I got my picture on the inside cover of U.S. News & World Report once* – does that count as being a celebrity?
*Granted, it was only because I was trying to block the media from getting a picture of the person I was escorting at the time.
I’m Rick James, bitch!
Err, I was Rick James, since he’s dead and all. No, that’s not right either, I’m Dave Chappelle pretending to be Rick James. Actually, I’m not. I’m Mel Gibson pretending to be Dave Chappelle pretending to be Rick James.
No need to amend the spelling…That is what the Aussie accent sounds like!
Hi Stevo 
Why are Aussies allergic to proper names?
I’m Spartacus!
And so’s my wife.
I once dated the cousin of a local porn celebrity. That’s as close as I can get you, and I bet she wouldn’t do it anyway. I have relatives and friends of relatives who’ve palled around with such folks as Carl Sagan and Nat King Cole, but it’s a little tough to get those two on the keyboard these days.
FWIW, I wouldn’tve recognized those names if I’d seen them before reading your post.
While we think that being Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie would be pretty cool, I would think that having the press follow me and taking pictures all the time would drive me batty.
The complete loss of privacy is something I could not stand and I don’t understand the people who go overboard with their fandom geekiness.
However, if Mozart or Sinatra showed up on this board, that would be bitchin’!
Well, you guys can say you knew me when…
I have a role in an independant martial arts comedy movie being filmed here in Houston. I’m also the fight coordinator for the movie. It’s due to be released in September and it will be bigger than Blair Witch (o please Og, let it be so!). So technically, you have a potential future celebrity posting.
If you want to see a short teaser for it, go to http://www.thehiddenart.com/dirtybum/index.html and view/download the video clip. I’m the guy in the suit. It’s a Windows Media Viewer file.
Members of the message board I run have tried to get celebrities – well, at least celebrities in urban planning circles like Jane Jacobs, James Howard Kunstler and Andres Duany – to post a message on the site. No luck. Many well-known planners and urbanists hide away on an exclusive mailing list, where they can talk amongst themselves – essentially preaching to the saved – without the worry of bothersome students or workaday planners stargazing and posting what they feel are pointless questions.
I am the walrus!
Goo goo ga joob.
I’d bet that there are probably a few low-level celebrities on here - small-to-medium market radio disk jockeys and television news reporters, authors that might be known in a certain specialty niche, C-list actors and musicians, or adult children of celebrities and famous athletes. Basically, people who are well-known by some, but they don’t lead celebrity-style lives; they live in the 'burbs, drive their kids to public school, and spend their weekends mowing the lawn and cleaning the gutters rather than clubbing or flying to London for a shopping spree.
The real names of these people probably wouldn’t be recognizable to 98% of all Dopers. Still, if they spill the beans, they might attract a lot of attention among a subculture where fans may be obsessive. They’re people who can walk the streets unrecognized, but pack the room at a gallery opening or comic book convention. They might post in relative anonymity here, and if they told some users who they were, the response might be “who?”, but if word gets out, things could get ugly thanks to obsessive fans.
A real-life example: an old friend of mine is now in a high-profile elected office. She can shop for groceries, lug her kids around the mall, and otherwise lead her day-to-day life in relative anonymity (until she hands over her credit card, of course). Still, like all elected officials, there will be people who are out to get her; looking for anything they can use to eke a few votes away from her. She could blend in just fine on a message board, but if the right (or wrong) person finds out who she is, they can stictch together some posts, publically quote them out of context, and make things rough for her in the next election.
Hmm… My uncle was an actor, but he isn’t anymore. He was the star of a Saturday morning live action superhero show that anyone who was a child in the 70’s would probably remember.
My cousin was the significant other of two very famous actors (at different times). There are pictures of her on the internet with one of the two and some from a magazine that I, as a relative, do not look at, lest I feel like a pervert.
I was an extra in a soon to be released movie entitled, Lonely Hearts (my wife and 5 yo daughter are in it as well). There are two scenes in which the only ones on screen are John Travolta (quite a nice guy, BTW), James Gandolfini and myself. Now, whenever someone mentions one of their names, I casually inform them, “yeah, we shot a movie together a while back.”
Alas, I had no scenes with the Lonely Hearts actresses, Salma Heyak and Laura Dern 
Shazam!!???
Are you Barry Bostwick?
Wasn’t there a Doper who was in The Lovin’ Spoonful or something like that? I could be wrong about the band, but he did an “Ask the” thread way back. “Ask the rock star,” maybe?
And it was Ask the aging rock star.
Bingo! Definitely the Five Americans. Forgive me; I’m young and ignorant.
Western Union! Deet dee dee dee dee deet dee dee dee dee…
By the elders!
If you’d told me that 30 years ago, it would have impressed me a hell of a lot more than any other celeb ever would. Now, tragically, the mention of that show only only conjures vague memories of some annoying kid in a Winnebago. Does your Uncle have any interesting stories?
Eh.
In one episode, he had to push a boat. He had to be in the water outside of the harbor, and had just seen “Jaws” and was scared shitless. Captain Marvel apparently looks VERY serious in that episode.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he’d hit on Isis, but I don’t know for sure.
It was pretty cool at the time that I could say my uncle was Captain Marvel, though.