# I must drop a letter to dear Livvy De Havilland (my name-dropping thread) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 6, 2005, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-drop-a-letter-to-dear-livvy-de-havilland-my-name-dropping-thread/297947 "2005-04-06T00:31:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-drop-a-letter-to-dear-livvy-de-havilland-my-name-dropping-thread/297947/61 "2005-04-07T13:00:28Z")
‘Weird Al’ Yankovic once complimented me on my shirt. Yeah, that’s about the best I can do… ---
**Author:** ![bafaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@bafaa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bafaa)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-drop-a-letter-to-dear-livvy-de-havilland-my-name-dropping-thread/297947/62 "2005-04-07T16:05:40Z")
My fiancé is [Bryan Singer’s](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001741/) mother’s dental hygienist. Aren’t you all jealous? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-drop-a-letter-to-dear-livvy-de-havilland-my-name-dropping-thread/297947/63 "2005-04-07T16:50:23Z")
> [@Homebrew](#): > > No name dropping you do now would make me more envious than when you dropped the tidbit about your Christimas gift from John Waters. I’ve met some famous people, but just about all of them either in stage-door contexts or for interviews. So I’ll say something about John Waters: I saw _Cecil B. Demented_ in theatres and liked it. Somehow, maybe at the movie’s Web site, I found an address to write to Waters. I told him that I very much enjoyed the movie, and that it had inspired me to go home and make some progress on a screenplay I was writing at the time. (I’ll finish the damn thing some day.) Some months later I received a postcard with a drawing of a porno theatre marquee on it, and a type-written message from the man himself, saying he was glad his movie inspired me to work on the script. I’m sure I still have it laying around in a box, I should go find it. I have my share of autographs but that’s more personal than most of them. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-drop-a-letter-to-dear-livvy-de-havilland-my-name-dropping-thread/297947/64 "2005-04-07T16:55:28Z")
> [@Mehitabel](#): > > I have met twice with the distinguished author **Eve Golden**. Speaking of **Eve** … hey **Eve** , I’m going to be back in New York in about two weeks. Would you like to have lunch some time? My e-mail is in my profile. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-drop-a-letter-to-dear-livvy-de-havilland-my-name-dropping-thread/297947/65 "2005-04-07T17:26:10Z")
I spent a number of afternoons being driven about and gladhanding with \*_Alexa McDonough_. I didn’t know she was _allowed_ to say “pissed off.” I’ve met **Svend Robinson** on a number of occasions; he phoned me personally to give his condolences on my dad’s death. At the 2003 pride parade, I sashayed down René-Lévesque boulevard with **Jack Layton** , who can certainly hold his own in the sashaying department. As a child, I had a leech removed from my foot by **Gary Doer** , who was one of my dad’s Grey Cup buddies. I have twice testified in defence of **Jaggi Singh.** ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-drop-a-letter-to-dear-livvy-de-havilland-my-name-dropping-thread/297947/66 "2005-04-07T17:41:01Z")
I met Alicia Keyes when she was 17. I’ve met tons of theatre people at stage doors, including Christopher Reeve (5th of July) and John Ritter & Henry Winkler (Dinner Party). I met Wayne Crady recently when he did “Chicago” and they practicularly had to hose me down. I also met up with and had a nice chat with Louise Pitre on Sunday September 11, 2001 when Mamma Mia! was in previews. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-drop-a-letter-to-dear-livvy-de-havilland-my-name-dropping-thread/297947/67 "2005-04-07T18:11:10Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I met Wayne Crady recently when he did “Chicago” and they practicularly had to hose me down. Did you mean Wayne “Is Wayne Brady Gonna Have To Choke a Bitch?” Brady? _White people love Wayne Brady because he makes Bryant Gumble look like Malcolm X._ Don’t you just love the (Dave) Chappelle Show? ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-drop-a-letter-to-dear-livvy-de-havilland-my-name-dropping-thread/297947/68 "2005-04-07T19:13:17Z")
> [@Stuffy](#): > > When I lived in West Oakland I shared a backyard fence with MC Hammer (he was still a bat boy for the A’s then). My dad once installed a payphone at his dad’s bar. My uncle’s ex-wife is Kirk Hammet’s cousin. My mother-in-law was college roommates with a woman who went to high school with Teri Hatcher. My brother-in-law’s friend appeared on Craig Kilborn’s show. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2005, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-drop-a-letter-to-dear-livvy-de-havilland-my-name-dropping-thread/297947/69 "2005-04-07T20:09:50Z")
Most of the celebrities I’ve met were through hotels I worked at, but the most surprised and geekish I ever felt to recognize a semi-celebrity was when I checked in an attractive dark haired older lady and though “Oh my God! This is Rosemary!” (It was [Rosemary Woodruff Leary](http://www.mavericksofthemind.com/rosemary.htm), ex-wife of Timothy and a participant in the Bed-in for Peace [and one of the few people ever to flee _to_ Afghanistan for freedom; I was just off of a big Leary kick [never did LSD if you’re wondering, and in fact would have supported Leary being put on the rack] and it was just an odd mini-theophany). ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-drop-a-letter-to-dear-livvy-de-havilland-my-name-dropping-thread/297947/70 "2005-04-08T02:45:45Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I also met up with and had a nice chat with Louise Pitre on Sunday September 11, 2001 when Mamma Mia! was in previews. September 11th, 2001 was a Tuesday. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-drop-a-letter-to-dear-livvy-de-havilland-my-name-dropping-thread/297947/71 "2005-04-08T02:53:20Z")
My mother went to high school with the original drummer from Tommy James and the Shondells. She also worked with a woman who went to high school with Mister Rogers. Now THAT was cool. We have a picture of my sister with our Bishop Donald Wuerl (who’s kinda famous, at least to most Catholics), when the church’s children’s choir sang at the Cathedral. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-drop-a-letter-to-dear-livvy-de-havilland-my-name-dropping-thread/297947/72 "2005-04-08T02:57:39Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic once complimented me on my shirt. That must have been some shirt. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-drop-a-letter-to-dear-livvy-de-havilland-my-name-dropping-thread/297947/73 "2005-04-08T12:26:34Z")
> [@Lissa](#): > > That must have been some shirt. I have always liked it. It’s got Inky, Blinky, and Clyde from Pac-Man on it. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-drop-a-letter-to-dear-livvy-de-havilland-my-name-dropping-thread/297947/74 "2005-04-08T12:27:17Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > September 11th, 2001 was a Tuesday. I meant the 9th. It’s hard typing “September” without adding “11th.” And if “chocking the white [woman]” is similar to choking a chicken, Wayne can choke me anytime. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-drop-a-letter-to-dear-livvy-de-havilland-my-name-dropping-thread/297947/75 "2005-04-08T12:37:25Z")
Apparently, there is a person named Wayne Brady who has the catch phrase seen on this thread. I do not think I have ever heard of him, unless he is the same Wayne Brady as the stage actor and comedian, but I can find only one picture of the catch phrase using one, and I don’t think they are the same person. [http://abc.go.com/primetime/whoseline/bios/wayne\_brady.html](http://abc.go.com/primetime/whoseline/bios/wayne_brady.html) ---
**Author:** ![Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Licentious_Ectomorph)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-drop-a-letter-to-dear-livvy-de-havilland-my-name-dropping-thread/297947/76 "2005-04-08T12:50:52Z")
I am friends with Brad Meltzer – novelist, comic book writer, and writer of the TV show _Jack and Bobby._ ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-drop-a-letter-to-dear-livvy-de-havilland-my-name-dropping-thread/297947/77 "2005-04-08T13:07:57Z")
> [@Nordic](#): > > I am friends with Brad Meltzer – novelist, comic book writer, and writer of the TV show _Jack and Bobby._ Writer of Identity Crisis. Can you give him a punch in the gut for me, and thank him for the plotholes? But sarcastically. REALLY sarcastically. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-drop-a-letter-to-dear-livvy-de-havilland-my-name-dropping-thread/297947/78 "2005-04-08T13:41:12Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > I was on stage in my freshman year with Woody Harrelson in THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT- tho we didn’t have a scene together. You forget you were also on stage with me (Hey, I’m a star, just not yet discovered.). And I was Woody’s roommate sophomore year in Crowe Hall. I also knew Leo Geter at school. He’s been in a ton of movies and TV shows; he’s one of those “oh, it’s THAT guy!” actors you recognize from shows but you can’t name. I also met Vincent Price when he was performing his Oscar Wilde show at our school, and he talked to the theatre crew after the show. In addition, I met several celebrities when I worked at Phantom Ranch at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, like Paul Hogan and Danny Glover. I’ve also met Chubby Checker in Louisville when he was performing at a club, and he stopped by the store I was working in at the time. And I got a letter from Harlan Ellison thanking me for a response I wrote to an article he wrote in F&SF Magazine. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-drop-a-letter-to-dear-livvy-de-havilland-my-name-dropping-thread/297947/79 "2005-04-08T13:55:38Z")
> [@Scott\_plaid](#): > > Apparently, there is a person named Wayne Brady who has the catch phrase seen on this thread. It’s the same guy. Wayne Brady’s reputation as a super-nice guy was lampooned on an episode of the Chappelle Show. The skit featured Dave Chappelle riding along with Wayne as he did a drive-by, picked up money from some of his working girls, killed a cop and committed other offenses. “Is Wayne Brady going to have to choke a bitch?” came from the skit when one of the prostitutes only had $100 to give him. During the skit Wayne comments on an earlier bit from the Chappelle Show when Negrodamus said “White people like Wayne Brady because he makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X.” The show, and that skit in particular, is pee-your-pants funny. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2005, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-drop-a-letter-to-dear-livvy-de-havilland-my-name-dropping-thread/297947/80 "2005-04-08T14:00:01Z")
I have seen brief clips of this show, and it never struck me as being particularily funny, but goddamnit, now I am going to have to catch each and every episode I can watch, just in hopes of catching this skit. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-drop-a-letter-to-dear-livvy-de-havilland-my-name-dropping-thread/297947.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-must-drop-a-letter-to-dear-livvy-de-havilland-my-name-dropping-thread/297947.md?page=5)