Famous people you've seen in person

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coochie coochie?

 

Now we're talking!

[Jim in Anchorage]

Did I mention that I saw Charo? Charo, man, Charo!!

Ah but Bruce is way cooler. And I HATE to brag, but I think Thurman was in the room. Top that.

[bbb]

Ah but Bruce is way cooler. And I HATE to brag, but I think Thurman was in the room. Top that.

 

Well, I'm pretty sure that Ruth Buzzi was in the room, too.

[Buftex]

Was just thinking about this...I remembered, when I first moved to NYC in the late 80's, I started dating this girl who played cello, and was studying at Julliard. Her family was from Upper Montclair, New Jersey...a nice, quaint little town, as snooty as it's name. We were dating for a few months, and her dad wanted to meet me....he had an office downtown Manhatten. He tells us to meet him at the Players Club.

 

This is a "club" comprised of actors and musicians who have have screen or recording credits...her father, Fred, had a promising career as an opera singer, back in the 1950's-early 1960's. He had to give it up, to take over his family business...a bone of contention that lasted for decades.

 

Fred is this sort of wealthy, nutty, eccentric...he always made me laugh, sometimes inappropriately...so, we sit down, and after a few drinks, he waives over for a friend of his who just walked in...his friend and his lovely frualien sit across the table from us...Fred, her father says "Dirk, I want you to meet my good friend Werner" Now, I ignore the fact that he has called me Dirk, as it is not my name (my name is Dennis, over the years he called me every male D name he could think of, except for Dennis), and I focus on his friend...it is none other than Werner Klemperer...Colonel Klink, minus the monocle. I do (or did) a pretty damn good Colonel Klink imitation in my day, and I almost broke into it, before I caught myself...crap, as a kid, me and my friends used to play "Hogan's Heroes". I loved that show when I was about 10-13

 

The whole rest of the night, I am sitting across the table from Colonel Klink, and I seem to be the only one who cares...afterwords, after Klemperer is no longer in our presence, I start saying things like "there has never been a successful escape from Satalag 13" They are both looking at me like I am an idiot...I stopped...Alyson and I hop the subway home, and she says "what the hell were you talking about?" I am like "I was doing my Colonel Klink imitation" She is looking at me like she has no idea what I am talking about..."why?" she asks. "You know, I loved "Hogan's Heroes" when I was a kid" Then she tells me she has no idea what "Hogan's Heroes" is...she knows "Werner" only as the son of the great Otto Klemperer, and as a violinist who her father knew from his days in Germany, where most of his opera career took place. Of course, being the simpleton that I was (am?), I had no idea who Otto Klemperer was... not surprisingly, Alyson and I only lasted a few years together...I was definitely out of my class! We moved to Texas together, and split up about a year later

Edited May 18, 2012 by Buftex

[Kiwi Bills fan]

LOL!

 

Steven Tyler, a woman in a wheel chair, and me in an elevator. I bet that's exactly what he had in mind when he wrote the song. I just hope they don't decide to make a new video.

 

I peed next to Eddie Money

Sat near Kareem Abdul Jabar in a plane

Had some brews with John Ashton in a bar (officer Taggert from Beverly Hills Cop)

Went to the same gym as "Dr Cox" from Scrubs and...

proudly gave the one-finger salute to George W Bush as

his motorcade sped by

[bbb]

Was just thinking about this...I remembered, when I first moved to NYC in the late 80's, I started dating this girl who played cello, and was studying at Julliard. Her family was from Upper Montclair, New Jersey...a nice, quaint little town, as snooty as it's name. We were dating for a few months, and her dad wanted to meet me....he had an office downtown Manhatten. He tells us to meet him at the Players Club.

 

This is a "club" comprised of actors and musicians who have have screen or recording credits...her father, Fred, had a promising career as an opera singer, back in the 1950's-early 1960's. He had to give it up, to take over his family business...a bone of contention that lasted for decades.

 

Fred is this sort of wealthy, nutty, eccentric...he always made me laugh, sometimes inappropriately...so, we sit down, and after a few drinks, he waives over for a friend of his who just walked in...his friend and his lovely frualien sit across the table from us...Fred, her father says "Dirk, I want you to meet my good friend Werner" Now, I ignore the fact that he has called me Dirk, as it is not my name (my name is Dennis, over the years he called me every male D name he could think of, except for Dennis), and I focus on his friend...it is none other than Werner Klemperer...Colonel Klink, minus the monocle. I do (or did) a pretty damn good Colonel Klink imitation in my day, and I almost broke into it, before I caught myself...crap, as a kid, me and my friends used to play "Hogan's Heroes". I loved that show when I was about 10-13

 

The whole rest of the night, I am sitting across the table from Colonel Klink, and I seem to be the only one who cares...afterwords, after Klemperer is no longer in our presence, I start saying things like "there has never been a successful escape from Satalag 13" They are both looking at me like I am an idiot...I stopped...Alyson and I hop the subway home, and she says "what the hell were you talking about?" I am like "I was doing my Colonel Klink imitation" She is looking at me like she has no idea what I am talking about..."why?" she asks. "You know, I loved "Hogan's Heroes" when I was a kid" Then she tells me she has no idea what "Hogan's Heroes" is...she knows "Werner" only as the son of the great Otto Klemperer, and as a violinist who her father knew from his days in Germany, where most of his opera career took place. Of course, being the simpleton that I was (am?), I had no idea who Otto Klemperer was... not surprisingly, Alyson and I only lasted a few years together...I was definitely out of my class! We moved to Texas together, and split up about a year later

 

Great story, Dirk!.........I still love Hogan's Heroes whenever I see it! That's insane that she didn't know that show or his role in it.

 

LOL!

 

 

 

I peed next to Eddie Money

Sat near Kareem Abdul Jabar in a plane

Had some brews with John Ashton in a bar (officer Taggert from Beverly Hills Cop)

Went to the same gym as "Dr Cox" from Scrubs and...

proudly gave the one-finger salute to George W Bush as

his motorcade sped by

 

Kareem was the pilot, right?

[Kiwi Bills fan]

Funny that you mention that.

As we were waiting for takeoff, I began looking through the inflight magazine. In the SkyMall catalog, they were offering a framed photo of Kareem and Peter Graves in the cockpit from a scene from Airplane.

I thought it would've been kinda funny to have had him autograph the SkyMall page with the Airplane photo on it, but I didn't want to bother the guy.

 

 

 

Kareem was the pilot, right?

Edited May 18, 2012 by Kiwi Bills fan

[John from Riverside]

When your kid is in the entertainment business and you are a entertainment dad......you really cannot help but see, meet, and talk to famous people

 

Now....My daughter could provide a decent list of singers and actors but I cant talk to her till Monday.....she is off to Las Vegas as her band is performing at the Riviera on Saturday and the Bellagio on Sunday.....extrmely happy for her this was a big gig.

 

The LAST person she ran into (and I mean literally ran my 16 year old DD daughter was Jane Lynch. My DD was up auditioning next to the set of Glee and they came down opposite hallways moving fast and Jane bowled her over (Jane is a big tall woman) so Jane gets up apologizing all over herself and my daughter gets up "oh god I just love you"......so here I am sitting in the background (like a good entertainment parent should) watching them just just sit there talking for 15 minutes about acting, Glee, music....that Jane Lynch is funny as hell. How you see her in the movies is how she is in real life.

 

now being an entertainment parent affords me to meet people but I dont get to talk to them much.....people open themselves up much more to kids so my DD has all the fun......the two most recent "celebrities" I have actually had a conversation with

 

Donald Moffat (the orginal "Thing", Clear and Present Danger, The right stuff. Donald was working a short film as the newspaper editor....my daughter was one of the secretaries brining him paperwork to sign. While Donald was on a break and my daughter was in wardrobe I sat and talked to him for a good hour.....I am in the education field and he has a PhD......so we had a lot to talk about.......then he found out my daughter was his secretary and proceded to give her serious razzing on set.......we had a great time.

 

Billy Hufsey (the original FAME) is my daughters vocals coach.....I talk to him the first Tuesday of every month....while Im writing him a check.

 

When I was a kid I worked as a steakcutter for Golden Corral steakhouse in Visailia California......one day the birdman Coco B. Ware (one of my favorite wrestlers always came in with a parrot on his shoulder) he came in while I was busting tables.....now...he was one of the smallest wrestlers on TV......but that man was a monster when you met him in person....and he was a great guy. I made sure to tell him that I was going to cut his steak special for him.

[Jim in Anchorage]

Was just thinking about this...I remembered, when I first moved to NYC in the late 80's, I started dating this girl who played cello, and was studying at Julliard. Her family was from Upper Montclair, New Jersey...a nice, quaint little town, as snooty as it's name. We were dating for a few months, and her dad wanted to meet me....he had an office downtown Manhatten. He tells us to meet him at the Players Club.

 

This is a "club" comprised of actors and musicians who have have screen or recording credits...her father, Fred, had a promising career as an opera singer, back in the 1950's-early 1960's. He had to give it up, to take over his family business...a bone of contention that lasted for decades.

 

Fred is this sort of wealthy, nutty, eccentric...he always made me laugh, sometimes inappropriately...so, we sit down, and after a few drinks, he waives over for a friend of his who just walked in...his friend and his lovely frualien sit across the table from us...Fred, her father says "Dirk, I want you to meet my good friend Werner" Now, I ignore the fact that he has called me Dirk, as it is not my name (my name is Dennis, over the years he called me every male D name he could think of, except for Dennis), and I focus on his friend...it is none other than Werner Klemperer...Colonel Klink, minus the monocle. I do (or did) a pretty damn good Colonel Klink imitation in my day, and I almost broke into it, before I caught myself...crap, as a kid, me and my friends used to play "Hogan's Heroes". I loved that show when I was about 10-13

 

The whole rest of the night, I am sitting across the table from Colonel Klink, and I seem to be the only one who cares...afterwords, after Klemperer is no longer in our presence, I start saying things like "there has never been a successful escape from Satalag 13" They are both looking at me like I am an idiot...I stopped...Alyson and I hop the subway home, and she says "what the hell were you talking about?" I am like "I was doing my Colonel Klink imitation" She is looking at me like she has no idea what I am talking about..."why?" she asks. "You know, I loved "Hogan's Heroes" when I was a kid" Then she tells me she has no idea what "Hogan's Heroes" is...she knows "Werner" only as the son of the great Otto Klemperer, and as a violinist who her father knew from his days in Germany, where most of his opera career took place. Of course, being the simpleton that I was (am?), I had no idea who Otto Klemperer was... not surprisingly, Alyson and I only lasted a few years together...I was definitely out of my class! We moved to Texas together, and split up about a year later

Oh that's got the prize on this thread. I would have had a bloody mouth biting my tongue. "Klink I am sure that attitude will serve you well on the Eastern front." Oh the opportunity's would be endless.

[Kiwi Bills fan]

I agree 100%

Colonel Klink is the pinnacle of entertainment stardom.

 

"Hogan... dat vill be two veeks in da coolah for you"

 

 

Oh that's got the prize on this thread. I would have had a bloody mouth biting my tongue. "Klink I am sure that attitude will serve you well on the Eastern front." Oh the opportunity's would be endless.

[BillsPride12]

LOL!

 

 

 

I peed next to Eddie Money

Sat near Kareem Abdul Jabar in a plane

Had some brews with John Ashton in a bar (officer Taggert from Beverly Hills Cop)

Went to the same gym as "Dr Cox" from Scrubs and...

proudly gave the one-finger salute to George W Bush as

his motorcade sped by

 

Officer Taggert!? Hands down you are the winner in this thread

[Dante]

James Hetfield/Goodguys Car Show

Jay Leno/LA Roadster Show

Neil Young/San Jose Sharks game also at Roy Brizio Shop Party

Adam Carolla/ Concourse De Elegance Car Show at Pebble Beach

 

Said hello to Adam while we were looking at the same car.

Said hello to Jay while waiting in line for a Tri Tip sandwich

Pissed off Hetfield because I tried to make him pay for his car to come into the show. He already had a car in there on display but he wanted to bring a second one. I guess he figured if he had one in there another no charge wouldn't be a probem. Each car cost about $50 to bring in and park. Not being a Mettalica fan I didn't really realize who it was although he did look vaguely familiar to me. The girl I was working with clued me in after it was done. He ended parking in spectator parking and walking in the show.

Edited May 18, 2012 by Dante

[IDBillzFan]

Sat near Kareem Abdul Jabar in a plane

 

When you turned to him and said, " I think you're the greatest, but my dad says you don't work hard enough on defense. And he says that lots of times, you don't even run down court. And that you don't really try... except during the playoffs."

[Buftex]

Great story, Dirk!.........I still love Hogan's Heroes whenever I see it! That's insane that she didn't know that show or his role in it.

 

 

At first, I thought she was just being pretentious...but the more I got to know her family, I realized they could have been the Royal Tenenbaums. They were so oddly out of synch with everything around them...they were fun, in a strange way... I remember after first meeting her whole family saying something like "My family would be the Munsters to your Adams Family" She didn't find it particularly funny, though my sister thought it was hoot...I remember staying over night at her folks house one weekend, and it just so happened that the Bills were playing the Eagles in a pre-season game in London (IIRC)...it was a night game...I was hoping to watch it, or, at least some of it...Alyson told me the only tv in the house was in the upstairs (attic) room. I went up there, found the game...along with a huge porn stash her fathter kept up there...I guess it was his "man cave"...he wasn't trying to hide anything. He gave me all kinds of crap the next morning for watching "FOOT-ball"...

 

I don't remember what he used to drink.

 

Ok, story time.

 

Once again at Ma Maison. Elizabeth Taylor was in one night. I knew which table she was sitting at. I was standing at the service bar and panning the crowd from right to left (small dinning room of maybe 20 tables). I knew she was at Table 1 in the front left. I wanted to go check her out but was being nonchalant. So scanning....scanning....scanning and the moment of truth when my eyes finally got to her table she was staring right at me with this smile on her face. Holy !@#$ing ****!! Elizabeth Taylor is checking me out! Well probably not but damn those blue eyes would melt you.

 

 

Oh and not only could she not kiss to save her life she sucked in the sack.

 

Even if she wasn't the best kisser...those eyes...they made quite an impression, obviously!

 

As for Orson Wells...I was referring to those Paul Mason wine commercials he did, probably not too long before he died...I don't know jack about wine, but I remember those commercials would come on, and my dad would chuckle and say "Yeah, I am sure Orson Wells drinks that swill"

[Chef Jim]

At first, I thought she was just being pretentious...but the more I got to know her family, I realized they could have been the Royal Tenenbaums. They were so oddly out of synch with everything around them...they were fun, in a strange way... I remember after first meeting her whole family saying something like "My family would be the Munsters to your Adams Family" She didn't find it particularly funny, though my sister thought it was hoot...I remember staying over night at her folks house one weekend, and it just so happened that the Bills were playing the Eagles in a pre-season game in London (IIRC)...it was a night game...I was hoping to watch it, or, at least some of it...Alyson told me the only tv in the house was in the upstairs (attic) room. I went up there, found the game...along with a huge porn stash her fathter kept up there...I guess it was his "man cave"...he wasn't trying to hide anything. He gave me all kinds of crap the next morning for watching "FOOT-ball"...

 

 

 

Even if she wasn't the best kisser...those eyes...they made quite an impression, obviously!

 

As for Orson Wells...I was referring to those Paul Mason wine commercials he did, probably not too long before he died...I don't know jack about wine, but I remember those commercials would come on, and my dad would chuckle and say "Yeah, I am sure Orson Wells drinks that swill"

 

Oh I knew what you were talking about regarding Orson Wells.

 

[Buftex]

Oh I knew what you were talking about regarding Orson Wells.

 

 

I have never heard that...you are killing me in this thread! That's priceless!

[Canadian Bills Fan]

What a great list of names!

 

Living in Canada, I'm sure my list wont be that great and dont expect many of you to know some of these names.

 

Bif Naked (singer)

Brent Butt (actor from Canadian TV show Corner Gas)

Weird Al Yankovic

Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols

The band "Billy Tallent"

Alexis on Fire

City and Color (Dallas Green)

[thebug]

Used to play soccer with a couple of guys Sabres fans might remember. Craig Rivet and Steve Shields.

 

Also went to high school with a few other NHL dudes....

[Chef Jim]

Story Time

 

Dudley Moore came in for a Friday lunch at Ma Maison. This was where all the power brokers of Hollywood came for lunch. I was the dinner saucier so I didn't work lunch but would walk in every Friday afternoon to a disaster area. Anyway this particular Friday lunch Moore was in. Now a little about him. He was Arthur. Tha character was created for him I imagine. He actually drove around town in a white right hand drive bentley (old model) with a license plate that said Arthur1. So this particular day it was a raucus Friday lunch. They had all partied pretty good and figured they move into the small bar to continue the party while they prepared the dining room for dinner. More drinks began to flow (this was about when I came in for my dinner shift). Well Dudley starts to play the piano. The afternoon wears on and dinner starts. Dudley places a brandy snifter on the upright piano and starts to collect tips. I couldn't believe it. As guests started to come in for dinner there was a hot chick (Dudley's date I think??) passed out on the park bench in the front of the restaurant. This **** happened all the time. I really miss that place.

 

A short article.

 

This article talks about the last days of Ma Maison. I was there for the final service. It was like a dream.

[FleaMoulds80]

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