Have you met anyone that is popular?

If you count David Jones as famous.

Lots. I talked with Robin Williams while his kids were playing video games at a movie theater. My favorite was when I met Giancarlo Giannini while he was filming a movie, the day after her lost winning an Oscar for Seven Beauties.
The there was this guy I went to high school with. He was popular in school, but he didn’t think so.

Cool.
There is a difference between popular and famous. Lots of kids in my high school were popular. Apparently I was one of them.
I have never met any one famous.

Sometime in the middle 70’s I was at a laundromat.
Somebody grasped my hand and started shaking it.
I looked up and it was Jon Voight asking me to vote for I don’t remember whom.
I said, “I’ll vote for him if you read my screenplay about a paralyzed Vietnam war vet”. ;~)

I was shopping at a Whole Foods in Sherman Oaks. I saw this guy wearing a hat that caught my attention.
I forgot what I asked him and what he replied, but Geena Davis joined our conversation.
Either she was fascinated with our conversation or she was with him; probably the latter.
I wound up asking her if there was going to be a “Thelma and Louise” sequel. She replied, “No, they were pretty much squished”.

I saw James Cromwell at a local health food store.
He was wearing a t-shirt advocating a Native American cause.
I said, “I like your t-shirt. I think the de facto genocide committed against Native Americans is shameful.”
He replied, “It wasn’t de facto, it IS genocide.”
I stood corrected and about 8 inches shorter than him.

I saw Jay Leno at the aforementioned Whole Foods in 2007(?).
I asked him if it was true that Conan was going to take over the Tonight Show in 2009.
He mumbled something as he made his escape.

I saw Leno’s band leader, Kevin Eubanks at a health food restaurant in West Hills.
I said, “I remember Jay making fun of your gesture of shooting a basketball. Where does he get off making fun of you? I mean, how strong is Jay’s game?”
He LHAO so I LMAO too. :-D

Sure. The lead singer/songwriter of Caravan is a friend of mine.

In the manner of 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon, I worked with and was friends with Billy Ray Cyrus’ cousin. Through her I met his brother Kevin Cyrus.
That’s all I got.

I met and talked to for quite awhile. Ted Neely, the original Jesus in “Jesus Christ Superstar”. What a wonderful person he is.

Peter Christopherson. Not the most famous person out there, but a pretty decent legacy behind him (whether as a graphic designer and video director or as a musician in his own right). You may not know the name, but there’s a pretty good chance you’ve seen his work.

(Here’s one example.)

I had lunch a few times with Jeruba!

Back in 2004 I talked to Hillary Clinton for a couple minutes at a political rally in Iowa. I was 13, and I supported any candidate that my parents liked.

I met KNOWITALL and Snowberry!

Newt Gingrich (former Speaker of the House) – twice.

First, at an outlet mall north of Atlanta. He was waiting for his wife to finish shopping and I was waiting for my daughter to come back from a store. We were both hanging out at or near a bench by the end of one of the rows of the stores.

Second, at a hotel in northern Wisconsin. He was there with is wife for some family visit. I was there on business. He rode up the elevator in the hotel together – he got off first. We had a short conversation.

Neither time did I tell him what an asshole I thought he was.

Well, ok, ummm, in Brentwood Tn, I lived next door to Willie Nelson’s bass player and he gave me a ride to work one day in what used to be Dale Earnhardt Jr.‘s black trans-am. Yeah yeah I know it’s a reach. LOL

cool reach @smudges.

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I worked at a music festival for several years and ended up having breakfast several years in a row with Peter Yarrow of Peter Paul and Mary.

Oh, I almost forgot! I shook hands with JFK when he was running for President in 1960!

Yes, I’m that old!

Trini Lopez after hours party 1967

Brian Hyland (Ittsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini) I knew his cousin 1963

Dave Brubeck 1964 invitation only concert in Connecticut