Have you ever met any celebrities?

[handiacefailure]

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa

 

I love Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. I was fortunate enough to hear her perform with the boys choir at St Pauls in London one time

[handiacefailure]

Vanessa Williams was at a SkyClub in Detroits airport Friday. I saw her on the way out and she was on her cell phone and I had a flight to catch so didn't approach her.

[+ Charlie]

Only a very serious opera fan would consider them celebrities, but Kenneth Riegel got drunk and sang at a party given in my honor. David Rendall bought beers for me and a friend at a local pub on the night of his Covent Garden debut. And I bought a drink for Dame Eva Turner during the interval of a performance of Manon at the ENO.

 

In a completely different sphere, I once spent two hours in interesting conversation on a train with Alan Guttmacher, the president of Planned Parenthood and one of the longtime leaders in the fight to legalize abortion.

[Lookin]

The Three Stooges, after they had dropped out of show business and were working in a car wash on La Cienega. http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif They left the top down on my Ford Falcon and sent it though the revolving brushes with my Bischon Frisé asleep in the back seat. He didn’t stay asleep for long though and chased them through the power dry and out onto Melrose Avenue where we all collided with the late Belle Poitrine.

 

 

And, more recently, Mickey Mouse, buck naked and snoot deep in a tub of vodka-infused Velveeta™ I had left on the kitchen counter. I didn’t recognize him without the red shorts and yellow shoes and would never have guessed if I hadn’t caught him whistling the theme song from Steamboat Willie.

 

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Well, at least one of us was. http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif

[Bearofdistinction]

=Carol Channing

=Billy Crystal

=Joan Rivers

=Martin Sheen w/Emilio Esteves

=Mike Douglas

=Merv Griffin {Eeeeeeeeeeeeeew)

=Charles Nelson Reilly

=Phyliss Diller

=Mario Cantone - Comic - Broadway - Sex in the City

 

 

Disco Days

=Bonnie Pointer (The Pointer Sisters)

=The Weather Girls

=Linda Clifford

=Sylvester

=Vicky Sue Robinson

=Pamela Stanley

=Eartha Kitt

=Gloria Gaynor

 

Politicos

=Sen. Teddy Kennedy

=Cong Barney Frank

=Gov Ed Rendell

=EEOC Chair Obama Admin -- Chia Feldblum (Lesbian)

=US Ambassador James Hormel (Gay)

=US Ambassador John Berry (Gay)

 

Asstd Porn Actors --

[+ Charlie]

I forgot about Ed Rendell, because I used to meet him so often before he became an important political figure. He was our neighbor in Philadelphia for a year.

 

I also forgot about another political figure, Kenny Duberstein, Reagan's chief-of-staff and a powerful DC mover and shaker for many years after that, because we shared a dorm bathroom when we were teenagers.

[+ Avalon]

I shook hands with Michael Dukakis in October 1988. I was visiting friends in Los Angeles and he came to town.

[+ WilliamM]

Jonathan Groff

Audra McDonald

Elaine Stritch

[Moe]

In my prior profession as a taxi driver, I picked up Estelle Parsons while she was in town for a show. Not exactly a celebrity, but I also picked up James Gunn's mother as well. I would love to meet Henry Cavill one day, preferably with him naked and tied to a bed.

[TruHart1]

In my prior profession as a taxi driver, I picked up Estelle Parsons while she was in town for a show. Not exactly a celebrity, but I also picked up James Gunn's mother as well. I would love to meet Henry Cavill one day, preferably with him naked and tied to a bed.

__This brought to mind a GIF of Mr. Cavill at the age of 19 from

The Count of Monte Cristo in 2002 which was shared on Facebook!

_______

 

___He's so hot and hunky now.

 

_______He was so

__

________then!!!

TruHart1

[+ friendofsheila]

I think it should only count if the celebrity wasn't being paid to be there.

[+ friendofsheila]

In my prior profession as a taxi driver, I picked up Estelle Parsons while she was in town for a show.

 

This is the awesomest celebrity mentioned so far.

[+ friendofsheila]

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

 

When I first glanced at this, I thought it was going to say the "Nob Hill Theatre"!

[Rudynate]

When I first glanced at this, I thought it was going to say the "Nob Hill Theatre"!

 

 

They're sort of in the same part of the city. The Curran Theater is close to Union square. I've only been to the Nob Hill Cinema once and I don't quite remember where it is.

[N13]

Here is my list from a similar thread in 2014.

 

N13Viscount

In no particular order - interfaces with all of them at one time or another

 

Demi Moore - Intelligent and very personable

Whoopie Goldberg - Fantastic and quite the lady

Ted Danson & Mary Steenbergen - Down to earth, friendly and non affected

Lauren Bacall - Deserving of the sobriquet "Bitch of Broadway"

Leontyne Price - Thrilling!!!!

Richard Simmons - a total ego maniac with the manners of a pig (sorry if I offended any pigs!)

Johnny Depp - surprisingly erudite without affectation

Christian Slater - Unassuming and nice

Hal Linden - one of the nicest people I have ever met

Michael Richards - almost paranoid in his interactions

Leonardo DiCaprio - Full of himself, unfriendly and a classic boor

Joan Rivers - Full of herself and exactly as one would expect

Barbara Cook - Not too nice - this was a big surprise

Betty Buckley - Very nice

Gwen Verdon - Friendly and down to earth

Michele Pfeiffer - a lady and very sweet

Sheldon Harnick - Self effacing and very smart and funny

Cynthia Gregory - Very gracious and sweet

Andrea Martin - Funny and nice

Rob Lowe -Be still my heart!!!!

Donald Trump - total egomaniac and dumb as a box of hair

[Rudynate]

I met the guy who played Mr. Whipple in the Charmin' commercials. I worked in management at an upscale hotel. A bunch of "D-list" celebrities were staying in the hotel for some sort of fundraiser. I was chatting with Mr. Whipple and, without my asking, he whipped out one of his headshots, autographed it and handed it to me. It was mildly astonishing.

[N13]

Smurof

 

Curious as to who these are.

[JayCeeKy]

Nelson Rockefeller - when he briefly ran for Prez in 1968

Captain Binghamton (Joe Flynn) from McHale's Navy - literally ran into him at CBS Television City

Tom Wilson - played Biff in Back to the Future

Tab Hunter - when he acted at a local dinner theatre back in the 90s, I think; gorgeous man, even in his 60s

Guy Lombardo - checked him into his hotel room - nice guy, very short

Ed McMahon - at Bookstore in the Beverley Center in LA

I saw the guy who played the principal in Ferris Bueller's Day Off cruising Santa Monica Boulevard a few times. I think he was convicted a few years later of a felony count of child porn and was placed on the Sex Offender Register.

[+ FrankR]

I sat next to Lewis Black on the train the other day. I was tempted to hand him my newspaper and watch him explode from glancing at the headlines!!

[+ g56whiz]

Gwen Verden - nice lady

Aprille Milo - ditto

Alan Alda - behind me in line at Gracious Homes

Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti backstage at the Met

Ginger Rogers - in church

John John (JFK Jr) at the gym. I even spotted for him and he returned the favor. Nice quiet guy. Oh and a body most escorts would envy.

[hornymm]

I worked at a big hotel in Boston 80s and 90s I met Elton John,Jennifer Holiday,Kurt Vonnegut,Bill Clinton,Ted Kennedy,there were other famous people I can't recall right now,also I have seen Michael Dukakis on Boston subway I smiled,nodded but did not approach him which is my habit

[+ friendofsheila]

Do porn actors count?

 

I'm going to guess "yes" and mention that I met porn-boy Danny Summers at a yard sale. His yard sale!!

 

I bought a picture frame from him and got an autograph.

[+ azdr0710]

I was lucky enough to see Elaine and Bernadette Peters in a little night music (I also saw it with Catherine Zeta Jones and Angela Lansberry before those two replaced them and I think the show would have swept the Tony's if they would have cast Elaine and Bernadette as the originals) and she put on an amazing performance even though she was almost 90 and I remembered at the end of Liaisons she let out a loud burp, I guess it was her way of personalizing the song. I'll never forgetting watching her interview a few months before she passed on the today and she said the F word and it didn't get bleeped:) I thought I misunderstood what she said since they didn't bleep her but an hour later it was all over the internet

 

re-upping this since my original link is out of date.......jesus, Hoda and Kathy Lee are stupid........f-bomb at 1:30!

 

[+ keroscenefire]

I have met Barack Obama, Alex Trebek, and Stephen Colbert.

[RealAvalon]

I have met Barack Obama, Alex Trebek, and Stephen Colbert.

My money is on Obama over Colbert on Celebrity Jeopardy