When I was in college I-along with 4 other people- had drinks with Larry Linville aka Frank Burns. He was kind of a name dropper. How’s that for irony.
I also made eye contact with George Wendt when he was coming out of a theater in Chicago once. I didn’t bother him though because 1) I wouldn’t and 2) he looked like he was in a hurry.
Oh, and my dad guarded the pope on his visit to Iowa in 1980.
Ok, nobody can get lower than this:
I touched someone who touched someone who touched Adolph Hitler.
There are two things I watch on TV.
New Orleans just bought the Hornets so when they play the Lakers I hope Jack comes, so I can catch a glimpse.
And I want jackelope to know that I think he has the coolest relative ever. I am definitely impressed. I even bid on a teacup from the bewtiched set on ebay. I LOVE that show.
And I know Britney Spears mother and aunt and went to high school with her first cousins. I also know the 3 other girls that she always brings with her on location for things like Britney in Hawaii. And I know the original owner of Nyla’s in Kentwood, the restaurant after which she is modeling her new one in New York. I have never met her though. Alot of my friends and acquintances have though. My grandmother knew her well as little girl. I only live about 15 miles from her home in Kentwood. I would love to bump into her one day, and from what I hear she’s in town alot more than we know of.
The best I can personally do is that I was on a cover of a Disney Magazine in like 1993, I think. It was just a far-off shot of a street at MGM at Disney World, so you can barely see me. One day my mom and I were looking at it and saw my dad, and looked over and saw me.
In the Atlanta airport I was in line at Domino’s, and was vaguely aware of someone a little behind me, that I felt was probably one of those people who tries to ease up and cut you in line. Sure enough, she did. I looked over to glare and say a few words, when I realized that Minnie Driver had cut me in line!:eek: I didn’t say anything and I just stood there like an idiot, but apparently still had a glare on my face. She said “I’m sorry, did I skip ahead of you?” I said that she did but no harm was done. I still wonder if she meant to do it or not.
Not entirely famous, except maybe to dopers in Kentucky, I have a connection to a candidate for governor. He is my great-aunt’s lawyer while she is on trial for battery and making violent threats and the like. Well I should say that he will most likely be her lawyer, because he doesn’t know if he’ll be able to take the case due to scheduling. The reason he is helping my aunt out for very little money is that her friend kept him out of trouble when he got into an accident while he was under the influence of something. I dom’t know exactly what actually transpired in that, so I won’t reveal his name.
Also, my friend’s sister was on that old Nickelodeon show “Clarissa Explains it All” several times.
My brother works at CNN and has met/worked with Wolf Blitzer, Bernard Shaw, Christiane Amanpour, Lynn Russell and others and also met Al Gore (before the 2000 campaign) and the king of Spain. He also shook hands with Bill Clinton during the 1992 campaign when he was in college.
Oh, and my maternal grandmother’s third husband was related to Wayne Gretzky, and when she died I met Wayne Gretzky’s dad, who was kind enough to come to the funeral (I’m not sure he actually knew anyone there). He gave me a pin of Wayne and his wife and their baby.
really?
I was a puppetteer at several renaissance festivals and the Kalamazoo County fair for a couple of years. I actually had a guy come up to me in a mall near Boston once, who grinned and made puppet motions with his hand while pointing me out to his family. Fame, of a sort.
I’ve also appeared on Providence PBS pledge drives.
I’ve met Pat Harrington, also known as Schneider from One Day At A Time, as well as Richard and Pat Nixon, and Julie and David Eisenhower, and also John Dean. Also Big Bird. I spoke briefly with Natalie Merchant. She’s charming.
It’s been a weird life so far.
Well, I could say that I’ve met some of the Vancouver Canucks personnel at the Family Carnival they had at GM Place a few years back, but I’m not sure that really counts. But for what it’s worth: Dana Murzyn, Gino Odjick, Donald Brashear, Stan Smyl, etc. (my brother and I saw our friend at the carnival and he mentioned that he had met Pavel Bure)
I also saw Ryan Walter in a local Chiristian bookstore: he was there to an autograph signing. There was this other time I was at one of the local malls (Metrotown), and Trevor Linden was there at the Nike sports shop that day. Didn’t happen to see him there, though.
My friend Denise has pictures of herself with all these wrestlers, pop music stars, etc., so I guess I could claim that I know someone who has actually touched (for example) D-Lo, Mick Brown, Edge, Christian. and various assorted members of the Backstreet Boys, 3-T, N’Sync, etc. (believe me, she has lots of photos)
My brother knows a bunch of people from local bands and such, but I don’t think that counts. If you’ve ever heard of Ethers Void, Gladdys Patches (spelling?), or Graphic Nature, then you’re in luck if it counts… He knows a few of the people from these bands.
There was a time quite some years ago that my family was at Fantasy Gardens and I shook Lillian Vander Zalm’s hand. Does that count? (the wife of the then-premier of BC)
That’s about the best I can do. Most of it is very circumstantial and everything, but still sort of worthy.
(oh, and jackelope: I agree with the people who said you have a cool relative)
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Yeah, she ran out of money on the German Class High School tour and Rommel (son of the General) the mayor of Stuttgart shook her hand and gave her a limo ride to wire Mommy and Daddy for money. We figure Hitler at least patted the guy on the head before he killed Daddy.
MrVisible: I met Dean when I protested his speaking at my University. He is an evil bastard and I hope someone remembers to drive a stake through his heart before they nail the lid down on the coffin.
Did you know that that is grounds for a slander lawsuit? A viewer could assume that you and your friends are on drugs. I think this is called “false light”.
Back on topic, in one of Howard Stern’s books he talks about when he used to go on CompuServe. He says how people (obviously) didn’t believe it really was him until he talked about it on the air.
The scene you describe is bound to play out in my head for months, and make people wonder what I’m giggling about…
(People may also know him as the Maitre 'D in the Seinfeld “Waiting for a Table at the Chinese Restaurant” episode, not to mention countless other character roles)
I was an extra in The Age of Innocence. I sat in the front row, far right corner of the audience facing the stage in the opening opera scene. I’m briefly visible as Daniel Day Lewis takes his seat, though I’m hard to make out on VHS (Film, DVD, or cable TV broadcast are better).
I was in a handful of commercials as a kid. Mostly local stuff, but I did do a couple for a steak-to-your-door mail order business that were national. Like KEF#3, I was instructed to smile, take a big bite, and smile again but DON’T SWALLOW. Come to find out the steak had only been seared on one side to keep it plump-looking and was pretty much completely raw. Ugh. 
Oh, and Ty Cobb is swinging in my family tree in some removed way I’ve never quite figured out. As for famous posters, the ones I knew have already been named ::pouting:: I think if I was horribly famous and found somewhere I could have normal interactions untainted by my fame, I’d stay incognito. So I guess you just never know.
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Elwood, yes, I was aware of the potential for litigation. But the one person I’d be concerned about drawing that conclusion (my boss) is the only one I know who did see it. And he thought it was hilarious.
Still, I did wonder about the station’s lawyers’ competence.
I’ve been on E! (the entertainment network).
Years ago, Dave Thomas (the SCTV guy, not the Wendy’s guy) used to post on the alt.fan.sctv newsfroup. I don’t know if he still does. Aaaannyway, I asked him a question and he answered it.
Also, I once breathed the same air as Nigel Mansell. Practically, anyway - we were both in the same nightclub at the same time, although I wasn’t aware of it until somebody told me later.
I have three IMDb pages. I’ve tried to tell them that we’re all the same person, but they haven’t fixed it yet.
Well, in no particular order…
My family on my mother’s side is still close friends with the family of the late Archie Williams, an Olympic Gold Medalist in 1936 (He saw Hitler, BTW. He said he looked short) who later taught at Tuskgegee, during the war. I can just barely remember meeting Archie himself, when I was very young.
Speaking of Hitler, my grandfather owns a hat that (it is said) once belonged to him. He’s still trying to find Hitler’s hat size so he can either prove or debunk it. (Maybe we should start another thread: “How closely can you be connected to Hitler?” Or not. Maybe for Halloween)
And as for myself, I designed the very first replica space shuttle that could be launched into orbit on the “X-Plane” flight simulator. And I’m pretty sure that the program’s creator implimented a couple of my suggestions. Not much to the world at large, perhaps, but it means a lot to me.
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[rant]No it isn’t! Stop this “I met a famous person” stuff. That is not what the OP was! I posted this thread wondering if there are famous people incogneto on the SDMB! It was meant to be a discussion involving guesses of who it could be without anyone revealing themselves.[/rant]
Base your post on the OP.
I was in a kid’s BBC TV series when I was twelve. I got the part because my mum’s an actress, I can sign and they needed a hearing child who could sign with the deaf character. I’ve done quite a few government information films too. They were fun to film, and I got recognised a few times. Not any more of course.
However, my mum might soon be famous (again - she used to be very well-known in the deaf world). She’s been invited to audition for a lead role in a mini-series on a BBC show for deaf people that gets a few million viewers.
I take that as a challenge.
I interviewed Albert Speer, Hitler’s architect.
Small vignette: as we were chatting, I was flipping through a coffee-table book of his designs. He stopped in the middle of a story to point at one page, on which was a design of a street lamp. A very old street lamp, like you’d see in fin-de-siecle Paris.
“That,” he said, “is that only design of mine that is still standing.”
He was an amiable host, for a war criminal.