# Celebrity Contacts - inspired by a dumb pit thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-contacts-inspired-by-a-dumb-pit-thread/465324>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 26, 2008, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-contacts-inspired-by-a-dumb-pit-thread/465324 "2008-09-26T13:59:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-contacts-inspired-by-a-dumb-pit-thread/465324/1 "2008-09-26T13:59:29Z")

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Hi all. I’m 50 years old. I’ve lived in NYC, Richmond, VA, Wilmington, DE, and currently live in the ATL area. I’m not a celebrity, but I’ve met or talked to a few.

I did a play in my senior year of high school at St Francis Prep with **John Turturro**. (He attended Delahanty HS but starred in our production of Pippin in 1975). He’s been to my house and I actually kissed him once, and I became good friends with his cousin\*\* Aida\*\* Olinda **Turturro** and hung out with her at home in The Village and she spent weekends with me and my family in Hollis.

I met **Eddie Murphy** at a club in Jamaica Queens called Encore. He was on SNL and hadn’t reached fame in the movies yet. He was nice, but had an entourage of idiots.

I met the group **Kool and The Gang** backstage - I was a songwriter then, and one of my partners found a way to get us into The Garden. I met **Fonda Rae** backstage too.

I choreographed for a singing group, **The Waller Family** for about a year and their grandma became babysitter for my girls. They had mild fame on R&B stations in the south.

I met **Spike Lee** at a holiday party I attended with a guy my mother MADE me go out with. His mother was her sorority sister. This was before his first film was released.

As a hospital employee for an exclusive unit I met **Cyrus Vance** , **Raul Julia**  **Phoebe Cates** , and **Ralph Lauren**. I had real conversations with all of them.

I was a roller skating extra for the film ATL and met **T.I.** , **Albert Daniels** , and **Jackie Long** as well as his girlfriend **Serena Williams** on the set.

I met **Terry Brooks** at a book festival here in Atlanta last year and I met **Amiri Baraka** at the book festival this year.

I know a few famous poets. **Abyss** has been a friend, I know\* Seria Mills\* - had Thanksgiving with her last year and we speak regularly.  
To be continued… going on break

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**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-contacts-inspired-by-a-dumb-pit-thread/465324/2 "2008-09-26T14:29:55Z")

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Here’s the thread: [lissener, video clerk to the stars - The BBQ Pit - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=484204)

Do any of you know any celebrities?

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**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrity-contacts-inspired-by-a-dumb-pit-thread/465324/3 "2008-09-26T14:31:35Z")

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Ahem. [Been there](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=483623), done that.