Not electrocution, but I was helping run a show in which the singer of the main band got a bad shock from the mic and just left the stage. That was the end of the show.
William Shatner once patted my first wife’s mother’s rear-end unbidden.
I used to work for a theater touring company of which Patrick Stewart was sort of a figurehead artistic director and I met him on several occasions. He was a perfectly nice man.
At one event, during which he was being interviewed by a TV reporter, I was asked to get his sunglasses from his car. I accidentally set off his car alarm and, despite my inability to get the damn thing to turn off, he laughed the incident off and got them himself.
I was told by someone who knew him better that he was a bit on the cheap side, despite having boatloads of money from Star Trek, but that this was very common in British stage actors in general, as they often spend years as near-destitute nobodies before attaining any significant financial success.
Yep. When I was working at a bookstore, it was John Gray (I think that’s the name - the guy who wrote those Men Are From Mars books). He was constantly hitting on and making disgusting sexual comments to one of my co-workers (who was married, as was he). He was an obnoxious prick to her and a smug, condescending ass to those he wasn’t trying to fuck. Of course, that all changed once he got in front of the audience and adopted the caring, sensitive pose he used to sell books.
ETA: Willie Mays used to be a regular customer at another bookstore I worked in, and he was never anything less than friendly and humble.
Just to mention, she’s not cheap, in the times when I watched the show and had a calculator, she didn’t stiff them, she just exactly tipped 15%. Not more, not less. Now, in something that (occasionally) costs less than $10, this seems like a pitiful tip. And in many of those places people usually leave a tip over 15%.
I also read somewhere that even though she could (or did) tip more, the producers of the show went with the 15% tip as the amount they added to count towards the $40/day.
I guess if you’re visiting some of those places, you can of course skip some meals or drinks and tip more, still spending less than $40 (she sometimes seems to eat a whole lot during the day).
I remember reading somewhere that her camera crew actually eats most of the food she’s served (to help her keep her girlish figure, no doubt).
Have you seen the youtube video where he talks about helping a fan resist suicide? He might or might not a fake, but damn that thing makes me cry!
Doohan is Scotty right?
I know this is hijacking the topic of this thread and turning it into one about what constitutes a proper tip but while 15% may be considered a good tip by many people, apparently standards have shifted so that now anything below 17% is viewed as an insult. In fact, 15% could land you in “The Shitty Tipper Database” at the bitterwaitress web site.
Well, I can say that that is not true. When QE2 opened the University of Northern British Columbia, she was perfectly happy using the institution’s washrooms as provided.
She opened the university? Maybe everyone was ordered not to use the toilets until after she’d left. 
Well, the university had been open for a little while prior to the ceremony. Maybe they had a new, plastic-wrapped toilet seat on standby…
Personal experience:
[ul]
[li]Carol Channing. A real self-centered, loud-mouth bitch.[/li][li]C. Everett Coop when he was US Surgeon General. A condescending prick.[/li][li]Peter Marshall (Hollywood Squares original host). So full of shit.[/li][li]Chief Justice Warren Burger. A pompous ass. OTOH, Justice Harry Blackman was very gracious.[/li][li]Jerry Penacoli. Another pompous ass, probably because he is allegedly the original butt of the famous joke about gerbils (and not Richard Gere).[/li][/ul]
Perfectly accidental turn of phrase, I’m sure…
Joe
A couple guys I met said they were at Sloppy Joes in Key west when David Caruso came in. He was with a woman who was shopping and decided to stop for a drink while she shopped. He sat down with a the strangers ,had a drink with them and paid the bill.
In K.W. Goldie Hawn was famous for being fun until she got too drunk. Then I hear she could get real bitchy.
Also in KW, Barbara Streisand and Don Johnson were staying in a hotel there. She pulled into another womans assigned parking spot. The woman bitched and babs gave her the " do you know who I am speech’. Woman said I don;t give a fuck move your car. Johnson did move it and seemed very embarrassed.
Can I make fun of his hair?
No, you may not.
Sorry to go a little OT, but I once shared a ski-lift with William H. Macy and he was one of the nicer guys I’ve met. Funny as hell too. I almost fell off once laughing.
Her Majesty used the shitter at my wife’s college.
Jesse “The Body” Ventura was an ass to me when I asked him a question about regressive taxation. He acted like a bully. He insulted me and challenged my age (I was in my 30’s) and he demonstrated that he didn’t seem to know what regressive taxation even was. That was the way he always was though. He didn’t put on some other kind of persona when the cameras were turned on him.
These type of threads can be fun sometimes – fame has a tendency to inflate egos, and everyone enjoys good gossip. However, I think people should remember that these celebrities are people too, and that these threads can also quickly devolve into dragging people’s good name’s through the dirt for little or no reason.
For example:
But here is what his fellow actor Wil Wheaton has to say:
And elsewhere on the internet he describes:
Idonno, I just feel like we should have a higher standard than unattributed quotes taken out of context before we publicly label someone “a complete bastard”