We’ve borrowed my nieces for a few days. Last day but one we’re minding our own business when this strange looking van turns up. A telescopic thing with a satelite dish and some other bits on it extends out of the top. A woman gets out. I hear her mention something about some Manx polititian turning up at blah time for blah reason… meh. So I get on with what I was doing (fetching the foam ball my niece keeps hitting for me)
Bored, I walk back up to the car… spot a woman… Hey? Isn’t that that woman who does the weather… or is it the news… Dianne Oxbridge. (BBC North West)
I’m not the star struck type (I’ve been close to bumping into Magnus Magnuson - former presenter of Mastermind, and Jason Stratham - Snatch, Lock Stock, Italian Job, boyfriend of Kelly Brook, short-ass) but figured a few pics won’t hurt. Here’s one.
So, anyone else caught pics of slightly famous people?
Almost forgot to mention, this was at Port Erin, Wednesday I think. Live broadcast… would have been around 5-6pm on BBC North West. (check tv schedule for exact time… I wasn’t keeping check myself)
Brad Pitt is filming a movie called “The Assasination of Jesse James” in town and I saw him from across the street. My heart lept and I’m not even a big fan, but whoa I am now. lol
Not really, but I just wanted to say that picture #5 just about made me squeal like a little girl. Not the dignified image I’m trying to portray here at work.
Does it count if you work with them??? Well not really with them, but sort of. If so then yea I have seen a few. No one to go crazy over. It’s silly, I have passed by some fairly well know singers and comedians still the coolest person I had to put a lav mic on was the president of Westjet. I have no idea why I thought it was cool, but I did.
I have known people who have worked with really big names.
I guess it would also depend on what you consider big name, I have worked with well know dancers, but only well known in the classical dance world I really didnt know who they were.
A couple weeks ago, I was in a meeting with Ed Shaughnessy.
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Drummer with the NBC Orchestra during Johnny Carson’s reign on The Tonight Show. Shaughnessy is easily the greatest drummer I have ever had the privilege to meet. Listening to him play is listening to a musical genius.
Years ago, I met him. He was loading into a room that I and my ensemble were loading out of. He was carrying his own drums. I said to him, “Hey, you’re the star. Why do they make you carry your own stuff?”
He said, “It keeps you humble, Man.” in that unmistakable jazzer’s voice. Those words have inspired me any time I’ve had to do something that I thought someone else should be doing.
For those that follow U.S. politics, I’ve seen a million famous people. I work in downtown D.C., so it’s not that uncommon. I just mentioned today in another thread that I saw Jim Carville on the Metro a few months ago. I’ve almost had to scrape both Bob Novak and Morton Kondracke off my windshield – what is it with pundits that they think they don’t have to obey DON’T WALK signs? I had a brief conversation with Justice Scalia (I made a joke, and he made a better one – funny, funny guy). I’ve had lunch a table away from John Kerry and I passed Barney Frank on Capitol Hill. There’s several more I’m not remembering. I’ve also had a chat with Susan Dey and I was in line at a McDonald’s behind Dennis Quaid.
