Have you ever been personal friends with a seriously famous person?

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Anonymous wrote: I grew up with Conan O'Brien

My god do I love me some Conzie! Their house sounds like it was fun based on the stories he tells about his brothers.

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Paul Newman when he was alive. Not a personal friend, but a conversational acquaintance from sports car racing. When we were at the same track he was just one of the guys there (...respected and a pretty good racer too).

(...also part of the reason sports car racing community knew months ahead of his passing the seriousness of his health decline before it became "Hollywood" news.)

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Anonymous wrote:I'm actually old friends with Connie Britton and Kirsten Gillibrand. We all went to college together and have kept in touch over the years. I've vacationed with Connie when we were in our 20's and I've visited Kristen years ago in New York. They are awesome, awesome people.

They seem like it!

I must say, everyone in my class was super excited at our last reunion because your reunion was at the same time and Connie was there.

Not excited, but extremely weirded out, that a younger alum brought Eliot Spitzer to hang out in a frat basement at the same reunion!

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Anonymous wrote:Following this thread closely may cause headaches, sweating, dizziness upon standing, anal leakage and loss of faith in the future of humanity.

But I WIN because I went to school with the daughter of LARRY LEVINE, Macy's COAT DESIGNER!

Did you get a free coat?

I have a friend that coached his kids. She's the only reason I remember Larry Levine.

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Anonymous wrote:Following this thread closely may cause headaches, sweating, dizziness upon standing, anal leakage and loss of faith in the future of humanity.

But I WIN because I went to school with the daughter of LARRY LEVINE, Macy's COAT DESIGNER!

Did you get a free coat?

I have a friend that coached his kids. She's the only reason I remember Larry Levine.

I knew I recognized the name so I had to check my closet. In the early 2000s I bought 5 pairs of his womens dress pants- always at Filene's- stalked them for purchase because they were comfy, kept their shape, they came in petites so didn't need altering and had the holy grail of no gaping when I bent over. I assumed/didn't care if it wasn't a real person. I'd put those pants on and say to DH "man does Larry know my ass!" and we made up a couple of personas for him. One was a macho older guy with beyond-questionable hygiene who was always stooped over a sewing machine, chomping stogies and gruffly belting out one word answers to any design- related questions. The other had Krusty Clown hair but Professor Frink's voice and he talked NONSTOP all day at his machine, wearing various loud silk-print shirts and no pants.

To sum up: This person is NOT famous. If he was we would know who he was and would not have had to resort to making up personas for him. Larry does know his way around an ass, though.

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Anonymous wrote:Who’s Dee Snider?

Lead singer of Twister Sister.

NP. I've never heard of Twister Sister.

have you ever heard the song 'we're not gonna take it, we aint gonna take it, were not gonna take ittt anymoreeeeee'

if not...are you from the US? did you grow up here?

NP here. Never heard of the singer or the band either. Born and raised in Virginia. Age 38.

I'm 44 and in the mid-80's everyone knew who he was. He would do cameos in things and it's not like they had to say "It's Dee Snyder from Twisted Sister!" He was instantly recognizable to anyone with a TV.

I agree. Most people in their 40s-50s shoudl recognize him

No he's not. Give it a rest.

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I'm close with Shrek and Fiona

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Anonymous wrote:Following this thread closely may cause headaches, sweating, dizziness upon standing, anal leakage and loss of faith in the future of humanity.

But I WIN because I went to school with the daughter of LARRY LEVINE, Macy's COAT DESIGNER!

Did you get a free coat?

I have a friend that coached his kids. She's the only reason I remember Larry Levine.

I knew I recognized the name so I had to check my closet. In the early 2000s I bought 5 pairs of his womens dress pants- always at Filene's- stalked them for purchase because they were comfy, kept their shape, they came in petites so didn't need altering and had the holy grail of no gaping when I bent over. I assumed/didn't care if it wasn't a real person. I'd put those pants on and say to DH "man does Larry know my ass!" and we made up a couple of personas for him. One was a macho older guy with beyond-questionable hygiene who was always stooped over a sewing machine, chomping stogies and gruffly belting out one word answers to any design- related questions. The other had Krusty Clown hair but Professor Frink's voice and he talked NONSTOP all day at his machine, wearing various loud silk-print shirts and no pants.

To sum up: This person is NOT famous. If he was we would know who he was and would not have had to resort to making up personas for him. Larry does know his way around an ass, though.

LOL the same poster also went school with the daughter of STUART WEITZMAN the Macy's shoe designer!

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Anonymous wrote:the Colberts are family friends.

I went to school with a number of the local family as well.

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Anonymous wrote:Point being Dee Snyder doesn't fall under the 'seriously famous' category....however, I'm sure his name recognition was much bigger when OP was young.

For me, nope. We have some high profile parents at our kids school, one in my kid's class. They're ok. Kid brags that his dad is famous.

It most certainly would in my home town, which was seriously into metal.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone here has to know (or knows someone who knows) either Justin Theroux or Jon Bernthal. Not exactly the kind of household names even your grandmother would know, but still pretty famous.

Justin went to Lafayette and the Field School, and Jon went to Sidwell.

I went to college (a small college) with Jon and we were in the same dorm freshman year. Never really knew him, but he was on constant search for a light er for wake and bakes and always knocked on one of my friend's door)

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This isn’t about me, but a friend at work (federal employee) is very good friends with a hugely famous person. They vacation together (with families) twice a year, and they talk all the time on the phone. The fed friend of mine said they met sort of randomly and the famous guy asked for his info and kept in touch. He thinks that the famous guy just liked the fact that my friend is a normal person with a relatively cool job that has nothing to do with the celebrity scene. In any case, they get along famously.

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I didn't read the entire thread, but I bet there are at least a few people on this board who knew Richard Spencer at UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:Following this thread closely may cause headaches, sweating, dizziness upon standing, anal leakage and loss of faith in the future of humanity.

But I WIN because I went to school with the daughter of LARRY LEVINE, Macy's COAT DESIGNER!

Did you get a free coat?

I have a friend that coached his kids. She's the only reason I remember Larry Levine.

I knew I recognized the name so I had to check my closet. In the early 2000s I bought 5 pairs of his womens dress pants- always at Filene's- stalked them for purchase because they were comfy, kept their shape, they came in petites so didn't need altering and had the holy grail of no gaping when I bent over. I assumed/didn't care if it wasn't a real person. I'd put those pants on and say to DH "man does Larry know my ass!" and we made up a couple of personas for him. One was a macho older guy with beyond-questionable hygiene who was always stooped over a sewing machine, chomping stogies and gruffly belting out one word answers to any design- related questions. The other had Krusty Clown hair but Professor Frink's voice and he talked NONSTOP all day at his machine, wearing various loud silk-print shirts and no pants.

To sum up: This person is NOT famous. If he was we would know who he was and would not have had to resort to making up personas for him. Larry does know his way around an ass, though.

LOL! OK, person who knew a person who knew him- is he more like the former or the latter? Macho/Dirty or Personality Plus? These are the ONLY options.

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What's twisted sister? Who are all these "famous" people?