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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2014 23:44:57 GMT
Only if it's Steve Perry.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2014 23:47:02 GMT
Years ago my ex-DH and I were in San Francisco for a Giants/Braves game. The following morning we saw John Rocker (their old closer) walking toward us. As he approached my ex simply said "Hey John...you pitched well last night." John stopped dead in his tracks and put his hand out and said "thanks man. Are you a Braves fan?". We talked a little bit about baseball and then off we went. He was very nice which is funny since he has a reputation for being a jerk.
On of our first dates DH and I went on we went to Irwindale (So Cal) where they have a race track. Jessie James and Sandra Bullock were just married and he was racing later that evening. We rode up an elevator with them. DH had 2 beers in his hand and offered one to Jessie James. They chatted the ride up about cars and beer. I just stood in silence - I was too afraid to say something stupid.
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Post by sharlag on Sept 29, 2014 23:57:34 GMT
This would be me. If I spoke, I'd blurt out something like, "I like that one show you were in!"
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2014 0:04:04 GMT
Nah. I grew up in the Valley and waited on/helped a number of celebrities in the jobs I had, but never mentioned their work to them, even though I knew who they were. My favorite was helping Larry Linville buy his daughter shoes back when he was on M.A.S.H. - his laugh was exactly like Frank Burns' laugh on the show. [br I have heard that he was extremely nice guy. Somebody that we should be lucky to meet.
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Post by melanell on Sept 30, 2014 0:06:26 GMT
I'm a never say never kind of girl, so I'll just say that I find it extremely unlikely that I would ever approach a celebrity outside of an event set up specifically for that type of thing.
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Post by Native New Yorker on Sept 30, 2014 0:14:16 GMT
Singer, Martha Wash used to shop at my grocery store. I saw her on at least four separate occasions but never had the nerve to speak to her.
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Post by Minnesota*Mom on Sept 30, 2014 0:14:23 GMT
No, because I probably wouldn't even realize they were who they really are. And even if I did know they were famous, I still can't see myself caring all that much. What would I say to them anyway?
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Post by jenettycakes on Sept 30, 2014 0:14:26 GMT
Plenty of opportunity in Nashville but never did. That will get your Nashville card revoked in a Likewise but change to So Cal & same scenario. Revoked.
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Post by brina on Sept 30, 2014 0:16:12 GMT
I only have once. Growing up in NY there was plenty of times we saw people. The only time I ever said anything, Robin Williams showed up as a surprise, unannounced performer at a comedy club one night. The next day I saw him outside Bloomingdales. As we walked past him I said, "Great show last night, thank you."
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Post by scrappinmama on Sept 30, 2014 0:36:13 GMT
I used to work in a building where one of the big entertainment agency firms were located. I saw quite a few celebrities. I did smile at Joe Montana one time. My co-worker and I walked in to the coffee shop in the building, and there was Joe sitting with a friend drinking coffee. The place was deserted, so we all made eye contact. I smiled, but didn't want to bother him. He was nice enough to smile and nod his head at us.
The one I do regret was Chris Farley. I was a big fan. He looked so sad to me. I almost did approach him, because he seemed like he didn't know which direction to go, but chickened out. He died a few months later.
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Post by Zee on Sept 30, 2014 0:41:45 GMT
We went to see Joel McHale do a comedy show at a college in Dubuque (IA) and he was staying at the same hotel we were. I got a pic and autograph, he was very polite. Not much chance to meet celebs in Iowa usually. Tommy Lee took my chair when I left the bar in Vegas, so he was right next to me, but I was too shy to say anything at all. Lol. I saw him twice in Vegas because he was also at our hotel.
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Post by ceepea on Sept 30, 2014 0:42:06 GMT
I never spoke to a really famous person but a long time ago I was in NYC, and JFK Jr. rode his bike past me. I lived in South Hampton and would see Jerry Seinfeld, Billy Joel, a bunch of kind of old time famous people, and Alan Alda in Port Jefferson all the time. I saw lots of famous people but never the one I wanted, Martha Stewart!!
I said hello and shook hands with the entire Taxi cast when I went to one of their live tapings. I still have a crush on Tony Danza to this day. We went to the Taxi show because we heard a rumor that Michael Jackson would watch the show being taped from the control booth and my friend was trying to see him.
I have spoken to the short guy, Fred I think, from American Pickers. He was at the motorcycle expo in Orlando and was off in a corner doing a taped interview. I was sitting in a folding chair and he came over and sat in the only other chair there, right next to me. I was a little embarrassed because I don't watch the show so I just talked about the weather, lol.
I was in Disney Marketplace in the Ghirardelli ice cream place sitting at a table waiting for my family. I heard a very distinct "Oohhh Mmyyyy" from the table next to me. I knew exactly who it was and snapped my neck around. Sure enough George Takei was right next to me with his partner. They both laughed at my reaction, I turned bright red and apologized,lol. They were very nice and friendly.
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Post by janniepea on Sept 30, 2014 0:48:50 GMT
We live down the street from where Robin Williams lived, and died we never met him but saw him often riding his bike. We've heard from neighbors who lived next to him that he was very approachable and a great neighbor. I wish I had said hi!
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Post by scrapsotime on Sept 30, 2014 0:56:25 GMT
My husband didn't have to approach the celebrity he met. He was sitting at a table outside a restaurant in a town where they were getting ready to shoot a movie. A man approached and asked if he could sit down (place was crowded). The man was James Brolin. For those of you who don't know him from acting, he is Josh Brolin's father and married to Barbara Streisand. They started chatting and he ended up offering my husband a small non speaking part in the movie.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2014 0:56:56 GMT
Most likely not. I saw Donald Sutherland in airport once, but there were enough others mobbing him, I wasn't going into the fray.
I did have to explain to Robert Conrad once why I wouldn't let his wife into a restaurant. I was working crowd control at a fundraiser and she didn't have her required ID. I didn't know her from Adam (Eve?) and refused to let her enter. Robert Conrad was much more gracious about it than his wife had been.
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Post by Nanner on Sept 30, 2014 1:02:09 GMT
I wouldn't. I just don't think I'd have the nerve (or guts!).
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Post by scissorsister7 on Sept 30, 2014 1:04:55 GMT
Not much of a celeb but -- I saw Kato Kaelin at a bar one time in Dallas. He looked so strange that I couldn't compose myself enough to say anything. He just walked in the bar went to the restroom and then left.
My DH had seen an interview with Jim Gaffigan on TV one Sunday. He really liked the interview and said he seemed like a great family man. The next Monday DH saw him and his family at the airport. Jim Gaffigan sat down right next to DH while they were waiting on their flight. DH turned to him and told him he enjoyed the interview that he saw. DH said he was very appreciative and thanked him a couple of times for saying that.
I've met other music performer type people but it was always in a social situation or an arranged back stage meeting so we were supposed to be talking to them.
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Post by annaintx on Sept 30, 2014 1:36:36 GMT
I was standing next to Tim Duncan, a San Antonio Spurs player, one Saturday afternoon at a local eatery (a taco bar of sorts). It's the kind where you order at the counter and they make your food right there, then you take it with you to your seat. He was with his 2 kids and his girlfriend. I didn't say a word to him and fervently hoped that the college kids that kept coming inside wouldn't bother him, either. No one did bother him. The kids making his food looked nervous, LOL. Then exactly a week later, I ran into him again. He was at the ice cream shop next to the place I get pedicures. I didn't see him at first, I was too enamored with his gorgeous DOG, then noticed the woman looked really familiar, then noticed him and his kids. He was sitting down at the time. I figure that if the celebrity is with family, they are off limits.
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Post by mom23sweetpeas on Sept 30, 2014 1:49:37 GMT
On our last trip to NYC my DD and I went in the scholastic store for some books for my classroom- whole wandering around a saw a woman who looked very familiar .
I kept looking at her ( not overtly) trying to figure out where i knew her from - was she a parent from our school or my kids school- could not figure it out
She walked right past me and i noticed quite a bit of freckles and then it hit me- the reason i knew her was i had seen her on tv and the movies ( DUHHH!!)
IT was Maya Rudolph from bridesmaids!
She was with her children and what i am guessing was her nanny. I felt that a celebrity out with their children deserved to keep to herself.
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Post by padresfan619 on Sept 30, 2014 1:59:06 GMT
No but seriously, I sat next to Martin Sheen on a plane during the height of West Wing. I was too young to really know who he was but my mom was beside herself when I told her. Once he told me he was the father of Emilio Estevez I think I got stars in my eyes. I mean come on, the coach of the Mighty Ducks!! I was flying alone as a minor and he was very nice.
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Post by Mary W on Sept 30, 2014 2:08:35 GMT
I probably wouldn't recognize any celebrity - I'm so bad with faces! But dh would recognize anybody. We were in a tram at the airport with Hulk Hogan back when he was big in wrestling. I didn't know who he was! We've seen Steven King in a local restaurant a couple times. One time my son & I saw some other famous wrestler (can't remember who it was)at a restaurant. I let my son (he was just a little kid) ask for his autograph after he was finished eating. I would never interrupt somebody's meal though.
Chris Daughtry is playing at our ribfest here in November. I'm hoping to run into him. I might ask to take a pic with him if I'm not too chicken!
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Post by CarolT on Sept 30, 2014 2:13:45 GMT
I'm hopelessly oblivious when it comes to recognizing celebrities! So, while I wouldn't approach a celebrity, if I recognized them, I have interacted with celebrities without even realizing it, lol. Neil Armstrong at Heathrow Airport and Lou Ferigno in the Las Vegas airport. Both were very pleasant and friendly... we made normal airport small talk. I didn't realize who either person was until the captain of our flight welcomed Neil Armstrong to the flight and when my friend told me she saw me chatting up The Incredible Hulk DS inherited my lack of celebrity awareness... when he was a freshman at UF and in line in the dining hall, he once asked Tim Tebow if anyone ever told him he looked like Tim Tebow
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Post by purplebee on Sept 30, 2014 2:15:23 GMT
Another born-and-raised New Yorker, still carry that do not acknowledge celebrities attitude....not that I encounter very many now in Podunk, AR! My sis was walking up near Central Park in the late '70s, John and Yoko passed her on the street coming in the opposite direction. She made brief eye contact with John, and he gave her a lovely big grin in return. Couldn't ask for a better celeb non-encounter, imo!
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Post by ntsf on Sept 30, 2014 2:27:49 GMT
my dh had a conversation with arnold swartznegger in a lift line...arnie said he would be too scared to do what my dh was doing...paragliding down the mountain. we saw celebrities all the time in sun valley idaho..everyone treated them like anyone else..
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Post by newfcathy on Sept 30, 2014 2:51:45 GMT
I wouldn't approach them. But I don't ever see anyone that is really notable. Tommy Silvia, from This Old House, lives nearby & we have been seated near him in restaurants. The skater nancy Kerrigan , would occasionally be at the same playground with her mom. My niece used to work at Disney & they had strict rules there. She once met Bob Hope & said he was very sweet.
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Post by simplylovely on Sept 30, 2014 2:54:53 GMT
Yeah as a New Yorker you just leave them alone. I have spoken to plenty when I worked at a popular sports store. Then I worked at a law firm and there was a management firm downstairs so plenty of celebs were going in and out of the building. Method Man (rapper/actor) told me to quit smoking cigs and smoke weed instead once. Lol. Only time I approached one was Steven Tyler from Aerosmith in Hawaii. He was eating sushi at a table next to ours and people started coming up to him and he was so polite and chatted with all of them. So I felt so bad that I decided not to bother him. We got up to leave and he saw the camera in my hand and said "hey, wanna take a picture too?" And winked. And of course I did.
ETA. DH and his boys went to some restaurant in manhattan and saw Bunk from The Wire and his boy yelled out"yo it's BUNK!!!" And Bunk was all friendly and said "hey guys!! Have a good time tonight!"
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Post by ilikepink on Sept 30, 2014 3:09:11 GMT
Many years ago exH and I went to Nashville. Went to the Grand Ole Opry, the late show, and they made mention that Nolan Ryan was at the earlier show. The next day we were in the Opryland Hotel checking out, with a Very Long check out line. ExH went to take care of the car/luggage while I waited in the line. There was a commotion on the other side of the very large lobby. The man behind me mentioned that Nolan Ryan was there, and being mobbed. I didn't hear him well, and truly had no idea who Nolan Ryan was. While in the car going to the airport, I told ExH about the whole thing, and he, who would never get excited over something like that, said I should have joined the crowd to try for a picture or something.
It became a family joke that mom has no idea who Nolan Ryan is.
I could be standing next to someone famous and probably wouldn't know!
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Post by QueenoftheSloths on Sept 30, 2014 3:11:13 GMT
Dh once ran into a football player at the state fair. He had just been announced as going into the hall of fame, or something like that. Anyway, Dh approached him, congratulated him, shook his hand. He said he was very nice.
The only way I would recognize a celebrity is if they held up a sign with their name on it.
I was volunteering, working the bag check at a scrapbook event, and the venue was connected to the NHL arena. I am a big hockey fan, and practice got out, players came streaming past in their "civvies" and some people were getting autographs. Well, I could not have told you who one of those guys were! DH was so disappointed when I told him a bunch of players had walked right past me and I didn't recognize who was who.
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Post by hennybutton on Sept 30, 2014 3:20:40 GMT
Count me as one of those people who wouldn't recognize a celebrity in the wild. In the Eighties, I passed one of those long-bearded guys from ZZ Top and thought, "Gee, he's got a ZZ Top beard." Found out that Sally Jessie Rafael was taping an episode of her show in the mall I worked in and the guys from ZZ Top were being interviewed.
The only time I've talked to a celebrity in the wild was the time I was at the LA Times Festival of Books and I turned around after getting a book signed and almost ran right into Wil Wheaton. My daughter was with me and we talked for a few seconds. I have to admit that I gushed a bit and told him how he had inspired my daughter to major in space physics because she couldn't go to Starfleet Academy. In my defense, I was already a bit gushy because I had just had a conversation with my favorite author ever that I had accidentally found at a signing table.
So, because of my general lack of recognizing celebrities (or believing that I'm seeing celebrities), I would treat them just like anyone else. I have been known to strike up conversations with complete strangers, especially when standing in lines, so I don't know why a celebrity would be exempt from that.
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Post by julieb on Sept 30, 2014 3:28:23 GMT
We were at the airport in Utah a few years ago and Ed Asner (Mary Tyler Moore and UP) was in line. My friend insisted on going and saying hello. I thought she should have left him alone. The rest of us (my dh and her dh) just stayed in line. I think she was the only person to get out of line to say something to him.
I don't think I could ever converse with a celebrity. If they were sitting next to me on a plane I would say hello, as I would anyone, and if they proceeded to have a conversation I'd be all over it.
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