Famous People Good, Bad, Sad or ??

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Having worked in a few luxury hotels I ran across a couple of famous people. Some where nice some not so nice. Has anyone else ran across celebrities and what did you think of them

Really Nice Ones

Kirk Cameron (nicest one I’ve ever met)
Leonardo DeCapria(sp?)
Micheal Richards
Don Rickles
John McEnroe (really cool)
Janet Jackson
Ringo Starr(very very nice)
Arrogant and Rude:

Joel Grey
Sheryl Crowe
The lady who plays the neighbor on Caroline in the city (Dark Haired girl)
Scottie Pippin

Sad

Oprah Winfrey
Elton John

Both stayed on several occasions and seemed always to be sad and depressed. And they both came back to the hotel after shopping with TONS of clothes
Any others you’ve ran across

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I went to the same school as Beverly Mitchell and Johnathan Taylor Thomas (the former was in the same grade, the latter a grade behind… and JTT isn’t his real name).

Bev was pretty nice, though caught up in the “popular people” thing (but not to the extreme that she was rude or anything).

JTT was a total jackass. He was arrogant and had his nose so high in the air all the time it must’ve been hitting satellites. He acted as if everybody knew who he was (some people didn’t), and as if everybody cared (very few did).

Anyway, that’s really about it. I’ve stayed at the same hotels as Will Smith and Jason Alexander, but I only caught the occasional glimpse of them (and I’m not the type to run up screaming to a celebrity).

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John Langstaff, for those who know him, is a really nice guy in person.

Chelsea Clinton is nice as well.

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Robert O’Reilley and JG Hertzler (Chancellor Gowron and General Martok from Star Trek) are both incredibly nice guys. I met them both at a sci-fi convention and they are everything Klingons shouldn’t be - nice, polite, and friendly.

Former Texas governor Ann Richards is also very nice. I was in the Air Force ROTC honor guard in college. We presented the colors at a basketball game and were leaving as the governor came in. She went out of her way to meet us and -get this- actually apologized for missing our appearance. I didn’t like her as a politician, but I liked her as a person. She was much shorter than I expected, too.

I haven’t met many other celebs, but so far my experiences with them have been positive. Guess I’m just lucky.

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Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter: the consumate gentleman, though apparently weary of being questioned about space; an old Navy man, he loves oceanography.

I once stood in line at Disneyland behind the hooknosed old guy who used to play Gus the Fireman on Leave It to Beaver. (He played character bits in lots of TV shows and movies.) He struck me as an arrogant, mean man. Two young kids politely asked for his autograph, and he replied that, no, if he signed autographs for them, he’d have to do it for everyone in line. The kids were crestfallen, and the glares from other people in line could’ve told him he didn’t need to worry about more autograph hounds. He turned and gave me a look like, “The nerve of those kids.”

Linda Hunt: pleasant, polite and very soft-spoken.

Ethan Hawke: pleasant, polite, very down to earth, and stunk to high heaven. The guy reeked like a dead skunk and he still had the finest women hanging off him.

(Linda Hunt, Ethan Hawke and others rehearsed for plays in the room adjacent to my office years ago. Also ran into Thomas Hulce numerous times, Neil Simon once in the elevator, and Adam Arkin, who needed to find the restroom REAL BAD.)

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Graham Coxon from Blur: very nice, quiet (my friend plays pool with him a lot, since he’s a regular in the pub under her office)

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Vincent Gardinia was a real class -A asshole to you if you were the hired help, Barbra Barrie was a sweetheart,Michael Stipe and the rest of the REM guys are all quite nice and very aproachable ( for multi-millionaires)Faith Ford is a great girl, a real unaffected and a down to earth goofball (inna GOOD way)…Michael Jordan is a Prince, Chas. Barclay is a spoiled BRAT! Woody Harrelson is a douchebag,Mark Harmon is ok, but he is really short and suprisingly doughy around the middle…oh, and Scott Baio’s BROTHER ( for gawds sake) was the most pretentious poser, superficial LA-ed loser imaginable

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I’ve interacted with quit a few people by phone over the years. I worked my way through college dispatching tow trucks in Los Angeles, and you would not believe the crappy cars these people drive. Expensive crappy, but buckets none the less.

Gary Sinise - very nice, obviously stressed out when I talked to him, but made a point of being polite

Gary Busey - I think he was stoned. I talked to him 3 or 4 times over the course of a week. He’s the only one I knew immediately just from the voice. Completely dippy and a little out of it, but basically nice.

Dick Van Dyke - nice, but not very bright. I think he called in something like 9 times in a row for a dead battery in his RX7. Can’t he afford to buy a new battery?

Milton Berle - my personal favorite. He was a scream, and asked me all sorts of questions about my life too.

James Caan - the biggest jerk ever. I talked to him twice. It was rush hour and the truck was going to take about 40 minutes to get to him. He kept saying “Do you know who I am? I’m James Caan! Can’t you get somebody faster?” Just for that he waited over an hour. What a prick.

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Hmm, not many famous people interactions here in RI… but here’s my few.

R.A. Salvatore, he wrote the Dark Elf trilogy and the Icewind Dale stuff. A friend of mine knew him and had him come speak to the role-playing/sci-fi group at my college. Really great guy, very “real”, the kind of guy you can sit and have a beer with and talk to. He hung out with us for quite a while and had a great time.

I talked to Barney Frank on the phone once. He’s very, very loud. I worked for a student advocacy/educational research group in college (SCERA at UMass Amherst, if anyone’s interested) and we had sent out surveys to all the area reps so we could inform students about their officials. He got his late, and was upset that he wasn’t going to be included in the survey. He was very loud. (Did I mention he was loud? I had to hold the phone a good 5 inches from my ear.) He wasn’t rude, and he was concerned that he wasn’t going to make it into the survey, so I told him I’d see what I could do, and got him in the survey after all. He called back a week later to personally thank me. I respected him a lot before that, a hell of a lot more now. Even remembered my name.

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Very Nice:

DB Sweeney
Eartha Kitt
James Earl Jones
Lindsay Wagner (obsessed with her hair)
Faith Hill
Tim McGraw(sp?)
Ricky Martin
Marc Anthony
Joe Dumars
Grant Hill
Dennis Rodman (Before he left Detroit)

Waste of Air:

Aretha Franklin (so mean)
Kate Jackson
John Sally

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Wow! When John Salley stopped by our offices, he was really nice. He made a point of asking what everyone did and was very polite and friendly. So either we caught him on a good day, or little*bit caught him on a bad one.

Other celebs I’ve met through work:
Mary J. Blige: very pleasant and friendly (and gorgeous);
Patti LaBelle: ditto;
Tommy Lee: really enthusiastic about talking about his music; like a big puppy dog.
Tommy Lasorda: Total jerk in most ways, but very patient about photos and autographs. But I know he’s much loved, so it may have been an off day.

Most of the people who come through here are “baby bands” who are plugging their first or second singles. They all come with handlers and are uniformly extremely polite and friendly (good coaching, I presume, and enlightened self-interest). It’s sometimes mildly amusing to see very scary-looking young men smiling politely, saying, “Hi, I’m Scar, and it’s so nice to meet you!”

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Patrick Stewart - I met him on the set of ST:TNG in the summer of '92. He was very nice and approachable (not to mentions short - I could see my face reflected off the top of his head). I saw the rest of the crew, but I’m not much of a Trekkie so I didn’t bother them.

Pierce Brosnan - I met him a few days later. Polite, but very reserved.

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Ice-T was a total ass.
Several members of his band Body Count were very nice.

That sums up my famous people encounters…

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I used to work for a concert promoter, so I’ve met some interesting “famous people”:

Henry Rollins: TALKS way too much about himself, but generally a nice guy. If you can steer him onto another subject, he’s actually pretty animated and nice. AND BUILT! WHOO HOO!

Courtney Love and Ani DiFranco: Bitches

Vince, lead singer from Sponge: Very cool! I met him on several occasions, the first couple of times he was wasted out of his skull, but then he cleaned up and he still remembered my name and several things we talked about. He was really cool.

Collective Soul guys: Lead singer thought he was God, but he was short and ugly. Drummer, bassist and guitarist were totally hot and very nice.

Porno for Pyros: Was very surprised by the wonderful reception I got from Perry Farrell. Totally sweet guy, liked to touch my hands. And very short and skinny!

Marilyn Manson: Mr. Manson was scary to look at but seemed relatively decent. other guys in band didn’t say too much.

Goo Goo Dolls: Knew them before there were “famous”. Robby Goo used to hang out in Rochester all the time, went out several times to bars with him. Johnny and Robby were into coke for a while and weren’t fun to be around, but once they got more famous, they dropped that (and their wives!) and now I never see them. No loss to me. But they were decent people deep down.

Green Day: LOSERS! LOSERS! LOSERS! (and this was BEFORE Woodstock!)

Gin Blossoms: Singer was a dick, drummer was totally cute and totally nice.

Ben Shepherd (Soundgarden): His uncle owns a bar in Seattle that my best friend works at so I’ve hung out with him several times. Pretty cool.

Stone Gossard (Pearl Jam): Didn’t talk to him really, but stood next to him and he’s so short!

Rancid: Are they still considered famous? Very quiet, seemed totally opposite their stage personas.

Mighty Mighty Bosstones: Singer was a jerk. But the horn players were very cool, spent a lot of time with them. And their drug dealer was an aquaintance of mine! (LONG time ago!)

Fugazi: Totally cool!

That band that sung a rendition of “Girl, you’ll be a woman soon” or whatever from the Pulp Fiction soundtrack. Begins with a “G”, oh man! They were really cool, except for the singer who was a pig.

My friend in Seattle met Cameron Diaz and said she was a total bitch with a pock-marked face. Apparently make up does wonders for her! And that guy from Home Improvement, the friend Al Borland, is a real ass.

I feel like I’m rattling on and I don’t want to annoy anyone. I’m sure there’s more, but I’ll stop…for now!

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Van Halen - Super nice
Alice in Chains - Pigs
Metallica - James and Jason were nice and funny Lars and Kirk were pigs
Queenscryche - Totally nice
Shania Twain - Nice and SHORT, her manager, however was not nice (“Don’t make eye contact with Shania”)
The Rolling Stones - Nice
Garth Brooks - Nice
Moist - very nice

A cabbie I met in Baton Rouge had given George Clooney a ride (when they were filming “Out Of Sight”). He didn’t know who he was but asked him what he thought of George Clooney. George’s response? “I’m not that impressed with him.” Apparently very nice. Jennifer Lopez, he said was a bitch.

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Really, the times i’ve talked with Dickie He’s been totally cool, and really up to meeting the fans and stuff.

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Fred Haise, Apollo 13. You know, “Houston, we have a problem?” Right. He’s a nice guy, doesn’t mind talking about his adventure (Duct Tape Rules), and is one mean Putt Putt Player. Wore a T Shirt that said “Why yes, I am a Rocket Scientist.” Likes Star Trek, to a degree. Seems utterly normal, like a Dad or something. Doesn’t seem like a Astronaut.

Mary Ann Mobley: U of Miss alum; stuck up drunk. Probably already pickled her liver, given the drinking rate at Ole Miss.

Gary Collins: knew who he was, said Hello, didn’t talk much. Quiet, but seemed busy.

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I played in a golf tournament this year and Shawn Respert was also playing in it. No body knew who he was. He can whack a golf ball.
I saw Elvis just before he died. he was really fat.
Craig Frost (of Grand Funk Rail Road & Bob Seager fame) was a nice guy.

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R.A. Salvatore is an evil, evil, evil man! He wrote “Star Wars - The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime”. He’s the one that killed Chewbacca!!! He should burn in hell with mutant cheesey poofs nibbling on his butt for all eternity!!! Grrrr!!!