Celebrity Encounters

[PigIron]

Met Willie Nelson on a golf course.  When I was a kid, we'd collect lost golf balls and re-sell them to the golfers.  He was in the bar/restaurant and he was the nicest guy ever.  Gave us 100 bucks for a sack of crappy golf balls and signed autographs for us.
 I'm guessing after-show chats with artists don't count, so I'll stop at this one.

[K8teebug]

My favorite is David Byrne at Club Charles in Baltimore a few years back.
 
 I also got into a verbal altercation with John Water's props person once (over a mushroom chair), and dressed all the people in Cecil B. Demented (but the only person I remember was Maggie Gyllenhall) for their first scene.  (I was working in the vintage store next door to the filming at the time...)
 
 Could there be any more () in that sentence?

[bearman🐻]

Speaking of John Waters, I just remembered some more:
 
 John Waters
 Mink Stole
 Selma Blair
 Chris Isaak
 Ahmet Zappa
 Dave Thomas (of Wendy's fame)
 Rob Lowe

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

What is the Dave Thomas/John Waters connection?
 
 I also saw John Waters a few times when I lived in Baltimore in the 90's.
 
 

Originally posted by bearman:
  Speaking of John Waters, I just remembered some more:
 
 John Waters
 Mink Stole
 Selma Blair
 Chris Isaak
 Ahmet Zappa
 Dave Thomas (of Wendy's fame)
 Rob Lowe

[K8teebug]

I'm pretty sure if you're from Baltimore (or have lived there), you've seen John Waters.  

[bearman🐻]

No connection...I just remembered that I met them, different times. I did go to the cast wrap party for a Dirty Shame and met Waters, Mink Stole, Chris Isaak, Selma Blair, and her then-boyfriend Ahmet Zappa. I wonder if they're still together.

[edbert]

Kid Congo Powers...hung with him a few times mutual friends he lives here in DC now.
 

Just saw him at Comet.  Truly great.  He could use a sound man though

[vansmack]

Celebrity encounters are kind of dime a dozen for someone from LA/OC, so I'll list more than just bumping into them or seeing them some place.
 
 I was at Taos in Vegas with Chase Crawford and his sister who was in the Miss America Pageant a few weeks ago.  After the Venetian, he got us a limo and we went to a gentlemans club.
 
 Zach De La Rocha and Vince Vaughn used to be in my fantasy football league.
 
 Gwen Stefani and my sister were good friends growing up and I still see her on occasion.
 
 The Sports Guy and I Are still supposed to watch a United/Tottenham match someday, but I doubt that ever happens.
 
 Scotty Gomez still owes me a drink after a night of partying in NY.
 
 I'm pretty sure I posted this here once before but I once asked Shannen Doherty that if I called her Brenda if would should call me a dick?  She said no, so I called her Brenda and she promptly called me a dick.
 
 Adam Corolla and Jimmy Kimmel used to be regulars at a poker game I used to play in with guys from KROQ in LA.

[6949]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
   After a few seconds of thinking, I realized the old guy was Bob Dole.

I used to work with him (well when he was actually IN the office.) It was a little strange to know that the head honcho of the office and my direct supervisor were on viagara...and that there was an air mattress in the closet.
 
 One of my favorite recent ones has to be Ron Jeremy at the Roxy.

[Relaxer]

Couple DC-centric ones I forgot about:
 Ari Fleischer, Pete Domenici, and Dick Gephardt's daughter are all clients of my wife's business. Ben Bernanke used to be.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

What breed of dogs so each of them have?
 
 

Originally posted by Relaxer:
  Couple DC-centric ones I forgot about:
 Ari Fleischer, Pete Domenici, and Dick Gephardt's daughter are all clients of my wife's business. Ben Bernanke used to be.

[K8teebug]

Vansmack, I am really jealous of the Chase Crawford one as Gossip Girl is my new favorite guilty pleasure tv show.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Relaxer:
  Couple DC-centric ones I forgot about:
 

I played poker with Madeleine Albright once.
 
 And this bummed me out because it reminded of the time I bumped into (literally) Ted Kennedy coming around the corner by the elevator at the Willard Hotel at Clinton's second inauguration.  He is not small.

[Relaxer]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
  What breed of dogs so each of them have?
 
   

Originally posted by Relaxer:
  Couple DC-centric ones I forgot about:
 Ari Fleischer, Pete Domenici, and Dick Gephardt's daughter are all clients of my wife's business. Ben Bernanke used to be.

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expensive ones

[ggw]

I once partied with The Directorâ?¢