Name Dropping
 

MrsV flew to Los Angeles yesterday and spent the day in the company of Jamie Lee Curtis.

Played tennis together, had lunch, talked about kids, etc. Permit me to quote from her email.
Where are the : proud : and :jealous: smilies?

What does mrsv do to enjoy such a privilege?

bah. i'm one step from kevin bacon. jinx went swimming with him as a kid.

AND, my former boss's wife was baby sat by George Thoroughgood.

AND, a former coworker was next door neighbors with Randy White.

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I love Jamie Lee Curtis and she just announced the other day that she will no longer be acting.

I would like to ask her what it's like to be married to that Christopher Guest.

ok, i guess that's not even close.

huh?

Ms. Curtis had the nicest rack in pictures, IMHO...

When 17, I worked with "Randy" and "Julian" of Trailer Park Boys fame. I also played soccer against "Ricky" for years.

I went to school with Ollie the goalie, Olaf Kolzig.

I once escorted Courtney Love down the aisle- during a funeral that I was ushering.

I shook the hand of Jean Beliveau during a wake.

I met Shawn Murray and spouse (I think it was shawn, definitely a Murray) who played for the Canadiens in '95. His wife was an absolute knockout.

I held the door for the traitorous bastard Lucien Bouchard.

and last but not least, I met Dexter Yager.

Isn't that what they call "two degrees of separation?" If so, me too...a friend of mine was friends with him in high school.

My greatest brush with greatness: I once walked past a stage where Ed Rendell* was addressing a crowd for German-American Pride Day or something like that. Pretty lame, eh?

*At the time Mayor of Philadelphia, now Governor of Pennsylvania.

I've been onstage with Mr. President. Unfortunately, the current one.

what?

My grandmother is the Telugu novelist Dwivedula Visalakshi. A character in one of her novels is named after me. :eyebrow:

Lets see now ,
I met Buferd Pusser ( Walking Tall )face to face once ,
I have Archie Mannings autograph ,
I stood in an honor guard for George Bush ( the first , Vice Prez at the time ) ,
I stoped the Commanding general of the Joint Cheifs of staff at a security check point and asked him for ID , funny look on his face as he dug thru his wallet for his ID ( I thought the security Mngr for that post was goint to SHIT !!!)

OUT-FUCKING-STANDING!!!

I'd have loved to seen it: him digging thru the wallet, a fossilized condom dropping to the floor, dry-cleaning bills stuck behind his Discover card, little scraps of paper with unreadable phone numbers, the SecMgr with his eyes bugging out...

OUT-FUCKING-STANDING!!!

OHHHHRAAAAA !!!

I was in a high school play with Ben MacKenzie of "The O.C." (and MacKenzie ain't his real last name.)

I also went to high school with the Bush twins (when he was governor).

HE HE , she said Bush twins!!!!!





Sorry !!!

I was the first person to photograph Donovan McNabb in an Eagles jersey. I ate lunch with Vai Sikahema and other broadcasters and ex-Eagles.

I opened for Poco.

I had the opportunity to talk basically one to one with Karyn Parsons for about 5 minutes. She was humble, gracious, personable and absolutely beautiful.

I didnt have any idea who she was until shortly before we met.

Bill Clinton and I went to different schools together. :smack:

I am jealous of MrsV. All my contact with celebrity has been fleeting. Maybe shake hands or ask a question for the newspaper. When I sold gold guns, we had several celeb clients/friends. I was always out of town so I never got to meet em though.

I have met Michael Martin Murphy a few times. His drummer? maybe guitarist.. is a western artist who traded my dad a signed print for a oak/glass gun case -- dad thought that was cool.

I had cocktails with Charlton Heston once. He was old and feeble. His shoulders were stooped so he was actually shorter than me, but he had shitloads of presence, still. He drank white wine, which disappointed me for some reason. I was threatened with my life if I attempted to make him say "Damn dirty apes". I really really really almost did it anyway.

Jennifer Love Hewitt once went on a pizza run for me.

I was playing in Meredith Brooks' touring band at the time, and Meredith was producing JLH's album. Ms. Hewitt came by the rehearsal studio one day at noon, and brought lunch for the band. She was wearing sweats and flip flips, no makeup, hair in a hat. She's a very, very beautiful girl, even without the professional help.

Most of my brush-ins with fame have been work-related.

Slim
 

Just last week I ran into the guy who used to wax the floors where I work. He's this really tall black dude who wears overalls and is really friendly. It was good to see him again. His name is "Slim." :neutral: (sorry, Flint).

I met a guy that opened for Poco. :notworthy

No Bruce you got that backwards , the guy that opened for PoCo met YOU !!! ;)

I paid to watch...and hear. He got paid to come make the noise. Plus you should have seen the hot groupie...no, hot bandie.....make that hot Toadie....no that's not right....um, hot chick he left with. ;)

I did paperwork for Bill Bergey. he's a dick.

I kissed a Bay City Roller. I think his name was Woody.

Oh yeah, I forgot, I sold a Gizmo (a sorta-rare guitar effect) to Marty Willson-Piper of the Church. We had a nice 10-minute conversation.

I've also briefly met Chris Isaak, Julian Cope, and Sammy of the Bodeans in backstage "can we chat with the musicians" sort of deals. One of the advantages of the small club show is that sometimes the artists will be cool with people who want to come backstage after the show and meet n greet.

I got to hang out with Chick Corea in exactly that sort of setting once. It was after the last set at Catalina's (great jazz club here in LA), and he and the band just sort of ... hung around afterward. I was with a friend, we were both players, so we meandered over and asked if we could buy them a drink. 3 hours later, the drummer (Gary Novak) and I were sitting at the piano swapping chord voicings back and forth.

It seems like the higher the talent level goes, the less pretentious the people get.

I, of course, remain a megalomaniacal jack-ass.

Phil Villapiano OLB of the 77 Raiders Super Bowl winners is a great guy. He sat next to me on a flight from Chicago to San Jose. He was playing in a celebrity golf torney in Monterey that weekend. I was returning from a trade show.

i am impressed. I assume you read the novel that contained this character. did you like the character? how many novels has she written? what does Telugu mean? are any of her books available on audible dot com? is she a celebrity in india? abar.

Met Len Dawson (Chiefs QB of their glory years) when I was in sixth grade. I know Russell Buddy Helm, who was briefly a drummer for Frank Zappa but worked with Tim Buckley for years. Went to junior high and high school with Rich Ruth, bassist for the Rainmakers. Went to junior high and high school with Mark Pender, horn player in The Max Weinberg 7, Conan's band.

I'm pretty sure there's more, but honestly, I am so non-impressed with celebrity *as* celebrity, I've probably forgotten.

i need more here. how do you know you were 1st? did he tell you that?

I saw Ronald Mcdonald once.:blush:

I was in the press room at Vet Stadium during the 1999 draft. We were working on the Eagles website at the time, and we were doing a "draft day live" sort of web event, where we'd update the page with information and new pictures and audio of press conferences and such.

The team pretty much knew they were going to take McNabb. So they arranged for him to be limo'd down to the Eagles' offices at the Vet where he did a quick web chat with the fans. Then he came down to the draft room and put on the #5 jersey while he waited to be officially photographed by the official photographer. I took shots of him while the guy was setting up, and we put them on the site.

PS on that msg. The most mind-boggling thing I saw that day was not all the big names of players and sportscasters I recognized.

I took the chat messages and put them up on the draft day live area. Print reporters milled around and noticed that, suddenly, there were a huge number of actual McNabb quotes laid out right in front of them. A number of them jotted a few of them down.

It was then and there that I knew newspapers were dead. These lazy-ass reporters were taking the easy road and not actually asking questions or actually covering an event. Their stories would hint that they asked the questions of McNabb, when actually it was fans who asked them, and there was no proof at all that McNabb had actually made any of the statements attributed to him. But what's more, the chat was available directly from the team, so there was no need for a newspaper if you wanted to know the real deal... 24 hours later.

You have done something no one else has ever done: You have come up with a scenario in which I would be rendered utterly speechless.

:joylove:

Did he have a firearm in his hand....and did that hand look dead?

[ hint: spokesman for the NRA famous for saying.."you can have my firearms when you pry them out of my cold dead hands" ]

I studied Calculus with Jimmy Carter.

(not that Jimmy Carter!)

The Current Wife's best friend at school was John Lennon's chauffer's daughter.... they both used to be picked up from school in the psychadaelic rolls-royce...... she's actually been in the white room where the Imagine video was shot....


My sister was nanny and housekeeper to the secretary to the Arts Council in the early 70's. As such, she arranged and served many a dinner for that lady's best friend, one Margaret Windsor......

I studied Calculus with Jimmy Carter.

(not that Jimmy Carter!)

Hell I can top that , I married Carol Burnette

( not that Carol Burnette !!)

Johnny Depp asked me to marry him, but I was too busy sorting my sock drawer by color, width, and material. Shucks!
:smack:
(I wish)

Jonathan Frakes (Make it so, Number One!) hit on me one night, when he was really drunk.

I lived across the street from Dolly Parton for 8 years in TN (tried to sell her some Boy Scout mulch bags at one point too).. also went to elementary school with her neice who lived in the area too. Dolly would come visit the school a couple times a year and sing for us in the cafeteria and stuff.
Also one of my friends from OU is out working on the set of the tv show "Scrubs" and eats lunch with some of the cast on a regular basis.

HS classmates:
Michael Dorn - Worf on Star Trek TNG
Jonathan Jackson - brother of Soledad Brothers George Jackson, died in the gunfight following the attempted escape from the San Rafael Courthouse in 1970.

My wife spent time with her on an aids walk, says she is extremely nice and one of the most naturally beautiful people she has met.
That is saying a lot, I was a professional actor and also a bouncer/security for a prominent club and worked with a lot of very famous people in the acting and music industries... too many to name.
One thing, NEVER believe ANYTHING you read about ANYONE. 70% is an outright lie and 100% is skewed and fucked-up as far as facts and context is concerned to make someone look bad, worse or better, no exceptions.
Who is really an ass and who are really the sweet kind people who honestly do charity work anonymously would blow your mind.

As a corollary to what RK has said, here, I have noticed - for my whole life - that any occurance about which I had personal knowledge or seen as a witness that later ended up in print or on TV had *some* incorrect data contained therein. Seriously...every single time.

Definitely.

Unerringly.

Back in the late 70's, the then ArchBishop of Canterbury observed that he no longer read the daily papers because 'without exception, they are all incapable of reporting the facts correctly'

30 years on, and so what has changed?

I like to watch, but I'm mad as hell, and I can't take it anymore.

Interesting how you've picked two of my favorite films commenting on the human condition. In fact, "Network" is a major bone of contention between Mrs Elspode and, as she cannot manage to stay awake to watch the whole thing. She does enjoy "Being There", though.

My ex-wife actually got up and went to bed in the middle of Waking Life.

OO

Many years ago when the world was in black and white I had a job in one of the local venues as a general gofer and used to help out when bands played, my friend at the time was an electrician and he had to check out the bands equipment,amps and such like to make sure none of the artists fried themselves on stage got me the job.
I was asked to take a tray of sandwiches and coffee/beer etc etc to a little known band at the time that was playing "Siousie and the Banshees" so I kicked the dressing room door open as my hands were full only to get a full frontal of the said Siouxsie standing there as naked as the day she was born getting changed into her stage outfit..Cue one porky pig impersonation as I stuttered to ask where to put the tray..
We also went out and got completely pissed with Stiv bantors of the Dead Boys before their gig he was a really nice guy from what i remember shame he didn't make it.

When I was in 6th grade I met Ewell Gibbons. He was on a yacht docked in Annapolis Harbor when I was there on a class trip.

Grape Nuts is my favorite breakfast cereal. This was BIG, people, BIG.

Why do I envy your brush with greatness so much more than any of the others so far?

Because wild hickory nuts can be delicious.