Celebrities you know?/Knew

[HEyHEY]

I'm really bored if I start this kind of thread...........

I grew up with Scott Bremner, the kid who played Encyclopedia Brown on the HBO series. ANd he was also in Beans Baxter as the little brother.

Sadly Scottie died about five years ago in an MVA.

[concord]

Nancy Travis was in my class at HS

She was the lead in all our plays and a really nice person to know. The first time I saw her on "the big screen" was in "Three Man and a Baby". She's been in many movies and lately on television sitcoms. It's cool seeing her there and being able to say "I knew her when ..."
WTG Nancy!!!

[bigwillq]

2. Cool for you

I guess I spoke to soon. Sorry. See post below.

[bigwillq]

1. Nobody seems to know

any celebrities. I know I don't.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

3. I was at school with the bassist from Belle and Sebastian - will that do?

They formed in the pub beneath my flat in Glasgow. Doesn't really cut it, does it?

[Kamika]

4. Well I know a girl who is related to the former king of Yugoslavia

She's like a distant cousin to the ancestor of the king or whatever Yugoslavia had before they went communist...


err go me

[Screaming Lord Byron]

6. Damnit I forgot one. I was at school with one of the Grand Dukes of Russia

He's fifth in line to a non-existant throne.
(It was something like a Grand Duke, anyhow)

[Kamika]

7. cool

We should introduce them :D

[Screaming Lord Byron]

9. Yeah, start a club for people who are heirs to thrones they can't inherit!

[bubblesby2002]

5. I met Bobby Clarke and a few others who played for the Flyers

and I used to know one of the guys in the band Trooper. Does that count?

[Catholic Sensation]

8. Terry Francona

the former manager of the Phillies used to live in my neighborhood when he managed the Phils, he came to a family friend's party one time to check in.

[LuLu550]

10. I met Bonnie Raitt a couple times

Jerry Seinfeld went to my school, but after I graduated. The Baldwins were also from my town. So was Ron Kovic, the Viet Nam vet who wrote "Born on the Fourth of July."

[Dogmudgeon]

11. Only a few.

Mainly 80s musicians from the "College Music" scene. Well, I got to meet Alex Chilton, the members of Guadalcanal Diary, Lava Love, Don Dixon and Marti Jones, the Smithereens, the dBs, the Three O'Clock, a lot of people like that. They were (and probably still are) pretty friendly people and I think most of them still do small clubs now and then.

I also grew up near Paul Hipp's family, and went to grade school with his older brother Joe. Paul was in a couple of movies. Decent reviews for his acting, but not many movies.

Nearly everybody else in my family has much better luck. One brother of mine did some studio work for They Might Be Giants, as well as a major 80s French artist, Liz Mercier; my other brother knows Donna Brazile socially, and was a close pal to Darryl Hammond's sister; he also sold Sharon Stone a living room set when he managed an upscale furniture store.

My mother got to hang out with Charleton Heston before he became a raving 'winger; my father was buddies with Mario Lanza as a teenager, with Victor Mature during WWII, and was a friend of Julie London and her second husband. My mother's mother knew Leopold Stokowski, and did his taxes; my father's father had the dubious honor of nearly being killed in an ambush by Al Capone's organization, since he was a cop who was making their vice racket less lucrative than they would have liked. But even he (my father's father) was next-door neigbors to two of the Three Stooges at one point, Moe and Larry, I think.

An uncle of mine, my father's brother-in-law, knew both L. Ron Hubbard (right before Dianetics) and O.J. Simpson (around 1975). Did some serious drinking with each.

But me? The best celebrity story I have is that I ran into Buckminster Fuller in the men's room at my local community college. He was bending over the sink, making noises like he was choking to death, and I asked him if he was OK. He was just trying to get his teeth in. We chatted for a bit, and I said, "Wouldn't Dymaxion teeth come in handy?" which got a hearty laugh out of him. Off he waddled to give the lecture for which I came -- three hours and thirty minutes long. And he held everybody's attention for all that time, too.

--bkl
I almost forgot -- My Bacon Number is zero.

[Ramsey]

12. Brooke Shields

She was in my class at Princeton. We both took a lot of small French seminars. She was kind of bitchy.

Edit: Actually, other "famous" people in or around my Princeton class that I knew were Billy Boesky, Khalid Khoshoggi, Reza Pahlavi (son of the Shah of Iran), Ghazi Mohammed (nephew of the King of Jordan, and oh boy was he a hottie!), Andrea Dukakis, and various other sons and daughters of high rollers. None of whom are very famous in their own right, oddly.

[flamingyouth]

13. Maureen Tucker from the Velvet Underground

She's very sweet, and never fails to send cards at the holidays.

[fudge stripe cookays]

14. Mike Malinin of the Goo-Goo Dolls

lived in my dorm at UNT and got up close and personal once.

When I worked at Sound Warehouse, I got to hang out backstage with rock stars.

The Long Ryders- Super nice. Invited us backstage for Coronas with them. Drew moustaches on their bass player's face on my album cover, since he'd just left them in the lurch.

Grapes of Wrath- All nice, except for Tom Hooper. My friend and I called him "The Sour Grape."

The Smithereens- Funny and nice. My friend Jane engaged Mike Mezaros in an in-depth discussion of softball.

The Hoodoo Gurus- Wacky! Oodles of fun.

The Pursuit of Happiness-- I got a kiss on the cheek from Moe Berg, and never wanted to wash my cheek again! Lots of fun; my favorites so far.

Toad the Wet Sprocket- I have a pic of myself backstage with Glen and another chick, but since she's giving him noogies, you can't tell who it is.

Bruce Cockburn- Awesomely cool and amazing human being.

The Outfield--There's a picture floating around somewhere of me and a bunch of Sound Warehouse employees and them when they did an in-store appearance.

Janeane Garofalo- Met her in Ames, Iowa at the Dean rally there before the primary.

I'm sure there are more...but those are the biggies I remember right now.

[LyndaG]

15. Shecky Greene

He was in my family for a little while - His niece Marla was married to one of my cousins, but they got a divorce after just a couple of years. This all happened in the '70s, when I was just a little kid.

[pagerbear]

16. I went to school with some folks who are singing at the Met now

Makes me sad to think about it. Not about them--they all deserve it--but about me.

[NoPasaran]

17. I was acquainted with Robert Rodriguez

The film director (El Mariachi, Spy Kids) before he was famous.