Celebrity blogging
Laura at 11D is asking her readers which celebrities they've seen, and I thought I'd steal the question and post it here. Tim Dunigan may not play.
I'm really trying to draw out my sister Daryl Ann, who worked as an usher for a while at the L.A. Music Center, along with my other sister (I'll call her Stella). They had lots of celebrity encounters there, including Daryl Ann's "brush" with William Conrad (Cannon, Jake and the Fat Man) in a darkened theater. Maybe this is an argument for podcasting, though, since hearing her tell the story is probably funnier than merely reading the story (she even does a creditable impression of Conrad's voice).
I'm really trying to draw out my sister Daryl Ann, who worked as an usher for a while at the L.A. Music Center, along with my other sister (I'll call her Stella). They had lots of celebrity encounters there, including Daryl Ann's "brush" with William Conrad (Cannon, Jake and the Fat Man) in a darkened theater. Maybe this is an argument for podcasting, though, since hearing her tell the story is probably funnier than merely reading the story (she even does a creditable impression of Conrad's voice).
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Political celebrities or only Hollywood types?
CIV met Burt Reynolds. Must have been about 1966. He was doing some sort of publicity stunt for an upcoming show which I was too young to watch -- "A Man Called Hawk," I think.
Sure, political celebrities are celebrities, too.
Burt Reynolds -- I like him.
I had a conversation with the Queen of England.
Jeffery Hodges
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In addition to actually meeting Burt Reynolds, CIV has been in reach of or shaken hands with Sens. Bob & Liddy Dole; Liz Talyor's politician ex-husband; Senators Muskie and Kennedy; the original Calvin Klein girl; Fed Chairman Volker; and the McAwful guy (in charge of the last 2 elections).
It probably doesn't count, but CIV went to the JPII papal Mass (79?) and the Stevie Wonder MLK day concert (80?) in DC.
Perhaps the Rumpus can supply the missing names of those I vaguely remember and described.
Here in D.C., I've spot lots of political "celebrities" such as Tipper Gore, Donald Rumsfeld, Helen Thomas, and Charles Krauthammer. Tim Russert once came loping into my neighborhood grocery store with his son's little-league team. Last night, I unexpectedly met Secretary of Transportation Norm Mineta. When I worked as a receptionist, I chatted on the phone with Mario Cuomo and met MPAA chief Jack Valenti.
When I was in Montenegro in 2003, I supposedly brushed shoulders with the former cultural minister of Slobodan Milosevic.
I also enjoyed my first beer in the basement of Radio City Music Hall with a famous 1980s pop/New Wave group. It was just three weeks after my sixteenth birthday and I'd been away from home for three days. But that's a story for another time. :)
Jeffery, you win the prize, man. I don't think anybody's going to come up with a celebrity that big -- I guess the Pope is as big, but CIV didn't actually *talk* to the Pope.
CIV, sure the Pope counts. By the way, my parents were eucharistic ministers (I think) at the mass JPII had at Dodger Stadium.
Isn't the original Calvin Klein girl Brooke Shields?
Jeff, that's kind of sweet about Tim Russert. I don't know what's wrong with me, because I'm about to confess something truly embarrassing, but I once had a dream that I was invited to the Rumsfeld's house for a formal dress dinner party. There was dancing, and I danced with Donald Rumsfeld and met his wife, and she was very sweet to me -- she gave me invitations to all of the rest of their parties for the year. There you have it. I don't know what Freud would make of it, and I don't want to know.
I really really want to hear the story about the basement of Radio City Music Hall. I'm intrigued. Will you blog about it?
I live in Los Angeles, so I've spotted lots of celebrities -- Diane Keaton (just recently with her child at Disneyland), Nicholas Cage (twice), Gregory Peck, Jimmy Stewart, Peter Gallagher, Helen Hunt, Scott Farcas from The Christmas Story (he had yellow eyes, so help me God, yellow eyes!), ... and I've talked to Susan Sarandon on the phone. She was staying at the house of a friend of mine and answered when I called there (I do know for a fact that it was Susan Sarandon, but that's another story).
The most embarrassing celebrity encounter was with the guy who played Almanzo on Little House on the Prairie (this was a few years post-Prairie, I think)-- friends of mine visiting Los Angeles spotted him in a restaurant, asked for his autograph, and made a BIG deal out of it. They even took a photo (with flash!). I probably would take that kind of enthusiasm more in stride these days, but in my callow youth I was more concerned with playing it cool.
My brothers once talked baseball with Vince Vaughn on Saint Patrick's Day.
I've met Lynn Ann Leveridge
Ding, dong the witch is dead. It's too late to meet Slobodan Milosevic.
Where do I pick that prize up?
Jeffery Hodges
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Jeffery, you can pick up your trophy and an all expenses paid night on the town for you and your lovely wife the next time you're in our neck of the woods.
I'm thinking Dresden -- are you with me, Rumpusers?
I suppose having dinner with the current Gov. of California in Toronto, Ont. Canada, in 1987 and having him tell me that someday he was going to be the Gov. of California....and me laughing at him.....doesn't count huh?
Tim, what??!! I've never heard that story. Okay, I'll take you out to Dresden just to hear you tell it, buddy. We'll get Vel to run a tab.
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