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Lifer
- Feb 13, 2003
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I haven't met anyone famous personally, but Jeff Daniels filmed Escanaba in da Moonlight in and around where I live, and my ex-girlfriend's relative's camp was featured in the movie.
MotionMan
Lifer
- Jan 11, 2006
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Yeah, not a great picture of me.
I met Ronnie Lott, Marcus Allen, Howie Long and Ronald Reagan at an event called 'A Time for Heroes' which is a celebrity carnival that raises money for the Pediatric AIDS Foundation. My mother-in-law use to be involved with the Foundation so I got to "work" a booth with a celebrity (sports and entertainment) took 30 to 60 minute shifts). This was in 1992 I think.
I use to have a ton more pictures of me with other famous people from that event, but they have been lost through various moves. I doubt I through them out, so they are probably in the bottom of a box somewhere
I met Henry Winkler at a dinner where an organization I am involved with gave him an award and dinner in October 2007.
MotionMan
DangerAardvark
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- Oct 22, 2004
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I need to shoot the stupid earring off Han Solo. When did he start wearing that when he started dating Ally McMuffin?
judasmachine
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- Sep 15, 2002
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No pic, but at a bar show with Slipknot and Fear Factory, my friend just got up and helped SK with their gear, and then disappeared. He came back for the FF show, and then did the same thing, except I went with him. We ended up hanging out with most of them between their buses smoking some flowers.
I also once met Buzz from The Melvins in a similar fashion.
I also once met Buzz from The Melvins in a similar fashion.
Nice! I loled @ "Geez you're a geeky looking fucker"...Originally posted by: BoomerD
geez...you're a geeky looking fucker...
My favorite story about meeting a celebrity took place about 1998. I was working on a cliff-face restoration project at Cypress Point golf course in Pebble Beach.
I'd hoist crews up and down the cliff face to drill holes that the'd grout rebar into, which was later attached to more rebar and covered in shotcrete.
One day, my crew got pulled to go do something else, so I was left with nothing constructive to do. (idle hands are the devil's workshop!)
I did all the maintenance to the crane that was possible where I was, (greased everything, cleaned it up as well as possible, etc.) and got bored...
I wandered around and picked up a hardhat full of lost golf balls out of the rough, then, since the course wasn't busy, I threw the balls onto the putting green, grabbed a sand rake and started "shooting pool."
So...I'm down on my hands and knees shooting pool with golf balls, and a pair of golf shoes walks up next to me...I hear a very familiar voice ask,"Are you making any?"
Without even bothering to look up, I reply,"A few here and there. How are you today Mr. Eastwood?" I stand up, shake his hand and tell him, "Of all the people to catch me fucking off..."
He laughed at that and we started discussing the job, where my crew was, how the project was progressing, and how the job at his golf course in Carmel Valley was going. (Tehama GC)
He was always wandering around the job, watching, asking questions, etc. As one of only 250 members, who has to write a check at the end of the year to pay for maintenance costs, he had every right to inquire...plus, he was on the board of directors at the time, so he also had a responsibility to do so...
At least he didn't give you the "Feeling lucky?" line, being buns up like that might have given one pause. :shocked:
DangerAardvark
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- Oct 22, 2004
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Originally posted by: paulney
It's been so long ago, even I can't tell any more
Al Gore is the one who looks like he just at a manbearpig.
Brushes with "The Famous": most recently , while walking through Heathrow, we turned a corner onto a main corridor, noticed a cordon of uniformed officers, yet managed to walk through it easily enough and then noticed President Clinton standing at a display of books at a book store. I veered slightly to my left and slowed down enough to Say "Hey Bill!" He looked up and waved as we marched onto our next flight. :thumbsup:
Dude is taller than I thought him to be.
I've shaken hands with Gerald Ford and Dick Butkus. They were @ the same gig too, that was one of those "motivational"type gigs.
Sandra Bullock was filming the bridge scene in "The Net" around the corner from our studio, she apparently was able to go the the 7-11 by herself.
Inadvertantly grabbed the boob of Martha Davis /The Motels as she ran into me offstage @ The Kabuki Nightclub.
Was hit on by June Lockhart during a debauched Santa Cruz weekend wayyyy back in the day.... you know, Pre AIDS- Mid Coke. I kept thinking "Danger Wll Robinson!"
I've only met players from the Husker football team when i was a little kid. nothing other than that.
yours truly
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