Celebrity Encounters

[ratioci nation]

a lot of senators and house members from working on the hill, I would rather forget those experiences
 
 I took a class in college called Oliver Stone's America and he came to our class a couple of times
 
 Andres Gallaraga at the mall right after he broke his arm his only year with the cardinals
 
 Ozzie Smith left a signing when I was 12 years old and was the next person in line, I still dont like him because of that
 
 a lot of musicians like the rest of you, favorite being watching Markie and Poorlulu disappear into a winnebago with Anton Newcombe at 3am outside the velvet lounge and it starts to drive away
 
 probably forgetting others
 
 oh and Ben Stiller in a bar in new york, he is REALLY short

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I once rode the Metro with Pollard.
 
 

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  I once partied with The Directorâ?¢

[vansmack]

Originally posted by K8teebug:
  Vansmack, I am really jealous of the Chase Crawford one as Gossip Girl is my new favorite guilty pleasure tv show.

Mine too now.  I had seen the show once before, but Smackette LOVES the show.  When I texted her that I was partying with Miss Missouri, she immediately knew it was Chase's sister, to which I replied who the hell is Chase Crawford?  Right up until I met him I thought I was meeting Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgely).
 
 He turned out to be a genuinely nice guy, picked up the tab for everything, provided access to all kinds of stuff I could never get into, and did a lot for his adoring fans (and there's a lot of them).  I just sat back in awe of all the young girls he took photos with in Vegas.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  I once partied with The Directorâ?¢

If The Directorâ?¢ were still posting, I'm sure he'd reply....
 
 The Directorâ?¢ once partied with ggwâ?¢ and Vansmack.
 
 True Story.

[sweetcell]

he's not posting, but i can assure you he's reading.  his ego is rather stroked right now.  

Originally posted by vansmack:
 The Directorâ?¢ once partied with ggwâ?¢ and Vansmack.

The Directorâ?¢ often parties with callat703 and sweetcell.

[Bombay Chutney]

Originally posted by sweetcell:
  The Directorâ?¢ often parties with callat703 and sweetcell.

Now there's a recipe for trouble.

[sweetcell]

actually, we now pace ourselves enough to ensure that we only cause temporary damage.  might have something to do with having scared/scarred ourselves in vegas last year.  
 
 thedirector + smackie + ggw, on the other hand - be afraid.  i am.  i'd approach that combo in the same way i might heroin: bad idea, going to regret it later... but will probably do it anyways.

[TheREALHunter]

I worked at Virgin Megastore in LA for almost a year in the mid-90's so the celeb customer spotting there was a dime a dozen.  Though there were a few highlights like meeting childhood idol Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and providing personal security for Neil Diamond when he did an in-store there (which if you saw me physically back then was a fucking hilarious choice by store management).  Watching all of the other employees shit themselves over douchebag Morrissey coming into the store sporting a Morrissey tee shirt with his picture on it was pretty funny as well.  Oddly enough though I never really saw any celebrities outside of the work setting for the couple years I lived in LA (save running into Gene Simmons at the post office haha).  The funniest celebrity encounter was cornering Paul Stanley last year outside of White Flint Mall after an artshow where he wouldn't take pictures or sign anything for fans unless you paid in upwards of $2-$50K for his artwork so my friend and I took that as a challenge, the off-duty police providing security told us he was going to cut out early so my friend and my half-drunk ass (due to cheap wine courtesy of the Wentworth Gallery) went out by the loading dock and got in between the exit and his Lincoln Town Car there to pick him up and had him take pictures with us when he walked out haha

[miss pretentious]

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
   

Originally posted by sweetcell:
  The Directorâ?¢ often parties with callat703 and sweetcell.

Now there's a recipe for trouble. [/b]

my liver agrees.

[taperkat]

i've met a lot of random people but this one takes the cake.
 
 was flying back to Kansas from the east coast, and I had been bumped off like 3 flights, so they finally stuck me on one, and put me first class.
 
 I'm all "yey" and curl up in my chair with my new book.
 
 Person comes in, sits next to me, orders a drink what have you. Looks over at me.
 
 "So what book are you reading?"
 "oh, Marilyn Manson's book, it's pretty neat" (at this point I hadn't looked over yet, I was really engrossed in it)
 
 Plane takes off. guy gets his drink. about 2 minutes later:
 
 "So what do you like about it?"
 "oh, well, it's well written, i like the opinionated thoughts.." finally pull my head out of the book and my face goes white.
 "Yeah, I'm glad you like it. Want me to sign it?"
 
 So for 2.5 hours i got to sit by Marilyn Manson and talk about his book and literature and stuff.
 
 was fucking awesome. lol.
 
 aside from that I've met an absolute shitton of celebrities, but I don't know I have better stories than this one.

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by TheREALHunter:
  save running into Gene Simmons at the post office haha

I saw him in the Denver airport last year with his whole family, seriously weird looking face due to plastic surgery

[Relaxer]

Originally posted by pdx pollard:
   

Originally posted by TheREALHunter:
  save running into Gene Simmons at the post office haha

I saw him in the Denver airport last year with his whole family, seriously weird looking face due to plastic surgery [/b]

Dude is not... handsome
 
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[_adam]

i made drinks for martin sheen and some other people i didn't recognize when i was in high school and working at a starbucks in frederick. they had been filming nearby for the west wing and all stopped by.
 
 he had a raspberry creme frappuccino, which from that point onward, on the rare occasion someone ordered it, we referred to as "the martin sheen."

[Relaxer]

I just got an email saying that Vic Chestnutt is playing at some dude's desk down the hall from me, right now.
 
 And Urban Verbs is playing here in an hour or so. That's kind of groovy, though I have no idea who they are.

[godsshoeshine]

i worked at an airport during college, so i made sandwiches for quite a few celebs. i think the only one i ever gave a free meal to was mark recchi
 
 i sat in the car while one of my friends walked up to barry bonds and asked for an autograph. at barry's house
 
 the most surreal night of my life was the night the lemonheads played at my college and then came back to party with us. their drummer was murph from dinosaur jr