Have you ever met/seen any living legends?

[ondma]

Ate breakfast at a table near Whoopi Goldberg and John Travolta in Disneyland. This was back in the later 80s when both were very popular. Personally, not a fan of either, but my wife was pretty excited.

 

[BoomerD]

Ate breakfast at a table near Whoopi Goldberg and John Travolta in Disneyland. This was back in the later 80s when both were very popular. Personally, not a fan of either, but my wife was pretty excited.

We were on Maui a few years back and had lunch at a table next to Mick Fleetwood and his grandson. Recognized him immediately, but other than a nod, left them alone to have a nice quiet meal.

 

[A Casual Fitz]

We were on Maui a few years back and had lunch at a table next to Mick Fleetwood and his grandson. Recognized him immediately, but other than a nod, left them alone to have a nice quiet meal.

I'm sure they appreciated that. I mean, in general there's really not much to say to celebrities that means anything. When I met one of my favorite all time drummers about 10 years ago I just asked him how his day was going.

 

[DigDog]

allegedly, as a child i was introduced to both FF coppola and ... some other famous director, they were scouting our house as a potential set location. my dad was involved in film so there were often various minor characters around the place.

i was in a club in bridgehampton where mingling there were bruce willis, tom hanks, and chevy chase, circa 1988, we saw them but didn't think much because we were kids and instead went home to watch Akira and Macross on VHS and eat popcorn and reeces pieces.

many years later i had two of the Stone Temple Pilots guys crash our after-hours in boston.
tbh at this time most of my classmates were wealthier than any of these guys so i wasn't terribly impressed.

i went along with a friend who was playing a set on a very popular italian TV show and one of the guests walked by and she started talking to some guy a couple feet away from me and i had to really focus on not jumping her because she had this massive animal magnetism, i could just feel the energy of attraction. Google her, Eva Grimaldi.

I managed to get through to a tv chat show call and speak briefly with david bowie. I asked him if he needed a saxophone player. He said no.
(i was the saxophone player obviously)


the most influential people i met were not from the entertainment business.

 

[BoomerD]

I managed to be within about 200 feet of Richard (TrickyDick) Nixon when he opened Expo 74 in Spokane...just a few months later, he resigned the office of President.

 

[gill77]

Sugar Ray Leonard, Angelo Dundee.

 

[A Casual Fitz]

Everyone here is so old.

 

[IronWing]

Everyone here is so old.

I met Edward Teller.

 

[JeepinEd]

"Legend" is subjective. Famous: John Candy (RIP), Tom Petty (RIP), Julie Andrews, Denzel Washington, Kaley Cuoco, John Galecki, Kunal Nayyar (really cool guy), Simon Helberg, Candy Spelling, Tony Villaraigosa (douche), Jim Carrey, Penn Jillette, Teller, Phone convo with Kim Basinger, Phone convo with Paula Abdul, I'm sure there are a ton more. Out of all these guys, Kunal Nayyar was the nicest, followed by John Candy.

 

[Eno Safirey]

Went to a sporting goods store grand opening and Muhammad Ali came in the front door to speak. There was some confusion about where he was supposed to stand, and he backed up and was standing directly in front of me. I couldn't take my eyes off the expensive tailoring of his suit coat.

 

[ElFenix]

mario andretti went right past me in the paddock at the houston grand prix back in 1998 or 99. i've got pictures of me with ricky williams and earl campbell. somewhere there may be a picture of me with W bush. had nancy cartwright knock on the door of a dorm room i was staying at while summer abroading. she wanted to see what a dorm built in the 1600s looked like.

 

[NuclearNed]

Many years ago I was in Hollywood - I ate at a lunch counter with Milla Jovovich on the seat to my left & Mrs Ned on the seat to my right.

 

[sdifox]

Many years ago I was in Hollywood - I ate at a lunch counter with Milla Jovovich on the seat to my left & Mrs Ned on the seat to my right.

Between a rock and a hard place xd

 

[IronWing]

I met Jennifer Gray in a club in 1988 (a year after Dirty Dancing). Okay, I didn't technically "meet" her because she was surrounded by an entourage (turns out some celebs actually have those) but I'm pretty sure her eyes wandered over my physique after I skipped the turn table with my unique and very vertical personal style of dance expression and the fact that I was likely the only person in the club dancing in Fabiano hiking boots. That never did start a trend but I think that was due to Fabiano not making those particular boots anymore. Anyway, I don't know if she ever got over me or not but I'd like to think she maybe only thinks on me when she is making love.

 

[dasherHampton]

Actually I have. Mostly from the Professional Golf and classical music worlds.

My absolute favorite was Yo Yo Ma. I got to meet with him privately before a concert for about 1/2 hour years ago. We had a marvelous discussion about tango music (Piazzolla, Gardel etc.)

He is the sweetest guy you would ever hope to meet in your life. He made me feel like HE was lucky to spend time with ME.