Whos The Most Famous Person Youve Ever Met?

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Re: Who's The Most Famous Person You've Ever Met?

WAY Too many too list. The one that sticks out is Elvira. She left me babling so I coulden't even udder a single word. Ward Burton is one of the best. He spent about 20 min talking with me.

 

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[mrs.oroblanco]

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I can understand that completely! Clint Eastwood, saying hello - and talking to my brother-in-law at the table - I'm not sure I was able to manage more than a nod and a drool!!!!


B

 

[mrs.oroblanco]

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Doc Ricketts.

My brother-law and sister-in-law used to live in Monterey for several years, and my brother-in-law played every week at Doc Ricketts.
(by the name of Dusty Roads).

B

 

[LadyDigger]

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General Norman Schwarzkoph

I was stationed on the USS Shenandoah (AD-44) with his cousin! (Does that count?) LOL

Met at the commissioning of one of the Navy's Finest Nuclear Subs at EB, Groton, Ct....the then VP George Bush (Poppa Bush), Adm Rickover (very long winded!) and was the duty driver that day for the then Sec of the Navy, John Lehman.

At one of my re-enlistments (was also the ships commissioning day), W. Graham Claytor Jr (former Sec of the Navy and heir in the railroad company. 1912-1994). He attended my re-enlistment!

While patrolling Shea Stadium back in high school as an Auxilary Police Woman, met in the same night, Soupy Sales and Robert Wagner (both of them signed my patrol book, which I still have!)...SUPER NICE GUYS!

Got a pic of Tony Danza's arshe...LOL! We were in NY in Nov 2004, just coming out of the hotel, who walks by, but Tony Danza, his wife and daughter. Before I realized who it was, he already walked past me...he looked right at me and smiled too! (swoon!)...so all I got was a pic of his arshe! LOL

Temptations ... still have my autographed T-Shirt and photo of us!

Dang, the name escapes me... The Shirelles, I think it was...the ones who sang the NAME GAME! Dang it...it was at a resturant in Long Island we where having dinner at...got a pic with them and autographs on a napkin!

The Apollo Astronauts, think it was 1969...they were at the Channel 5 Office (NYC), which was across the street from my grandparents house...Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong. I think that is who it was...LOL... we were just kids and they (the adults) ignored us! But we got to see them anyways, even though no autographs or photos!

Pope John Paul at the Vatican. It was a special meeting with the Pope.

There are more, but having my CRS moment!

 

[gollum]

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Doc Ricketts.

My brother-law and sister-in-law used to live in Monterey for several years, and my brother-in-law played every week at Doc Ricketts.
(by the name of Dusty Roads).

B

Great wrasler!

 

[TiredIron]

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1. Werner Von Braun...Rocket Scientist.....shook his hand.
2. Gene Hackman...took me for a ride on motorcycle...filming "Bite the Bullet".
3. Candace Bergen...gave me kiss...during filming "Bite the Bullet".
4. I've worked on Kurt Russell's biplane in Aspen...lunch with him and Goldie.
5. Robert "Bob" Caren...tail Gunner in the Enola Gay...my neighbor.... deceased.
6. Steven Tyler.....at a Machine Gun Shoot...he's a collector.
7. John Denver and his Father....I have flown cross county in biplanes with both.
8. Ben Johnson......real American Cowboy.
9. General Chuck Yeager.....while I lived at Clark AFB Philippines 1965-67. Sat
next to his daughter in the 9th grade.

Thats all I got....
TiredIron

 

[mrs.oroblanco]

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Mike,

No, he's not the wrestler. Dusty Roads, the singer and great guitarist, has had that name since he was 14 - long before the wrestler.

B

 

[gollum]

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Mike,

No, he's not the wrestler. Dusty Roads, the singer and great guitarist, has had that name since he was 14 - long before the wrestler.

B

I know. I was just funnin ya

Mike

 

[mrs.oroblanco]

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I figured that


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[RGINN]

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Sorry for the mistake Gollum, I ain't that up on pop culture, and it was cool to imagine y'all in a bar brawl with the Fabulous Thunderbirds. I heard you knocked Eddie Vedder out? (I'll like that one forever.) Probably very few remember Gene Pitney, Mrs. Oroblanco, so you now know what a forum without pity can do. (heehee)

 

[gollum]

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The Eddie Vedder story is really kind of funny. When Pearl Jam was playing in New Orleans, they came to a nighclub I was managing at about 10:30 after the show. He was really nice then.

At about 1AM, he was drunk and very belligerent. He was getting very pushy with a friend of mine named Jimmy Gorman, and when I walked up and asked him if he would mind chilling out some, he yelled "F***, MOTHERF**** YOU!" He then started to draw back his fist. When he did that, I gave him a left hook as hard as I could, and he went straight to the floor. I remembered that he had come in with a pretty big crowd and started backing toward the wall. I saw some movement in my peripheral vision coming at me from the bar, and I shuffled to kick it, but my doorman hit the guy and knocked him out. It turned out to be Jack McDowell (White Sox Pitcher).

The doorman's girlfriend (a 5'3" petite blonde) ran up and started kicking Vedder in the head. I pulled her away and we dragged Vedder and McDowell outside to wait for the cops. They were both out for about 10-15 minutes.

About a week later, a friend of mine in Florida (St. Pete) saw Pearl Jam in concert and Vedder said that his black eye and bruises came from being jumped by a gang of rednecks in the French Quarter. The black eye came from me, and the bruises came from a very cute petite blonde stripper. HAHAHA A bit later, it was a rerun a bunch of times of MTV News.

Vedder tried suing us and the club, but when we went to court, the only thing that happened was my doorman (who had been to court countless times for assault) was banned from working in any establishment that served alchohol (funny thing was he hadn't had a drop to drink because he was working).

One of the bartenders named a drink after me, called the "Left Hook" : Four ounces of tequila and two ounces of tobasco sauce served unchilled at room temperature. Trust me, it stays with you for a while.

Here is an article about it that I'm not mentioned in (management was not implicated). It says that James Gorman was a waiter. He wasn't. Jimmy Gorman was a Pot Dealer whose father (Chickie Gorman) was a very well known agent of the DEA.

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/19/s...lved-in-new-orleans-scuffle.html?pagewanted=1

Contrary to the article, Jimmy never touched Vedder and what little fight there was all happened inside. If it weren't for Tony talking to the paper, he never would have been banned from working in bars.

Best-Mike

PS

I can't say 100% that Vedder didn't spit at Jimmy before I came in, but that wasn't when he got hit.

 

[gollum]

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The big thing that came from it was right after it was in the paper and on MTV News, every guy that thought he was a bada$$ was coming to the club every weekend trying to start fights. This went on for about two to three months.

Because his name was used for the article, we started calling him Bill from Hawaii, because all the bada$$es were looking for Anthony Martinez and Jimmy Gorman (who didn't even work there). It was fun at first, but got tiresome really quick.



Mike

 

[rjw4law]

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Richard Nixon

 

[JoeMoto]

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Sammy Hagar, Lester Hayes & Todd Christiansen (80's L.A. Raiders), Murray Langston (Unknown Comic) who was with Ruth Buzzi's husband (they were neighbors), Edie Adams, Rosie (and the Originals), Michael Winslow (funny sound effects guy from the Police Academy movies).
More that escape me at the moment.

 

[Unicorn]

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Thor Heyerdal of the Kon Tiki expedition. He came into the bookshop where I once worked, to sign copies of his book...like a 100 yrs ago.. I was also given a small piece of the papyrus grass that made up the Kon Tiki......A charming gentleman.


reagrds U.

 

[Sandog]

Just now came across this thread. Really is very interesting. Wonder why it died out. I never actually thought about the question before this discovery. I'll bet there are literally hundreds, if not thousands of new members since this last post in 2010 that have met some pretty interesting and famous folks. Not sure how one would define famous. As a cardiac and emergency room RN I've met quite a few that I can't mention, but I'm going to work on a list of others that I can. Won't take me long! LOL

 

[Mackaydon]

Adlai Stevenson II, then Democratic nominee for US Pres., signed my baseball in Libertyville, Illinois in 1952.
Don..
PS: I have no idea where that baseball is today.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Meet Lou Ferrigno (Hulk) at a comic book convention while I was there helping my brother at his table.

Met Nick Goody, a professional baseball pitcher who has pitched for Yankees, Cleveland, Texas, and Washington. He is the nephew of a very good friend.

My brother a famous comic book artist is probably the most famous person I know personally.

 

[Old Dude]

@WHADIFIND!

 

[Red-Coat]

I met the Pope at the Vatican. As he was walking away after our little chat, I heard someone in the crowd of onlookers say: "Who was that dude in the big hat with Red-Coat?".

Seriously though... Paul McCartney was probably the most famous person I met.