She came after he was divorced from his first wife. He had no history other than that, at that point. They were together for 9 or 10 years. The rest came after her.
For what it’s worth, Snake, I worked (as a caterer) a wedding reception at Kurt & Goldie’s house and they were uber-cool, as friendly with the caterers as with the guests. We had to hide in the office during the actual wedding and somebody ran to their car to get a camera so we could take photos with Goldie’s Oscar (my idea). One of the caterers doubled as a secretary in a casting office and showed his photo to Goldie when she came in one day and she thought it hysterical.
I posted maybe fame has improved him, but on second thought, I suspect age has. He would have been a fairly young adult when my in laws knew him. A University of Minnesota broke college student too full of himself who sponged of his friends. Gee, there are no college students like that EVER and they are all hopeless…
I’ve never met him, but based on interviews Iggy Pop is far more intelligent then one might think based on his stage persona. He speaks 3+ languages, collects art, and comes across as being pretty well-read when it comes to subjects like politics and history.
Lamia, if you haven’t read this yet, you should. It’s pretty damn funny.
I only know of a few rare interviews but he wasn’t the sort of person to crack jokes , very much a comedy actor (sometimes writer) and excellent at that though modest, almost shy and slightly lost for words without a script when not performing. Retired once to run an antiques shop.
Lou Diamond Phillips - you’d think would be kind of a brooding, macho type. Not at all. He was very friendly and smart, a bit of a flirt, and FAR more attractive in person than I have ever seen him depicted on screen.
My Dad met Darren McGavin on a location shoot for “Rawhide”, and says he was a really nice guy who went out of his way to be friendly. (Dad wasn’t on the show; he was just in the area)
I worked in a hotel and we had John McEnroe stay with us a lot. He was so nice all the time. You’re so used to seeing him be mean and argumentative, but he was very nice.
I worked at a hotel in the Florida Keys and Gary “Radar” Burgoff from MAS*H used to live there and he’d give talks. Boy he was so unhappy. Not mean but he seemed so miserable all the time. He’d come up to me “Darn it’s only 2pm and everyone’s drunk already. And they want me to give a speech. This is such a mess.” He never seemed happy at all
At another hotel we had Todd Bridges and Dana Plato stay with us and they were very, very sweet. I don’t know but it surprised me how nice both were.
The oddest thing I encountered were the wrestlers. At a hotel I worked overnights in, they would wrestle at the arena and stay with us. The kids all under 10 years would stake out the lobby and trap the wrestlers. They would hound them for pictures and autographs.
Every single wrestler was so nice to these kids. Sometimes it’d be 2am and the wrestlers were still autographing and taking pictures.
It’s odd to see them because the good guys and the bad guys mix and are friendly in real life.
And man are those guys HUGE. The British Bulldog had a width that took up three normal people.
I’d have payed real money to see them pick up some snotty kid and powerbomb him through a lobby table.
I occasionally wonder if any actual celebrities are Dopers (you know what I mean ;)).
Of course, they’d never identify themselves, and if they did, we wouldn’t believe them.
Not much to add, other than I ran into LL Cool J a few years back and had a mini-chat. Very engaging, curious and likable dude.
A friend of mine was stationed in Hawaii and met Kurt Russell in a bar. He and his buddies approached him and were cordial and Kurt was one of the most genuine, funniest people they’d ever met. He had a few beers with them, threw darts, and basically acted like “one of the guys”.
I don’t know, but I have to say that, um, all the negative remarks I see around here about Gilbert Gottfried are totally uncalled for. At this point in life, when you’d like to look back and get a little appreciation for a long and fruitful career, do you know what it’s like to have gaggles of little kids coming up to you asking to the voice of that damn parrot from Aladdin all the time? Do you?! And supposing if you decided to try to regain your edge and a shred of your comedic dignity by instead launching into your BRILLIANT spiel from The Aristocrats, you just know that the little tyke’s parents are go around talking about what a foul-mouthed squinty-eyed bastard that Gilbert Gottfried is. How would YOU like that?
Um, so I imagine. I just sort of empathize with the guy. You know.
How do you know this? I’m a huge fan and this hurts my feelings. 
Just kidding. I am curious though.
I figured it out a couple years ago. Imagine it like it is your job: Acting on film, with its repeated retakes and endless pauses between work and not-work, is about as miserable a job as I can imagine. Some of the people are still jerks, but most of them try to not make things worse by being nice. I assume actors who keep getting hired are, mostly, people who don’t disrupt the set.
I didn’t actually meet him, but, when I saw Guys and Dolls at the Hollywood Bowl last August, I’m sure you can imagine my surprise when Ron Jeremy was in the audience. He sat a couple of rows behind us, and apparently considered sweatpants and crocs to be appropriate evening wear. I actually found him quite charming when he was on Surreal Life, so the fact that he went to my most favourite musical of all time sort of delights me. He seems to have a number of unexpected facets to his personality.
The relative I spoke with worked with him several decades later than Rawhide.
No kidding. The guy’s a scream.
Thank you! I mean, thanks for agreeing with me.