@bijouxbroussard Its funny how you can tell a bit about someone by which celebrities that they have met which you wouldn't think would be the case but it seems the case for the responses here. Perhaps we put ourselves in the path of those we admire?
Vincent Price....talked to him at length on his break, when rehearsing for a play at the Opera House, and shook his hand. He was quite handsome and charming, even at old age. I so loved his voice. Just like in the movies and he was so kind.
I also went to see Sonny and Cher one time and that was really something. I have also seen the Beach Boys.
@CountScrofula yes!!! I was really young, but my mom and I met him in a grocery store!!! He was sooooooo tall, and he was wearing a white suit with black musical notes all over it. I remember being so fascinated by his look lol.
Rush Limbaugh, Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, Donald Trump, Walter Matthau, Burt Reynolds, Joe Namath, Sonny Jurgensen, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, Marty Caiden.....and a bunch more. Helps to work on airplanes
@TexChik Yes, had his own Gulfstream, beautiful inside and out. Airplanes are machines, they need fuel, oil, and maintenance, just like any machine, so while servicing the bird met Rush during my routine. He was always curious about what we were doing and why.
I would name them but you wouldn’t know them because they are Iranians……
Uh!! Also in 1978 when I was a student in Cambridge, due to lack of free chairs, I shared a table in a café with Octavio Paz… I didn’t know him them… he gave me his cart …. Then later I realized what a great writer he was…
Lots from Trump, to Clapton. But the one that impressed me the most was Larry Homes shortly after winning the WBC championship by beating Ken Norton in mid 1978. Nice guy. We chatted for over an hour on a plane to Honolulu.
T Boone Pickens, Lots of country music acts (Brooks and Dunn, George Straight, etc when my husband's company wanted to book entertainment for the company Christmas Party (they pinned it on me) ...I tried to find who was going to be close by just before or after another gig. It was easy money and a free night and food in the hotel. Most were very nice . They always laughed at me because I would bring my cowboy boots . I kicked off my heels and put my boots on to dance to their music.
@SW-User yep....I got very lucky.....went on a high school trip to New York and we got to tour the NBC Studios....he was there being interviewed for a radio show. Next thing I knew he came out and introduced himself and shook hands with each of my classmates. Then he did a brief comedy routine.....his usual craziness. It was very special and a memory I'll never forget. That was in 1992.
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@SW-User So cool!!!!!!! What an awesome guy. I’m sure he put on a good show for you guys 😆
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@SW-User it hit me hard when he died.
I've also met Trapt and Breaking Benjamin backstage after their concert. It was so cool. 👍
@Thodsis Wowser you met one half of the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu further more known as the JAMs?!! Was it King Boy D (Bill Drummond) or Rockman Rock (Jimmy Cauty)? 乂ᴼ◡ᴼ乂
Several equally famous or not so famous. Ludacris was buying condoms in line at grocery store in front of me. NBA Basketball player Matambo (many times) used to come to my job.
Saw Ice Cube walking next to me. Saw Flava Flav at the mall and again at the airport few years later.
Solange ( Beyonce's sister and her whole family several times)
George W. Bush I worked at a relatively small fundraiser he had back in the day. I used to work at catering on weekends.
Catered a party for Lyle Lovett.
Theres a few more but I can't remember anymore because I don't care about celebrity.
The only one I can say that I spoke with was the NBA player because I saw him so frequently.
Dick Clark or Andy Griffith, I guess, although I didn't have any long conversation with them or anything. Didn't with most of the fairly famous people I've met, really. Not even with Stephen King, sadly. He was not especially impressed when I said "that's a Welsh corgi, isn't it?" 😬
The late Dr. Norman Shumway, who was the "father" of Stanford University School of Medicine and Medical Center's cardio-thoracic surgery and their whole cardiac unit itself. He was a fairly well-known transplant surgeon. I was 15 at the time and wanted to be a doctor. So it was huge for me back then.
@2ndtimeguy I was shooting guns with My brother, When Sheriffs deputies said We had to leave the area, Dan Quayle was coming in the highway that day from the airport !