22-02-2005 21:14									#61
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Thanks asher. That comma somehow got in the way :|

	22-02-2005 21:15									#62
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quote: Originally posted by Saras Jrabbit, what do you do for a living?

quote: I did this gig (artist relations mgr. for a microphone manufacturer) for about 12 years -- choosing and negotiating endorsements, booking an occasional concert gig at a trade show.

It was fun, many would call it a dream job.

These days, I'm still with same company, now kicked upstairs to Director of Marketing Communications for Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Canada (what we call the "International Americas"). Not as much fun, but it should put my daughter through college...

	22-02-2005 21:36									#63
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Need a web designer, -Jrabbit?

Not that I have any intention of leaving South Florida.

	22-02-2005 21:44									#64
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Sorry dude, my company is in-house with that function.
Haven't talked in awhile, Che. Hope all is well with you and Bunnygrrl...

	22-02-2005 22:20									#65
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come on guys! You guys are supposd to hate celebrities? What's so great about a celebrity that we brag about meeting them? Why do people do that?

I'm not insulting, I'm just curious. I'll never understand the phenomenon of celebrities.

	22-02-2005 22:36									#66
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Had a long discussion about the renewal of downtown L.A. with George "Sulu" Takai.

When Heather Locklear was first starting out, I -- no, I didn't meet her -- but I worked with her brother and met her dad.

I had a long talk with Katenzberg about his twin sons. Nice guy.

Spoke briefly with ex-Governor Gray Davis, who was serving jury duty in my courthouse. I know various other state-level pols.

Sat in a movie theater with Michael "Little House on the Prairie" Landon and, along with the rest of the audience, pretended not to notice him.

Met Art Buchwald.

Spoken to California Chief Justice Ronald George enough that I'm sure he wishes he'd never met me.

	22-02-2005 22:37									#67
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident What's so great about a celebrity that we brag about meeting them?

They validate our existence, duh.

	22-02-2005 22:47									#68
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A lot of them are hot and we wish we could hit them

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quote: Originally posted by Boris Godunov Probably my most extended brush with celebrities was when a good friend of mine invited me to the opening night of Bea Arthur's one-woman show (his bf was managing the theater). We had front row seats and then went to the after party at Sardi's. So I chatted with celebs like Rue McClanahan (who I also met when she hosted Faggot Fued at one of the gay bars ), Valerie Harper, Phil Donahue, Rosie O'Donnell, Michelle Lee, Charles Bush, Nana Visitor and others.

Another chance to flaunt the Rue McClanahan connection eh?

Lets see. I met chief Dan George and a canadian football player (a lineman I think) when I was 9.
Tommy Chong came in and trained in the gym I was working in once. I met Trudeau and his flunkies (ministers) many times when I worked in Ottawa.

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A friend of mine was an internal medicine resident at Cedars Sinai in LA. He saw (and treated) more celebrities than you can shake a stick at.

	22-02-2005 23:25									#71
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quote: Originally posted by pchang A lot of them are hot and we wish we could hit them

this is true.

I have no desire to meet celebrities, but I do desire to have sex with them.

	22-02-2005 23:40									#72
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Can't do the latter without doing the former, Diss!
Meeting them is a necessary first step...

	22-02-2005 23:46									#73
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As long as celebrities are cool, why "hate" them?

I didn't list politicians I've met (besides Bill Bradley), which include:

Hillary Clinton (the day the Lewinsky scandal broke, no less)
Al Gore (2 times)
Sandra Day O'Connor (spoke at my college)
Chuck Schumer
Michael Bloomberg (current NYC mayor)
William Donald Schaefer (former MD Governor)
Parris Glendening (ditto)
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (failed to win MD governor's race in last election)
Wayne Gilchrest (MD congressman from my parent's district)
Fernando Ferrer (failed NYC mayoral candidate, but likely to run again and kick Bloomberg's ass)

In my old job, I spoke on the phone with Meg Whitman (ebay CEO) and Bob Wright (NBC Chairman). Not exactly celebrities, per se, but still famous.

And into more...delicate matters. I have an acquaintance in NYC who slept with two rather famous people. While I don't want to name names, their names rhymed with Hay Makin' and Relijah Hood.

	23-02-2005 00:14									#74
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What sucks the most is when you get to meet someone you've admired and find out what a jerk they are. Over time, it gets a bit depressing, cuz most of them are.

OTOH, it's pretty amazing when they actually turn out to be relatively normal. Unfortunately, I would put very few in this category.

Oft-podered question:
Does celebrity status make you a jerk, or
do you need to be a jerk to attain celebrity?

My answer:
Certainly a bit of both, but I've known enough before-and-after cases to feel that the celebrity lifestyle turns people into jerks.

	23-02-2005 00:16									#75
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quote: And into more...delicate matters. I have an acquaintance in NYC who slept with two rather famous people. While I don't want to name names, their names rhymed with Hay Makin' and Relijah Hood.

Was this a guy or a girl?

Tsk tsk, Elijah is taken.

	23-02-2005 00:21									#76
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quote: Originally posted by Asher quote: And into more...delicate matters. I have an acquaintance in NYC who slept with two rather famous people. While I don't want to name names, their names rhymed with Hay Makin' and Relijah Hood. Was this a guy or a girl?

I left that out on purpose. Not saying. But they are a slut, regardless of gender.

	23-02-2005 00:25									#77
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Not true, it could be a stud or a slut, depending on the gender.

Remember Boris, there are double standards.

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quote: Originally posted by Agathon I also, without realizing it, met Alan Minter, the former world middleweight champ. He came to our pub chatted to me and after he left some regulars told me who it was.

He's responsible for my all-time favourite sporting quote.

"No black man's ever going to beat me."

He said that the day before he fought Marvin Hagler. Ho ho ho. Minter was a prize racist tool.

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Poets/writers-

Adrian Mitchell
Fiona Pitt-Kethley (she pinched my arse and groped my tackle)
Terry Pratchett
David Attenborough

Actors-

Paul McGann
Benda Fricker
Tony "Baldrick" Robinson
Frank Finlay

Sportsmen-

Geoff Hurst
Bill Beaumont
Damon Hill


TV-

Alan Titchmarsh
Frank Carson

	23-02-2005 01:50									#80
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I think I have subconsciously avoided celebrities all my life, despite ample opportunities to meet some.

There's plenty of NHL'ers, NBA'ers, TV and film stars I might have met in both Vancouver or Toronto, but I haven't. The closest I have come is being in the audience for Toronto Film Festival viewings when the celebs are introduced on stage.

	23-02-2005 18:57									#81
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Hm, forgot authors...

	23-02-2005 20:32									#82
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quote: Originally posted by Boris Godunov And into more...delicate matters. I have an acquaintance in NYC who slept with two rather famous people. While I don't want to name names, their names rhymed with Hay Makin' and Relijah Hood.

Well, you've lost me. I have no ideas who they are. Maybe the first, if its a singer.

	23-02-2005 20:33									#83
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My grandfather's uncle was former swedish prime minister Olof Palme, though I only met him once before he was assassinated in 1986 (I lived in Hungary at the time). He gave me a book of nursery rhymes, which was nice.

Jane Goodall once came and lectured at the environment society of my junior high school when I lived in Tanzania, which I for some absurd reason was a member of, god knows why. I think I shook her hand. I might also have fallen asleep during the lecture, at least the others claim I did and she did look at me funny.

	23-02-2005 20:46									#84
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SpencerH: If I have to spell it out, it really doesn't matter.

I also forgot the world of opera stars/classical music. I've met:

Samuel Ramey (basso)
Marylin Horne (contralto)
Nicolai Ghaiurov (basso, passed away this past year)
Shirley Verrett (soprano)
Sherrill Milnes (baritone)
Carlo Bergonzi (tenor)
James Levine (conductor)

	23-02-2005 20:50									#85
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In my last job I met lots of local politicians, state reps, senators, and a handfull of congressmen from NY and other states. I also got to go to New Hampshire during the primaries- almost got run over by Lieberman's Secret Service Detail- came within inches of saying hi to Dean, and most importantly, met John Stewrt, and most of the current cast of the daily show, save Steven Coulbert. I also met William Kristol, but who cares? Oh, and lots of the local NYC newspeople.

Some in my old office had much better celebreity sightings, like meeting Bono, and my old boss knows a sickeningly large number of people.

Living in NYC I have seen or been close to various actors and such, but those are not really meetings: I have seen Issac Hayes, almost ran into William H. Macy not long after Fargo, was in line to buy a book behind Claire Daines and her mother, that sort of thing. Not like I have spoken to them.

	23-02-2005 21:01									#86
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I've travelled from Rovaniemi to Helsinki in the same plane as Jope Ruonansuu. (Finnish impersonator/comic)

	24-02-2005 18:45									#87
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quote: Originally posted by -Jrabbit Hm, forgot authors...

I've met Armistead Maupin twice, once at a book signing and once in the Tintin Shop in Floral Street in Covent Garden.


Simon Callow in a queue in the Penguin Bookshop in Camden Town, and Ian McKellen at a book signing.

Nichelle Nichols looked very beautiful at the signing of her autobiography at Forbidden Planet on New Oxford Street.

Walked past a bemused looking Francis Bacon on Old Compton Street and sat next to Bill Nighy outside Maison Bertaux in Greek Street. Also saw Alexander Siddig El-Fadil outside a bar in Frith Street.


Hurled invective at Michael Heseltine and Anne Widdecombe- two deserving Tory targets.

Said hello to Clare Short, and watched Gerald Kauffman but two grapefruits and a bottle of salad cream in a supermarket in Manchester. Met Steven Twigg at an N.U.S. conference and Blue Blake and Aiden Shaw at different Gay Prides.