I watch a lot of late night talk shows and was wondering about this the other night. I’ll start, but be brief. Anyone who’s interested, explain as much or as little as you want.
Dustin Hoffman-----he always tells the most entertaining anecdotes.
Kellie Pickler----a cute country music singer who’s funny as hell.
Lady Gaga----an old soul with a new message.
Amen–We are lucky to have her wisdom to guide us in these turbulent, uncertain times!!!
Trombone Shorty: I’ve started listening to him since our two kids started playing trombone. He’s good, and just seems like a genuine, nice guy.
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.
none. I can’t think of anyone in particular who I think is interesting enough for me to want to go out of my way to meet. being famous in and of itself isn’t sufficient.
I’d like to meet Clancy Brown and just hang around over a few beers and hear him tell stories of his acting jobs and voice work.
I’d like to sit in on a planning session for The Venture Bros with Chris McColloch and Doc Hammer. Just for shits and giggles.
I’d like to have a few beers with any or all of the members of U2. Just because.
The thing is, I’m not really into ‘celebrity’. I’d have a few drinks or beers, shoot the shit, probably get a picture of me with them, but never ask for an autograph (useless things, really).
Greg Graffin. I’ve had a bit of a crush on him for about 10 years now. He’s smart, cool, and attractive in a really. . .real way, if that makes sense. But it’s mostly that he seems able to hold an intelligent conversation. I doubt, however, that he’d want to talk to me :).
I always wanted to meet Kage Baker, but that obviously’ll never happen.
He probably would, he teaches introductary biology at UCLA. I wonder how many of his students know about his music.
I want to be in bed, with Hugh Laurie on one side, and Adrien Brody on the other.
If only one of them is available, I’ll substitute Brent Spiner.
I don’t think I’d want to meet any celebrities, if you mean spying them out in public and approaching them. I could never go barging up to someone waving an autograph book, cell phone (“say hi to my grandma!”) or demanding they pose for a picture. I think it would be intrusive - but what I really think is, what if they get all uppity and tell me to bugger off, destroying my illusions, lol? I would, though, like to see them close up, to see what they look like in real life without makeup, lighting, and good camera angles. And to see what a $40,000 purse looks like.
I’d like to meet Alice Cooper. I think he might be fun to hang out with, with none of the “rock god” pretention.
Although I would very much like to meet Neil Peart in theory, in practice I wouldn’t since I know he doesn’t like meeting with fans (he’s very introverted with people he doesn’t know, and they make him uncomfortable).
Since I can’t hang out with Picasso or Hendrix or Camus, I wanna hang out with Jimmy Page for a day. Led Zeppelin having been the core sound track of my youth (and again now, a full circle) he’s always been that mythical figure to me.
Catherine Deneuve: I haven’t been able to define what my attraction to her is, a mother-like figure or a cool aunt or something else… through out my life whenever I start acting uncool, eg like an overly excited cornball neophyte, I think of her and that instantly chills my incorrect ways. Anyway it would be cool to hang out with her for a day.
Well, I wouldn’t stalk anyone, but if you mean bumping into someone and getting a chance to chat with them, or somehow miraculously being seated next to them at a Christmas party, then yeah, I’ve got a list.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Adam Savage
Jon Stewart
Wil Wheaton
Because I’m sure the conversation would be awesome.
Bryan Cranston. He comes across as such a laid back funny guy. I’ve enjoyed him in every interview I’ve ever heard.
I’d kinda like to meet Billy Campbell, but probably because he’s the only celebrity I might meet where the conversation could start with something other than “I loved you in The Rocketeer.” He’s sailed on my ship a couple times (twice around the world, actually). Everybody said he was an awesome shipmate. I just read a log entry by him on the ship’s website and he sounds like an interesting guy.
And if he asks nicely, he can be my wingman.
Stephen Colbert, Elijah Wood, and (if we can count dead people) Jim Henson. Like someone said above, I’d be afraid they’d do something to shatter the illusion that they’re nice guys. I’d also be afraid of saying something stupid. I was tongue tied the time I got to meet Sean Astin. I have enough trouble figuring out what to say to people without throwing in being star-struck.
I would love to sit down and have a beer with Mike Rowe.
I had an offer recently to go backstage to meet a band I like, and I was like “eh…no thanks, I’m not sure what we’d talk about.” More generally, while there are people I admire and like listening to, it feels like the pressure would be on them to be ‘on’, or entertaining, and that I wouldn’t have much to contribute.
I think I made my choices because they seem accessible to me. If any of them were snarky, I’d be surprised. I was thinking more of a “Play like…If you could…” scenerio rather than interrupting their meal & holding up a cell phone for a quick pic.
Pippa Middleton. I’d like to know what it’s like to go from obscurity to tabloid darling overnight. Plus I want to check out her ass.