OT: Dealings with famous people
Clackport
Washington
Have you ever had dealings with any famous people?
I'm not talking about seeing a celebrity in the strip club, or getting a autograph at a concert.
There was a girl named Neveen on the reality show "Bad Girls Club".
http://thebadgirlsclubshow.wikia.com/wik…
She actually lived in Portland at one time, and in college I had a class with her. All the guys in that class were hitting on her.
I'm not talking about seeing a celebrity in the strip club, or getting a autograph at a concert.
There was a girl named Neveen on the reality show "Bad Girls Club".
http://thebadgirlsclubshow.wikia.com/wik…
She actually lived in Portland at one time, and in college I had a class with her. All the guys in that class were hitting on her.
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And I sat next to Sam Elliott on a flight. One of the nicest guys in the world.
The obvious question Dougster is who are you talking about?
I've met a bunch working in LA when I was younger. David Lee Roth was doing some solo stuff at the studio I was working at and I got the impression he was very stand-offish. Years later after reading numerous reports on him I look back and realize he was just a dick. Ran monitor world for Morris Day and the Time at a festival once. They were awesome. Hung out with his guitar player for a few hours afterwards. Hung out with Iggy Pop backstage for an hour or so eating doritos before he went on at a festival that Rev Horton Heat and the band had invited me and a few others to. Cut my teeth as an asst sound engineer in LA doing Bone Thugs n Harmony E 1999 album. Those guys were just some straight up street thugs. There are way too many musical acts for me to name.
Probably my favorite I can remember is one day in the studio some random guy I can't remember was cutting some tracks and I went walking through the green room to get some stuff from our digital editing room and Marina Sartis (aka Deanna Troi from Star Trek:TNG) was sitting there waiting on him. We exchanged pleasantries and smiled. As i walked back by we smiled again. I went into another studio my boss was in and shut the door looked at him and said "Do you know who's in our green room?" He knew and when he saw I was just as excited as he was we both lost it acting like a couple of 12 yo school boys. She was smoking hot in some tight blue jeans and a white t-shirt with her hair down. Still the only star I can ever remember myself losing it over. Everyone else I've always been ehhh; you seen one it's just another. She was something else though. Thankfully we were in a sound proof room to contain our school girl squeals.
I've also flown with Dean Martin & Sammy Davis Jr. and went to high school with a major league base ball player named Bob Bailey.
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I've had chance encounters and interacted with a lot of musicians, partly because (being a part-time musician myself) I'm not shy about accosting them wherever I happen to see them. I once rode in an elevator in the Prudential Building in Boston for 50 floors with David Crosby (of Crosby Stills & Nash). Neil Young was in the next elevator over; it was him and about 20 girls. David Crosby was very gracious. Neil Young, not so much.
About a month after that (still in Boston), a buddy and I ran into musician extraordinaire Frank Zappa in the Burger King on Boylston Street in Back Bay. My buddy said, "Frank - - what are you doing in Burger King??" He said, "I'm gettin' a Whopper with cheese!!"
About 20 years ago, before hardly anyone had heard of the then-new FX cable channel, they ran a daily 90-minute morning show from NYC called Fox After Breakfast. It was supposed to be sort of a hip version of the Today show, telecast live from a big apartment in the Flatiron area of Manhattan. Each day they had a "real family" on, which they seated in the kitchen and served breakfast to while the show was going on. My sister got her, me and my wife on. It was a fairly lame show, but the day we were on, before and after the show, we got to meet and interact with Gladys Knight (of Gladys Knight and the Pips, a soul group from the 1970s) who was that week's guest co-host, comedian Rodney Dangerfield, and actress Heather Locklear. Heather Locklear was *so* f-ing good-looking, probably 10 times more attractive than she ever looked on TV. Rodney Dangerfield, on the other hand, looked 10 times worse. The host of the show was an unknown-at-the-time Tom Bergeron, who went on to host "America's Funniest Videos" (or whatever it was called) and eventually "Dancing with the Stars." For the record, Tom Bergeron is one of the nicest people I've ever met; so was Gladys Knight.
About the same time I was set up in a mall in Greenville, SC. when Jerry Lewis came in early one Sunday morning. He did not stop by my booth, but purchased a Life magazine (had Martin and Lewis on the cover) from a friend of mine who was also selling there. After the purchase, my friend casually asked Jerry for an autograph. Lewis said "I already paid you for the magazine, that is enough". He had two body guards with him and I later heard from several customers that he was very rude to everyone and would not sign for anybody. I have since heard many stories from people that knew him to be a big jerk. It did not surprise me.
Does meeting the creators of Avatar: the Last Airbender count at Comic con since I didn't care to wait on an hour long line to meet Stan Lee