The Most Famous Person You've Met

Famous people

Met Anthony Quinn in the airport in Las Vegas.
I was riding along on my day off with a Nevada Highway patrolman. He clocked a Porshe flying down the highway and
pulled it over. Turned out it was Flip Wilson. My friend told me he wanted to ask him to "say something funny" but he thought better of it. So he just got his autograph on the ticket. Clerow Wilson or something like that.
 
Years ago I was driveing on I-5 near santa monica. I saw a excaliber pulled over getting a ticket. Looked closer and it was flip wilson. At the time I remember blurting out to my passenger, Here come da judge! He must have liked speeding!
 
Now do they have to have been famous at the time you met then or could they have become famous later?

Actors
Any Garcia in high school and college
Steven Bauer high school and college

Music
Gloria Estefan high school
Emilio Estefan music interest after school

Playboy turned porn star
Teri Weigel dated for a little while in 1980

Nimfo & cop husband
Jeff and Kathy Willets I worked with Jeff on a special assingment


And about a 100 that were already famous when I met them.
 
Dasnake and DWfan who used to post a lot on this board. Met them at a SWCA annual convention when it was held in SLC a few years ago. Chauffeured them around to a gun store then a restaurant. Salts of the earth.

(Now I need to meet Sipowitz)

;)
 
I'll play along.

Actors/Actresses:
I met Sandra Bullock in Savannah, GA while she was filming 'Forces of Nature'.
Musicians:
John Lee Hooker and Carlos Santana at my friend's step-dad's house.
Models:
Patricia Ford, Lisa Boyle, and Alley Baggett (Playboy Special Editions) and Christy Turlington.
Athletes: Steve Bartkowski, John Smoltz, Javier Lopez, Jamal Anderson, Tom Glavine.
Others:
Jeff Foxworthy, Usher, Chilli (from TLC), Christina Aguilera, Rick Flair, Dusty Rhodes (used to see him fairly regularly at a breakfast hangout)The Big Show, Scott and Rick Steiner, and various other pro wrestlers.

Probably a few I'm forgetting. Most of the pro athletes I met while working for FedEx.
 
I have had the oppurtunity to meet many great men whose names are on a Black Wall in Washington, D.C..

Rule 303
 
Met Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands one day. He is dead for years now. Still miss him. It was a great guy.

And Rule 303 you are very very right.
 
Elvis pressley when his electric guitar blew up and shocked him in 1962 at the golden nugget!
 
Chatted with Andy Williams once in the chow line at a hotel in Nashville. He was there to film an appearence on the Statler Brothers Show. Really seemed like a nice guy. Had the priviledge of sitting down to coffee with Keneth Tobey who started in the 1951 movie, "The Thing" once for a nice long talk about the movie. Just a regular guy, super nice and very humble. He had red hair which you couldn't see in the old black and white movies.
 
Let's see... almost got tripped by Rep. Joe Wilson (the 'YOU LIE!" guy), bumped into Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus during breakfast, got bodychecked by Gen. Raymond Odierno at a House Armed Services Committee meeting when he announced the plans to start pulling troops out of Iraq, went to the restroom with Rep. Barney Frank in the next stall, got dirty looks from the entire House Homeland Security Committe for coming in late and spent the day with former Rep. Eric Massa (the tickling congressman)... all in the same day. Damn, my feet hurt after that :) .
 
nostraDONus said:
I'm guessing he "kicked out the jams....blankety, blanketies".

That would make him Rob Tyner of the fabulous MC5 (Motor City 5), sadly no longer with us.
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Give that man a ceegar.
Yes sir, Rob Tyner of the MC5. I was 16 when we met in 1987. I worked as a counter jockey at my BIL's ice cream shop in Berkely MI. where he resided when Mr. Tyner strolled in for a cool dip. I recognized him right away (that hair) :eek:
Being a huge fan of both the MC5 and their sister band The Stooges, I had to pick his brain a little about some of his bands and Iggy's exploits. He was a very laid back and extremely friendly guy, and became a bit of a regular there.
I moved out west at 18 and was out of state when I heard of his death. Sad day.
 
Garth Brooks 1996 while working @ GUND arena (Cleveland)prior to his concert....i was walking backwards talking to a follow LEO when i "BUMPED" in to him....i was speechless... but i did get to have a few mins to talk to him.....he autographed my clip board ....yes i still do have it
 
Met the Duke in 1968 when he was filming "Hellfighters" in my hometown. Also met Bob Hope and got to escort Ann Margaret when they did a Christmas Show at Osan AB, Korea in 1970. Vice President Spiro Agnew when he visited Korea in 1971. Clint Eastwood in the early 80's when friends and I were visiting Burbank Studios. We were walking and talking and a couple of us bumped into him.
 
Trini said:
Met the Duke in 1968 when he was filming "Hellfighters" in my hometown.
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About 1971 in March I was in Aspen looking for a birthday present for Mom. I went into a specialty store called Terese David. It was owned by a woman of the same name, one of those lean, leathery, middle-aged women who air-kiss everybody and pretend to be delighted to see them. Terese was talking to a female friend behind the counter when a big guy walked in the store. He looked around for a bit and when there was a pause in the two women's conversation, nodded at Terese and said, "Hey, Terese. Good to see you. How have you been?"

"Oh, just great! Good to see you back in Aspen!" she replied. He browsed for another minute and then left the shop. Terese turned to her friend and said "I see that guy in here whenever he comes to town, but I can never remember his name." Her friend stared at her with her mouth open.

"Terese, do you mean to tell me that John Wayne knows you, but you don't know John Wayne?"
 
Prime Minister

of Trinidad & Tobago back in 2007. And also the Energy Minister, a female who was very near to full term with child. I really enjoyed meeting the Trinidadians. They have an oil and gas based economy(mostly NG now) and are trying to build some industrial infrastructure rather than just exporting raw gas.
 
2X

when I worked at Academy Sporting Goods in TX, I met Both Bill Dance, and Charles Spence with Strike King Lures, and Helped them pick out both a pair of Cowboy boots and they held a little seminar while there.
 
Meet Senator Zell Miller at a community function in Blairsville, Ga. Asked him to sign two copies of his hard cover book, 'Corps Values', for my nephews. Senator Miller asked where I found these, so I told him the truth. I found the copies at a discounted bookstore that sold used and closeouts from other bookstores. My wife told me I should not have been so honest. The inscriptions stated, "There are some good lessons here".

Meet Representative John Lewis at the Atlanta airport. I was on my cell phone, waiting to board my flight, when I recognized him. I automatically said "Representative John Lewis'. He stopped, shook my hand, and asked how I was. A few words later, he went to catch his flight.

Something I noticed about both of these men. Neither is very tall.

Later,
 
uno mas

I met Richard Thomas at a restaurant here in Ramona,(John Boy), And have seen Magnum PI, eat at the Waffle House a few times..up here also.
 
Chuck Yeager at Edwards AFB, CA sometime in the late 80s. I was working at the firing range and he was at the base for a presentation of some kind and he came out to the range to shoot in an informal pistol match we had set up. Nice guy.
 
I'll add a couple more-
Bobby Unser at the Motorsports HOF dinner in Detroit where they were honoring the longtime Indy speedway announcer. Nice guy.
For the local detroiters Gary Graff Detroit news music writer and wrif music news reporter. Were actually kinda friendly. I see him at a lot of concerts
Don't know if this was in my last one Twiggy Ramirez, marilyn mansons guitarist, at a concert. He needed a bandaid.
My dad was the set Medic for the movie "Hoffa" and got to know Danny devito and jack nicholson pretty well. He had devito's cell number for a minute.
 
I got to know Jeff Fahey, had lunch with him a few times, when he was in town mentoring some student film makers shooting short films. A met Bobby Unser when I stopped him for speeding. I made the ticket a warning.
 
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