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Dennis Stamp
"I only got on my knees for God and maybe to lick a girl's pussy" -Teddy Hart
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Post by suave on Jul 24, 2014 0:17:17 GMT -5
I saw a thread like this on Reddit, maybe it could yield some winners here too.
My Mom took a golf class with Art Slichter (Ohio State quarterback and heisman winner who was the #1 overall pick but is now in prison) when she was at Ohio State. She said he was the nicest guy, and really attractive.
I helped out at a college radio station this year, and a guy there hung out with Weezer when they came by to record stuff. He said they were really funny guys. He also met Adam Lambert backstage at a concert, and Adam complemented him on his shirt and was touching his chest.
My friend knew Bo Jackson. He lives in his neighborhood and sponsored his baseball team. Apparently his body's in pretty bad shape, and he walks aroubd hunched over and with a cane.
I know y'all have sone good stuff. Deliver.
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The Unconquered Sun
King Koopa
He has no pants! What a heathen!
Lord of Storms and Kittens!
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Post by The Unconquered Sun on Jul 24, 2014 0:48:09 GMT -5
I got to meet Bill Pinkney of the Drifters a few years back. It was a mini concert with the Original Drifters that was obvious to anyone watching was very hard on him. In a 30 minute set he needed two breaks. During the meet and greet afterwards he looked like most of the life had been drained out of him, which if I ever hit 81 I hope to look that good. Turned out it was one of his last shows, he past away two months later. He (and the rest of the Drifters) still sounded amazing, still managed to do some dancing, gave everything he had to the performance, one of the best shows I ever saw.
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Post by Display Name on Jul 24, 2014 0:50:56 GMT -5
Magic Johnson used to call my mom?Heard some answering machine messages.He was already married at the time and no,she doesn't have HIV.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Jul 24, 2014 2:46:33 GMT -5
I was a Cinema Manager for years and during that time, I met several celebrities. The vast majority of them were perfectly polite and just wanted to watch a film with their families or whoever they were with. Although I was normally tearing their ticket or something like that, as a lot of them used to come in during the weekday afternoons when it was quiet. So I actually got to have a few conversations with a lot of them (but not in a "wow, aren't you......" way, more chatting about the film they were going to see). The nicest ones were Sam Torrance ( Scottish golfer and former Ryder Cup captain who used to chat to me about the Scottish football team), Bruce Forsyth (who had a few of the public shouting his many catchphrases at him), Richard Curtis, Kenneth Branagh (who was in the same showing of Juno as I went to watch and we were both laughing throughout at the same bits when no one else was), Michelle Pfeiffer (who was beautiful!), Dawn French and Sarah Ferguson. Fun fact, one of her daughters dropped a bucket of popcorn on the floor and when the Staff member went over to clean it up, she grabbed the brush from them and started cleaning it up herself. Another story involves Nicholas Hoult, who used to hang around with his friends and tried to bum cigarettes off the Staff when they went out for a smoke. I met a few footballers. Gary Lineker was a regular and one time, I had to refuse his son entry into a film (Mr and Mrs Smith) because it was a 15 rated film and his son was about 10. Glenn Hoddle came in the day after England drew in Rome to qualify for the 1998 World Cup. Several Chelsea players used to come in and one of the lesser known players (Erland Johnsen) always chatted to me as he knew I was a massive Liverpool fan. He even let me take the piss out of him a few days after Liverpool beat Chelsea 5-1. The England Rugby Team used to watch films on days before International matches. One year they came in every Friday before a home Six Nations match because they always won after doing it and were superstitious about it and carried it on the following year. The worst celebrity I ever met was Lenny Henry. Completely in love with himself, rude and talked to the Staff like shit. So when he said the line "do you know who I am?" to one guy who worked there, he fired back "yeah, didn't you use to be funny and on TV", I invited the Staff Member into the Office for a chat and made him a cup of tea to show my appreciation.
Non Cinema-related. The only claim to fame I have is that my Dad's friend wrote It's Not Unusual and Delilah for Tom Jones. His name is Les Reed. He also wrote The Last Waltz and There's a Kind of Hush.
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Capt Lunatic
Unicron
Buttah in mah ass, lollipops in mah mouth
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Post by Capt Lunatic on Jul 24, 2014 3:06:40 GMT -5
I worked at the SoHo Grand Hotel in New York for two years as a Service Facilitator(aka front desk clerk). Met a ton of celebs...
The Good =
Cary Elwes Donal Logue(he wrote a co-worker a letter of recommendation for being so helpful) Steve Carell(this was right after 40 Year Old Virgin came out) Maria Bello Seth Meyer's father(not a celeb but just a super nice guy. He knew everyone's name after a few days.)
The Bad =
Wilmer Valderama Michael Bay(however you imagine him acting...you're prob right) Anyone famous in their industry, but not outside it(fashion designers/CEOs)
The Ugly =
Lindsay Lohan - She stayed in the north loft for over a month. CONSTANT complaints, she'd run through the lobby to her car wearing a wig and hillbilly teeth, after she checked out the maids found a bunch of weed and coke she left behind.
Gillian Anderson - I know...broke my heart too. Just a total bitch. Her assistant delivered a list of do's and don'ts to the staff that was really insulting. Same assistant called the front desk right after check in and wanted the free top ten cd's we gave guests as a gift replaced with ten cd's "more to Ms.Anderson's tastes". Just a nightmare guest.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2014 4:23:05 GMT -5
I work at a pretty small, but rather rowdy bar. My town is also super boring and barely ever gets anything. But one fall, Flo Rida happened to play the frosh week concerts in our town. He then proceeded to show up at our bar where everyone was lined up to get in. It's important to note that one of the managers at our bar is a real awesome spitfire of an old lady named Mona. She's tough as nails, doesn't like putting up with idiots and has been doing it FOREVER. So there's a line to get in. Flo Rida and his crew show up at our bar and try to cut to the front of the line and start causing a huge stink when we won't let them just cut the line and get in (Mostly because we don't even want them to come in, since we know it'll just lead to a bunch of nonsense).
Well, his assistant or whatever demands to be let in and Mona tells him basically "Listen. You're here tonight. These kids are here every week. They get in before you do. That's the way lines work."
And Flo Rida himself drops the line that every - every - person who has ever worked at a bar has heard at one time or another "Lady, do you know who I am?"
And Mona stares up at him, snorts dismissively and goes "Buddy, do you know who I am?"
They ended up leaving in a huff and it's become this big story around town.
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Mozenrath
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 24, 2014 4:38:53 GMT -5
Internet celebrity thing, but the Super Best Friends have been pretty cool the few times I've emailed them, and I love those guys. David Willis, and several wrestlers I've written, specifically Lance Storm, Konnan, Austin Aries(when he was The Austin Starr) and Grandmaster Sexay, were also good guys.
My dad met Kevin Sorbo, who was a really nice guy, and Hayden Panettiere who... wasn't. Very stand offish, and didn't even take autograph requests directly. You had to give her assistant your name, who would write it on a post it note, and then Hayden would sign it. God forbid you speak to her. That said, she does look EXACTLY the same in person as she does onscreen, so that isn't just movie magic. She is very short, though. She's basically a cold-as-ice photogenic hobbit.
My brother met John Carmack, who was really nice, and actually remember my brother's friend's name, who I think babysat his kid.
I saw Penn Jilette in person but had a cold, and didn't want to be a dick and give it to him. I did see him being very friendly and warm to fans, though. Very physically imposing man, quite tall. He actually seemed more intimidating physically than Shad Gaspard when I saw him in person. Tallest, though, is easily the man who played Chewbacca, who is ABSURDLY tall.
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Post by Larryhausen on Jul 24, 2014 8:26:28 GMT -5
Living in Hollywood for three years and working at a music store there, I've got tons.
One of my favorites was one time there was this homeless looking guy playing guitar. We tell my coworker Ben(who happens to have two cousins named Nick and Matt, who really like superkicks) to go ask him to leave. As he is, we look at the guy. "You know, that bum kinda looks like Woody Harrelson. Holy shit, that bum is Woody Harrelson."
Woody hangs out a bit longer, and as he's leaving, William H Macy just happens to walk in. The two of them chat for a bit, then go their separate ways. Kind of surreal.
I also once literally bumped into Johnny Depp on my way to clock out. Heck of a guitar player.
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Post by willywonka666 on Jul 24, 2014 8:37:17 GMT -5
The only celebs I have met were all through signings and thankfully they have all been great. Roddy piper and Hillbilly Jim were the nicest and Jimmie Walker was funny-I was the first in line to buy an autographed pic and shirt after his show and he signed them and said "Well, in the words of Abe Lincoln, You're free to go" Weird Al of all people kinda looked at me strangely it seemed when I met him at Alcon 3 and all I had for him to sign was a notepad and I had my picture taken with him with a really old camera from probably the early 80s. And of course-Lexi Belle she messed up my hair when she was dancing and the rest is photographic evidence
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Post by James Fabiano on Jul 24, 2014 8:42:36 GMT -5
Not my experience, but my friend once saw Five for Fighting at a restaurant pulling the "do you know who we are?" card.
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Sephiroth
Wade Wilson
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Post by Sephiroth on Jul 24, 2014 9:02:14 GMT -5
I did a lot of background work on the movie Be Kind Rewind, starring Jack Black and Mos Def. I'm not a follower of rap music, so I had no idea who Mos Def was, and one day I spent several hours on the set sitting right next to him chit chatting, thinking he was another background actor like me, until someone walked up and said "Can my son take a picture with you?" I was totally perplexed at why anyone would want a picture with a background actor.
Also, one day on the set I found myself standing only a few feet away from Jack Black. This was not long after Nacho Libre had been in theaters, and I had read a one-page interview he did in Wizard magazine where they teased him about getting death threats from fat women for the movie Shallow Hal, and suggested he might get death threats from luchadores next. Unable to resist, I walked up to him and asked "So have you gotten any death threats from luchadores yet?" He looked at me and said "I know I said that but where?" I reminded him and he said "Oh yeah, and no, the luchadores actually turned out to be big fans." He was a surprisingly quiet guy, anytime he wasn't in front of the camera he was fiddling around with his cell phone.
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Post by willywonka666 on Jul 24, 2014 9:21:16 GMT -5
Not my experience, but my friend once saw Five for Fighting at a restaurant pulling the "do you know who we are?" card. I thought that was one guy-either way unless it was 2001, he had to look like a fool for asking that
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Ben Wyatt
Crow T. Robot
Are You Gonna Go My Way?
I don't get it. At all. It's kind of a small horse, I mean what am I missing? Am I crazy?
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Jul 24, 2014 9:26:37 GMT -5
Met Lex Luger in '97 they day of a 'Nitro' show in Boston. There were a few of us that spotted him in a store. He was pretty cool, and spent about 10 min chatting it up. He signed something for each of us and politely excused himself because he had to take off.
A buddy of mine met John Travolta a few years ago at the Topsfield fair. He said he couldn't have been a nicer guy and that Travolta spent a good 45 min talking with he and his wife and even bought them lunch before heading off. (I've heard similar things over the years about Travolta being a really cool guy with fans)
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Post by Nikki Heyman on Jul 24, 2014 9:29:45 GMT -5
One of my first jobs was at a b/s/t video game store in Orlando. We'd get a name or two in there but the worst was a couple of Orlando Magic players who pulled the "Do you know who I am?" bit when their card was declined. I WANTED to say "With the money you make, what's wrong with your card?"
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Post by paulbearer on Jul 24, 2014 13:50:03 GMT -5
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Post by James Fabiano on Jul 24, 2014 15:04:30 GMT -5
As for good meetings...Joanna Lumley was the best of all. Me and some soon-to-be friends were in NY where they taped an Ab Fab special. I had a Patsy t-shirt, and we were by the hotel her and Jennifer Saunders stopped at. They came out eventually, and Jennifer pointed out my shirt, to which Joanna came right to me, put her arm around me, and posed for some pics.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2014 15:15:57 GMT -5
Not my experience, but my friend once saw Five for Fighting at a restaurant pulling the "do you know who we are?" card. I thought that was one guy-either way unless it was 2001, he had to look like a fool for asking that it is one guy. he just has touring musicians because it'd be pretty impossible to play everything by himself on stage.
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Eunös ✈
Dalek
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Tolerated, just not practically liked.
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Jul 24, 2014 15:19:26 GMT -5
1996 Formula 1 world champion Damon Hill borrowed a pen from me once Was a pretty big deal for me : D
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Push R Truth
Patti Mayonnaise
Unique and Special Snowflake, and a pants-less heathen.
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Post by Push R Truth on Jul 24, 2014 15:31:04 GMT -5
Was at a small release party and ended up hanging out with Hallee Hirsh for about 2 hours. (this was around 2008)
She was very grounded and normal. Seemed to completely understand the business and wasn't caught up with the crap.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2014 15:37:05 GMT -5
I had sex with Eartha Kitt in an airplane bathroom.
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