your best celebrity stories

[Professor Chaos]

Living in L.A. I've seen lots. My favorite was Gianna Michaels though. I was walking down Hollywood Boulevard and saw my favorite porn star sitting outside a book store selling DVD's. I gave her 20 bucks for one and got a hug and pic with her.

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

I got to meet Ozzie Smith once as part of a Christmas Boy Scout meet and greet as a kid. I don't think I talked with him for over 30 seconds, but he was super nice.

[Deleted]

My mom is a big fan of golfing legend Jack Nicklaus, ever since he was a young high school phenom in a small town in Ohio. When she was younger, her and either a friend or one of her sisters would take trips to watch him golf in tournaments. (The one time she went to Augusta to see him play in the Masters happened to be the one time he missed the cut, but they stuck it out because her friend was in "Arnie's Army", as Arnold Palmer was still in.)
Anyway, she's an artist (mainly drawings, pastels and sketchings), so she did this really good piece of him and brought it with to one of these tournaments, hoping to give it to him personally. It so happened that they were close (in proximity) to Jack's wife, Barbara. She saw the drawing and remarked on how nice it looked, and introduced herself. After some small talk, she gave her the picture. A while later, Barbara came back to the group bringing Jack with her and they exchanged pleasantries and Nicklaus told her how good the drawing was. They exchanged addresses, and for years afterwards, Mom would get a Christmas card from the Nicklauses. (I know a few years had passed, they wrote in a card how Mom's drawing was still hanging in Jack's den.)

Mom also found favor with the Veeck family (two-time former owners of the White Sox) when they did a "design the new team uniform contest" in the early '80s. The designs Mom sent in looked almost exactly like the ones they ended up choosing (the '83 ones which are now considered the team alternative unis), except Mom had it where the stripes in the middle curved on the sides and trailed down the leg. (I have them somewhere in my garage, with an attached note from Mary Frances Veeck herself. Never found out if Mom got anything for being close.)

Mom's brush with celebrity stories are better than my dad's. Dad's two stories are either:
a) the time he "pissed next to Packers' RB Jim Taylor at a tavern", or,
b) him and a friend met Edgar Bergen in the early '50s after a show, back in his vaudeville/radio days. (Edgar was a ventriloquist - yes on the radio, his main dummy was Charlie McCarthy.) Dad asked "Can Charlie come out to play?" Edgar politely responded that Charlie is tired and wants to sleep. (Yeah, forget that's Edgar Bergen the radio star for a minute, Dad wanted to meet the dummy.)

[Nikki Heyman]

Actually got to play at a AD&D table with Ed Greenwood. I was in another event that kept me running away from the game (another good story, sans celebs) but when I was at the table I remained 100% in character. He gave me a copy of the adventure we played afterwards.

[Evil Homer]

Jul 25, 2014 5:54:10 GMT -5 Professor Chaos said:

Living in L.A. I've seen lots. My favorite was Gianna Michaels though. I was walking down Hollywood Boulevard and saw my favorite porn star sitting outside a book store selling DVD's. I gave her 20 bucks for one and got a hug and pic with her.

$20 for a hug, what would she had done for a $100 ? Shes my favorite as well - that body is damn near perfect

[paulbearer]

Jul 24, 2014 15:37:05 GMT -5 @notoriousnd22 said:

I had sex with Eartha Kitt in an airplane bathroom.

I did hear Kitt gave "purrfect" head to Orson Welles in a limo......