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"I met Utah Senator Jake Garn once, in 1996. We talked for about 20 minutes about many subjects, including his space flight. He was like a normal guy & very easy to talk to."

I have met him several times. I have immense respect for him. He was a Navy carrier pilot and then mayor of Salt Lake City before serving in the Senate. A true public servant.

astronaut Tom Akers. A really nice guy. He was a friend of one of my neighbors. He really impressed my two sons who happened to be in a young astronaut program.

Met Prince Bernard from the Netherlands by an opening of the Marine museum at Rotterdam. I admire that old rascall. I regred that he is dead now.

My nicest experience is riding horse with gunauthor Phill Spangenberger for about 3 hours and after that having dinner with him.
It is a very nice man.

I grew up in the 1950s in New Jersey. My Dad was a big wrestling fan and would go to Madison Square Garden and maybe an arena in Newark. My Mom was a great Hungarian cook who actually appeared on Julia Child's TV show cooking something. My sister was the the president of the local Gene & Steve Stanley (wrestlers) fan club.
Somehow when ever these wrestlers came into NYC for their matches they ended up staying at our house, or at least ended up at the Sunday dinner table. Antonio Rocca, Killer Kawalski. When they did the film Requiem for a Heavyweight all these "bums" were in the film. One Sunday we had Anthony Quinn who appeared in the film at our table. I was maybe 8 years old and just barely remember it with the help of my sister's photo albums.

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Spoke with Barbara Eden for a few moments at one of her appearances. As sweet and nice as a person could be. She was about 50 at the time and more of a knockout in person than she was on TV. Absolutely gorgeous.

Met Mike Huckabee briefly when he was governor of AR and I was working at a state agency. Very nice man.

Met Jonathan Harris who played the evil Dr. Smith on the old Lost in Space TV series. Kind of a dick.

Spoke to Richard Keil who is most famous as "Jaws" in the 007 film Moonraker. We had flown on a plane together. He is a huge man, nearly seven feet tall but like many tall people he has bad hips and it was painful to watch him walk through through the airport. Nice guy.

Alan Autry was Bubba on the TV show In the Heat of the Night. After the show ended he lived in my hometown of Fresno, CA and was elected mayor. I never really met him but I sat next to him in a restaurant one day.

Marty Ingles, comic and actor who is married to Shirley Jones, stood in line ahead of me at a McDonald's in SoCal in 1971.

That's it. Only a few minor brushes with fame.

Luis Guzmán a couple of times since he lives around here. Almost had a chance to play pool with him one night at a club, but he ended up having to leave before we had a chance to get the game going.

Real nice guy and very much a family man.

I think Richard Kiel played every large alien on tv shows back in the 60's, most notably as every alien in the "To Serve Man" episode.

And Barbara Eden.........what a beauty.

Jimmy Carter when he was Gov. of GA.
Gary Player @Berkley Hills Golf Course
Greg Allman @ Palm Beach Institute

richard nixon, george bush, sr., lee marvin, john mccain, nick cavilla (sp)

mcole

Ted Nugent.. Met Him 6 Times..
Hopefully to be future President..
We need someone with Morals to straighten this $%!# out.
I know I'd vote for him..
4 Times after concerts here in Louisville & Once @ Kiesler's Police Supply in Jeffersonville Indiana, Once at the Gun Rally here in town..
"Terrible TED For President!!" Everyone Chanting " KISS MY GLOCK"
Gary/Hk

I met Hosea Greco, famous Mexican flamenco dancer from years ago. I had my picture taken with him and still have it. I used to love to see him dance those Spanish flamenco dances on tv, in his fancy cowboy boots and colorful Spanish cowboy clothing. Very nice gentleman.
Sonny

Been involved in the music world for many years. Met and know many music "stars". Going to SoCal next weekend to see a dear friend and one of my favorite musicians, Vince Gill.

I thought that was Prince Bernhard. Is this the guy who was a Nazi, or rumored to be?

T-Star

There won't be any golf involved in that visit will there?

I saw Vince in concert at Pine Knob in Michigan years ago. Mary Chapin Carpenter opened for him. He put on a great show. We could see his father sitting offstage in an easy chair watching the show.

I'll bet he's a great guy to hang around with. No ego issues. Have fun on your visit.

...having had the misfortune of working in D.C. for 25 years, my list includes Reagan, Bush, Sr., Carter, too many senators to count, Coretta King, Heston, Rumsfeld, several attorneys general, a few film personalities and the best was...Ron Reagan.
I was at the White House on business. He was walking by, stopped, offered his hand and said, "Hi, I'm Ron Reagan." I said, "Yes, Mr. President, I know." He asked what I was doing there and he continued to talk to me in spite of his handlers tugging at his coat sleeve. A genuine and very interesting man.
The worst???...Jesse Jackson...overly self-impressed.

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Two heros, Barry Goldwater and Elmer Keith

and one bum, John B. Anderson, one of the all time great RINOs, who once said he carried his wallet on the right and his heart on the left. He was in a Sunday School Class my father taught back in the late thirties.

Ironically, the grocery store his father ran was later a gun shop, in the seventies.

I shook hands with Harry Truman once.

BR

Interesting how reading these jogs the memory. Dick and Pat Nixon,
Hubert Humphrey as VP, Louis Armstrong, Charlton Heston, Bill Ruger,
Carroll Shelby, Stirling Moss, Graham Hill, Jackie Stewart, Phil Hill (the best), Geo. Bush, Sr & W, I guess Wayne LaPierre counts as others have mentioned him, Chuck Yeager, Newt Gingrich (much more impressive in person than in media), Bob Gates. Military folks aren't as well known and try not to be celebs, but Gen. Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs under W is a very impressive individual and an honor to meet. An interesting thread--"famous" means different things to different folks, cool.

Roy Rogers,colin farrel.tim Dalton,terry O Quinn

I have met fred kirby local NC folks will know him.

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Pat Simmons, Tommy Johnston, John McFee, Keith Knudsen, and Michael Hossack of the Doobie Brothers.

Mark Farner of Grand Funk Railroad.

Colin Hay of Men At Work.

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Raising a thread from the dead looking for new additions
My list-
kid rock-good guy. a friend works for him
Radiohead- nice guys very reserved
Dave aka chud from the misfits- great guy dedicated to his bandmates even when sick.
Tiger great al kaline- kind of a prick
Tiger great and felon Denny McClain- nice guy
Proof-rapper and eminems best friend (future in the movie 8mile was based on him) he was an awesome guy we had a few decent conversations. Various other rock stars and rappers usually the newer their fame is the nicer they are with a few exceptions.

Back around 1964/1965 I worked for universal movie studios as a studio cop. I met a lot of famous actors, and probley many more I didnt reconise as up to then I was brought up in a religious family that movie going was considered sinfull! I did meet james stewart, james arness, brian keith, maureen ohara, orson wells, marlin brando, broderick crawford, jack palance, clint walker, heady lamar, etc. Also I knew a lot of bit actors and had at least 5 or 6 close friends that were/are.
After working as a lockheed guard for 35 years I probley met or knew just about most of the test pilots that were around from 1965 up. Also famous AF pilots. Gary powers, tony levier, fish salmon, General wier, saw jimmy doolittle, maybe charles linburg and howard hughs icongneto and in disguises visiting lockheed when I first started, seen but didnt meet president reagan, hubert humphrey, senator mc carthy when I was a boy, (man did I hear him give a radical speech on a street corner. Think he was right too! I worked with a retired FBI agent that was assigned to investigate the movie stars for him in those days too.)
Also knew a couple old time wrestlers and boxers.
I often wondered how many people we have rubbed shoulders with that if were pointed out we should know? As Dr. Phil would say, for every rat you see, there is 50 that you didnt!

Fred Kirby, Joey the Clown, Wayne LaPierre, and J. Edward Hoover

I've met a variety of politicians and a few well-known bluegrass musicians, but the only meeting that really impressed me was with George H. W. Bush when we was VP. He was way more impressive in person than he ever was on TV.

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CTR2 68-72

2, really...

1) VP George H. W. Bush

2) ADM Jeremy Boorda, the CNO that "killed himself" in 1996.

I've met with Bill Clinton a number of times. Absolutely disagree with his politics, but he's a heck of a nice guy.

Also met Mike Huckaby several times, he's a stand up guy. He has a great sense of humor and a fun guy to be around.

Also met:

Sam Walton
Greg "Pappy" Boyington
Paul Tibbets
Roy Rogers
Barbara Mandrell
David Lee Roth
Edward G. Watkins III (I worked for him for several years. One of the richest men in Massachusetts.)

I got to meet Charlie Daniels and the band once on the side of US Highway 65 when I pulled over his tour bus for speeding. Didn't know it was him until he stepped off the bus as I was interviewing his driver as to why he was driving 80 in a 55.

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You haven't met anyone famous until you've met Kevin Bacon. You can then play "Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon" and win it in one step.

Ferdinan Marcos (while President of the Philippines), Ronald Regan while campaigning for President, and Joe Foss (Ace Marine Pilot WWII/Governor of South Dakota. Whoops almost forgot Gov. George Wallace.

Pinkas Zukerman, Mistislav Rostropovitch, Maurice Andrea, Nathan Milstein, Barry Tuckwell. Can You tell I am a classically trained Musician?

I list them all as they are about the same rank of musician and it would be hard to pick one.

Dwight

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Frank Shorter, Munich Olympics Gold medal winner in the Marathon.

My wife fixed a chili dog with slaw for Rick Flair in Charlotte, N.C. and he gave her a $100.00 bill as a tip. http://216.77.188.54/coDataImages/p/...21/205copy.jpg



I sit and visit with some old NFL players from the 60's at a place on the Gulf Coast. We rate the women as they walk by in the swim suits. Cold beer and hot women, hard to beat.

President George W. Bush and Nouri al-Maliki

Cardinal O'Connor and Jesse Jackson

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Ted Koppel and John Glenn (not at the same time but basically in the same place).

Phil Hill (the only American to be World Formula 1 champion), Sterling Moss, Denny Hulme, Jackie Stewart, Juan Manuel Fangio, Froilan Gonzalez, Carrol Shelby, Dan Gurney, Bunny Ribbs and his son Willy T., and other famous drivers whose names escape me at this time. Barry McGuire (Eve of Destruction), Cass Elliott, and some other people in the music field. I've met most of the actors in "CSI". Jorja Fox is an incredible young woman, George Eads is a shooter like us, Gary Dourdan is very intelligent, very nice, although he has made some bad decisions in his life. My girlfriend and I had breakfast with David Berman once. Also, OJ Simpson and Al Cowlings; I played against them in college.

I also had an intimate relationship with a certain adult film star who once appeared on "Married With Children". She shall remain nameless. I have pictures of us together. One picture that was taken of us at a party would definitely not be appropriate to be shown on this forum. We still exchange emails and occasionally see each other.

Coretta Scott King
George H.W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Carter
Colin Powell
Queen Elizabeth
Bo Derek
Jane Russell
David Wayne
Phil Harris
James S. Gracey
Sean O'Keefe

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Term limits!

Tera Patrick.

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Thirty characters. Exactly...

Bob Dole, Radar O'reilly (Gary Burghoff) and Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) from the TV series M.A.S.H.

I guess Adolph Galland. Met him at a book signing in Salt Lake City, many years ago. To be such a Billy Badass as a fighter pilot, he was a grandfatherly old gentlemen. Looked like a gentleman scholar.

I shook his hand....and I've seen a picture of him shaking hands with Hitler. That makes a connection. I've shook the hand that shook Hitler's hand.

I guess that and about a dollar will get you a cup of coffee almost anywhere?

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I've not met too many famous people, but I think I have a couple of different ones.

When I was a kid I met Mickey Rooney and Malcolm X (not at the same time though!)

As an adult I met Paul Newman at the Lime Rock racetrack. I've also met Donald Trump and designer Donna Karan (of DKNY clothing fame) at a financial services company I was working at.

My (then) pre-teen son won a contest once with Radio Disney. Grand prize included lunch with Will Smith and his wife Jada at Spago's in LA. We met in a private room but were visited by several "celebs" as we ate ( all 5 courses ;-) . I've never been too big/impressed by the Hollyword scene but have to admit that Will and Jada were just regular people who happened to be famous.

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Elvira*, but she spent more time talking to my wife then she did me.

I met Howard Keel while stationed in Germany. The Army rented our unit to his film co. To make the movie 'Armored Command'.

They re-marked our tanks with black cross's, and we were Germans.

Howard Keel, was a loud-foul mouthed ***. He was supposed to be a Col. in the movie. He liked to walk around the area wearing his movie uniform and getting saluted. He also loved to brag to any troops he talked to about his sexual conquests.



*A very pleasent woman who seemed tired but not 'uppity' at all.

I guess I met a ton of "famous" people, but not too many important ones.

Sipowicz

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Memory of Randy Freas-Rimfired

Leroy Brown
Back when "BAD" meant something.
Nice guy

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I Love This Site

I was using the urinal next to Art Linkletter in the men's room at the Denver airport many years ago.

I did not ask to shake his hand.

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Corripe Cervisiam

Joe Rosenthal

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Semper Fi

Tough Tony Borne and Lonnie Mayne used my high school football locker for a Portland Wrestling match at Toledo High School in 1970. I had Lonnie Mayne's cigar butt in my locker all year.

I also served food to Henry Fonda, Lee Remmick, Michael Sarazan, and Paul Newman at the Restaurant I was busboying at in Newport, Oregon. They had a cast party for "Sometimes a great Notion". A loggin movie of dubious distinction.

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