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I'm curious who here has met any celebs. I know Zen has a nice little list I'd like to see in detail. Was wondering whoelse around here has.

Personally:

I had a fanart of my Everquest 1 character done by Wendy Pini (of Elfquest fame)

I was about 5 feet away from Mel Gibson when he filmed "Payback".

I once waited on William Hung.

I met two pornstars in the changing room of the strip club I frequent. Their names escape me at the moment.

I met Elijah Wood at a comic convention, and made him laugh by talking about Sin City and Eternal Sunshine while pretending I didn't know LotR existed.

I also pissed off a bunch of goth kids while in the line to see Jhonen Vasquez by implying to a passerby that we were in line to get tickets for J. Lo.

I spoke on the phone once with Greg Rucka (novelist and comic book writer), one of my favourite writers of all time. I was working as a call center agent for car reservations and he called while in San Diego for the Comic Con.

I once met Scott Kurtz at a convention...

Why is everyone looking at me like that?

I also met Scott Kurtz at a convention. I also met Phil Foglio at the same convention.

My dad was sitting next to Denzel Washington in the airport once.

I've talked to a bunch of people at festivals when I was in line for autographs - the guys from Testament and Symphony X. They're pretty cool.

I met/saw a lot of famous people when I worked in the casino industry. I've met all of the guys in the band Filter, Brian Setzer, Scott Weiland, Vince Neil, Randall Cunningham, Eric Lindros, Lawrence Taylor, Bobby Clark, Evander Holyfield, Jaromir Jagr, Dikembe Mutombo, and a bunch of the players from the Phillies back in the mid/late 1990's. I also met Merv Griffin and Donald Trump since I worked at both of their casinos.

When I was in 5th grade I met Willie Mays at an assembly at my school, too.

I met Lou Ferrigno at megacon. He is still in really, really good shape. Also, he's impossibly nice.

I also met Hulk Hogan as a kid. He was a frequent customer at my dad's shop, but I don't know if he was as well known then.


With this trend, it shouldn't be long before I meet Bruce Banner.

I hung out with Johnny Knoxville in a bar in Vancouver one night. Stood around, chatted, drank....he was plastered beyond belief and the swarm of women who crowded around him when he went on the dance floor was just ludicrous. He seemed to enjoy it though (He was ....really plastered)

Now that's one I envy so far, I'm a Knoxville fan for sure. :uhhuh:

I met Spock (Leonard Simon Nimoy) and had a 10 minute conversation with him at a Trek Convention in Richardson (he is AWESOME!)
I met and hang a few j-pop band members here at Akon, but can't remember the name at the moment.

I met Richard Bach (who is best known for writing Jonathon Livingston Seagull) for a career day when I was in high school. I've never read any of his books, except for one that he gave to my AP class to read for some critical feedback.

I saw Alan Thicke ride first class on my flight from Seattle to Reno once.

I almost met Jack Johnson but only got a signature cause he didn't feel like coming out to the VIP area.

I'm sure there's others but I'm not focused enough to remember any of them.

Gusto said:

I met Elijah Wood at a comic convention, and made him laugh by talking about Sin City and Eternal Sunshine while pretending I didn't know LotR existed.

I also * off a bunch of goth kids while in the line to see Jhonen Vasquez by implying to a passerby that we were in line to get tickets for J. Lo.

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With Sundance rolling through here once a year and many celebs coming out here for ski vacations (or rehab) I've "seen" a few celebs but never really talked to them. The one I did talk to was Danny Trejo (My wife and I started next to him in a 5k a few years back). Really nice guy.

Still on the hunt for Kevin Smith.

when I as a small child I saw John Haggerty "Grizzly Adams" hanging out in a mall restroom with some yes men drinking beer.

I went to high school with Rodney Carrington
Competed in Speech Tournaments and football against Matthew McCaughnehey
Met at a FCA convention Jamie Foxx - had a great time and exchanged a couple of letters. I never knew he was Jamie Foxx until I saw him on Inside the Actor's Studio and he said that his name was Eric Bishop.

Had a brief conversation with Eddie Vedder back in the mid 90s when he toured with his ex-wife's band, Hovercraft. I was a teenager and told him a lame story about how Alive is what inspired me to play guitar. Said some other cheesy stuff. He's a really nice guy though...the conversation lasted maybe a handful of minutes, but its one nugget I've kept to myself for a long time.

I also met Creed after a show at the Bronco Bowl here in the Dallas area. They were a fresh band at the time...Scott Stapp was a huge let down. The lyrics to Creed, while cheesy, impressed me at that time and to find out the dude was so empty was a huge let down.

I haven't really had any to speak of - I once passed by the actual Patch Adams in an airport. I've had email contact with Nostalgia Critic.

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Yeah, that's about all I can think of.

My dad, however, has had more luck with this sort of thing. He was in the movie Definitely Maybe and got to meet Ryan Reynolds for a short time (My dad's the Bill Clinton that he passes in the park near the very end of the movie). I know he's also been about 5 feet away from the actual Bill Clinton at one point as well. If he's met anyone else, I don't really know about it, but I'm fairly certain that he's run into more.

Korn minus Jonathan Davis
Lou Ferigno
Ron Perlman
Doug Jones
Selma Blair
GDT
Luke Goss
Bruce Campbell
Ed McMahon
Adam West

I think that's it. I'm not going to count any of the comic artists/writers. I did breathe the same air as Stan Lee once and that was awesome.

Oh! I almost forgot two of the most important!
Jason Mewes
Brian O'Halloran

and the woman who played Grams on Charmed. Jennifer Rhodes.

I met Scott Kurtz at a convention back in 2006 and he drew a cool sketch for me of Skull and Brent while I stood there like an excited little fanboy.

The coolest though was when I met Mercedes Lackey. I asked her to sign a book for my then gf who couldn't make it to CAPE with me that year. She laughed and said "Trying to get pussy points I see." I left with a smile and a red face.

During his brief tenure as one of the replacement hosts of the Man Show, I met Joe Rogan when he came through town with the Girls Gone Wild crew filming for one of their videos, and I was part of the on-site staff for one of our radio stations. I'm pretty sure I'm in the background in at least one of the shots they took that night, as I was literally arms-length from a chick eating out another chick. It was actually probably one of the least erotic moment I ever experienced that involved naked college chicks.

Some of the various acts that came through town I've met-
Hinder
Burden Brothers
Johnny Solinger (lead singer of Skid Row)
And a whole bunch of "Texas" country artists most of you couldn't give a rat's ass about (Robert Earl Keen, Corey Morrow, Kevin Fowler, Honeybrowne, Randy Rogers, Eli Young, Roger Creager, Stoney LaRue, and a quite a few others)

When I was a kid I met Riders in the Sky at the Colorado State Fair... if anybody remembers them. Think NPR on sunday mornings about 20 years ago

Last year I went to a summer program for animation that had Sihanouk Mariona as one of the teachers and had Mark Walsh and Bobby Podesta as guest speakers.

They might not be the most famous people, but meeting them was much cooler for me than meeting many actually famous people would have been.

My dad bumped into Muhammad Ali at an airport once and got an autograph. He had to get it on a map, as that was the only paper around.

I recently ran into Bill Murry (literally) while walking backwards because I was talking to a friend. He was cool about it though.

I'm also told that I drunkenly hit on Scarlet Johansen and drunkenly insulted Josh Hartnett a few years ago. I don't really remember, but my friends swear it was them.

I have met the band Default, and hung out after a concert and talked to them for about 15-20 minutes (they're not that famous around here, so they were probably just happy to have someone that wanted to talk to them)... when I was a kid, I met Darrell Green (former Washington Redskin and NFL Hall of Famer). I've also met Frank Warren, of PostSecret fame.

My boyfriend has met Buzz Aldrin, and who he calls "the question mark guy" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Lesko), and numerous Bollywood stars no one would recognize the names of. My mom and dad have met Brian Mitchell (another ex-Redskin... meeting Redskins tends to happen a lot around here), and Evander Holyfield, and my dad met Howie Mandell in an Atlantic City casino about 20 years ago.

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Oh, and also -- I worked in a call center for a few years (as I feel like I've said a million times here... :bush: ), and celebrities and/or their handlers would call in sometimes for assistance. I talked to Oliver Platt once, and my buddy that sat next to me talked to Jon Stewart once. (He actually asked him if he dyed his hair grey to look more distinguished and I heard Jon laughing through the phone -- so awesome)

I saw Sean Connery in a London Underground station a few years ago.

Also, when Kobe Bryant came to Taiwan on a one-day visit a couple of years ago, I happened to run into him on the 89th floor observation deck in Taipei 101. Tried to take a picture but his entourage stopped me.

Also, I once managed to get tickets to Wimbledon, Center Court, so I got to see a whole bunch of famous tennis players, including Sampras, Graf, Philippoussis, Michael Chang and a whole lot of others.

Me and some friends did the living background for a concert of the Tolkien Ensemble last summer and before it began we all were allowed to group around Christopher Lee for a quick memory photo.
No words were exchanged and he seemed quite tired but he still is an impressive figure and it was awesome to listen to his soundcheck.
No one can say "Too much reverberation" like him. After a second sound testing he banged several times with his hand on his chair to shpw the sound guy what he meant and after a third try he was happy with the result and had a happy smirk on his face.

When NWA:TNA was in Nashville, I met and talked to probably every wrestler that came through the company. I went to every show, and they were generous with their time. Also a little later, I got on the street team and worked on their official message board, and I got to go backstage to a lot of shows too and just hang out.

My grandma was high in TN election board stuff, and I met Lamar Alexander and Fred Thompson(law and order guy, Die Hard 2) on different occasions.

In college I partied (nothing kinky) with Less Than Jake in my room between sets when they were playing our fraternity party for payment in pizza and beer.

Muhammad Ali's dad painted my grandpa's barber shop windows.

Mo Tucker, drummer for The Velvet Underground, cooked me dinner (she's one of my best friends' mother).

I see a decent number of celebs around Nashville. Quite a few at the Pancake Pantry.

A few months ago I went to see Pat Travers Band at a casino.

A friend of mine had invited us up to their hotel room and we got to meet the band and have some wine with them.

It was a pretty cool event, not exactly the biggest of stars, but I was pretty excited about it!

When I worked night audit at a downtown hotel near the top live music club in town, I had a few brushes...

I met Dick Dale a couple times when he was doing shows in town. First time I was working the hotel lobby when he headed out to start the show. Second time he got me in for free.

Same job, I met Jack and Meg White as they came back from a show. I had no idea who they were at the time.

Don Knotts was from here, and stopped in town on occasion. I didn't meet him face to face, but I spoke to him when he requested a wakeup call.

Lastly, I ended up valet parking Sen. Jay Rockefeller's car when I was the only desk clerk or bellhop available to do so at the time.

At cons I've met Pete Conrad, Adam West, Phil Foglio, Sergio Aragones, Chris Claremont, Jack Kirby, and Mojo Nixon, just to name a few.

I met the world's 11th richest man (Jim Walton) at an art gallery in Bentonvile, AR. That's my best story, pretty boring.

My relatives have much better tales, including:
- My cousin helped Linus Torvalds install Linux on a Mac.
- My uncle's pants were on the cover of Rolling Stone.
- Another cousin has been in several national commercials (Axe, Healthy Chioce, Pizza Hut, some car insurance)

Hockey Players

Mario Lemieux
Evgeni Malkin
Sergei Gonchar


Old farts

Donald Trump
Ben Stein
B. Obama
G.W. Bush
James Watson

Well known celebs

Weird Al Yankovic
Shakera
All of the Rolling Stones
Cher
All of Korn
Tony Hawk

OH! And I hit on Britney Spears once in Maui. No dice though, she was with K-fed at the time.

Woah. Nice list.

My cousin works for the Earnharts... Dale Senior literally hired him on the spot while he was working at a bar because of his stellar personality. I've also been on TV several times for one thing or another, but that was years ago.

Sports Related:

Jason Bay (MLB) is from my hometown, known him forever. Dude owes me a dollar, I'll settle for a million though (lord knows he has it :bush: )

Had dinner with former coach of New York Rangers Tom Renney. Got to ask him any question about hockey or any players. Turns out that yes, Jaromir Jagr IS a big douchebag and that Sidney Crosby is even more talented than we think. Was disappointed to hear he got fired.

Had Pat Quinn here for a celebrity golf tournament, chatted with him for a bit. The man is a big perv, wow. Pinchin' the ladies bums.

Ray Ferraro I have an autograph from him when he still played hockey.

I'm only gonna list people that I've had dinner with, otherwise this would be rather long...

Frank Cho, who's first words he spoke were "My dog eats shit."
Dave Prowse (Darth Vader)
Kenny Baker (R2-D2)
Mike Edmonds (Logray the Ewok and other parts)
Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca)
Jay Novacek (ex Cowboys Tight End, great guy)
Jeremy Bulloch (the real Boba Fett)
numerous comic writers and artists

And I'm sure that as I hit submit on this post I'll think of somebody else.

Oh yes, and I have an autographed Darth Maul picture from Ray Park saying "Feel the Force". He's such a little guy, teeheehee.

I haven't met a ton, but let's see...

-Disturbed (with Jason Moyer instead of Fuzz) at a concert
-Puerto Rican hitter for the A's, back in the mid-90's (can't remember the name for the life of me), at Disneyland
-Got to talk with the drummer from Firewind for a while, and met the lead singer for Dark Tranquillity when they came to San Francisco last year (both awesome guys, especially the singer. Really sweet, nice guy)

Not me in particular, but my friend's dad went to high school with Cliff Burton (bassist from Metallica) and still has one of the guitars Burton gave to him.

I shook hands with Jim Gaffigan after a show.

I was 7 feet away from Eddie Izzard after a show. :redface: <--See.... this is the proper use of that face, NOT embarrassment.

I tripped onto Ron Carter at the Birdland club in New York. That was awesome, although embarrassing. He totally caught me. ^_^

None of world fame, but a few national celebs:
- In my summer job as a telemarketer, I once called the somewhat famous MP Ben Zyskowicz. He did not answer.
- In the Turku Medieval Market I've ran into a few celebs: I saw President Tarja Halonen be called a witch (because of her red hair); in character I laughed at Michael Monroe ("Hey, look at that rooster!"). Also, I once noticed Veijo Hietala, the Finnish academic version of Roger Ebert, there. He was a genuinely nice guy, although I talked to him in-character as a Franciscan friar.
- Met John Kovalic of Dork Tower fame at Ropecon '06.
- The next Ropecon, I met the creators of Star Wreck: Samuli Torssonen, Atte Joutsen and Timo Vuorensola.

Bellygrub said:

Lou Ferigno
Ron Perlman
Doug Jones
Selma Blair
Bruce Campbell
Adam West

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Chazwozel said:

Ben Stein
B. Obama

All of the Rolling Stones

OH! And I hit on Britney Spears once in Maui. No dice though, she was with K-fed at the time.

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I'm like seriously humbled by you two. Oh and I would have bagged Britney, at least enough to take some pictures and make a few mil.

Cajungal said:

I shook hands with Jim Gaffigan after a show.

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I'd love to go see him, he's on my top stand-up list right behind Margaret Cho.

He's reeeeally funny live. The lady in front of me kept giving me dirty looks because I laughed at full volume the entire time. What does she want? It's a comedy show!

I lived in Vancouver for a while, and my mom's boyfriend (Fraser) was a prop builder on movie sets, so i've met a couple of big names.

-I met Kevin Costner when Fraser was working on this pile of crap. incidentally, Fraser was, IIRC, the carpenter responsible for the "elevator scene", which was pretty cool.

-on other occasions (i can't remember the movies for these ones) i met Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Stallone was kind of a dick.

-i came into contact with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson a couple of times.

-my dad tried to bum smokes off of Jean-Claude Vandamme in Stanley Park once. he doesn't smoke.

i feel like i've made this post before. the topic might've come up in vent one time.

Tom Brokaw (dick)
John Elway (dick)
Shannon Sharpe (dick)
Ed Norton (in a Starbucks coffee shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He was tired as hell, intense filming schedule or something)

I've met these people at conventions:

John Rhys-Davies

Sean Astin

David Prowse (Signed my Darth Vader card I was using in my deck in the World Championship tournament.)

Ray Park

Kenny Baker

Jeremy Bulloch

Daniel Logan (Young Boba. Kid seemed kind of a punk.)

Michonne Bourriague, who played Aurra Sing

It was funny watching her and Kenny Baker walking around together.

Amy Allen, who played Aayla Secura

She said I had pretty eyes!

And finally, this tubby bitch:

My mom and some of the ladies in her Mardi Gras Krewe got to ask if Scarlett Johannsen would ride in one of our parades a couple of years back. She was recording an album here in LA for some reason. I know that Chef John Folse has some of the best recording equipment in the South... maybe she went there. I dunno. At any rate, they spoke with her. I didn't, but I thought it was worth mentioning, if only to make Calleja put his fist in his mouth.

I've met a few random British celebs, though none you'd know.

Main one of note that I still get slightly giddy about was Robert Downey Junior. He was getting a coffee in Starbucks in Manchester while they were filming scenes for that new Sherlock Holmes film. Managed to get his autograph and shake his hand, all the while geeking out and telling him how much Iron Man rocked

Dude that played C-3PO
Bret Hart (Really nice guy)
Owen Hart (Even nicer than Bret)
Christopher Titus (like 2 weeks ago at his comedy show, he's fucking awesome nice)
Bam Margera (who was swarmed by children)
Seth Rogen (who my girlfriend at the time had a massive crush on.)

And that's about it.

My dad was in a diner when John Claude Van Damme and the Hispanic dude in Machete were there.

His only comment was "they're really fucking short."

Was Seth Rogen nice, Frank?

I once met Garrison Keillor at a restraunt my ex worked at. He was a total prick. As he was waiting to pay his tab, I told him that really enjoyed his work and grew up listening to his stuff and he just frowned at me, grunted and walked away with his nose so far in the air, I think it took out a passing sparrow.

Shegokigo said:

Bellygrub said:

Lou Ferigno
Ron Perlman
Doug Jones
Selma Blair
Bruce Campbell
Adam West

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Chazwozel said:

Ben Stein
B. Obama

All of the Rolling Stones

OH! And I hit on Britney Spears once in Maui. No dice though, she was with K-fed at the time.

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I'm like seriously humbled by you two. Oh and I would have bagged Britney, at least enough to take some pictures and make a few mil.

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It was a pretty surreal experience. I was in Maui with a bunch of people (girlfriend aka future wife included) and she was just there at Kaanapali beach. I went up to her and asked if she was really Britney an impersonator, or just a sexy looking devil. I got to bullshitting around a bit with her, meanwhile some of my friends started walking up too. Then her fucking bodyguard butted in (he was with K-fed down a bit further) after I asked her if she wanted to go out later for drinks. K-fed gave me some glares too. When they showed up game was over and she went into goodbye mode.

Did you offer her some blow?

She would have ditched Kfed for you if you'd offered her blow.

I met they guy who voiced Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast. He was in a word, awesome.

Jerry Orbach! JEALOUS!

I'm sad now.

Since I live in a college town, and have worked in hotels where visiting teams tend to stay, I have met a few of the coaches. Fame is relative, so they may not be as notable to some of you lot.

Don Nehlen (former WVU football coach)
Rich Rodriguez (the less said about him the better )
Gale Catlett (former WVU basketball coach)
Fred Schaus (former WVU and L.A. Lakers coach)
Jim Calhoun (UConn men's basketball coach)
Mike Jarvis (former George Washington U. and St. John's U. basketball coach)

Cajungal said:

Was Seth Rogen nice, Frank?

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Funny.

He was high as fuck and barely coherent.

While I was at Walter Reed Army Medical center, a lot of famous people stopped by to visit the Wounded Warriors.

I met: John Kerry, I was given a Senate coin by Joe Lieberman, I met Mick Foley, Weird Al, The Colts after they beat the Bears in the Superbowl (Peyton Manning was a tool and didn't remove his sunglasses the whole time). The New York Yankees, I also shook the hand of General Colin Powell.

Let's see...

Seen in local supermarkets
Steven Tyler
Joe Perry
Jeff Corwin

Seen around
Steve Carell and his wife
Chris Cooper
Bobby Farrelly (of the Farrelly brothers)
Gary DiSarcina
Matt Light

And, of course...
David Ortiz
Tom Brady
Jonathan Papelbon
Doug Flutie

Tracy Ulman in LA
John Rhys Davies at a convention
Jeremy Bulloch at a convention
Colin Baker at a convention
Lucy Lawless before she was famous
And the Dalai Lama

I've met Charles Kennedy, ex leader of the Liberal Democrats, had a nice chat. He was having a coffee at the time, it may or may not have been Irish.

And my parents once sat next to the Boomtown Rats on a plane, except for Bob. He was in first class.

I met Jewel Staite when I was at an after convention party.

Kovac said:

I met Jewel Staite when I was at an after convention party.

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I think I would've burst into flames or something at that point :smug:

lets see...

tom baker, dominic monaghan and geoff hurst at a london con.

also met a bunch of webcomics people at a small webcomics thing, he weebl and bob guys, meredith gran and chris hastings.

also tony blair at my old schools opening.

I interviewed several famous people (in a national or local scale), but there's a few that are well known internationally. I also met, without actually interviewing them, a few cool guys.

·The dude that made the make up effets for Pan's Labyrinth (and the Hellboy Movies). I believe his name is David Martí?

(I also spoke with the girl when I called to their office)
·The novelist Noah Gordon

·The Cartoonist Joe Sacco

·The Cartoonist Jimmy Palmiotti

·The cartoonist Milo Manara

·The Cartoonist Moebius

·The Stop Motion master Ray Harryhausen

·The singer (and actress?) Jennifer Lopez

·"The best chef in the world", Ferran Adrià


And that's all I can think about right now.

Frankie said:

Dude that played C-3PO

Bam Margera (who was swarmed by children)

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Ugh, why can't this idiot just go away?

Greendog said:

Kovac said:

I met Jewel Staite when I was at an after convention party.

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I think I would've burst into flames or something at that point :smug:

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I was kinda drunk at the time which may have helped in preventing my head from exploding.

twitchmoss said:

also met a bunch of webcomics people at a small webcomics thing, he weebl and bob guys, meredith gran and chris hastings.

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UK Web and Mini Comix Thing (or whatever it's called) by any chance?

Chazwozel said:

Frankie said:

Dude that played C-3PO

Bam Margera (who was swarmed by children)

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Ugh, why can't this idiot just go away?

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I dunno. I don't know why parents would want an alcoholic pill junkie skater near their kids either, but, I'm not the parent of them.

Had dinner once with a group who included some famous dutch actor who played in various movies and a pretty famous Soap Opera on TV. However, I really do not follow the Dutch film industry at all, nor do I really watch television, so I really had no idea who the guy was or what he had done. So when I asked him if he was doing anything interesting lately, he somewhat chuckled aboot it.

I'll add Patrick McManus at a book signing. - my favorite humorist.

Ran into James Carville in New Orleans. He has a really hot daughter. Or it could have been his date.

in terms of nerd fame i've met;

Lou Ferigano
Mark Waid
James O'Barr
Robert Kirkman
Jackson Guice

and a bunch of others I can't remember at this early hour of the morning.

Oh and I did meet Kurtz one year at a convention, but I wouldnt classify him as a celeb

I've met, in no particular order:
Chase Masterson (Leeta the dabo girl on DS9)
Robert Trebor (Salmonius on Hercules/Xena)
Alexandra Tydings (Aphrodite on Hercules/Xena)
Eric Estrada (Ponch on CHIPS)
Gigi Edgley (Chiana on Farscape)
Claudia Black (Aeryn Sun on Farscape)
Ellen Muth (George Lass on Dead Like Me)
Eliza James (violinist for Burt Bacharach and girlfriend of Limp Bizkit's drummer, John Otto)
the band members of GWAR
Steve Jackson (Steve Jackson Games)
Walter Koenig (Pavel Checkov on Star Trek, Bester on Bablyon 5)
Jason Carter (Marcus on Babylon 5)
Richard Biggs (Dr. Franklen, Babylon 5)
---I played tinwhistle with Jason and Richard at Dragon*Con the year they were there, while they were jamming at the late-night drum circle. Was hecka fun. RIP Richard.
Warren Buffet (Famous investor/businessman)
Alan Bean (Astronaut. I used to work security where he lives in Houston, a long time ago)
Dominique Sachse (Channel 2 News Anchor in Houston. Lived in the same neighborhood that Alan Bean did)
---Mr. Bean was hecka nice..just kind of a 'regular ol' guy' and would talk with me all the time. My only communication with Dominique, on the other hand, was her getting pissed because I didn't open the security gate for her fast enough because I was helping one of our elderly residents with her mail. Not a good first impression.
Lived down the street from, and was friends with Alan Price, guitarist for Dead Horse (middling successful band, sold about a million records and got radio play back in the day)
Kurtz and Straub, naturally.
Pete Abrams (Sluggy Freelance webcomic)
Anne MccAffrey (Dragonriders of Pern, among other books)

That's all I can think of at the moment. When I go to Dragon*Con, I get to hang out in the green room, but perhaps not surprisingly, I've never met a celeb there. On a slightly creepy note, someone once asked me for my autograph at Dragon*Con because they recognized me from my website (which does, admittedly, get 2 million hits a year now), but I really don't consider myself a celebrity in any shape or fashion. So I felt kind of weird about it. But I *have* gotten used to being recognized by every tinwhistle and flute maker at every festival I go to.

My penis is Jesus.

Jake said:

My penis is Jesus.

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So then it's imaginary?

Shegokigo said:

Jake said:

My penis is Jesus.

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So then it's imaginary?

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Oh, it's definitely real. Though it may not work quite as many miracles as advertised. aranoid:

Regardless, I think it's about time you were baptized...

Got an autograph from Alan Tudyk.


I asked him "So... uh.. you're the guy that played Spike, right?"


He said, [spoiler:3ovjiwvz]"No, I was the guy who got spiked."[/spoiler:3ovjiwvz]

Jake said:

Shegokigo said:

Jake said:

My penis is Jesus.

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So then it's imaginary?

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Oh, it's definitely real.

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Then I don't see how there could be a resemblance.

Shegokigo said:

Jake said:

Shegokigo said:

Jake said:

My penis is Jesus.

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So then it's imaginary?

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Oh, it's definitely real.

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Then I don't see how there could be a resemblance.

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oh, also met alan moore.

it happened to be at the same time as a chanology protest against scientology was around the corner, so i had the opportunity to see dozens of geeks wearing guy fawkes masks awkwardly queing up for signings.

twitchmoss said:

oh, also met alan moore.

it happened to be at the same time as a chanology protest against scientology was around the corner, so i had the opportunity to see dozens of geeks wearing guy fawkes masks awkwardly queing up for signings.

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twitchmoss said:

oh, also met alan moore.

it happened to be at the same time as a chanology protest against scientology was around the corner, so i had the opportunity to see dozens of geeks wearing guy fawkes masks awkwardly queing up for signings.

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HAHA!

Isn't it ironic, don't ya think?

I'm not counting the 1-minute handshake & photo you can get at any convention, otherwise (like many others) the list'd get too long.

Ate dinner with author Timothy Zahn.
Had beers and talked baseball with Kat from BSG, Luciana Carro.
Compared heights and chatted with Ray Park.
Sang karaoke with football player Braylon Edwards (he prefers Elvis songs).
Had beers with wrestler Rob Van Dam and Bud Bundy himself, David Faustino.
Chatted for a long while with James Earl Jones.

But the topper, the king of them all, the event behind my av...

Drinking beers, talking about any-and-everything, and drinking more beers with Colonel Tigh, Michael Hogan. Greatest. Night/Early Morning. EVER.

You've all met me. What the fuck else do you want?

For several years, the Origins gaming convention (in Columbus Ohio) used to have LARP events, where they would ask one of the celebrity guests to make an appearance in it, if it was based off one of their shows/movies. Some of them just made a token appearance, coming in and saying hello for 5 minutes and leaving. But a couple actually leapt right into it, getting into the role playing and interacting with all the players. Two awesome ones I was able to experience were:

Jeff Conaway from Taxi and Babylon 5 - A really funny guy, and excellent improvisational comedian. I got to talk to him as the security chief of Bablylon 5 briefly and shake his hand.

Bruce Campbell - In a Brisco County Jr LARP - he was just unbelievable. He never stopped cracking jokes, and keeping everything active. He sentenced me to hang and (literally) tossed me into the jail. Great stuff!

Other than that, Dave Arneson was one of my son's teachers at Full Sail for game design, so I met him a couple times.
Sat with authors Ed Greenwood and Michael Stackpole at a small fund raising dinner.
Hung out and chatted with Chuck Dixon at a local comic book shop many years ago.
My wife and I got to be extras in the filming of "Invincible" (playing crowd members in the stands) and Mark Wahlberg and Greg Kinnear were a few feet below us. they were both very friendly and went around to say hello to the extras (but the crush of people was pretty thick, so I didn't get to shake their hands myself).

I never met this Kurtz guy you speak of. :heythere:

Chazwozel said:

twitchmoss said:

oh, also met alan moore.

it happened to be at the same time as a chanology protest against scientology was around the corner, so i had the opportunity to see dozens of geeks wearing guy fawkes masks awkwardly queing up for signings.

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HAHA!

Isn't it ironic, don't ya think?

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That is fucking beautiful. I mean, sunset with a rainbow kinda shit right there.

Lots at conventions, but I won't really count most of those. Some of my favorites were Alan Tudyk, who I actually had something to say to because I had seen him perform in Spamalot on my honeymoon, and Peter David, who was impressed that I knew how to pronounce "apropos." I was irritated at myself for not bringing a script for PAD to look at, as he's open to that and I had him pretty much all to myself.

I met Jerry and Mike from Penny Arcade and hung out and played video games with them at a Gameworks. (They were in town for a talk at a college.) Tycho compared my hair to "spun gold." That was a blast. They signed a cardboard tube for me.

Way back (2000? 2001? I know it was before I met my wife), I ran into Keri Russell at a bar, the day after Christmas. Apparently her brother went to the same college as me, and she was there visiting. I was the only one among my friends (was just drunk enough) to talk to her. She already had a drink, so I can't say I bought her a drink, but we did chat for a little bit before the bar became crowded and she started to get swamped. She was friendly, though I completely blanked on her name at the time and might possibly have referred to her as "TV's Felicity."

Edrondol said:

You've all met me. What the smurf else do you want?

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That reminds me I need to take double shots of the whiskey in my desk drawer today.

Edrondol said:

You've all met me. What the fuck else do you want?

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I haven't met you. Not in real life. It doesn't count if it's not in real life.

We should arrange a Official Halforum Party sometime, where we get together and drink and maybe a few people punch each other.

I've met Ed IRL, he just didn't know he's met me.

Shegokigo said:

I've met Ed IRL, he just didn't know he's met me.

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See you're not that scary really, Ed's still alive

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Kovac said:

I met Jewel Staite when I was at an after convention party.

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I think I would've burst into flames or something at that point :smug:

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there is nothing smug about being a drooling fanboy

Charlie Dont Surf said:

there is nothing smug about being a drooling fanboy

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who are you the smug cops :smug:

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See you're not that scary really, Ed's still alive

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It's a funny thing, as tempting as it was, I'd have preferred not to lose Halforum or have it run by someone a bit less "Mad Scientist".

Though of course, had I been under contract....

Do cons count? In that case I've met a few B-listers there. But nothing much.

I did have an email rapport for a while about art with Chris Hastings (of Dr. McNinja) for a while, but that's not all that fancy. You can hang out with famous comic artists on the web a lot. Gutterzombie for colorists. Penciljack sometimes has pencilers. Sketch Tavern has some "famous" animators. Etc.

Not a lot of celebrity sightings considering my location...
*Played some basketball with Frankie Muniz at Oakwood apartments.
*Had a conversation with Sly Stallone about how Quentin Tarantino stole the idea of "Grindhouse" from him.
*Took voice over lessons from Kat Cressida (voice of Dee Dee on Dexter's Lab)
*I see Brian Henson on occasion when I attend "Puppet Up" performances, but just as an audience member.

I've had other sightings at the hotel I work at.
I've checked in or assisted John Goodman, Gary Sinese, Penn and Teller, Kate Jackson *cough*BITCH!!!*cough*, John Amos, and Adam West who actually came to the front desk with a deactivated room key and said "I'm not sure why it's not working. I don't believe I had it next to my utility belt".

Shawnacy said:

Adam West who actually came to the front desk with a deactivated room key and said "I'm not sure why it's not working. I don't believe I had it next to my utility belt".

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That's either incredibly awsome or infinately sad. I can't decide which.

Ex-gf worked at a major movie theatre in Chicago had met a ton of celebs.

Brother was quite the Metal concert gooer for a while, ended up as Slipknot's "weed provider" one time when they were down doing a show and their provider had fallen through, he ended up backstage, lighting up after the show. Brought back a CD full of autographs. :uhhuh:

I met Martha Wash at last year's gay pride festival. I also hung out with the Nemesis twins. Though, if you aren't a gay man, those aren't really very impressive celebrities

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I know Zen has a nice little list I'd like to see in detail.

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You'd really like to see the phone list I stole when I was working for director Alan J. Pakula. Had tons of interesting names on there and being too good of a girl I never did anything with it.

Not gonna bore you with the full list (especially since no one liked my picture with Tony Shalhoub :tongue but here are a few of my highlights.

My father was -- or is still -- friends with David Frost (as in Frost/Nixon) and since even as a little kid I knew who he was, I was always impressed that he would sit down and talk to me like an adult, and really listen, just like I was one of his interview subjects. Very fond memories of him.

I've hung out with the Redskins and been on the floor of FedEx Field right before a game. I mainly talked to Darrell Green, though, who is a total sweetheart.

Favorite authors I've met at signings: Margaret Atwood, John Irving, Tom Stoppard.

Working for Premiere my interviewees included Jennifer Lopez and Angelina Jolie, before they got crazy famous. My very favorite in-person interview was Walter Matthau.

When I ran my fan site for the TV show American Gothic I somehow got lots of fun people to do phone interviews with me about it. Sam Raimi, Ted Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Shaun Cassidy, Nick Searcy, Jake Weber, Brenda Bakke, producer David Eick (later Battlestar Galactica), writer Stephen Gaghan (later Oscar winner for "Traffic"), composer Joseph LoDuca, and some of the directors. Still have them all on tape; recently got up the guts to listen to the Bruce Campbell one again.

Too many to mention from working for Pakula, but my favorite was Robert Culp. When I was interning, I called to invite him to the premiere of The Pelican Brief and he was a total Hollywood douchebag to me, unlike every single other person I called. About six months later, after I'd been hired there as a development associate, Alan came up to me and said "I have this script by a friend and I'd like you to let me know what you think."

It was by Robert Culp.

You got to talk to Walter Mattau? Dang.

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(especially since no one liked my picture with Tony Shalhoub :tongue

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Not a matter of "not liking it" but a matter of we know you purposely blurred it to unrecognition to avoid us seeing you!

ZenMonkey said:

Working for Premiere my interviewees included Angelina Jolie

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:drool:

ZenMonkey said:

(especially since no one liked my picture with Tony Shalhoub :tongue

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FALSE! I very much liked it.

ZenMonkey said:

I've hung out with the Redskins and been on the floor of FedEx Field right before a game. I mainly talked to Darrell Green, though, who is a total sweetheart.

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Having met Darrell, I totally concur. I was a little kid at the time (like 7 or 8), but me and my mom and my sister asked him for his autograph, and he was so awesome about it. We asked him to sign our t-shirts, and I pointed out a specific place and said "sign right there!" and he laughed and said "Yes, ma'am!" (I guess it was the combination of it being a weird place... on the shoulder of the shirt, and also my little kid bossiness) My mom getting to meet him/talk to him was like, a dream come true. She's a diehard Redskin fan (a trait she passed on), and Darrell has always been her favorite player.

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Margaret Atwood

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[faint]

Cajungal said:

You got to talk to Walter Mattau? Dang.

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I was so freaking nervous. And he was wonderful. He wrote down his original, ridiculously long last name on a napkin for me and I wish I knew what happened to it.

Shegokigo said:

Not a matter of "not liking it" but a matter of we know you purposely blurred it to unrecognition to avoid us seeing you!

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Ha ha, no, the picture really is THAT BAD. It was taken with a mediocre camera phone inside a relatively dark movie theatre.

Lally said:

My mom getting to meet him/talk to him was like, a dream come true. She's a diehard Redskin fan (a trait she passed on), and Darrell has always been her favorite player.

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Aw, that's great! Yeah, he is a very genuine person, didn't get any hint of sports-star ego at all. And he's certainly entitled to some!

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ZenMonkey said:

Margaret Atwood

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It was pretty hard for me to talk, I'll definitely admit that.

Oh, I forgot another good one -- Stephen Colbert looked down my blouse when I met him after a production of Wigfield.

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Oh, I forgot another good one -- Stephen Colbert looked down my blouse when I met him after a production of Wigfield.

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Pics or it didn't happen?

Shegokigo said:

ZenMonkey said:

Oh, I forgot another good one -- Stephen Colbert looked down my blouse when I met him after a production of Wigfield.

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Pics or it didn't happen?

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I wish! Mr. ZM noticed, but it happened too quickly to get a nice shot like the one with Obama and Sarkozy.

Well I meant more the "objects" in question.

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Well I meant more of the "objects" in question.

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There's a certain wedding photo (rated G) that I almost post here from time to time, and always think better of it. The girls look quite nice.

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There's a certain wedding photo (rated G) that I almost post here from time to time, and always think better of it. The girls look quite nice.

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Is it any of the ones I have my HD from the Halfpixel Picture thread?

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Is it any of the ones I have my HD from the Halfpixel Picture thread?

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Nope. Like I said, never posted it here. :slywink:

Also I just happened to see that Kyra Sedgwick is on Twitter and remembered I interviewed her for a "Women in Film" issue of Premiere, over the phone though. In person, Kristin Scott-Thomas and Mary-Louise Parker.

Sorry, I'll stop now.

Goldberg came to our town when a new athletic shoe store opened up, and my brother got to meet him. That's back when he still cared about wrestling (12 or 13). It was so cute... he came running up to me with his signed shirt and said, "I met him, I met him! He was really nice to me! And his shoulders were wider than if you put mom AND Aunt Karen side by side! (They're not fat or anything... he just was using them as a comparison.) Kid must've waited out in the sun for 3 hours to talk with him for 15 seconds. It's a good memory.. back before my bro turned into Mr. Cool. (He''s still my good buddy... just a closed book now.)

Oh, I did get to meet Mike Mignola at ComiCon one year. I wanted to ask him about HellBoy 2 and tell him he was the reason I got into comics again, but I was so nervous that all I could do was get a signature and a handshake. rly:

I shook hands and talked with [strike:2uqntnz9]Captain[/strike:2uqntnz9] Admiral Piett once.

I forgot I posted one recently. My wife was friends in high school with Dan Milano, a Robot Chicken regular (working on the new Short Circuit remake right now). He friended her on FaceBook recently. My wife says, "Hey this dork I hung out with in high school just friended me on FB. Do you know Dan Milano from Robot Chicken?" I've been trying to get some swag. So far, I've only been privy to some candid set photos from Robot Chicken. Oh, and just this morning he sent my wife a message with this link, saying I'd probably like it:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ucVfn9gob8:182dsyet][/youtube:182dsyet]