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In Reply to: Your star encounter posted by Victor Khomenko on December 4, 2000 at 15:35:23:
...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.
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