The Most Famous Person You've Met

Went to a fundraiser for the Arthritis "Operation Walk" Foundation. Was a guest of the host, met Charleton Heston, Ernest Borgnine , Jack Lalane, Andy Granitelli and their wives. Bid on a pair of Colt nickel 22's, got beat by Ernie. Did get a signed basketball by John Wooten.
 
i'm a big golfer,i walked inside the ropes"caddying" with trevor immilman "the year he won the masters"also in my group was baseball great yogi bara....did that with mark o'meara and stewart cink as well,pro ams ,very fun at bay hill........jack nicklaus and his son played thru our group one time,
 
I got to briefly meet Gallagher, long enough to get a handshake, picture, and autograph.

Also John Valby on multiple occasions (although I'm not sure how far-reaching his fame is).
 
Jack Dempsey when I was a kid at the YMCA and Paul Newman at a car race near Seattle.
 
The few that stand out to me are Chuck Norris in 1987, Chocolate Myers/Dale Earnheart in 1993 with pit passes to Rockingham.
 
My wife

My wife sang a song on stage with the 'Lettermen'. I just missed meeting Julian Lennon one time in a NY bar. We've lived in a backwater all of our lives, if I can think of anything to top that, I'll post it. You guys have met some neat people.
 
Russell Crowe I guess. You can wait at the side of Ed Sullivan Theater for the celebs to leave David Letterman's Late night show in NY. Of course at the time I had never heard of him. Russell - remember when I shook your hand?
 
Vincent Price. I was a young retail clerk who helped him select some sweaters. A very courteous, gentlemanly guy. Almost 40 years ago, now that I think of it.
 
I met most of the heavy hitters (pardon the pun) from "The Natural" I was helping out the caterers when they shot in Buffalo. Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Wilford Brimley, Kim Bassinger, Barbara Hershey. All were very nice to us.

I met Carroll Shelby at a swap meet in PA., I've hung out with OJ Simpson several times (per-incarceration) at Bills games. He's more infamous than famous these days. I was staying at the Four Seasons in Toronto right after Bush was re-elected. I saw Alec Baldwin. I didn't actually meet him but I did ask him if he was looking for real estate (you'll recall; he famously said he "would move to Canada if Bush was re-elected"). It's fun to tick-off a liberal.

I've met a bunch of politicians, athletes and musicians; Dan Quayle, Jeb Bush, some of NY's more forgettable legislators (including our last three governors; client # 9, the interim wingnut and the current gun hater). Cal Ripken Jr., Jim Kelley, Thurman Thomas, and my favorite Bill ever- Andre Reed, Emerson Fittipaldi, Bobby Knight, George Benson, Little Steven Van Zandt, J J Cale, Robert Cray, Susan Tedeschi, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks.
 
I have had the good fortune to meet quite a few men who served honorably in the United States Military.
 
Fred Gwynne and Joe E. Ross in the summer of 1962 in the Bronx. There was a filming of an episode of Car 54 Where Are You, and my two cousins and a brother happened to walk on the set because there was a Good Humor bicycle cart parked all by its lonesome. We approached the cart, when some unknown asked us if we wanted to be on TV, and that we would get free ice cream if we did, and so a star was born. The scene entailed the arrest of a crooked Good Humor ice cream guy, and when he was taken away by the police, we four immediately ran to the cart and absconded with armfuls of ice cream from the unguarded cart. The scene made the director's cut, and we were famous stars and the talk of the neighborhood that summer. :)
 
JFK on the campaign trail. My high school girlfriend's father was his campaign manager in Georgia.

Spiro Agnew at Changi airport in Sinapore,

Vanessa Redgrave at Kennedy airport 1st class lounge. Talked to her for about an hour.

Rod Stewart in Bangkok. He was the only one drunker than I in a bar in Pat Pong. Strange but I saw him again in Amsterdam.
 
Clayton Richard's(at the time a pitcher for the White Sox, now for the Padres) wife student taught my health class my sophomore year of High School, so he popped in a couple of times. I shook hands with Nicolas Cage once. I've gotten several autographs and made small talk with several members of various bands as well.
 
Mark Cuban (owner Dallas Mavericks)
Donny Nelson (GM of Mavericks)
Troy Aikman
Daryl Johnston (and his wife)
Tony Dorsett
and a host of other Cowboy players and coaches
Miss Texas 2000 (does that really count as famous or just hot?)

Loretta Swit ("hot lips" on MASH)
William Windom (Dr Haslet on "Murder She Wrote" TV show)

Those are the ones that come to mind this evening.
 
Richard Nixon in the middle of the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey in 1985. We called out to him and he stopped and talked with us for about 20 minutes.
 
Mickey D said:
I hate to admit it but I shook hands with Ted Kennedy when he was campaigning for his brother Bobby.


I used to say that I'd spit on Ted Kennedy's grave back when he was alive, I ended up being in D.C. for a certain protest shortly after his death. I went to Arlington and saw his grave, I opted to reserve my saliva.
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