I was picked up at a club by the lead singer of Depeche Mode (we held hands).
I was introduced to Larry Clark.
I use to go to the same bar as Taylor Mead (don’t say you don’t know who he is. He’s a Superstar.)
I worked for a guy who knew everybody.
My SO’s grandmother used to hang with Picasso and Hemmingway at bullfights in Mexico. Regretably, she can’t introduce me.
That’s all I can think of right now.
I grew up with David Crane, the creator of “Friends.”
Hung out with the John Waters crowd when I lived in B’more, and am still friends with John.
Was good friends with the late Lillian Gish, and am still friends with Anita Page and Olivia De Havilland.
Am also friends with travel writer Jan Morris (we shared an agent—professionally, I mean, not for lunch!).
I’m distressed. I don’t really know any celebs.
Through my job, I’ve talked to former Detroit Pistons like Joe Dumars and Dennis Rodman, and Jack Kevorkian’s outspoken attorney and former Michigan gubernatorial candidate Geoffrey Fieger (I’ve got his cell phone number, actually).
Maybe the coolest person I’ve talked to from a young person’s perspective on more than one occasion is Chris Moore. Who’s he? Well, he, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are the ones who kept their dream alive to make the movie “Good Will Hunting,” as Damon and Affleck refused for years to sell their script for big bucks to movie studios unless they were the actors in it. The rest is history.
Moore was the movie’s producer, until they brought on a big-name producer and he became associate producer, but he was there from the beginning of the project. Affleck and Damon thanked him emphatically when they received their screenplay Oscars.
Moore more recently was the main producer of the hilarious movie “American Pie.” Anyway, he grew up spending his summers about 14 miles from where I live.
One of my closest friends’ uncle is James Hoffa, son of Jimmy and current Teamsters president. I sat at the table next to him at her wedding.
I went to middle school with Debbie Matenopoulis (the girl they kicked off The View) the funny thing is that she’s really intelligent.
Bands I’ve met/hung out with: Korn, Marilyn Manson, Eve’s Plum (they even played a song for me on my 21st birthday) Green Day, Seven Seconds, Warzone, Bouncing Souls, The Vandals, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Toasters, The Pietasters, and a ton of other ska bands.
The piece de resistence-I played in the mud with Trent Reznor at Woodstock '94.
Oy. Not much from me; you’d think someone living around DC would know more politicians, but nope.
I know Eric Raymond (writer of The Hacker’s Dictionary, crusader against Microsoft).
I went to school with Heidi Jordan. Her father (whose first name I don’t remember) became the first deaf President of Galludet University while I was in high school.
My closest brush with celebrity was being Woody Harrellson’s roommate at Hanover College sophomore year.
I also knew Leo Geter at Hanover. He’s not famous, but he’s been in lots of TV shows and movies in small roles: he had some lines in No Way Out, he was in The Stand as the guy who fixes Boulder’s power station, and he gave Kevin Bacon a cigarrette in Footloose.
I know Jello Biafra of Dead Kennedy fame - well, I’ve hung out with him several times. I wouldn’t call him up or anything.
My sort-of-boyfriend toured for a year with Parliament so he knows George Clinton. He also knows James Brown - talks to him on the phone a couple times a year. Wouldn’t that be cool if we got married? James Brown and George Clinton dancing with my 80 year old grandmother?
I saw Claire Danes at Union Square Cafe a couple weeks ago. But I don’t know her or anything. (Some of you may be glad to know she ate a huge cheeseburger)
Margie Gillis, the modern dancer, used to babysit me and is still very close friends with my father.
I know Paul Wilcox from the Canadian band Moist.
I’m pretty good friends with Frank Marino from Mahogany Rush. They were almost famous in the 70’s.
Well, you all know me, but I’m just not a celebrity yet. (Oh, but I will be.)
I wen to high school with several different generations of the band Salmon. This was before touring, before record deals. All they did was play our parties and make 4-track demos 
-Sam
Well, this is really reaching.
I used to live in Omaha. If I had stayed, I would have gone to HS with Chris Klein. As it is, I go to college with a few guys who were also from Omaha, who went to HS with Chris Klein. Also, he’s a brother in Lambda Chi Alpha, of which I’m also associated, as are these other two guys. It’s a strange, convoluted tale.
Chris Klein was in American Pie, Election, and a few other movies.
–Tim
I met Steve Jackson at a con a couple years ago and played Call of Cthulu and I:NWO with him. More amazing: I actually beat him at I:NWO (he was distracted writing the text for the next set of cards.)
He even remembered me when I saw him the next year, although not my name. So maybe it doesn’t count.
Went to school with Katie Couric (can’t spell right now) and possibly the guy who wrote her PERL book.
Well, Cliff of Cliffs Notes (yes, there really is a Cliff) is a family friend.
All my other connections are both tenuous and through other people.
For all you X-Filers out there, my daughter’s God-Mother went to HS with Gillian Anderson.
As for me:
I live two doors down from Mike Ricci (of the San Jose Sharks, formerly of the Colorado Avalanche).
Blackie Dammit (Anthony “Red Hot Chili Peppers” Kiedis’ (sp?) father) used to hit on me when I was 20. He’s an actor, though not well known, and quite a pig.
I went to HS with (and dated) one of the guys from the first season of The Real World.
Thrilling, huh? :rolleyes:
As I recall, Aha is the 60’s rock star. I’m ignorant of the author here, though.
That’d be Eve, Dave.
I’ve been friends with Corey Taylor, lead singer of the band Slipknot, for about 10 years. It’s weird to think of him as a “celebrity”, though. He’s just…Taylor. Crazy.
Does IHL hockey count? (From the KC Blades) Dody Woods’ stepdaughter played on my husband’s soccer team once. I always forget he’s kind of a celebrity. He’s just one of the soccer parents. 
He’s a great guy, BTW.
I have had a few run-ins with famous people, but these are the few I knew personally:
I had a rather disturbing 7 months with a retired professional wrestler (he is also the guy who played Andy in Pee Wee’s Big Adventure). Long, freaky story that involves attempted gifts of a BMW Z3, a mansion, dozens upon dozens of roses and other flowers, jewels, and a restraining order. Lovely time that was. :rolleyes:
I used to party with Mike Lookingland (Bobby Brady).
I went to school with pro football player Jim McMahan (he was a cocky dickhead).
Was good friends in high school with Cynthia Brimhall, who later went on to become Miss October 1982 (or 3) in Playboy, a music video babe (mostly Van Halen and David Lee Roth), a Fredrick’s of Hollywood catalog model, and was in the running for letter turner on the Wheel of Fortune (Vanna won - obviously).
I date the cousin of the lead singer (Billy) of Green Day.
Used to work with Steve Martin’s first cousin.
I’ve net met Steve or Billy so I guess those two don’t count.
One of my fiction professors was T.C. Boyle; one of the others was Percival Everett, who’s a little less known, but also an awesome writer.
Also, my ex-roommate is part of the Elfman family and is therefore: Danny Elfman’s nephew, Jenna Elfman’s brother-in-law, Bodhi Elfman’s brother, Richard Elfman’s son.