This has certainly been done before, and may be more for MPSIMS (so if a Mod wants to move it, go right ahead) but something is happening as I type this that’s pretty cool.
I have an old high school friend whose cousin is dying from cancer and doesn’t have much time left. Paul Simon is her favorite music artist and her family and friends started a Facebook campaign to try to get him to go visit her. They just asked people to post her name to his page. The family had posted her story to the page and then the posts from other people poured in. It worked. He visited her today. She just shared a pic the woman’s brother posted of them together. That doesn’t make Paul Simon a saint or anything, but I thought it was pretty cool.
Justin Bieber spent time with a very young dying girl.
Last Valentine’s Day, Routh’s wishes came true when she spent the day with Bieber after he caught wind of her Facebook campaign to meet her idol, which amassed more than 12,000 supporters. He then retweeted the link to his millions of followers and invited Routh and her family to spend Monday with him in Manhattan.
Another Paul Simon story - he was playing at a concert when a woman in the audience shouted out that she’d learned to play guitar from the song he was about to perform. So he invited her up on stage to play it with him. She did the song while he played rhythm and sang back up. There’s a video of this on YouTube.
So apparently Paul Simon is a decent guy who has a normal-sized ego. I’m glad, 'cuz I’ve always liked his music.
Jon Bon Jovi opened up a restaurant that has no prices on the menu. You donate what you can. If you are hungry and can’t afford to pay you can volunteer to pay for your meal.
I worked at a theater in Beverly Hills - one time we had Carol Burnett in the cast.
After the show, on the way to her car in the back alley, she first stopped and signed autographs for her fans - of which there were many.
Then, noticing a homeless guy about half way down the alley going through a dumpster, she walked down towards him.
She handed him a $20 bill and said, “Please buy some food with this, and not alcohol.” and then she went back and got in her car and drove home.
Maybe that is not in the category of visiting a dying fan, but I thought it was pretty classy and cool of her to do that.
She is, BTW, as classy and cool as she appears in all of her interviews - a truly nice person in real life.
A few years ago when I was working as a PA for Live Nation we were doing a few Eagles shows over a weekend in Baltimore.
On the second day I went into town to pick up some things for the crew, and just hanging out outside a restaurant near the Inner Harbor was the guy who’s not Don Henley, Glenn Frey, or Joe Walsh; you know, the bass player with the long hair (whose name I don’t know because he’s not Don Henley, Glenn Frey, or Joe Walsh). Anyway, it seemed to me and the runner I had with me that he was hanging out just waiting for someone to run up to him and go, “Hey! You’re [that guy] from the Eagles!” but it just wasn’t happening. Who knows how long he had been standing there; he looked pretty dug in. I watched him from the car for a good 20 minutes while my runner was getting the supplies and it just seemed so sad watching hundreds of people walk past him and not recognize him.
Sorry. That wasn’t a “good” celebrity story. But it was amusing to me.
To be clear - I love Paul Simon’s songs and have a deep appreciation and respect for what he has achieved. But I don’t think he is known for being easygoing or humble. Certainly the members of Los Lobos aren’t big fans - there was a thread here a few years ago with a link to an interview with Steve Berlin about the making of Graceland (a perfect album, IMHO) that is…complex.
Sorry - as far as I am concerned, he can be however he wants to be - he’s amazing. But I get the impression “he contains multitudes”
