which celebs have you met and what were they like?

[Anonymous]

I met the Pope! But he slapped my hand and snarled at me, which made me sad. I still love him, though!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Back in the mid 90's my best friend was a college student at UCLA (I went to a different college in So. Cal.)
I was at a party at her apartment in Brentwood and she introduced me to her neighbor, he was the voice of Ferdinand the Duck from the movie Babe. He was very nice and cool to talk to.

I love this! You win the thread!

+1 the only person I am envious of on this thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:John McLaughlin—cantankerous and had a manservant

Jose Andres—gregarious

Ben Folds—tiny

Ben Stiller—beady eyed and surly

Jakob Dylan—yummy

This seems incredibly true to type. Hilarious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wonk celebrities:

- Madeline Albright- very nice when we were on the same plane and I spoke to her.
- Chuck Todd - sends his kids to public schools, wears dad jeans and seems very down-to-earth
- Dick Gephardt - sat next to him on a very small plane. He read a ton of magazines. When we spoke at the end of the flight, he was very nice.

Madeleine Albright is very nice. She lives near my family in Loudoun County and they've chatted with her on occasion.

[Anonymous]

What are the Obamas like please?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are the Obamas like please?

I met Michelle a bunch of times while he was a senator. She is smart, fun and very nice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Paul Newman - I worked for several summers at one of his camps. He would come every summer and hang out. Just a regular nice guy who loved to spend time with the kids. He'd sit in the dining hall eating speghetti drinking (his own brand!) lemonade with the rest of us.

Anna Clumsky (VEEP) she was in line with her husband to get her daughter's picture with Santa at a local Maryland mall (presumably when they were filming VEEP in B'more.) Seemed very normal just hanging out in a long line with our squirmy kids with all the other parents.

HITWGC? I posted about meeting Newman previously in this thread, because I’ve volunteered there too.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve met and hung out with Sandra Bullock many times and she’s nice and normal and fun and funny.

yeah as one of her many nannies or drivers or house maids.

Wrong.
I’m on the fringe of a friend group of hers. I’ve seen her a Christmas card, but didn’t receive one personally. As I’ve said, I’ve met and hung out with her many times over the years. She’s from relatively humble Arlington beginnings.

That's really sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bill Cosby, before the scandals, about ten years ago.

I worked for an event company and spent several hours with him the day of a comedy show he did. A lot of it was me driving him to/from the airport and assisting him with press around the event. He came on a private plane but didn’t bring an assistant or any help. He was humble, soft spoken, and very, very normal. Like we talked about what we were doing that weekend, what our favorite foods were, and what colleges our kids went to.

He was also very interested in the business side of entertainment. He wanted to know what the audience thought of his performance that day, whether ticket sales were as good as they had been in previous years, what I thought about the comedy profession and market for it. Most artists my company worked with couldn’t care less about anything other than getting paid and leaving, and also didn’t really talk to people helping them. He was a delight. I was really disappointed when the scandal broke.

Curious, are you male or female? I heard years ago of nasty backstage encounters with college age young g women.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve met and hung out with Sandra Bullock many times and she’s nice and normal and fun and funny.

yeah as one of her many nannies or drivers or house maids.

Wrong.
I’m on the fringe of a friend group of hers. I’ve seen her a Christmas card, but didn’t receive one personally. As I’ve said, I’ve met and hung out with her many times over the years. She’s from relatively humble Arlington beginnings.

That's really sad.

NP here, don't be silly, you know what she means - we all have friends of friends.
You are just trying to put her down. Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve met and hung out with Sandra Bullock many times and she’s nice and normal and fun and funny.

yeah as one of her many nannies or drivers or house maids.

Wrong.
I’m on the fringe of a friend group of hers. I’ve seen her a Christmas card, but didn’t receive one personally. As I’ve said, I’ve met and hung out with her many times over the years. She’s from relatively humble Arlington beginnings.

That's really sad.

NP here, don't be silly, you know what she means - we all have friends of friends.
You are just trying to put her down. Why?

Bc that poster is a nut. Either you are that poster trying to be slick or you refused to read all her posts about Sandra Bullock.

[Anonymous]

Dave Grohl...totally nice, normal human being who is truly into family.

Wilco...also nice, normal human beings, really Chicago-centric and hometown heroes.

Gomez (English band, late 1990s was their heyday and when I met them multiple times)...ditto the above.

My list is funny, I’m not some big music real or anything, yet there it is...family/friend connections or being in the right place at the right time.

[Anonymous]

Dusty Johnson, the lone Congressman from South Dakota. He tripped over me once and said "Excuse me, miss." That's it. That's the most famous person who has spoken to me. So, I guess based on that exchange alone he was extremely polite.

[Anonymous]

In my 20s my friends and I went to a New Years Eve party at a bar called the Cutting Room in New York City that is owned by Chris Toth (Mr. Big from Sex and the City). He came in that night and my friend said when she saw him “Oh my G*d its Big!” He snapped at her “Don’t call me that!” and walked off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In my 20s my friends and I went to a New Years Eve party at a bar called the Cutting Room in New York City that is owned by Chris Toth (Mr. Big from Sex and the City). He came in that night and my friend said when she saw him “Oh my G*d its Big!” He snapped at her “Don’t call me that!” and walked off.

It's Noth, Chris Noth.