Anonymous
Post 01/12/2015 23:44     Subject: Has anyone ever met a celebrity?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I used to be in the White House press corp so met a lot of celebs at WHCA dinners and after parties. Including:

Pamela Anderson (wow, her ass...)
Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon (!)
Perez Hilton (ugh)
Half the cast of Law and Order (regular people)
Jason Priestly (REally nice)
Shannon Doherty (Nice)
Josie Maran (SI swimsuit model -- very nice)
Drew Carey
Jay Leno
Harrison Ford
Christie Brinkley

Just off the top. There were more.

Oh, also interviewed Angelina Jolie.



What was Angelina like?


Pleasant, but all-business and on-message.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2015 23:43     Subject: Re:Has anyone ever met a celebrity?
I was sitting in an airline first class lounge with Daphne Zuniga when Melrose place was huge.. She was scuzzy, smoking, cussing and just really low class (and looked greasy).
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2015 23:18     Subject: Has anyone ever met a celebrity?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I saw "Janet" from Three's a Company and Sinbad (comedian) at an airport in L.A. I met Shemar Moore at my law school graduation - he was a friend of a classmate.


This probably shows my age, but I know your first two references, but not the third.


OMG. Shemar Moore is just about the hottest man ever born.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2015 23:17     Subject: Has anyone ever met a celebrity?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Sat across the aisle from Bill Clinton on a plane. He borrowed my Vanity Fair magazine (well one of his security guards borrowed it on his behalf)), he gave it back personally, thanked me and told me he knew Elizabeth Hurley and that she was going to be a great mother (she was on the cover of the magazine). Sat in the same row as Gordon Ramsey on a place. He offered to get my bag from overhead when we were getting off. I told him I liked his shows and then we chatted for a few min about from where we were arriving (he was coming from London and me for India). We were going to Vietnam and I think he was going to check on a restaurant. I know there is one more but I can't remember. I also went to HS with a few actors. This was in NYC.


Is Bill Clinton not the most charismatic person ever?

I'm so jealous about Gordon Ramsay. I really want to meet him!


Clinton really is. I met him briefly at a G20 event when he was President, and I was really struck at how he shook my hand and looked me in the eye and made me feel, for 20 seconds, that he was really interested in knowing me. It was astounding, the amount of charisma he had.


I could have written that last PP about Clinton, except it wasn't a G20 event. Met him shook his hand, exchange just a couple of words about education. I have never been in the presence of anyone like him. He is electrifying.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2015 19:13     Subject: Has anyone ever met a celebrity?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I've met a few, no need to name drop ... some are morons, some are really nice people.


OK ... since I have a few seconds:

Robert Redford - very nice, unassuming, no attitude

I haven't met Keith Richards but a good friend of mine is a close friend of Keith's and says he is a "sweetheart."



Wow. Robert is like my ultimate crush. And I'm 26.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2015 19:12     Subject: Has anyone ever met a celebrity?
Anonymous wrote:I've met a few, no need to name drop ... some are morons, some are really nice people.


OK ... since I have a few seconds:

Robert Redford - very nice, unassuming, no attitude

I haven't met Keith Richards but a good friend of mine is a close friend of Keith's and says he is a "sweetheart."

Anonymous
Post 01/12/2015 19:06     Subject: Re:Has anyone ever met a celebrity?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Arnold Schwarzenegger in an elevator. He was short! He was with Ted Kennedy's son teddy who was gorgeous! Christopher reeve in a night club in NY 1984. He was even better looking in person and was incredibly nice.


Oh, this reminds me, I shared an elevator with Rudy Giuliani. It was a teeny tiny elevator in a boutique hotel, and he had two bodyguards with him, so we were all practically touching. I couldn't really interact with him because of the bodyguards, so I stood there with a crazed I-know-who-you-are look on my face. His bodyguards watched me the whole time.


I know someone who knows him --- wretched, narcissistic, utterly self-absorbed little man.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2015 19:01     Subject: Has anyone ever met a celebrity?
I've met a few, no need to name drop ... some are morons, some are really nice people.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2015 18:26     Subject: Has anyone ever met a celebrity?
Anonymous wrote:I used to be in the White House press corp so met a lot of celebs at WHCA dinners and after parties. Including:

Pamela Anderson (wow, her ass...)
Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon (!)
Perez Hilton (ugh)
Half the cast of Law and Order (regular people)
Jason Priestly (REally nice)
Shannon Doherty (Nice)
Josie Maran (SI swimsuit model -- very nice)
Drew Carey
Jay Leno
Harrison Ford
Christie Brinkley

Just off the top. There were more.

Oh, also interviewed Angelina Jolie.



What was Angelina like?
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2015 18:11     Subject: Has anyone ever met a celebrity?
Anonymous wrote:I saw "Janet" from Three's a Company and Sinbad (comedian) at an airport in L.A. I met Shemar Moore at my law school graduation - he was a friend of a classmate.


This probably shows my age, but I know your first two references, but not the third.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2015 17:51     Subject: Has anyone ever met a celebrity?
I used to be in the White House press corp so met a lot of celebs at WHCA dinners and after parties. Including:

Pamela Anderson (wow, her ass...)
Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon (!)
Perez Hilton (ugh)
Half the cast of Law and Order (regular people)
Jason Priestly (REally nice)
Shannon Doherty (Nice)
Josie Maran (SI swimsuit model -- very nice)
Drew Carey
Jay Leno
Harrison Ford
Christie Brinkley

Just off the top. There were more.

Oh, also interviewed Angelina Jolie.

Anonymous
Post 01/12/2015 17:40     Subject: Has anyone ever met a celebrity?
Anonymous wrote:Cindy Crawford. She was rude and dismissive but stunning. She was chatting with her friend about how tacky DC women were with their French tip manicures!

Geena Davis. Unfriendly. So tall. In that bad stage when she had bleached blonde hair, so she wasn't looking good.

Tom Arnold (ex-Roseanne husband). very funny and warm.

Jackie Stallone (Sylvester's mom). LOTS of plastic surgery.

Maria Shriver and her mom. Very polite and normal. Eunice was extremely wrinkled; I couldn't get over Maria's angular face.

Kevin Spacey. Shorter than expected, very very polite, completely uninterested in the ladies!

Ed Begley Jr. So nice and funny.

Spalding Gray (RIP). Amazing. My BFF and I crashed his backstage at the Kennedy Center and took him out drinking in G'town years ago. He was so cool.




WOW! Would you mind saying where you ran into Cindy Crawford? Was she in DC for a while?
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2015 17:38     Subject: Has anyone ever met a celebrity?
I saw "Janet" from Three's a Company and Sinbad (comedian) at an airport in L.A. I met Shemar Moore at my law school graduation - he was a friend of a classmate.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2015 14:22     Subject: Re:Has anyone ever met a celebrity?
I met Jessica Simpson at a meet-and-greet event before a concert with my bff. This was in '04, in the height of her Newlyweds days, right as she was gearing up for Dukes of Hazard. I was struck by how short she was (wearing very high heels, she was shorter than me, and I'm all of 5'3 in flats) and how skinny she was (tinnnnnny!).

She was really sweet. We hugged, and she told my buff and I that we were so cute. Still a highlight!
Anonymous
Post 01/09/2015 15:59     Subject: Has anyone ever met a celebrity?
Cindy Crawford. She was rude and dismissive but stunning. She was chatting with her friend about how tacky DC women were with their French tip manicures!

Geena Davis. Unfriendly. So tall. In that bad stage when she had bleached blonde hair, so she wasn't looking good.

Tom Arnold (ex-Roseanne husband). very funny and warm.

Jackie Stallone (Sylvester's mom). LOTS of plastic surgery.

Maria Shriver and her mom. Very polite and normal. Eunice was extremely wrinkled; I couldn't get over Maria's angular face.

Kevin Spacey. Shorter than expected, very very polite, completely uninterested in the ladies!

Ed Begley Jr. So nice and funny.

Spalding Gray (RIP). Amazing. My BFF and I crashed his backstage at the Kennedy Center and took him out drinking in G'town years ago. He was so cool.