Let's not include local celebrities like football coaches, players or politicians. I mean, national figures like Hollywood movie stars or musicians.
I once saw James Earl Jones checking into the Bethesda MD Holiday Inn. Another time I was at training in Annapolis, MD, and we had previously been joking about how one of our fellow workers looked like Pat Sajak. Well, we were walking back from dinner and there were two guys talking on the sidewalk, one was leaning against his BMW. We got closer, and it was Pat Sajak, who has a place in Annapolis. One of the women in our group said "It couldn't be!" Pat turned to us and shielded his face and said jokingly "It's not, it's not." We didn't stop to bother him, but we acknowledged him as we walked by and I said "We know your brother!" (our co-worker who looks like Pat), and Pat looked at me with a puzzled expression, as walked off.
That's about it from my end. I know people who have had much more interesting brushes with fame. One co-worker lived in LA and she came across famous people all the time. One time she had her birthday party in a nice LA restaurant and it turned out Cindy Crawford was sitting at the table behind her group. When they sang happy birthday, Cindy turned around and joined in. She thought Cindy was so nice.
I know someone who went with her daughter to a Hollywood reception in which her daughter danced. She happened to chit chat with Mark Wahlberg, who was standing to the side watching the performance. She said he was very pleasant and friendly - and short.
A friend of mine is married to a concert violinist who once was asked to go down to Eastern Kentucky to teach Helen Hunt how to hold a violin in her scenes where she played a violinist. This was a bad movie filmed in Ky. from the 80s or 90s with Patrick Swazey and Billy Bob Thornton, the name of which escapes me. Anyway, my friend's wife goes down there and it turns out Helen had hurt her neck diving into the pool at the flea bag motel they were all staying at down in Eastern Ky., so she was in a foul, bitchy mood. Tina did her instructing to Helen, who was unfriendly, disinterested and barely acknowledged Tina during the lessons. To this day Tina has bad memories of Helen Hunt.
I heard someone asked Julia Roberts for her autograph at an LA area grocery and she blew them off. When they persisted, she cursed them out. This is second hand, though.
Anyone out there have some brushes with fame?
Who knew that show would become legendary?
Originally Posted by King Crimson
