Ever meet someone "famous" and not know it?

[bleedingheart]

many years ago I attended a political fundraiser to help out a candidate that was running against a really nasty GOPer.

My husband and I went because I liked the democratic candidate and felt he was a good guy. So we show up to the fundraiser, hand over a check and proceed to check out the appetizers (my favorite type of food)...

After grazing a bit, a man comes over to me, who appeared to be a nice looking rather confident person... and starts talking to me about the guy who was running...and I said that I didn't know him really well but I liked what he stood for...and then I said..."who are you??" and he kinda looked a bit taken aback that I didn't know who he was...and it was Patrick Kennedy...hee hee...no joke....

[RedSpartan]

1. Not me, but my dad was on a business trip in the early 90s

and, as he put it, sat in and around a group of big, tough looking guys. All very nice, he said, and they made small talk about their families. Short flight, from NJ to Pittsburgh. My dad gets off the plane and the guy he's meeting is at the gate and damn near has a heart attack, telling my dad, "That's Mario Lemieux! That's Jaromir Jagr! etc." Dad was sitting with the Stanley Cup Champion Pittsburgh Pengiuns and had no idea who they were. Needless to say, my family aren't big hockey fans.

[taterguy]

2. yes

In the summer of 2004 I went out drinking with an old friend who was directing a movie. One of the people we were drinking with seemed like a nice enough guy and I thought he was just an anonymous crew member. Realized after the movie came out that I had been drinking with Ben McKenzie, star of the O.C.

[swag]

3. I met haruka3_2000 and didn't realize it.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

9. I don't think I qualify as famous.

It'd be cool if I was though.

[SacredCow]

4. On a chair lift in Aspen, many years ago...

I was chatting with a guy for almost the entire ride, not realizing until we were almost at the top that it was Jack Nicholson.

[auntAgonist]

5. yes, Peter Fonda

They were filming a movie in Ontario Canada at the truckstop in Milton. (5th Wheel Truck Stop) I was watching some of the scenes and made a comment to the man standing next to me, just to pass the time. He responded and we struck up a conversation. It started to drizzle rain and so filming was halted for the time being. He suggested we go in and get some lunch and I readily agreed since that had been my reason for stopping at the truckstop. We enjoyed a nice lunch and some light banter until he had to go back to work. We never really introduced ourselves. As I was leaving the restaurant the waitress came up to me and said "How did you manage to get Peter Fonda to have lunch with you?" I laughed and said "Who?" ...The man had been in such heavy makeup and quite scruffy looking, .. I had NO idea that's who he was.

I guess he just enjoyed NOT being noticed.

aA

[bleedingheart]

7. wow that is a cool story...

[MissMillie]

32. You're the bomb, aA! That's a great story

:hi:

[auntAgonist]

47. I often wonder if he knew..

that I didn't know who he was hehe, OR if he thought I was really 'cool' not fawning all over him and that he enjoyed just being one of the gang :)

:hi:
thanks MissM! :hug:

aA

[serryjw]

48. He passed me a joint at the 1969

Stones concert!

[livetohike]

6. Great story! I met Franco Harris at the Pgh airport two years ago

midnight on a weekday. I was tired and stressed out and believe it or not, I DIDN'T REGOGNIZE HIM!!. We were walking right by him and my husband reached out to shake his hand and I actually said, " Who was that?"

I'm so embarassed.

[bleedingheart]

8. ya know what is funny....

when i was a kid Franco was my hero...
I get started in politics (volunteering) and I start seeing Franco everywhere helping out Democrats...so the glamour has worn off...however he is still a #1 great guy...

however this year I find out my mom in law is a huge Franco fan from the 70's...now of course...I don't see him anymore...and so I am thinking I gotta get his autograph for her....but of course...no fundraisers/speeches just yet...

[livetohike]

11. We're moving back to PA bleedingheart as soon as our house sells!

Perhaps we can be politically active together :-).

[bleedingheart]

12. too cool! we will definitley have to get together!!

[livetohike]

14. Check your PM in a minute

:-)

[Beware the Beast Man]

20. He's been quite vocal against Swann's gubernatorial campaign as well.

Good guy.

[tigereye]

25. that PA Guberbatorial campaign is so bizarre

it's almost beyond comprehension. Well, that's what I thought about Arnold in California as well.

:scared:


I think Rendell is going to kick his butt all the way across the state, though.

[Beware the Beast Man]

18. I sold him a bag of ice.

He carried it like a football. Funny you didn't recognize him, because he is veru recognizable.

[livetohike]

22. I know Beast Man. That is why I am so embarassed. That and

I have always been a huge Steelers fan. I didn't think he was that tall. Standing next to him, he looked like a mountain and I am 5'8" tall.

[Beware the Beast Man]

24. Lynn Swann is tiny.

Even by 70's football player standards. His politics suck, but he is actually a pretty friendly guy.

[cobalt1999]

75. dated his niece for a while in college

looked nothing like Franco...thank god!

[Mutley]

10. Not that I know of.

:silly:

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. Well...I KNEW who he was...but my grandpa didn't...

20 years ago we were at Detroit Metropolitan airport to pick up my mom and grandma from a trip they had taken. My grandpa sat down to wait. Not too long afterward, a flamboyantly dressed (think Huge white fur coat, boots, and rings on every finger) black man came up and sat down next to him. My grandpa was what we called a "moderate racist" (basically a flaming racist without the balls to be rude). He never looked over once, but kept turning his body as far away from the man as he could get. Luckily the man didn't notice my grandfather's crazy contortions (we were silently laughing our behinds off)...The man? Stevie Wonder. Not a person bothered him either. And you couldn't miss him.

[bleedingheart]

17. that was funny...

[Beware the Beast Man]

15. I sold a cup of coffee to Mario Lemieux.

It was when I worked as a convenience store clerk in college. I didn't really look him in the eye, so I didn't recognize him; I just figured he was some tall, skinny dude. Someone in the store pointed out that it was him. He came in a week later as well, and I did recognize him that time. Nice guy. He probably thought I was okay because I didn't hustle him for an autograph.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

16. Otis Anderson.

He came into the bar I hang out at for dinner and to watch football with some other former pro-football players (whose names I forget). I didn't know who they were until the bartender pointed it out to me.

Apparently, they were trying to figure out where to eat when the local coke dealer suggested this place. Who needs a restaurant review when you have a sweaty, twitching man on the street for dinner suggestions? Although the dealer does have a really cool doberman.

[SteppingRazor]

19. Not me, but a friend of mine once gave Sean Penn a lift...

not knowing it was him until Penn actually identified himself.

[Patiod]

21. Yes, not expected anyone famous.

Forgive me if I've told this before.

One Friday night around 10pm my phone rings - it's a friend who owns a costume/make-up shop, who is in a theater company with me. "What are you doing tomorrow morning? One of my make-up people is sick, and I have a job at Constitution Hall tomorrow - bunch of lawyers filming something for PBS. It's going to be high volume/high pressure, so I thought of you." (I ran make-up for our opera company for a few years , and we would make-up the chorus of about 40 women in 45 minutes)

So I show up at 5am, and start doing a small, pleasant woman's makeup, making some small talk. Someone came over to us. "Senator Boxer? I really appreciated your speech last week about....." Senator Boxer? SENATOR BOXER??????!!!!

I looked around, and there in the room were people like Barney Frank, Alexander Haig, former CIA director William Webster, Joe Califano, and Bill Gray. I got to do Justice Breyer's makeup, and he joked with me about his hair (or lack of it)!

[bleedingheart]

23. I am glad you shared that story again!

[tigereye]

26. I was a foot away from Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall

one time in a movie theater and didn't freak out. That doesn't count, though, does it? ;)

He was really really short and incredibly craggy....

:hi:

[1gobluedem]

27. I didn't recognize Wynton Marsalis

I had to pick him up for a radio interview and arranged with his manager to meet Wynton in the lobby of the hotel. When I got there, I didn't see Wynton so I asked a man who looked as though he was waiting for someone if he was the manager (can't remember his name). He said "If you want me to be" which seemed like a strange remark so I looked more closely at him and realized he was Wynton Marsalis! The last photo I'd seen of him, he had a goatee and he was a lot taller than I thought he'd be. I was SO embarrassed but he was very gracious about it and we had a great talk about baseball in the car on the way to the station. Which is strange, because I don't even like baseball...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

28. Funny you should ask!

Just yesterday, I was at my normal Thursday Farmer's Mkt......

I was talking to my chocolate supplier lady, when up walks a couple of women.....

They chatted with my friend for a few minutes, and then they left....

One of them was Roseann Barr! I did NOT recognize her! :blush:

[MissMillie]

33. she's blonde now, isn't she?

That's a neat story. I loved her sitcom.

[ronnykmarshall]

72. I love LA!

Just when the traffic gets to work my nerves and I wanna move back to San Francisco .... I have a celb sighting ..... and I feel so much better!

[HuskerDU]

29. I was working at this bar and grill back in '91. A man asked me

if I had ever heard of Lee Greenwood. I said that name sounded familiar, but that I wasn't sure. The guy then asked if I wanted 2 tix to see Lee Greenwood who was playing in town that night. I told the guy no, and that I wasn't into that kind of music.

It dawned on me that the bearded man asking me all of those questions was Lee Greenwood!

[kay1864]

34. So glad you (inadvertantly) dissed him!

Author of Worst Song Ever (you know, "I'm proud to be an Americannn..."). Cheesy and pseudo-patriotic to the max.

Even sings it in a jacket that looks like the American flag (and doesn't realize the irony).

[MissMillie]

35. funny that he can't even GIVE AWAY those tix, eh?

:hi:

[Pale Blue Dot]

30. Everyone who meets me doesn't realize how famous I am.

nt

[XemaSab]

31. I was walking down the street once

and there were three people walking towards me and I thought to myself "Dude, that guy in the middle is really short!"

I'm not usually someone who thinks about how tall people are unless they're either really tall or really short, and this dude was about 5'4".

It wasn't until he'd gone by that I realized it was Dana Carvey.

[linazelle]

63. You call yourself "dude"?

:rofl:

j/k

[coffeenap]

36. A month ago, in DC, my daughter and I were in a hotel lobby. A

woman sat down to tie her new shoes. We talked about walking, then about the govt, then about how horrible Bush is, then, that she was there to talk to Senators about abortion, then the details of her mother's life. A man joined us, he was tall, face covered in huge beard and a wild head of hair. We talked and joked and discussed the abhorrence of Bush. They left to go meet some Senators. She was Fredda Weiss and he was her husband, Richard Masur. Didn't realize it until they walked out the door. (Fredda Weiss is a leader in the pro-choice movement and Masur is a progressive actor and union leader.) Fun time!

[Left Is Write]

37. No, but I was with someone who didn't know who the famous person was.

Back in my radio days, I was at an outdoor music festival (because of my job). I went with a woman from another radio station to the backstage tent to get some coffee, and a guy in a cowboy hat was in there at the same time. She struck up a conversation with him, asking if he was with one of the area radio stations.

It was Clint Black.

[SofaKingLiberal]

38. I was down in the red-light district one night, looking for some action.

This rather large lady approached me and started talking about rub downs with loofahs.
I told the prostitute I wasn't interested, and she got really mad and started yelling, "Why do you hate America?" I said I don't and she waved her hands in the air and screamed "Cut off his mic!" and then stormed away, mumbling something about falafel. Later, I realized who it really was and it all made sense.

[gmoney]

39. Once on a plane...

Flew from LA to St. Louis in the early 80s, and as we were 'debarking' I looked up the aisle into first class and saw this long, tan calf in a very expensive looking high heel shoe, so as I got closer I looked over and recognized that it belonged to the long, tan Christie Brinkley! This was at the height of her powers, and in fact I had a National Lampoon in my bag that had a fold-out ad for the first "Vacation" movie in it (the one with the painting of Chevy and Christy sort of languising at his feet)... so, I was flustered but stepped into an empty seat, found the magazine and a pen, then went back to her and stammered something like "wow, nice to meet you, you're even more beautiful in person" (no lie... probably the most beautiful person I've ever seen in the flesh) and she flashed me a big smile and signed the ad and we might have exchanged a pleasantry or two, and then I took my leave. Very sweet woman, and a lovely encounter.

But the reason I post this here is that I managed to totally overlook and snub her husband of the moment, Billy Joel. I looked back when I was almost off the plane and saw that he had been sitting next to her the entire time. This was also the height of his career, and I wonder if he wasn't a little miffed that I was fawning all over her and totally ignoring the "Big Shot" musician.

[kwassa]

40. I usually know the famous people I've met ...

and living in LA many years I've run into many.

The funniest ones:
I used to run regularly after work at a high school track. I spotted someone running in the distance. I said "That has to be Robin Williams". Why? he had those massive muscular thighs, and he ran just like Garp, with hands flopping. That wasn't the character, that is how Williams runs. I later had a chat with him, and he was kind of spacey, but nice.

I was ushering at a church that was popular with the showbiz crowd. There was a christening ceremony before the service, and the honored guests told me to be on the lookout for Jenny Garth, then a big star in "Beverly Hills 90210". I appalled them when I said "What does she look like?" I had no idea. I ended up escorting her down the aisle arm in arm, and I tell that up close, she was completely ..... gorgeous.

[RetroLounge]

41. About 1991 or so I worked in Chicago

They were filming a Dolly Parton movie in the empty cafe downstairs, and I would go outside on break to have a smoke and watch. One day I was leaning against the wall having a smoke and the guy next to me was also having a smoke and we started chatting a bit without really looking at each other. As I left and said nice talking to you, I realized it was James Woods, who was also in the movie.

RL

[GumboYaYa]

42. I tended bar in New Orleans at the same time they were shooting

"Everybody's All American". Around that time a guy and his girlfriend started coming in the bar every evening. They would drink one, sometimes two, pitchers of beer. I would chat with them as any bartender does. He always left a nice tip, so it worked well for both of us. Over time we got to know each other fairly well in a superficial way as bartenders and their customers do. I knew him as John.

One evening my customer and his girlfriend came in for their evening beer and one of the other customers calls me over. Customer, "Psstt...do you know who that is..." Me, "Yeah, that's John, he comes in all the time...." Customer.."Dude, that's the coach from 'Revenge of the Nerds'".

Lo and behold, the regular guy at the bar that I had been serving for weeks was John Goodman. His girlfriend is now his wife. They met in New Orleans while he was filming "Everybody's All American" and started dating then....Go figure! Anytime you hear a story about John Goodman being just an ordinary regular guy, it is 100% true.

[kiraboo]

43. When I was a teenager, my family started out early in the morning

on a road trip from Salem, Oregon to Vancouver, B.C. A few hours into the drive we stopped at a Denny's to have lunch. The booths were all full, so the six of us sat at the counter. Next to my mother was a very handsome older man with bright blue eyes. I can't remember what he was eating, but I remember that he got up and left just as our meals arrived. The waitress leaned over to me and asked, "Do you know who that was?" I said no, I certainly didn't. "Paul Newman," she said. Unbelievable!

Beautiful eyes.

[immoderate]

44. Yeah! Some stories...

I was backstage at a rock concert of a group I'm friends with. And I introduced myself to a friendly guy hanging out. He said, "Hi, I'm Peter Yarrow." I did a double take, "Right. You are!" I said stupidly. He was very gracious about it.

Even more embarrassing: At a restaurant in New York, I weas at the next table from an attractive Eurasian looking woman who was with her mother. With tables so close I heard her mention Sri Lanka. When her mother left the table, I leaned over, eager to demonstrate my worldliness, and said, "Excuse me, I heard you mention Sri Lanka, are you familiar with the great jazz singer Yolanda Bavan?" She quinted a bit and said, "I am Yolanda Bavan." I said something like, "Um" and "Oh." She was not as gracious.

--IMM

[av8rdave]

45. Chatted with Michael Caine for 5 to 10 minutes, not realizing it was him

[eyesroll]

46. I chatted with the lead singer of Live on AOL, years ago, before

they'd done much of anything...

I'd heard of them, but deemed them not-famous-enough for the guy to be lying about his identity.

[maveric]

49. My parents told me that I shook JFK's hand in 1960.

I was four but have no recollection of it.
Ma and Dad work for his campaign in the Merrimack Valley, MA.

[serryjw]

50. Rock Hudson

1969 I was working at the Huntington Hardford Theatre in LA ushering while I was in college. He was very over weight. I wouldn't have known if someone else that worked there always saw him.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

51. Kind of.

This was a few months ago.

My mom was saying good-bye to me at the airport, and I happened to glance over at the passengers going through the security checkpoint.

I noticed one lanky individual with a distinctive ponytail, then turned to my mom and said, "I think that's Ted Nugent."

My mother, who immigrated to this country when Nugent was at his peak, said, "Who?"

I said, "He's a musician."

She said, "Maybe you should get his autograph."

I said, "No, he's a MAJOR Bushbot. Screw him."

Ironically, he was seated directly behind me on the plane. I'm surprised he didn't give me dirty looks, considering I'm "swarthy-looking" and all.

:D

[RoyGBiv]

52. Hank Williams Jr.

I was a kid at the time and played a game of checkers with him having no idea who he was.

[Floogeldy]

53. Sorta

I went to a comedy club in Southern California during the spring of 1977. Everybody could smoke in there. The seats were like in movie theaters and there were little ashtrays built into the arms of the chairs.

A pleasant looking brunette wearing a black shirt and a light brown leather jacket sat down next to me. I pulled out a cigarette to smoke, but I didn't have a light. I asked her for a light.

She smiled and handed me a book of matches. I lit my cigarette and tried to hand the matches back to her. She looked at me, smiled again, and told me to keep them. I thanked her and she smiled again and said, "You're welcome."

After the first act, she got up and left.

After the second act, the management announced a surprise guest - - - - -

Lily Tomlin. She came out on stage with a script and read jokes to see how the crowd would react to them. She was testing the material out.

That is who was sitting next to me and smiling at me.

She was nice. :)

[JohnKleeb]

54. Didn't happen to me but happened to my brother

We went to a high school football game and my brother needed a ticket to get in so he asks this guy who he doesn't realize is our former mayor and current delegate in the house of delegates. I nudged my brother as he went to get tickets, that's our former mayor you know. According to my dad another time at the orphonodist office with my brother he apparently just missed Robert DuVall. Never really happened to me really. I've met a few famous people but it was known.

[KitchenWitch]

55. I was in the airport sitting next to Dave Durenburger

former US Senator from Minnesota (yes, a Republican but actually not a neocon Republican).

[JohnKleeb]

56. read somewhere that he endorsed Kerry last fall

I had your asshole republican senator pass me when I was waiting to get in to the Bolton confirmation hearing last spring. Norby loves to scowl.

[KitchenWitch]

57. Please do not get me started on that fucking opportunistic

carpetbagging neocon turncoat ass licking lackey.

[JohnKleeb]

58. I won't

Joe Lieberman sounds like a combinaton of Ben Stein and my 10th grade English teacher. He was there that day too. So was John Kerry among others. I kind of miss working in Congress even though there was no pay.

[KitchenWitch]

59. I am sure it was fascinating!

And I will bet you learned a lot.

[JohnKleeb]

60. I did

Senior Year in high school was actually a more bigger physical world opener than my first year of college was this year. However this year I learned more about myself and the world. I met two senators last year: Landrieu and Hagel and got to ask Hagel a question even.

[uppityperson]

61. Frank Herbert (Dune) learned to make pizzas after wife died

I met an elderly round man in a clinic 1 day where I worked, visiting the staff. "Frank" talking about how he had just learned to make pizzas since his wife had died and would it be ok to bring to the potluck bbq. He was told ok. Met him a few more times before I figured out who he was.

[Autonomy]

62. I had just gotten to Portland, OR

in late 1996 and didn't know anyone. So I am sitting in a room with a bunch of people (sorry, can't tell you what the event was), and I am looking around the room at everyone when I notice a tall, lanky balding guy sitting alone. It took me a minute, but I realized it was Pete Townshend. No one made a fuss or even bothered to talk to him. I thought to myself, damn these Portland people are COOL! Pete Townshend is sitting here and no one bats an eye!

A few minutes later we get to introduce ourselves, and he says, "I'm Pete, and I'm from London." Well, it turns out they weren't so cool after all; no one recognized him but me, so the place went nutty for a minute as everyone realized a mega-rock star was in the room. Pete got kind of annoyed for a second, but luckily for all, I was prepared and calmed the place down by taking the focus off him for a while.

So he comes back the next day and remembers my name. Brought his road manager with him. We talked for a while. He said he was stunned by winning a Grammy for Tommy a few years before. He was a cool, down-to-earth, humble kind of guy. I cracked them up with a pretty funny joke. The Who was beginning their American tour of Tommy the next day in Portland. Wish I had been able to see it, but it was a great experience meeting him.

It makes a better story when I can relate all the details. But I can't here. :(

[Bombero1956]

66. didn't happen to me

but it happened to my mother in law. She was at Kennedy airport waiting for a flight to Holland when a woman seated across from her asked to bum a cigarette. It seemed that the woman was a nervous flyer and needed something to calm her nerves. My mother in law gave her the cigarette and lit it for her, after a minute or so they called the woman's flight, the woman thanked her and that's when my mother in law recognized her, it was Linda Lavin from Alice. My mother in law asked her if she was Linda Lavin and she said yeah I am, please don't tell anyone I was smoking, I'm trying to quit and my kids will kill me if they find out.

[linazelle]

64. I checked into a DC hotel and checking in next to me was Geraldine Ferraro

I didn't recognize her until someone mentioned who she was. Very good looking woman.

I also met Sidney Poitier in an American Airlines lounge. "Met" is not quite the word. It was very early in the day, the large lounge was empty and I was having breakfast. The only other people there were waiters. A man walked in and sat far away but I almost choked when I realized it was Sidney Poitier.

I spent about five minutes debating with myself whether I should bother him for an autograph. Fortunately I did and I still have the souvenir autograph, dated and signed on an American Airlines ticket envelope.

[Jazz2006]

65. Desmond Tutu...

July 1987 in the lobby of the Amsterdam Hilton - I didn't recognize him at first and I'm sure that had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I'd spent the entire evening and night barhopping with a flight crew to celebrate my birthday and absolutely nothing to do with smoking copious amounts of hash at said bars and even more in the lobby upon return to the hotel before wandering over to the desk some time after dawn to ask to move to the suite where John Lennon and Yoko Ono did their famous bed-in and getting into an argument with the hotel staff over same... at which point, the very polite and soft spoken gentleman initiated a conversation with me (well, okay, in retrospect - read sobriety the next day - it was apparent that he initiated the conversation simply to divert me from the argument with the hotel staff) but it wasn't until a few minutes into the conversation that I realized who he was.

[LoZoccolo]

67. At my uncle's wedding, there was some guy...

...who told us to make sure the newlyweds got his gift which he handed to us, and told us his name. I thought nothing of it when he told us his name, and kinda still don't much, because I don't remember it! I guess he was some actor, but he wasn't one where people would recognize his name that often. But it sounds like he tries to get them to.

[peekaloo]

68. Earl Campbell stepped on my foot at the Houston Rodeo.

Hurt like hell, too. The first thing out of my mouth was "damn dude watch where I'm walking". He just looked at me and walked off. I later pointed him out to a friend as that asshole who crushed my foot and was then informed who he was. Apparently I should have been happy that a Texas football god left his boot imprint on the top of my foot.

[hyphenate]

69. Once and partway, twice

My brother had taken me to the airport once--this was in the old days when people used to be able to accompany you to the gate. We got there, and this man was talking with the airlines clerk, and my brother pointed him out to me and said, "Do you know who that is?" And I shook my head.

He said, "That's Lyle Alzado." He found a piece of paper, and when the clerk and Alzado stopped talking, he got his autograph. I still had no idea who he was.

Another time, back in 1978, I got to visit the Black Sheep Squadron film set at Indian Dunes. My brother drove me up, and we walked around when we got there and had a good time, but really hadn't met anyone. After lunch, though, my brother Chris decided he didn't want to go back up to the set, so I went alone. I hung around the fringe of the actual filming, and met one of the actors, who played Andy Micklin, one of the two plane mechanics on the show. We talked for a good while, maybe ten minutes, about the show, the dog and his role. I knew all the actors because I was a real fan, and thought that the actor, Red West, was a nice guy.

It wasn't until some years later that I realized that while I knew Red West as an actor, I never knew anything about his "other life" as one of Elvis Presley's friend and bodyguards. It wouldn't have made much difference to me, but it made meeting him more interesting.

[ronnykmarshall]

70. Susan Dey

At an anti-Arnie protest. I was chatting w/ her for a minute and then I realized who she was. She's beautiful.

I asked her: Are you Susan Dey

SD: (smiles) Shhhh!

Me: You are fabulous!

SD: YOU are fabulous for being here!

:loveya:

[TK421]

71. Aaron Tippen ( I think thats how you spell it ) apparently, he's a

country music singer...I didn't know who he was until a co-worker pointed it out to me :shrug:

[lady raven]

73. In a college class

I was in a class at Oklahoma State sitting across the aisle from Heisman Trophy winner Barry Sanders for almost an entire semester without knowing who he was until finals week.

[Hugin]

74. Dee Wallace-Stone

True story...

I was on my way "home" from a vist to "Roswell" and she was chatting
about "Aliens".

I didn't realize who she was until I watched a news story that evening.

[Dude_CalmDown]

76. After making fun of Scott Baio for about 5 minutes...

...my friends told me who he was. I was drunk and stoned in Vegas (why do so many stories start like that?) a few months ago when this guy walked up to my friend to bum a cig. I was just struck at what a nervous timid odd individual this was. He looked like he had money but he talked like such a pathetic idiot that I just couldn't resist so I just started going off on the guy. I'm not generally a mean person but I do like to kick people while their up (never when they're down) and plus I wasn't really in the right state of mind so I was pretty nasty. He probably thought I was trying to start something so that I could later sue him but I just had no idea who he was. Of course once my friends told me who he was I just couldn't help but break into singing the Charles in Charge song. I'm still amazed at what an asshole I was but some people just do that to me.

[cobalt1999]

77. a few...

Sat next to and talked to Donny Osmond on a flight for almost an hour. When someone asked him for his autograph, I found out. I had to tell him that as a 5th grade boy I really hated him because all the girls would swoon when his songs were played. He laughed.

Sat in a bar in NY and talked to Chuck Jones (director of best Bugs Bunny cartoons ever made), when I found out, I thanked him for some great Saturday morning laughs as a kid. He was really a great guy. Loved music.

While waiting in an airport I chatted with Pete Sampras for a while, no clue the whole time.