Recent celebrity sighting (here's mine, add yours) ...

Can I count celebrities I've seen in the audience at Springsteen concerts the last five years?
If so, a partial list would include:
- Tom Hanks & his wife
- Kris Kristopherson
- Bob Costas
- Stephen King
- James Gandolfini
- Hulk Hogan
- Ed Sciaky (famous Philly DJ for those that don't know)

 

Saw Boise State head coach Chris Petersen at the theaters today. Didn't think to see which movie he stepped into.

 

Was at the same Club Med several years ago with ex-Monkee Davy Jones and his family. He put on a show one night, and was very cordial and friendy to people.

I've seen that Limp Biscuit dude with the funny hair in the press box at some football games.

I once saw Gallagher at an airport, waiting for a puddle jumper to a very remote outpost on the college football map.

And I once shared a car for several days with the great Johnny Dangerously.

I'm not impressed with celebs. In JD's case, I made an exception.

 

On vacation in Los Angeles, I went to the Laker game Friday night and saw Ice Cube go to his SUV in the parking garage. Behind him were a bunch of little kids, yelling, that's the guy from "Are We There Yet". While this is going on, I'm thinking that's Doughboy from Boyz in the Hood..

 

I met Dick Goddard once.

 

You're the first poster I'm jealous of.

 

I once saw Yoko Ono in New York. If only Chapman had aimed a little left...

Next time I'm in L.A. I'm haning out by the department stores and drug stores to get a glimpse of Winona Ryder!

 

Here's one for the Canadians of a certain age:
Rode in an elevator in a Vancouver hotel with Bobby Curtola (early '60s bubble-gum pop star, for you Yanks). He was part of the entertainment at the Grey Cup some years back. He looked at the guy I was with and said, real impressed, "Hey, you're Terry Jones."
Some Canucks may know who Jonesy is.
Same hotel, maybe same elevator a few years earlier - rode up with a few Van Halen members plus groupies. They were playing in Vancouver. David Lee Roth was among them but not sure if Eddie was, since I was never a big fan and didn't know them by sight. Only figured out who Roth was later.
Another one for the Canucks - got bumped to first class on a cross-country flight and sat across the aisle from Tommy Hunter. Never said a word to him or anyone else the whole flight because of world-class hangover. He never said much either but seemed all right.
Was on the same flight out of New York as William Shatner last year. Man, has that guy got a huge gut. He must be wearing the mother of all girdles in that commerical. He sat in the cramped little waiting area like the rest of us and seemed okay.
On another occasion, shared a New York flight with the late Mordecai Richler. He was my favourite writer, so I was way too shy to speak to him. Just as well, since he looked just like his reputation - a miserable prick. A friend of mine later told me he sat beside him in the Forum press box at a Canadiens game (Richler used to be a semi-regular). Friend said he truly was a miserable prick.
Oh, and another oldie goldie for the senior citizens here. Again in Vancouver some years ago. Went to see the Everly Brothers with Ms. Crank, who were playing an afternoon gig at a big fair. An hour or two after the show, found myself in line behind them and most of their band at a hot dog stand on the midway. Seemed like nice guys.
Last year, was in a restaurant in New York at same time as Edward Norton. He, too, seemed like a regular guy, unlike Morton Downey Jr., who showed up in a New York restaurant quite a few years ago while me and Ms. Crank were having dinner. He arrived with a hot but slutty looking blonde who was at least 20 years his junior. They kept a long, white limo idling at the curb on 8th Ave while they, sort of, ate dinner. Dinner consisted of Downey feeding this babe appetizers and champagne and tongue-diving with her between bites and sips. Yeesh.

 

In college, Ray Mears gave me $100 and a UT-Martin PACERS T-shirt for picking him and 11 other boosters up at the local airport in a school mini-bus and taking them to a basketball game.

He wore orange and blue cowboy boots.

I've had breakfast with Helen Hunt, played poker with Barkley, sat next to Jeff Fisher and his wife/mistress at a Springsteen concert, pissed next to Jake The Snake Roberts, attended "The Music Man" revival on Broadway with Al Pacino in the audience, got hammered in a bar in downtown Birmingham with Jeff Hornacek and a Suns rookie named Majerle, and hung with Vince Gill at a junior college basketball game and at the grand opening of a golf course.

But a T-shirt from Ray Mears, the man who brought the Bernie & Ernie Show to Knoxvegas? Doesn't get any better than that.

P.S. Is Ray still alive?

 

Micropolitan Guy once drove past my parents' house and honked.

 

I once saved Brooke Shields from drowning. But I wasted the reward money by hiring Van Halen play my birthday party.

 

For the record, Mrs. C is Marion Ross. Otherwise known as Mrs. Cunningham from Happy Days.
And if you saw Tiffani Amber Thiesen behind you on the freeway, you'd want to get off too.