeting with Cherry Blair but canceled. No love lost.

That's enough for now.

My husband said that as a child he was once on the Bozo the Clown show. :-j

[Abraham]

Off the top of my head:

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the late Lubavichter Rebbe
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, former Israeli Chief Rabbi, spiritual leader of Israel's Shas political party
Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, former Israeli Chief Rabbi
Ehud Olmert, Israel's current PM - hopefully not for long
Yitzhak Shamir, former Israeli PM
Binyamin Nentanyahu, former Israeli PM
Anatoli Sharansky, Israel Knesset member and former Soviet prisoner of Zion
Shimon Peres, big loser, snake, Nobel Prize winner, Israel Knesset member and former everything else
Leonid Kuchma, former Ukraine President
Dan Kurzer, former US ambassador to Israel
Caroline Glick, Jerusalem Post "Column One" commentator
Benny Begin, former Israeli Knesset member, son of the late Menachem Begin
Aharon Barak, chief justice of Israel's Supreme Court.
Half a million other Israeli politicians
Dustin Hoffman, actor
Arnold Shwartzeneger, Governor of California, actor
Yitzchak Perlman, violinist

I almost went to a meeting with Cherry Blair but canceled. No love lost.

That's enough for now.

My husband said that as a child he was once on the Bozo the Clown show. :-j
Starware Dictionary:
fa·mous (fā'məs)
adj.
1. Well or widely known. See synonyms at noted.
2. First-rate; excellent: had a famous time at the party.
[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin fāmōsus, from fāma, fame.]

@ The Avon Lady:
How do you define "famous"?Half a million other Israeli politicians The huge majority of the people you mention seem to fit into neither category.
:D

[The Avon Lady]

Surely everyone knows Bozo! :D

[Perilscope]

Ron Hextall (Met him in a goalie crash course)
Patrick Roy (Met him in a goalie crash course)
Felix Potvin (I actually played a few times against him…)
Celine Dion (I never shook her hands, so I do not know if it counts as "met")

[Abraham]

@ The Avon Lady:
Surely nobody (but you) knows half a million famous Israeli politicians.

By the way, when I asked you "How do you define ..." I was using one of your often used quotes in your discussions with others.
You ignored the question...
:rotfl:

[Kapitan]

Ive seen the British queen.............












On TV :D

[The Avon Lady]

By the way, when I asked you "How do you define ..." I was using one of your often used quotes in your discussions with others.
You ignored the question...
:rotfl:
Obviously, fame can be subjective or limited.

I don't know any Navy Seal personalities myself nor many racing driver names nor several singers mentioned here.

[joea]

@ The Avon Lady:
Surely nobody (but you) knows half a million famous Israeli politicians.

By the way, when I asked you "How do you define ..." I was using one of your often used quotes in your discussions with others.
You ignored the question...
:rotfl:

Hey I knew who most of those on AL's list are!

[TteFAboB]

Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, should have shot him back then. The assassination of Ferdinand led to so many deaths, killing this ArchDouche-bag would've spared many.

Went to the first condominial meeting of my first property in this new land, and found him walking around. He was alot uglier back then, before he decided to create a fake peace&love personna to gain popularity in the Middle Class. He was there to visit a member of his party. A Marxist fellow who died when insisting on using a public hospital, enduring long lines and two medical errors, he had a wife and son. He didn't bothered much with his son, but the kid still insisted on following the footsteps of his father, attempting to inherit some of his father's influence in the party. Really nice people, the lot of them, the little snake can't even take care of his MOTHER! I still have that property, and I am the only one defending the old lady's right to renovate the rooftop, as she lives at the top floor, and the current ceiling is heat-absorbent, the sun is frying the lady to death. Her Son? Where is he?! Why doesn't he care at all?! I know, she's a really nice lady, a woman of peace, she's not a Marxist, her venomous son probably hates her for not embracing the cause, hence, as a good Marxist, he must "deconstruct" his mother to "reconstruct" her, unfortunately, he must've thought, there's no way to erase her memory and implant an indoctrinated new brain. Science can only create bladders, not brains, a free mind is far too powerfull to be tamed, not that he would know that from first hand experience, but he must hope that if she suffers enough insolation and dehydration she will submit, perhaps, maybe, one day, who knows?

If any of you also abandoned your mother to death because she is a better human being than you will ever be, let me know, I have plenty of spare-time to make sure she lives the rest of her life with dignity, I don't waste my time with illusions, nor do I spread lies or incite hatred and violence, but I digress, back to the point: Tell me who you walk with and I'll tell you who you are.

[TLAM Strike]

I once meet actor Garrett Wang AKA Star Trek: Voyager’s Ensign Harry Kim.

[Abraham]

@ The Avon Lady:
Surely nobody (but you) knows half a million famous Israeli politicians.

By the way, when I asked you "How do you define ..." I was using one of your often used quotes in your discussions with others.
You ignored the question...
:rotfl:

Hey I knew who most of those on AL's list are!
No you don't.
Because on her "famous meetings"-list are: Half a million other Israeli politicians.
:D

[STEED]

Ive seen the British queen.............
On TV :D

More to the point who has not? ;)

Ok my list mind come from mainly TV. Years ago I went to Space 1999 conventions and here's the list of those people who stared in the show. -

Martin Landau
Barbara Bain
Nick Tate
Prentis Hancock
Zienia Merton
Suzanne Roquette
Alibe Parsons
Shane Rimmer (Guest Star)
Gerry Anderson (Executive producer of Space 1999)
Sylvia Anderson (Producer, Year 1 of Space 1999)
Christopher Penfold (Story Consultant, Year 1)
Derek Wadsworth (Music, Year2)
Martin Bower (Miniatures on Space 1999 & worked on ALIEN)

Others -
Ed Bishop (UFO)
William Hope (Lt. Gorman, ALIENS)
Terry English (Worked on ALIENS)
Peter Bowls (Guest Star on Space 1999) Met him in London that bloke is tall believe me.

That's all I can think of at the Moment. :D

[Oberon]

Seeing all those Sci-fi people reminds me, I've met Mark Allen Shephard:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/st/gallery/images/340/ds9morn01.jpg

[August]

Gerald Ford
Prince Charles and Dianna
Bobby Orr
Carl Yastrzemski
Chief Big Jay Strongbow

Normally i avoid famous people like the plaque, but one can hardly pass up a chance to see the master of the war dance...

[joea]

Gerald Ford
Prince Charles and Dianna
Bobby Orr
Carl Yastrzemski
Chief Big Jay Strongbow

Normally i avoid famous people like the plaque, but one can hardly pass up a chance to see the master of the war dance...

First 3 meh...Bobby Orr I'd like to meet. Last two don't know (going to google it of course).

[jumpy]

I once played a gig (me on frettless bass :rock: ) with the ex drummer from 'Curiosity Killed The Cat'...
Not much of a 'claim to fame' lol

[bradclark1]

Enkelbert Humperdink :rotfl: :rotfl:

[PeriscopeDepth]

Dennis Miller, I think that's it.

Sort of on topic, I'm going to see Lech Walesa give a speech tomorrow.

PD

[I-25]

well lets see....

ive met:
Howard jones (80 pop singer)
Paulina Rubio (mexican actor/singer)
The first US soldier to enter irak in 2004 war(hehehe forgot his name)
Berlin (80 singer)
Ringo Starr (cant get much bigger than that)
Roger hugenson (fron the 70 band Supertramp)
Ivan stewart (offroad racer jaja i see him every week!)

and tahts about all i can think of :up:

[lesrae]

Dunno if Jarvis Cocker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarvis_Cocker) from the group 'Pulp' counts as famous ;) But I served him his breakfast a year or so ago.

So Oberon...

1. Are you a waiter or did you wake up with him?

2. Did he tip (for either of the above)?

I've 'met':
Mark Little (Jo Mangel from Neighbours) :rock:
Mary Whitehouse :down:
Bobby G from Bucks Fizz (I was off my face at a BBQ)
A bloke that operated a Dalek in Dr Who (where else) in the 60's.

[Type XXIII]

Well, I've just met national celebrities. Some of them might have international fame in certain spheres of interest.

I know these celebrities:
Anette Sagen (world's best female skijumper)
Sandra Lyng Haugen (Norwegian popsinger)


From the top of my head, some celebrities I've met:
Olaf Olsen (drummer in Bigbang)
Odd Eriksen (Minister of Trade and Industry)
Tommy Ingebrigtsen (skijumper)
Odd Ingebrigtsen (ex-pop star)

[Happy Times]

http://www.adressa.no/multimedia/archive/00071/ver2_SANDRA_71497a.jpgSandra Lyng Haugen Nice looking girl to know :)

[Linton]

I got mistaken for Frank Sinatra's grandson once when he turned up in Kansas,I met Duran Duran and Genesis and also The Duke of York.I have flown a lot of z-list soap stars plus the odd german popstar,(Nena)and various politicians.I have chuck yeager's autograph.I also have a luncheon voucher from cynthia paine

[Rockstar]

Everytime I look in the mirror. :hulk:

[kiwi_2005]

Well i saw Tom Cruise from a distance in Invercagil south island NZ. He came to NZ to shoot a movie they used our country side for "The Last Sumuari" Saw him walk out of a dairy after buying a can of coke. Hes pretty short.

[Sharkstooth]

Paula Zahn
Oprah

[Ishmael]

Let's see.

Grace Slick(lead singer of the Jefferson Airplane) at an acupuncturist in San Francisco in 1975.

John Delancie(Q from Star Trek Next Generation) at a software store in Pasadena.

John Lee Hooker at Roy Rogers' 40th birthday party at Slim's in San Francisco(not the cowboy one. This Roy used to play my high school dances. Learn more at www.roy-rogers.com )

Boz Scaggs Same place and time. Boz owns Slim's

Dennis Haysbert(the President on the TV show 24) at the Von's grocery store in Pasadena.

Bea Arthur of the TV show The Golden Girls at my wife's retinopathist's office in Beverly Hills. She took another patient's appointment rather than sit with peasants like us in the waiting room.

John Tesh TV host of Entertainment Tonight and composer/performer at his studio in North Hollywood installing a DS1 ckt for him. Got to tell him I was the Zen Master of Los Angeles. When he asked why that was, I told him,(adopting best John Huston voice)
"In the land where the car is God and plastic surgeons are kings, I'm a fat, old, bald guy driving a used Cadillac."
He liked it so much he called his wife, Connie Selleca and made me tell her over the phone. She got a kick out of it too. Really nice guy.

Oh, I almost forgot, I met George Lucas running on his mountain on Skywalker Ranch. He leases the mountaintop of Big Rock in Marin County off of Lucas Valley Road to telecomm companies to pay the taxes. I was working up there one day at one of my sites and saw this guy come running up the dirt road. As he got closer I recognized George Lucas.

My wife has me beat though. She met Elvis Presley in 1958 while he was filming the movie,"Wild In The Country" in Napa whle her mother's friend was interviewing him in his hotel room.
She says he was very nice but she didn't like him. She thought he was a greaser and she was a Ricky Nelson fan at the time anyway.

[Oberon]

Dunno if Jarvis Cocker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarvis_Cocker) from the group 'Pulp' counts as famous ;) But I served him his breakfast a year or so ago.

So Oberon...

1. Are you a waiter or did you wake up with him?

2. Did he tip (for either of the above)?



:o I'm a waiter ;) ...and nope, he didn't tip :hulk: It was strange though, because he looked nothing like he does in that pic...if anything he looked a lot like a hippy from the 70s. :-? :ping:

[Bellman]

My Headmaster was coopted to provide extras for a late Charles Frend film. The director of The Cruel Sea and
Scott of the Antartic needed a supply of 'grubs' for 'background 'shots.

I wont name the celebs (too specific) but one or two were amiably friendly. So friendly that we spent most of the 'off' time
gambling on what time the debonair and suave Mr X would return to the nearby religous establishment with the,
ravishing and much lusted after, film star Miss Y .

Apparently he was taking her under his wing and was giving her extra curricular instruction in architecture.
In a bell tower !! ;)

[Sea Demon]

Greta Van Susteran :-?

[Bellman]

SD: Nice - beauty and brains ? :up:

Once passed Ken Dodd asleep at an airport - I mean it was a matter of passing within feet !! :lol:

[Abraham]

I met a few famous people, especially when I toured US veterans through The Netherlands.
Amougst them Bob Murphy, pathfinder of the 82nd Airborne Div. One of the first men to land in France on D-Day, in the garden of an english schoolteacher lady just outside St. Mere Eglise (famous scene in The Longest Day: he said: "Shhhhh!" to her and disappeared). He later fought - and was wounded - at Nijmegen in Operation MARKET-GARDEN.
Also Lt. Gen. Harry Kinnard (101st AB Div), who told me how he suggested Gen McAuliffe to answer the German request for surrender in Bastogne with: "Your initial response was quite adequate, Sir". McAuliffe then wrote: "Nuts."
For his role during MARKET-GARDEN he got the highest Dutch decoration, the Militaire Willems Orde.

[blue3golf]

While in Iraq I met Ted Coppel from Nightline back in 03. Also Sparky Anderson and Mickey Tettleton from Detroit Tigers.

[Spoon 11th]

3. Richard Marcinko, Navy SEAL.

COOL !!!!11

I've read some of his books. A bit too macho guy, but entertaining reading.

[I-25]

also forgot...

Patton´s grandson (actually a friend of mine)
and hitlers direct cousin

[Sailor Steve]

I drove skiers to the nearby resorts for several years. During that time I once had Cheech Marin and friends in my van. I also got to have a nice long conversation with James B. Sikking, who played Howard Hunter on Hill Street Blues.

[Polak]

Lech Walesa
Alexander Kwasniewski
Gerhard Schröder
Colin Powell
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden

[Mike 'Red Ocktober' Hense]

a few people... lets see... the ones i can mention that immediately come to mind are...

Christopher Reeve, at Teterboro (where i used to fly out of)... he had a beautiful Beech Baron... my son got a kick outta talking to Superman :)

also met Ivan Dixon (Hogan's Heros)... Cliff Robertson (PT109, Spiderman) at the Teterboro... both real nice guys...

'Smokin' Joe Frazier sat down at a blackjack table, right next to me for about an hour... we chatted for a bit while the cards came, and the money went...

there are a few more, whom i'm sure most people would recognize, but i'm gonna let those meetings pass for now...

--Mike