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Everyone is teasing me about Natalie Portman, seen her here, sat with here there, and all *I* can show in return is one lousy encounter with Liza Minnelli at JFK, meeting her face to face, tired after a long flight, no makeup, bags under the eyes... not too much to show, really...Well, that and the rather famous Russian Oleg Dal' - but that doesn't count for much here.
What is YOUR star encounter? I have to warn you, it will be hard to beat Steve's - Annette Bening herself served his table on the local cruise ship ... or something to that effect - room service, perhaps?... (don't shoot down THAT story, Steve, please...)
Follow Ups:
I did an ad called "Save The Animals" for a cable spot with Doris Day in 85 in Monterey in California. She was a really nice lady who took an interest in the music camp we were attending in Carmel. Also got to meet Yehude Menuhin (I know I'm gonna misplell this one) when I was ushering for the La Philharmonic while studying as a music major,viola performance, at Chapman University in 86. This was a fantastic job while I was in college, much better than flipping burgers or making pizza!
Jim P.
Most of the "stars" that I've encountered are famous academics such as Louis Coser, Mary McCarthy, Hans Jonas, Richard Bernstein, Agnes Heller, John O'Neill, Frederick Jameson, and others. I did meet Buffie Saint-Marie in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada while at a folk festival, but I suppose that the biggest stars that I've ever met are Ronald McDonald in Chicago in a hotel lobby several years ago and recently, Mickey Mouse at The Magic Kingdom on December 21st at his house in Toon Land. My 14 month old son, wife, and some friends from England were with me. By the time we met Mickey, my son has fallen asleep in my arms and he and I were photographed by our favourite rodent.Possibly the most amazing brush with a "star" is that I have the RCMP pea jacket that my Uncle Steve wore then he opened the door of the Hotel Saskatchewan for Queen Elizabeth II. Liz once waved to me as her motorcade drove past me.
And finally, when I was 10 years old, I attended the unveiling of a statue of Louis Riel. Robert Stanfield (of Canadian political progressive conservative and underwear fame) unveiled the statue. On his way back into the Legislative Building, myself and some mates rushed to touch him and we were knocked down by his police escorts. My friend Cameron, sporting a black eye, managed, he claimed, to touch Stanfield's shoe. So much for my encounter's with the "stars."
Cheers,
Allan
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Almost as good as throwing up on the Japanese Prime Minister.
....and was friends with Stuart Blumberg, a buddy of Ed's who wrote "Keeping the Faith" and appeared in the movie as well. Ed didn't seem nearly as dark and brooding as the press like to portray him; Stu was hilarious and a bit of a wild man.....Jennifer Connelly was also in college with us at the same time and knew my roommates, but I didn't really know her--too bad.....
Hung out for a few minutes with John Mahoney at a Christmas party a couple years ago--great guy.....
Met Dick Cheney at his daughter's house a few months back, before his candidacy. (She was a law-school classmate; her husband's a co-worker.) Cheney is, shall we say, a man of few words.
- Dave
Back in 1973, a friend and I were walking around San Francisco taking pictures when we noticed a recording studio. We went in and found no one at the front desk, so we wandered around the building and ended up in the coffee room. In walked Art Garfunkel to grab a cup. I remember him being shorter than I had pictured him, and quite friendly and down to earth. We chatted a bit, and he invited us to listen while he did some recording.Unfortunately, that's when Art's producer Roy Halee spotted us, and he wasn't nearly as friendly. Art tried to tell him we were OK, but Roy wouldn't have any of it. He hollered at us and threw us out the back door. It was fun while it lasted anway.
-Mike
...but not at the same time.I raise and show the same kind of horses as William Shatner, American Saddlebreds. Been to his farm several times, had lunch with him and his trainer, Donna Moore. I manage a national horse show where Bill's horses compete and we've done a couple of promotions with him. He's been good to our event. Generally though, Bill shows horses to get away from fandom, and we respect his privacy. He likes to party. He is just as you imagine. I didn't have to kiss him.
Vincent Price was a sweetie. He was in town for a gallery opening and gourmet society something and came out to a horse show with mutual friends. Very gracious and better looking in person than on screen. It turned out his sister had a farm near my mom's hometown in southern Missouri. I was about 17 at the time. I woulda kissed him if I'd had the chance.
I was an extra in John Sayle's film Eight Men Out, which was partly filmed in my hometown, but that's not where I met John Cusack. It was at the Fine Arts Theater in Chicago. I was at the Chicago Film Festival with friends at a special showing of The Grifters (one of my favorite neo-noir flicks). The Festival was presenting John with a special award. Before the screening I was headed downstairs to the rest room and there was John, lurking in a doorway at the entrance to the stairwell, pacing and uncomfortable. I was so surprised I laughed and struck up a (very) brief conversation with him. John had something of a bad boy rep in Chicago at the time but he was polite to me and to everyone else at the event. His parents were there. He kissed his mom.
I was temporary stage manager for the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra when they played for Nureyev & Friends, one of his last tours. Rudi was not in great dance form, but he worked incredibly hard. Very professional and trying to keep up with the young French dancers from his Paris company. Not chatty. He was saving his energy for the performance. Backstage I told him that seeing him perform with Fonteyn when I was a child had been a great moment in my life. He thanked me graciously. I felt awkward. Much later, when I realized how ill he must have already been, I was glad I'd bucked up my miserable courage enough to speak to him. He wouldn't have liked it if I'd kissed him.
Hmmm...I had breakfast with Florence Henderson at a fair where she was performing and I was showing horses. I was backstage with Dolly Parton once - she was a stitch. I used to write, review and edit for a music mag in college, met lots and lots of bands. Roxy Music was one of my faves. They were mostly former teachers, Andy MacKay helped me with my music theory homework one night in Cleveland. I coulda kissed him...
I never kissed him but I shook President Ford's hand at a fundraiser. Our charter plane had buzzed AirForce One earlier in the day.
My cousin's daughter was in the revival of Gypsy and I met Tyne Daly when the show was on Broadway.
I've never met Victor Khomenko. I would like to have a BAT cdp. I would...oh never mind.
Well that's enough of my close encounters with the famous...sometimes I can't remember so good on acount of all the, er - you know - it was the 70's. Sure can't top the Robin Williams or the Annette Benning stories. Have to go back to my cell now...Thank you very much.
I guess I don't get out much, it's sad really. My closest thing is I shook hands with Bill Clinton when he was running for president in 92, he gave a speech at SJSU. I met Latrell Sprewell at a Hotel when he was playing for the Warriors, also saw Jon Barry (Rick Barry's son)in the lobby. Spree was nice and signed an autograph. olen
Kari Wurher in the early 90s. - AH
Silly silly man, I wouldn't brag about that one.
Not that e-mail corresp. is an "in", but still...dg
Back in the mid 80's RW split up with wife and moved into an attic loft apartment on Castro Street in San Francisco. Well, I went to a party in a lower flat, which was dominated by males of the...."rainbow generation", shall I say, anyway, I was there with my girlfreind and another couple and I think we were about the only hetero's there..at about mid-night RW came in and "went-off", he was so funny. He was in rare unbelvable form...there were maybe 20 people there at the time and it was nothing short of our own "Tony winning" private show....after a while he bagan to pick on us as being the token Hetero's...then after about 45min of this he bacame a "normal person" and we talked one on one for while.I ran into him again while running in Golden Gate Park some months later and he remembered me and that night! Haven't seen him sence.
Also had a beer with John Mahoney (of Frazier) while he was in a play at the La Jolla Playhouse and staying at a local Hotel. Funny, super nice guy. He was having lunch at the bar alone...so I sat next to him and struck up a conversation.
BUT, last fall I went to the StepenWolf Theater in Chicago and saw a play that was directed by John Malkovich (Hysteria), it was opening night and he was there. I sat 3 seats over from him. I, literaly, rubbed elbows with him before the show in the foyer. After the show I shook his hand and congratuated him on the production.
Those are my stories and I am sticking to em...
Does John Mahoney have a British accent in casual conversation? I knew he was British but I never heard an accent.
The nominated celebrity must 1) not have slept with Charlie Sheen, and 2) did not sell or give drugs to Robert Downey Jr. Oh hell, that probably eliminates Rostropovich...
Partial list.....Bob Hope ( at urinal), Carol Burnet, Barbara Streisand, Shelly Long,Victoria Principal,William Devane,Robin Williams,Spielberg,(at same time)Sidney Pollock,Harrison Ford (at same time),Ron Howard,Jim Carey,Michael Jackson,Buddy Rich,Harry James,Duke Ellington,Pete Fountain,Woody Herman,Jose Felliciano,Olivia Newton John,Natalie Cole,Smokey Robinson, Four Tops, Miracles.....
This list is really only a small part of it. I've had the pleasure of working as a sound engineer and an administrator in the movie business for the last 24 years. I've been able to meet hundreds of actors and directors when they come in to my shop for looping. Before that I ran live shows at Disneyland for 9 years and had the chance to meet nearly all the big band leaders who were still alive in the 70's
Steve
BTW, saw you mentioning Licorice Pizza record stores in a Vinyl Asylum post. I worked as a sales clerk for Vogue Records from 1974-1977, first at their Rosemead store, then at their main one in Westwood. Any chance we met?
Never made it to Vogue. Tower on Sunset was my headquarters. With a few stops at the Pizza,Big Bens,and Wherehouse. I had made another post on Vinyl called "Sad...." It just doesn't seem fair that they took all the records away.My Disneyland days were really a kick. After the post I remembered I also got to meet Doc Severinson,Count Basie,Lional Hampton,and I got paid for doing it. Those years Sonny Anderson booked the talent at Disneyland and every summer we had a big band per week at Plaza Gardens beside the Castle at the end of Main Street. Sonny knew everybody and these guys frankly were not hard to book in the 1968 to 1974 time span. There were not that many places wanting them. I got to start as a talent coordinator when I was 18 and was a stage manager by the time I left in 1977. Between the ages of 18 and 27 I met alot of entertainers. It's the big bands I have the fondest memories of and it was them I appreciated the least when it was happening. Like Joannie Mitchel said....you don't know what you've got till its gone.
Steve
Too many just encounters with major stars to count. Just from where I used to live. Know a few a little. Couple of good friends are recognizable film/TV stars. Acquainted w/ an NFL TE. Some good friends as producers and directors.Some highlights - drinking w/ Baywatch cast
Friend used to date one of Melrose Place women and we would all go out for drinks regularly.
Sat amongst super models at a benefit.
My wife was a model, then an artist and you have seen her work - but would not know her face or name.
Have met Wayne Gretzky, Dennis Rodman and Jerry West.They are all just like anyone else (just better looking) some nice, some not.
Sorry, I couldn't resist.;-) Congratulations to you and your wife.
in high school. She was known as "Vickie" back then. - AH
She was one of my first "star" encounters when I started with Glen Glenn sound in 1977. We were doing Dallas at the time. I ran into this really good looking young woman in the hall by the water cooler. I said hi and got a pretty warm response. We talked for about 15 minutes. She was telling me about her new car and we talked about TV and various chit chat. Well as the minutes went by I kept thinking more and more that I knew her. As she got ready to leave I said you know you really look familiar whats your name ? She said Victoria Principal. Duh....Its been an on going problem for me in that I do meet or just see so many in passing. I only know the really mega stars for sure. The others I keep thinking I met them in a bar or at college. A guy gave me a cassette of the Joe Pesci film "Cousin Vinny" a few years ago when it was still new. I watched it at home and really fell for the wise ass NY Italian girlfriend Marisa Tomei. The next morning I come to work and she is standing in the lobby outside my office. I stare and stare, within 12 hours of seeing the film and having sex fantasies about her I still couldn't figure out who she was till I asked her.
Steve
I had the same sexual fantasies about Marisa after watching "My
Cousin Vinny" upon it's initial release; unfortunately, she refused
to correspond via snail-mail. I heard she was very private and that
appears to be the case, at least in my case. Alyssa Milano was more
friendly, but I found out quickly that her MOTHER rules! - AH
when I said "same sexual fantasies", it did involve a horse bit&reins,
a riding crop, a strap-on and a can of axle grease, didn't it?
nt
I get stupid (writing bad checks, etc.) around beautiful women really fast!
Watch "Earthquake" and tell us, are they real or are they fake?
Victoria did her Playboy Pictoria before Earthquake, but after The
Naked Ape, so I believe the correct answer is real. - AH
Hi Victor,
And IIRC you haven't seen "Adventures of prince Florisel" yet!
It is a cryin' shame. A milkway of stars there... Dal', Banionis,
Avilov just to name a few. Great playing, great scenes and such.
"Ohh... kletchatyj!"
relaxing after watching "The Serpent Egg" last night,
regards, gnat
How old is he by now? Seventy, perhaps?Dal' was in front of me and my friend Sasha, as we stood there by the money window waiting to get our 5 rubles ea for day's work at - you must remember that movie - "Ugol Padeniya" - it was based on Vsevolod Kochetov's book, White Guard, Rodzyanko and others, the moral crash of the Tzarist officers. We were dressed as White Army soldiers, and with old Mosin rifles robbed the palace. It was done by Lenfilm and the location was one of the beautiful little palces that line up either Fontanka or other river in Peter - a beautiful little palace, gorgeous, us in soldier boots running around with crates on the parquet floors, packing the stolen from the Proletariat treasures, as the two officers talk by the tall - to the ceiling - mirror, as one of them shaves. Dal', dressed like a bum, his fur hat with ears hanging down, like Ded Mazay, his dublenka torn, received a thick was of cash, and we went home dry - something was not done right on the form and we never got our five rubles each. How does he look today - probably too old for his age, all that drinking...?
Nice to hear from you. Cold there yet?
Hi Victor,
Banionis made some good movies in 90s if memory serves.But Dal'... he died somewhere in the beginning of 80s.
Yep. That Florisel is an old movie. And yes, it's available.
At least in Moscow, lots of rental salons have it. Best
of the old Soviet films remain popular here, successfully
competing with current production.
So, you tried to make some money in "massovka"... I was
more successful in that kind of "art". Did it in... hmmm...
maybe it was the end of 80s. Another film like yours,
showing that rotten Tsarist regime and revolution and such.
Haven't seen any stars, but got my money at least.
As for weather, I dunno if it will look like cold for you.
Near 0 Celsius last few days, the first (or it was second?)
snow is gone, it rains sometimes. Anyway the weather is bad,
no matter wheteher it's cold or no.
regards, gnat
Actually I got drunk, she stayed pretty sober. They were filming "Peggy Sue Got Married" at my cousins restaurant and a few of us hung around the bar after the night's shooting. Wound up the three of us, my cousin, me, and Kathleen doing some serious drinking'till the wee hours of the morning. Really nice lady, down to earth, and a load of fun!Next morning I had a giant hangover and she was on the set bright and early. Zowie!!!
This may not be what you had in mind, but once many years ago I went to the U.S. Supreme Court to watch an argument. At some point, a friend and I went looking for the men's room and were wandering around without success. I ran into some really short guy and asked him where the men's room was, and he pointed down the hall. As we were proceeding, my friend said, "You just asked Howard Baker [then, I think, the minority leader of the Senate -- remember?] where the men's room was." I turned around, and sure enough, the really short guy WAS Howard Baker.Do I qualify?
I was thinking of the title of your post and wondering how many Asylum Searches would bring it up as a "hit"! Hilarious!
***Do I qualify?Well, your entry has been recorded. Indeed, you may even be one of the two finalists, until, that is, Monica chimes in with HER story...
Victor, I wanted to meet Jennifer Connelly as much as you want Natalie Portman, but not based on her acting "talent". Hasn't happened yet.The Annette Bening Encounter: she was the cook on a small charter fishing boat out of San Diego. Room service was definitely not possible under those conditions. We (my father and I) were a mess, covered with albacore blood and guts, so that probably didn't add any eroticism to the atmosphere. Nevertheless, Annie was easy on the eyes.
For AudioHead: my family's Thanksgiving regulars include actors Warren Stevens, the crew's doctor in "Forbidden Planet", and Percy Rodriguez, both poker enthusiasts. Warren is the only voting member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences I know personally. I take credit for Chris Farley not receiving a Best Actor Oscar. Warren lets us look at Academy screening videotapes he receives for voter consideration.
The Urinating Richard Dreyfuss Incident: try using the urinal during intermission at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion when Dreyfuss is next to you pissing and raving nonstop about the show.
The Bill Medley Entrapment: I was stuck in a malfunctioning elevator in the then-brand new MGM Grand in Las Vegas with Bill Medley of the Righteous Bros. for 75 minutes. I think he would have killed me if I started humming "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling".
The John Derek Breakfast: When I was very young my family rented a cabin in Yosemite. John Derek and a male friend were our next door neighbors (no sign of then-wife Ursula Andress). My mother invited them to a breakfast of hotcakes and sausage links (you haven't lived until you've tasted pancakes prepared at high elevation). Two decades later I met John and Bo at a store in Westwood and he remembered that breakfast vividly. (I always laugh when I see his "acting" as Joshua in "The Ten Commandments").
The David Bowie/Iman Day: David's son, Duncan, has been a friend and frequent guest at my "audio/video abode", so I was invited to his college graduation and spent the day with his father and stepmother. Somehow during lunch, our conversation drifted over to William Shatner's album and David and I laughed about the sheer awfulness of "Mr. Tambourine Man". Iman looked as us both and forcefully stated: "You're lucky, you just had to listen to him sing. I had to kiss him!" It took a second for us to recall her role in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country", then we burst out laughing. Iman is a VERY funny lady. (P.S., anyone want to buy a pair of Grado SR-60 headphones once worn by David Bowie?)
My mother's Trump Card: two weeks ago my mother met "Iron Chef Japanese", Masaharu Morimoto. She got him to autograph one of his recipes for me. I've been saying: "I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy!" ever since. Ever the nonconformist, he has dyed the front of his hair red. He has left DeNiro's restaurant, Nobu's, and is opening a pair of restaurants, one in Manhattan and another in Philadelphia.
I knew it, I knew it... Steve's juggernaut all over my humble self... even my Dal' story not enough to shake him, he just kept coming and coming like the non-stoppable Gore... next he's gonna tell us he played polo with Max Lyndon... and I will believe him... the blade is in, to the hilt, now just turn it...So anyone else would like to walk on my pride?
That should be some comfort.But I think the guy who got shitfaced with Kathleen Turner has us all beat.
...to come up with the right answer?You are right about Ms. Turner spotter, he is in the lead. But I presume it is not over yet. Plus you really got me excited with your Derek story - my respect for that name went up after seeing them celebrate Bush's victory on that November night, him and his wife.
Bad news, Victor. John Derek's been dead for a few years, done in by a heart attack. My mother was saddened when she heard of this, but I was quick to point out that trying to keep three or four statuesque blonde wives happy would kill anybody. Better than telling her that those pancakes, fried eggs, and sausage link breakfasts contributed to his demise.I haven't kept up with the celebrity gossip, so I don't know who's Bo's new beau.
Important fact is she was celebrating, and there was someone who looked like Derek. I guess the tradition runs in the family...
I may be wrong, but I think the Dereks and the Reagans have adjacent ranches in California. I recall John Derek complaining about the noise from the President's Helicopter's takeoffs and landings while Reagan was in office, but they made up and became good friends.
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