Have you ever met any celebrities?

[big-n-tall]

 

Chris Evans. Captain America at Comicon.

 

I didn't meet Chris, but a met a good number of celebrities at comiccon. If you stay in the right hotel you'll run into them constantly.

 

I met my female crush in Vegas. She loves going to comiccon and when I met her we geeked out about going. Now I have an even bigger crush on her if that's even possible.

[+ bashful]

Patrick Macnee, Stacy Keach, Hermione Gingold, Pearl Baily, Ted Shackelford, Stevie Wonder.

Edited October 16, 2016 by bashful

[+ WilliamM]

Well if you are going to consider politicians celebrities then I met and came to know all of the original Kennedy family. I quit school in the fall of 1960 and went to work for the JFK campaign in the West Lake District of Los Angeles. Teddy Kennedy arrived, in the late spring, to lead the Western United Sates campaign. He was just a kid and was very inexperienced and not very good at that time. During the 1960 Democratic Convention, here in Los Angeles, I worked as a personal assistant to Robert Kennedy. All of the Kennedy sister were in and out of the office so I got to know all of them quite well. My favorite of all was Robert's wife Ethel. She was totally down to earth and great fun.

 

I am glad you posted because I am confused by the term "met." I did not include Robert Kennedy because I just had a very short conversation with him in 1968. The only other person around was Roosevelt Greer, but RFK was not all that friendly so I did not attempt to continue the conversation.

 

By "met," I thought the OP meant a short or long conversation where both people learned a bit about each other.

Edited November 13, 2018 by WilliamM

[happyguy2]

Mostly happened to me on airplanes when I was upgraded to first class, some opera stars, some move folks (sad to say I never recognized them), a couple of second class royals too. In short, none of them will ever remember me!

[+ Gar1eth]

I am glad you posted because I am confused by the term "met." I did not include Robert Kennedy because I just had a very short conversation with him in 1968. The only other person around was Roosevelt Greer, but RFK was not all that friendly so I did not attempt to continue the conversation.

 

By "met," I thought the OP meant a short or long conversation where both people leaned a bit about each other.

 

I talked with Dan Savage at a book signing once at Joseph Beth Books in Cincinnati in 2002. He was pushing his book Skipping to Gomorra: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America. It was his response to Bill Bennett's and several others' moral pronouncements.

 

It was back when I was even more closeted than I am now-it might have been before my cherry had been popped-assuming a total virgin having sex for the first but only as a top can still be said to have his cherry popped. (On the other hand if it takes bottoming for your cherry to be popped-I'm still intact). At the time I never planned on coming out at all. I wanted to talk to him about my fears of being gay. I couldn't get out what I wanted to say. I was too afraid.

 

Gman

[Epigonos]

WilliamM believe me when I say that you were not treated any differently than about 99% of the people who casually encountered RFK. Bobby was the ONE Kennedy who was totally devoid of small talk with strangers. He simply had to have time to get to know and trust someone. Once that happened he was a totally different person. At the end of my first week working with him I couldn't stand him. Beginning the second week everything began to change. Once he realized I could be trusted to produce what he wanted and keep my mouth shut regarding the campaign I was IN. He insisted I call him Bobby NOT Mr. Kennedy and although small talk was never his thing he became much more communicative and friendly. He was probably the most difficult person for whom I have ever worked. He was a workaholic and expected those around him to be the same. I was only nineteen and lived at home with my parents and thus I had the time to invest in the campaign and he quickly came to genuinely appreciate my dedication and effort. At the end of the convention he offered me a job with the transition team but was extremely supportive when I turn him down saying I needed to return to school.

 

P.S. I admired and damn near worshiped JFK. I admired and respected RFK. At the time I thought Teddy Kennedy was a dumb shit but after the Chappaquiddick incident he eventually matured into a damn effective United States Senator.

Edited October 16, 2016 by Epigonos

[+ WilliamM]

At the time I never planned on coming out at all. I wanted to talk to him about my fears of being gay. I couldn't get out what I wanted to say. I was too afraid.

 

Gman, it would have been very difficult to have that kind of a conversation with any author after a book signing. There are too many other people who want to talk to someone like Savage.

[Guest]

Adam Senn (model and actor). His dog sniffed my crotch.

 

Ooh. Thanks for letting me know about someone else who can get my jizz out. I'd love to sniff his crotch....

http://www.thefashionisto.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Adam-Senn-2015-Pictures-005.jpg

[+ Gar1eth]

I talked with Dan Savage at a book signing once at Joseph Beth Books in Cincinnati in 2002. He was pushing his book Skipping to Gomorra: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America. It was his response to Bill Bennett's and several others' moral pronouncements.

 

It was back when I was even more closeted than I am now-it might have been before my cherry had been popped-assuming a total virgin having sex for the first but only as a top can still be said to have his cherry popped. (On the other hand if it takes bottoming for your cherry to be popped-I'm still intact). At the time I never planned on coming out at all. I wanted to talk to him about my fears of being gay. I couldn't get out what I wanted to say. I was too afraid.

 

Gman

Gman, it would have been very difficult to have that kind of a conversation with any author after a book signing. There are too many other people who want to talk to someone like Savage.

 

@WilliamM thats a good thought. But there actually wasn't that big a crowd. I don't know whether it was due to Cincinnati's well-known conservative streak, bad day/bad time, not being publicized well, or what. As near as I can remember, I was the last audience person still there. I never would have been brave enough to even think about attempting a conversation like that if other Dan Savage fans had still been around.

 

Gman

[+ Gar1eth]

You never know how a conversation may turn out. When I met Mary Martin, I mentioned that I had her out of print 1950s record of "Annie Get Your Fun" based in the TV version with John Raitt. Initially, Mary said, "if you can find the record, I certainly can as well". Then she backed off and talked about her record collection and doing "Annie" on live TV, especially during the commercials. (Conversation was before CDs.)

 

Sorry I don't understand what Ms. Martin was trying to say.

 

Speaking of Annie Get Your Gun-at one point I had an album only cast featuring Doris Day. I can't remember who sang Frank Butler. I found the album at a used record store. I'm not sure I ever listened to the entire thing.

 

Gman

[+ WilliamM]

 

Sorry I don't understand what Ms. Martin was trying to say.

 

She had played her "Annie Get Your Gun" album so often at home in Rancho Mirage that it was almost unplayable. I found the record about a year before at a record store even though it was out of print. Mary believed that I might offer to send her my relatively new record. She was saying: a) I have more connections than you; b) My son, Larry Hagman, has even more connections. Mary realized she was being rude, so talked for a while about doing "Annie" on live TV. I learned a lot about getting from one stage to another when the scenes changed during the commercial.

 

I am older than most people here, so I know Mary Martin was the first choice for dozens of Broadway musicals, including "My Fair Lady," "Oklahoma" and "Mame." For various reasons, she had to say no.

 

Did Robert Goulet do Frank Butler on the Doris Day album?

[TruHart1]

She had played her "Annie Get Your Gun" album so often at home in Rancho Mirage...etc.

 

Did Robert Goulet do Frank Butler on the Doris Day album?

Here you go, from Wikipedia:

 

Annie Get Your Gun was an album, released on February 11, 1963 by Columbia Records, starring Doris Day and Robert Goulet. It consisted of songs from the musical of the same name. It was issued on the Columbia Masterworks label as both a monaural LP album (catalog number OL-5960) and a stereophonic LP album (catalog number OS-2360). The album has been reissued on CD by DRG (catalog number 19112).

 

The album was one of a number of albums produced by Columbia using a format similar to an original cast album of a musical play, but starring vocalists under contract to the company. Other albums in the same series included a John Raitt/Barbara Cook album of Show Boat (released 1962), a John Raitt/Florence Henderson/Phyllis Newman album of Oklahoma! (released 1964), and a Barbara Cook/Theodore Bikel album of The King and I (also released 1964).[1] In this case, Doris Day and Robert Goulet were both major Columbia stars, and this was probably the most important album in this series.

 

At the time, Day was at the peak of her movie career and could not spare the time to go to the East Coast, where most of the production of this album took place. So she recorded her tracks at Columbia Records' Los Angeles studios and the tapes were sent to New York City, where orchestral arrangements were written by Philip J. Lang to fit Day's singing, a procedure rather contrary to normal practice. Goulet and the other singers, in turn, had to fit their keys and tempos to Lang's orchestral arrangements.

 

Annie Get Your Gun

Studio album by Doris Day/Robert Goulet

Released February 11, 1963

Recorded 1962

Genre Musical

Label Columbia Masterworks

Producer Thomas Z. Shepard

Doris Day chronology

Billy Rose's Jumbo

(1962) Annie Get Your Gun

(1963) Love Him

(1963)

Robert Goulet chronology

The Wonderful World of Love.

(1963) Annie Get Your Gun

(1963) In Person

(1963)

Annie Get Your Gun was an album, released on February 11, 1963 by Columbia Records, starring Doris Day and Robert Goulet. It consisted of songs from the musical of the same

 

Track listing[edit]

(All songs by Irving Berlin)

 

Track No. Song title Performer(s)

1 "Overture" Orchestra

2 "Colonel Buffalo Bill" Leonard Stokes

3 "I'm a Bad, Bad Man" Robert Goulet

4 "Doin' What Comes Naturally" Doris Day

5 "The Girl That I Marry" Robert Goulet

6 "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun" Doris Day

7 "They Say It's Wonderful" Doris Day & Robert Goulet

8 "My Defenses Are Down" Robert Goulet

9 "Moonshine Lullaby" Doris Day

10 "I'm An Indian Too" Doris Day

11 "I Got Lost in His Arms" Doris Day

12 "Who Do You Love, I Hope?" Kelly Brown & Renée Winters

13 "I Got the Sun in the Mornin'" Doris Day

14 "Anything You Can Do" Doris Day & Robert Goulet

15 "There's No Business Like Show Business" Ensemble

TruHart1

[AdamSmith]

In summer 2009, during a week in NYC with a beloved escort, we went to see a well reviewed production of Our Town running at the Barrow Street Theatre in the West Village.

 

Joan Rivers was in the audience. During intermission, my escort friend approached her and asked if I could take a pic of the 2 of them together. She was the soul of graciousness, no star standoffishness whatever; instead, a little bit even of Jewish mother warmth toward both of us.

 

He put his arm around her, I snapped the shot.

 

Then she noticed the plastic glass of wine from the concession stand in his other hand, glanced at her (gorgeous) suit jacket, snapped, 'Hey! Did you get any of that on me? This thing cost four thousand bucks!'

 

We loved her all the more in that moment. That was her performing herself, in every possible way.

[topinla]

Ooh. Thanks for letting me know about someone else who can get my jizz out. I'd love to sniff his crotch....

http://www.thefashionisto.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Adam-Senn-2015-Pictures-005.jpg

 

He had blonde hair when I met him and I still think he does. He is sex on a stick in person. He kept apologizing for his sniffing crotch dog.

[LADoug1]

You never know how a conversation may turn out. When I met Mary Martin, I mentioned that I had her out of print 1950s record of "Annie Get Your Gun" based in the TV version with John Raitt. Initially, Mary said, "if you can find the record, I certainly can as well". Then she backed off and talked about her record collection and doing "Annie" on live TV, especially during the commercials. (Conversation was before CDs.)

 

Wasn't Mary Martin too old to do Annie?

[LADoug1]

He had blonde hair when I met him and I still think he does. He is sex on a stick in person. He kept apologizing for his sniffing crotch dog.

No apology needed!

[+ poolboy48220]

I talked with Dan Savage at a book signing once at Joseph Beth Books in Cincinnati in 2002. He was pushing his book Skipping to Gomorra: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America. It was his response to Bill Bennett's and several others' moral pronouncements.

 

It was back when I was even more closeted than I am now-it might have been before my cherry had been popped-assuming a total virgin having sex for the first but only as a top can still be said to have his cherry popped. (On the other hand if it takes bottoming for your cherry to be popped-I'm still intact). At the time I never planned on coming out at all. I wanted to talk to him about my fears of being gay. I couldn't get out what I wanted to say. I was too afraid.

 

Gman

I chatted with Dan briefly when he was signing books after one of his shows. We discussed "Skipping Towards Gomorrah" briefly, I told him I'd also read Peter Sagal's (the host of "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" on NPR) similar book, "The Book of Vice", and Sagal approached the subject with a lot more shame than Dan had. :-) Dan said he knew Peter Sagal pretty well, and Peter had never mentioned that he copied Dan's concept for his own book.

[Kenny]

Patrick Macnee, Stacy Keach, Hermione Gingold, Pearl Baily, Ted Shackelford, Stevie Wonder.

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner: Hermione Gingold.

[+ WilliamM]

Wasn't Mary Martin too old to do Annie?

 

I mentioned Mary Martin only because two books were published recently about Mary and her son, Larry Hagman:

 

The Eternal Party by Kristina Hagman

 

Some Enchanted Evenings: The Glittering Life and Times of Mary Martin by David Kaufman

Edited October 16, 2016 by WilliamM

[AdamSmith]

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner: Hermione Gingold.

Saw her in the '70s when she was touring a 1-person monologue show. Here in Raleigh (or may have been Durham), she worked in a local line about Jesse Helms.

 

Never heard anyone pronounce his name with quite the perfect dripping disgust that she imparted.

 

Which, in these parts in those times, was really an achievement.

[amused1]

Hmm, had tea with the Irish singer Enya once. Charmingly shy and unassuming. Sang a duet with Judy Collins during a luncheon. As lovely as I had always imagined. Dinner with Anne Rice. A sharply subtle interviewer. Had cocktails with Aretha Franklin and Eartha Kitt. Train wrecks. Played a quintet with Michael Tilson Thomas. Very early in his career. Coffee with Rosie Clooney and Michael Feinstein. They told the funniest, raciest stories. Bill T. Jones at a librarians' gathering where he remembered me from a master class he'd taught, I was by far the oldest dancer in that class. He was daunting. Many others in my decades working in the arts.

[Frequentflier]

Ooh. Thanks for letting me know about someone else who can get my jizz out. I'd love to sniff his crotch....

http://www.thefashionisto.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Adam-Senn-2015-Pictures-005.jpg

 

Wow! Haven't heard of this guy before. Must have been something to meet him in person. I don't find facial hair attractive but would make an exception for Adam

[Rudynate]

Coffee with Rosie Clooney and Michael Feinstein.

 

I saw the two of them at the Curran Theatre in about 1992. Great show, especially Clooney.

[oz_carter]

He had blonde hair when I met him and I still think he does. He is sex on a stick in person. He kept apologizing for his sniffing crotch dog.

 

Wow! Haven't heard of this guy before. Must have been something to meet him in person. I don't find facial hair attractive but would make an exception for Adam

 

Having met this guy recently I would concur 100% he is sex on a stick!

[Tonyko]

Saw her in the '70s when she was touring a 1-person monologue show. Here in Raleigh (or may have been Durham), she worked in a local line about Jesse Helms.

 

Never heard anyone pronounce his name with quite the perfect dripping disgust that she imparted.

 

Which, in these parts in those times, was really an achievement.

SO bizarre that I actually MET this lady when I was 7 or 8 years old! I guess she lived in NYC and my uncle was an actor and went into a show that ran forever called The Fantastiks down in The Village and we all went to see him and I remember this larger than life lady in the small theater that night right behind me lots of perfume lots of curls huge hair and she'd laugh in this deep deep monotone that sounded SO funny I kept turning around and I remember my mother constantly hitting me to stop it and afterwards the cast taking photos with her etc so I knew she was "somebody". Wasn't unitl I was older and watching GiGi and my mother told me we'd met her that I realized who she was lol. NOW of course I love her, "Bell Book n Candle" ..." she's brilliant :-) *ps in my 20's I was told by an elderly gentleman former actor I was friendly with that THAT play/movie was an INTENTIONAL tongue n cheek metaphor to GAY life in NYC in the 50's. The author just substituted "Witches" for homos. Actually kind of makes sense. THEY EXIST ALL AROUND US, BUT YOU CAN'T TELL WHO THEY ARE THEY "LOOK" LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, BUT THEY CAN ALWAYS SPOT ONE OF THEIR OWN, THEY GATHER IN SECRET BARS DOWN IN THE VILLAGE, etc etc. Right?? :-)