have you ever had a memorable celebrity encounter? or been hit on by someone famous?

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Anonymous wrote:Ha. Easy for you to say from your comfy, enlightened perch in 2011. This was 30 years ago. I was fresh out of college, and was the youngest staffer in the office and the only woman who wasn't a secretary. Whether you like it or not, this kind of thing happened all the time to young women back then, and if you went up against the word of a powerful man, you were out of a job. The protections we have today didn't exist then. Times changed, thankfully. You learn, grow, and get stronger along the way. After the Hill, I went on to become the first female director in a company in a then-male-dominated industry. I worked hard for gender equality in the industry, and did all I could to ensure that the women coming up after me didn't have to deal with the same kind of sexism and harassment issues we had to deal with as young women. Ridiculous, indeed.

Thank you.


Thank you pp. My mom likes to remind me that women today are lucky to take our opportunities for granted.

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At a Gore fundraiser I met Bill Clinton and Natalie Portman. My husband told Clinton something about Yitzchak Rabin, and Clinton paused and was heartfelt and sincere. At that same fundraiser, Marion Barry was there, and I caught his eye while the crowd was dancing. He smiled at me. Ick!
In college, I danced with the lead singer of Live. No idea what his name is. Saw Wolf Blitzer at a party. My dear friend's sister is married to Gilbert Gottfried.

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I really like the stories about the cleebrities who are not politicians, since I'm not impressed by politicians.

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Anonymous wrote:At the Williamstown Theatre Festival in the mid-80s, I was reaching down for a program at the same time as someone else. Turned out it was Christopher Reeve (pre-accident). He smiled at me, and gave me the program. A few nights later, we were at a caberet in town, and I found myself sitting at a table with Reeve on one side and Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward on the other.

As an early-20s Hill staffer, I was representing my boss, the U.S. Senator, at a luncheon. A Senator from the next state in alphabetical order sat next to me and felt me up. I was too meek to say anything. He went on to become a high official in a future Administration. Ick.

How can people just sit there and let this shit happen? Unbelievable that you'd be so cowed not to do anything. Ridiculous.

Blame the victim, much? You are a real a**hole.

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On concierge floor of hotel where I was staying on a business trip, all members of the Greatful Dead -- they and their groupies? fans? ran up and down the hallyway all. night. long.

Had lunch at the table next to Bruce Springsteen and his wife. He was so cool, she was a complete bitch.

Same restaurant on another trip, Dave Grohl and some girl (maybe his wife? future wife?) were waiting so patiently at the bar with me while our tables were being readied. Very quiet, but also cool.

Shared elevator with Lou Reed, OMG he smelled!

On vacation, took a tour of a dungeon and the only people on the tour w/me and DH were Stephen King and his wife. I cannot tell you how creeped out I was.

Knew a Kennedy cousin in college (we were platonic friends). He would sometimes take me to parties where some of the more famous members of the clan would be.

Ah, memory lane.

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in college, the members of Guns N Roses banged a bunch of sorority girls I knew after a local concert. Slash waking up in the Pi Phi house was interesting.

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I lived in NYC in the 80s, so had lots of brushes with fame: Woody Allen, Robert Redford, Dianne Keaton, Madonna, John Lithgow and including (and this really dates me!) Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (yes, he was a really old guy, and I didn't recognize him, but my dad did).

I saw Susan Sarandon at an ice cream place in Westchester in the late 90s. She was wearing a bandanna on her head, no makeup, and looked perfectly ordinary. She was with a friend and talking really loudly in a nearly empty restaurant. She smiled at my baby, who was exceptionally cute, but I remember being pretty unimpressed with her, except that she was much taller than I'd expected.

My favorite brush was about 20 years ago when my boyfriend (now DH) and I were driving from NY to DC one Saturday morning. We were getting gas at a rest stop, looked up and noticed the guy getting gas across from us was none other than then Supreme Court Justice David Souter. He was driving a VW Golf with New Hampshire plates. We followed him for about 20 miles, and noticed he kept at a steady 62 MPH (speed limit 55 at the time). Even today, DH says he's doing "justice souter" when he's staying a mere 7 MPH over the speed limit.

When I was in my 20s, I shared a late-night cab home from a Lower East Side dance club with Thomas Dolby, then at the height of his (brief) fame. I had no idea who he was. He said he was a musician, and I said that's nice. When I got home, my roommate's brother showed me his album cover, and I said, "OMG! That's the guy!"

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Had lunch with the band DishWalla. Okay, fine, they were sitting at the next table over, but the entire restaurant was completely empty other than us, so it was as if we were dining together!

Ran into Yoko Ono in the Honolulu Airport once. Literally, we ran into each other. Apologized profusely to one another before parting ways. Afterwards, my sister asked me if I knew who I'd run into.

Saw Tracy Morgan at a bar in Williamsburg a few years back. He kept looking around trying to see who was noticing him, so we purposefully ignored him.

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Growing up I spent summers in Woods Hole, MA, which is a ferry boat ride away from MV. In my teenage years, I turned Robert De Niro away for coffee when he tried to enter the cafe I worked at after it was closed - I had no idea who he was and my manager chased him down the street to bring him back inside. A few years later, was hanging at the same bar as Julia Roberts (pre-babies), where she and her hubby were doing kereoke.. A few years ago (in DC) sat next to Andrea Mitchell and Alan Greenspan having dinner, but I didn't talk to them.

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Sat at the same table as Don King at a bat mitzvah MANY years ago. He didn't really talk, but it was hilarious!

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I sat next to Frank Perdue at an Orioles game. He ate a burger.

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Spent a week at a dude ranch with Cary Grant. We rode horses, had meals. He told stories and laughed a lot. It was in Calif. It was in the late 1970s. My dad was FLUMMOXED. Mr. Grant was very very nice.

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Justin Timberlake is my first cousin. He's always been hysterically funny.

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Do you talk to Justin Timberlake? Do you see each other at family functions? Anyone else a groupie in the past?

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John Lithgow ate dinner a couple of tables away during my rehearsal dinner.
Sat right next to Al Hunt and Judy Woodruff interviewing Rahm Emanuel at a restaurant.