I realize that we usually see famous people in interviews and in settings that are carefully stage-managed. But some people come across much better than others. Bette Midler, for example, is a great spokesperson for herself, while all the Baldwin brothers would be better off if they just stopped talking. Mel Gibson is charming in interviews, while Woody Harrelson seems like exactly the sort of person I’d go out of my way to avoid in real life.
So, based on the limited evidence available, who would you like (or not) in real life?
Jennifer Lopez (yeah, so she’s good looking, but she’s funny and all, too)
Vince McMahon
Drew Carey
Ditto on Mark Hamill
I would say George Lucas, but he always seems so annoying in interviews
Cecil (duh)
JMcC, San Francisco, JJM’s page from the Bay
If I were a baseball player, and I got beaned by a fastball, I wouldn’t want medical attention. I’d want my limp, lifeless body flung to 1st, cause, dammit, I earned it!
Sandra Bullock. She just seem to be having too much fun whenever I see her in an interview or on the late night talk shows.
“There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.”
~P.J. O’Rourke~
Word is that he’s a jerk. Those who knew him in the pre-Star Wars days say that when he became famous he became arrogant and stopped associating with anybody who wasn’t also famous.
I would like to meet Jodie Foster. I mean, I’m not going to shoot a President or anything, but she seems so real and down-to-earth. Same for Raymond whoever from Everybody Loves Raymond". I wouldn’t want to hang with anyone who does the “Hollywood Star” thing. T’aint my style.
The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. – E. Grebenik
I’d love to meet Sinéad O’Connor, Laurie Anderson, and of course Brendan Fraser & Sebastian Spence ;D
Stephen Baldwin once interrupted me in the middle of our conversation to ask “Are you insane?” in the manner of a legitimate question–not in response to something far out that I had said. I dunno, it made me laugh. Oh well, he was paying to talk to me so who cares?
Do very dead writers count? Because I’ve always thought that I’d get along well with Thoreau. One of my friends said she thought he was the kind of person that she wouldn’t like, which kind of hurt my feelings since I admire him so much and would like to be like him.
I’ve always thought that Shirley Maclaine would be possibly the most irritating human on earth, but over the last couple of years she’s consistently shown the ability to joke about some of her more irritating beliefs. I think she might be kinda cool, now.
Jimmy Stewart. I just imagine that he would’ve been a really nice person and have interesting stories to tell.
I wouldn’t want to meet Brad Pitt. He looks like he would stink (literally). The man always looks like he needs to take a bath. And I definitely would run a car over Kathie Lee Gifford. Could anyone be more annoying?