Tonight I met

[seXieleXie]

Margart Cho. And she was incredibly cool.



This brings the number of celebreties I've met up close and personal to a whopping total of three. Margaret was by the the coolest, nicest, and most down to earth.


Have you ever met a celebrety? Tell us about it

 

[scylis]

yes.

killed a number, too.

 

[Laurel]

Very cool! What's she like?

Details, details.

 

[T.H. Oughts]

Ok I'll play the game...... who is Margart Cho?

 

[kotori]

tonight i went

to see the rolling stones i-max movie, and our retired congressman was there. i just waved and said "hi." he's like 75, i was rather surprised to see him. of course, that's only 15 years older than "Sir Mick"

 

[Laurel]

Re: tonight i went

to see the rolling stones i-max movie, and our retired congressman was there. i just waved and said "hi." he's like 75, i was rather surprised to see him. of course, that's only 15 years older than "Sir Mick"

Very cool! What's she like?

Details, details.



heh

 

[medjay]

Have you ever met a celebrety? Tell us about it

Working in the entertainment biz, I've met more so-called celebrities than I can remember.

The coolest one, though, has to be Reba McEntyre (sp?). I was one of over a hundred stagehands who worked one of her concerts years ago. At the end of the night, when we were all filthy and exausted from a 14 hour day, Reba came out of the dressing room and personally thanked and shook the hand of every person on the crew. I'll never forget that. No one else has ever done anything like it.

 

[Ishmael]

I've met several celebreties over my life span. But the one that I will never forget is Jimmy Stewart. Jimmy was a friend of my fathers and on different occasions we, meaning my family, and Jimmy would find ourselves in the same place, at the same time.

Jimmy loved to cook, it was a passion with him. Even before his poetry, which he loved (and it was amusing, but not quite Robert Frost). Everytime he was in town he'd buy the groceries and cook the dinner. What you saw was what you got. He was as real as real could be.

He was my fathers friend, so my mother was under a 'gag' order everytime he was in town. I remember the time she slipped and at least 7 neighbors came over to borrow a cup of sugar. Jimmy remarked that "it hadn't been since the war (WWII) that he'd seen such a sugar shortage".

I'll save the stories about Jane and Peter Fonda, and Rock Hudson, and a few others for later.

Ishmael

 

[seXieleXie]

Very cool! What's she like?

Details, details.

she was really funny, but still really sincere. a lot of times when i've seen interviews with famous comedians or comic actors they make a joke out of everything. she joked around, but she was also serious and answered everyone's questions even if they were a little... out there.

her message was very positive. she was gracious and signed autographs and gave people hugs and talked to everyone around her. it was really neat she was awesome

 

[red_rose]

I love Margaret Cho!

I met Stephen Page (from BNL) once. He was very nice - did autographs and even posed for a picture... in the parking lot of a Mobil station. (Apparently he'd left the H.O.R.D.E. Festival the same time we had - he was 3rd act.)

 

[seXieleXie]

Ok I'll play the game...... who is Margart Cho?

she's a asian-american comedienne/actress. she had a sitcom for a while, but it bombed. she does stand up and one woman shows now, and she's working on a film. she's been through a lot of shit, alcoholism, eating disorders, and so on, but she's pulled through it. she's pretty inspirational, in my opinion.

http://www.soa.uc.edu/soa/pac/comedy/margaretcho/images/margaret-cho-1sheet.jpg

http://www.planetout.com/images/entertainment/interviews/cho.jpg

 

[medjay]

While I was in college I met the girl who played "Kathy", Arnold's parapeligic friend from Dif'rent Strokes.

I saw her motoring her wheelchair through the student center and said to myself, Damn she looks familiar. I went up to her and asked if she ever played in Dif'rent Strokes. She said yes and showed me a picture of Gary Coleman she had in her wallet.

I forget what she was majoring in. What really struck me was the fact that we were the same age. Watching repeats of a show tend to warp your perceptions about things.


P.S.

I think her character's name was Kathy. I'm actually not sure.

 

[T.H. Oughts]

she's a asian-american comedienne/actress.

Thanks. But I have still do not know of her.

 

[Hamletmaschine]

I've met a number of actors over the years who I guess you'd call celebrities. My favorite was Paul Newman. The worst: Charlton Heston.

 

[SilverVeil]

I have met several celeb's. Most were very nice.

Tommy Shaw from the band Styx car broke down near a hotel I was working at. I spent about an hour helping him out finding a garage to fix it, and arranging transportation for the next day. He ended up staying overnight at the hotel, and the rest of the band picked him up the next day. I was not working when they picked him up, but when I got to work again, my boss handed me 3 LP's ( yes, this was a LOOOONG time age ) autographed by the whole band, a poster and a letter my boss put in my employee file about how nice I was.

Rue MacLanahan ( sp ? ) from Golden Girls was in Austin, TX visiting a friend there and I met her at a restraunt.

Matthew McConaughey I met at a club on 6th street. In Austin, TX. He was not very nice. To anyone, not even the servers there.

When I was a teenager in CA I met Shaun Cassidy from the Hardy Boys. And Kevin Brophy who played as Lucan : The WolfBoy in a short lived TV show.

I met Ray Park who played Darth Maul in Ep 1. We got to interview him for our show.

James Doohan who played Scotty on Star Trek.

Bruce Campbell who was Ash in Army of Darkness and in several TV shows and movies let us interview him. He is hysterically funny, very very very very nice, and in no way full of himself. One of the greatest celebs I have ever met.

I have met others, but that's enuff for now. Austin was a great place to meet or see people.

 

[pipercatt]

I've met a number of actors over the years who I guess you'd call celebrities. My favorite was Paul Newman. The worst: Charlton Heston.

Hammy, I'd be interested in hearing about both those experiences. Care to share?

I've met most of the actors who were in various incarnations of Star Trek (yes, I was a geek in a past life). My favorite, though was Dwight Schultz, who played Barclay in ST:TNG, and was also in the A-Team, and Robert Picardo, who was on Voyager, China Beach, and Home Improvement. But my very favorite meeting was with James Doohan, who played Scotty in the original Star Trek.

 

[sexy-girl]

lisa met sarah mclachlan ... i hate her for that she even chatted with her bah

i havent met anyone

 

[SilverVeil]

But my very favorite meeting was with James Doohan, who played Scotty in the original Star Trek.

Pipercatt,

I met James Doohan last year at a Con in Boston. He is not looking good at all. I talked to him for about 15 minutes and whoever was with him who was supposed to get him drinks and make sure he was comfortable was not doing a very good job. We ended up taking him a glass of ice water from the concession stand because he was feeling dizzy and thirsty. I felt really bad for him, but he stayed on and did his thing.

 

[pipercatt]

Yeah, that's what I hear. The last time I met up with him was about 5 years ago, and he was looking tired then! I've heard that he has since remarried and had a child! Can you imagine being a new father at his age?? The mind boggles.

I sat next to him at a bar in a hotel while he told stories about WWII, and shooting the TV show in the 60's.

If you have a chance to read his (sorta) autobiography, do it. It was co-authored by Peter David, one of my favorite sci-fi authors, who is also, a very nice person, with a great wit.

 

[Hamletmaschine]

I met both of them several times (not that they are chums or anything). Newman was around the Indy 500 a lot when I used to hang out there with my dad, who used to get me into the pits and garage area when I was a kid, and then later when I did some work for some of the racing teams. He was just a normal, beer-drinking car geek, and seemed to like not having to talk about movies and shit. I met him again several years later when a friend of mine was rehearsing a play with Joanne Woodward. We hung out backstage and talked about cars.

I actually knew Heston's mother and sister very well. I met "Chuck," as they called him, a couple of times when he came into town to bless them with his presence. He was an asshole, especially at the funerals of these two lovely women, when he sort of turned the event into being about him (at least that's how I saw it).

 

[CarolineOh]

I love Margaret Cho. I saw her show last year and she was fabulous.

I've catered a number of events that were attended by celebrities. I have met Stevie Wonder and Aretha Franklin and quite a few sports guys.
Before I had my own business I worked at a big downtown hotel, and we got a few celebs. I met Bob Hope once. He had all kinds of special conditions about his room, his food, etc. that were sort of screwy, but he was nice enough about everything.

 

[Aphrodisiac]

I don't think I have met any one famous yet ... I have seen them from a far ... one time I was at the airport waiting for my flight when this very attractive man sits across from me. He was wearing a baseball cap & was just in jeans & a tshirt. I thought he looked very familiar ... so I stopped playing with my game boy for a sec. ... and then it clicked it was Ryan Phillipe !

My sister on the other hand has met so many famous people , but I think the idea of meeting the famous is an old thing to her ... the only time she got all excited was when she met up with Benjamin Bratt at work ... she was speechless.

 

[Needssome]

James Doohan who played Scotty on Star Trek.

I met James Doohan at my high school's 75th anniversary several years ago...He was a former student and actually used to date my mom's 3rd cousin or something (some distant relative who was there as well) in high school.

I've met figure skater Steven Cousins....yum......Gotta love him in those tight leather pants.......

I've met Amy Sky......but she's only famous in Canada so most people haven't probably heard of her.

 

[patient1]

I love Margaret Cho. I saw her show last year and she was fabulous.

I've catered a number of events that were attended by celebrities. I have met Stevie Wonder and Aretha Franklin and quite a few sports guys.

Caroline,locally, Ms. Franklin has a reputation of being among the most difficult to please & demanding celebraties. Did you get that impression?

 

[Xander]

I met two celebs in my time.

A long time ago...back in 1989 I met none other than the Skateboarding Guru Tony Hawk!! Which was really cool. He just relaxed with everybody at the skatepark, pulled some of his amazing tricks, and just talked and gave advice on tricks.

Just before I left Denmark. I happen to run into a spicegirl at the airport. Melanie Crisholm (Sporty Spice) she had finished a concert in Copenhagen the night before, and just went into one of the airport bars there. She just happend to pick the one I was sitting in.
She was nice, and surprisingly intelligent. Thanks for the beer btw.