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................................................................................... FAMOUS PEOPLE YOU HAVE MET

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Here's a chance for you to tell everybody the story about famous people you have actually met, not just seen from afar. What defines a "famous person" is somewhat subjective, but if you think a person was/is famous, go for it.

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"The game is afoot."

I'll go first.

It was in the spring of 1974. I was staying at the Olcutt Hotel on West 72nd Street, while going through Merrill Lynch training in NYC. Two buildings away on 72nd Street was The Dakota.

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...............................Hotel Olcutt ......................................................................................The Dakota

One Saturday afternoon, my roommate and I decided to go out to lunch. We crossed the street and were walking on the sidewalk about 15 feet behind some guy with two gals. My roommate, Sanders Cox, turned to me and said, "Keith, do you see how everyone walking towards us keep whipping their heads around, and looking back at the people walking in front of us? I think that's that rock and roll guy." I said, "That's John Lennon and Yoko Ono! Let's follow them." We kept a respectful distance, followed them across two streets, and watched them run into a Japanese restaurant. I asked Sanders if he liked Japanese food. He told me that he had never had any. I said that I have and would help him order. In we went, there was nobody there exept us, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and some other Japanese woman, sitting with them. They couldn't have farther than 10 feet away from us.

After a while, I decided to ask the waitress to go over to Lennon's table, and offer them all a drink on me. The waitress went over to his table, whispered something to him, came back to me, and said, "The gentleman, says no thank you." Okay, I thought, I'll leave him alone, and assumed that was it. However, I had a surpirse. They finished eating before we did, and when they got up from their table, John Lennon came over to me. I stood up. He shook my hand, and said, "Thanks, It's just too early for a drink."

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p.s. The Dakota is not only where John Lennon lived, it is also where "Rosemary's Baby" was filmed.

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"The game is afoot."

I met J.R. Richard in 1993 or 1994.

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liljol, still residing in a humble lil abode in Buzztime's Backyard, San Diego County, in The Horribly Site-Poor Golden State, California...

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Cool story, Cloudy.

I met Bill Clinton, every active Senator (excluding KY, who didn't show), the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, David Souter, Matt Drudge, and a few other people, all in a few days, many moons ago.

I don't think that will probably ever be topped, as far as my life goes.

Tell us more... How did you get to meet him? Did you get to talk to him about stuff?

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DANTE, is that all...? I'm surprised that you didn't include the "other people", such as, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, William Shakespeare, Plato, and Alexander the Great...

How the heck did you manage to meet all of these famous people?

p.s. Sorry for my silliness, sometimes I just can't help it. I really don't want to change this thread into a bunch of fictitious posts, where people make up a lot of zany things, as I often do on other threads.

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I gave training advice - solicited even - to Jeff King, Mr. Universe 1983.

Admittedly he was being needlessly nice, but hey.

Other than that and playing Trivial Pursuit against Leon Brittan, a British Home Secretary (Sec. of State equivalent), at a Young Conservatives conference I have not had much first-person exposure to celebrities.

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Please forgive any strange typos or grammar errors. I am typically using voice recognition software to enter text, and sometimes editing works differently from how I expect.

He was a guest coach for my brothers pony team. The manager knew JR somehow and invited him to talk to my brothers team. I not sure if the boys on the team knew his story. I went over t o say hi and shook his hand, I wish I had more time to sit and chat. If he didnt have that stroke, the Astros probably win the 1980 World Series.

I have met in these people in person before:

Whitey Herzog (He hate my haircut when he asked who cutted my hair)

Lou Brock (as I was at the Cardinals Hall of Fame)

Porn Star Christy Canyon (when she was in town doing a show)

The Donnas (the all-female band who was signing copies of their album)

NFL Legend Ben Davidson (Also known for doing Miller Lite commercials)

I also met (and talked) to Hockey Hall of Fame Bernie Ferderco of the St Louis Blues when he was doing a mid-afternoon talk show weekly.

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Mitch (MTCHWF/WLFFLY)

Co-Home Bar: Buffalo Wild Wings Edwardsville, IL and Time Out in St Louis, MO

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In a sleepy little town in upstate New York, many of my high school friends and I would hang out after school at a local bakery. One of the other bakery denizens was an interesting gentleman named Frank. I'd always assumed Frank was a city guy who'd made enough money to retire a little early into the rustic country life those city types seemed to find so quaint, which in this case was fine with me, since Frank was, as I wrote, interesting: a pleasant conversationalist on a number of topics who waxed philosphical and irreverent to equal degrees.

The bakery began serving dinner a few nights a week, having hired part-time a chef, Richard, who was a former opera singer. His past career had given him a decent capacity for French, Italian and German and a little Spanish. I knew this, as Richard and Frank would often have conversations that flitted about in a few of these languages and I, as a budding little polyglot, always enjoyed listening in on the banter.

One day, Richard barrelled into the bakery and bellowed, "Where the fuck is Serpico?"

It was at this point that I realized, having known the man for at least two years, that our (plain old interesting, sometimes quirky) Frank was, in fact, Frank Serpico of movie and book fame. He was not usually given to talking about his time with the NYPD or the experiences leading up to his getting shot, so for all intents and purposes, he remained plain old interesting, somtimes quirky Frank for all of us. The only time he ever spoke with me about his time on the force was when I was on my way out of town to return to university one break. We both happened to be on the way to the bakery, which we found unexpectedly closed. Neither of us having particularly pressing business, we decided to grab a beer at the restaurant across the square, where I also happened to have worked since I was sixteen. We ended up having dinner and he spoke about his early days as a cop, especially about how he was often called to interpret in court for Italian and Spanish speaking witnesses and defendants.

LilJol, who was it...? Please give us a lil bit more information. I, for one, would like to hear your story.

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"The game is afoot."

Yet another manual delete that offered no simple delete box to click on.

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I'd save the famous people you've met, and dole them out one at a time, that is unless you met them all at once as the Titanic was going down. I like to hear the individual stories.

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Sadly, I did not get to meet any of these people on my Titanic cruise:

John Jacob Astor, Isador Strauss, Archiebald Butt, Benjamin Guggenheim, Bruce Ismay, or Molly Brown, but if I did, I'd have a bunch of stories to tell, one at a time.

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Well after; I'd read the book and seen the movie before I knew him. (Or at least before I knew I knew him...)

Manual delete of a duplicate post that did not give me a delete box option.

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What a great story, AKBAR. You really knew him, instead of just meeting him.

Did you know him before the book and the movie?

p.p.s. What "sleepy little town" in upstate New York did this occur?

Belated edit: AKBAR I deleted my two duplicate posts, before I realised that you had already replied to one of them. Sorry.

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I also met Bill clinton, when he was still Governor of Arkansas. He spoke at a functiion in Milwaukee, and a bunch of us saw, and chatted, with him at the bnar afterwards. Scar and Dante might be interested that it was the bar at the top of the Hyatt Regency, where we all stayed when I met them in Milwaukee!

This was in the town of Kinderhook, home of the Eighth President of the United States and the real home of the legend of Sleepy Hollow. Washington Irving embellished the legend and took the name "Sleepy Hollow" from a town a few over from us. Believe it or not, my school district was the Ichabod Crane Central School District. (Go Riders!) The town square is still quaint but sadly, neither my old restaurant nor the bakery remains.

Aside from a movie/tv star or two, a TV weather personality, and an ex Kentucky governor, I can't top most of what was posted here, so I have to post a story of my mother's.

She is from Spain, and my father was in the Air Force stationed in Spain when they met. While on a date, playing miniature golf, another couple was playing behind them, and asked if they could join my soon-to-be parents. My mother thought she recognized them, but couldn't place them. They said yes, and continued to play as a four-some.

Later that evening, after the game was over and the two couples went on their own ways, it came to her who the other couple was. They were the prince and princess, and are currently now the king and queen, of Spain. At the time, Franco was in power, so the royal family weren't seen much in public.

I've met Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam Bassist), Dave Matthews, Magic Johnson, Rick Perry and Ron Jeremy sat behind behind me on a flight from Vegas.

He must have been poking you in the back the entire flight. Did you lean your seat back to get the *full effect*?

BO

Luckily Bo there was enough space between the seats, but I'm going to go ahead and say I made Brad switch seats with me