The most famous person you met (and story )?

[XXXNoahXXX]

When i was little, I lived in CA and my parents were good friend's with Leonardo DiCaprio's mother. This was when he was like 11, before he got into any acting, and he's the same age as my older brother, so we'd always hang out and play video games or go swimming in our pool together while our parents hung out.

Unfortunately, in the dozens of times we hung out my parents never bothered to take a picture and lost touch with his mom when we moved to MA.




My father was also good friends with Anthony Michael Hall and his mother, and he was supposed to be my brother's godfather but didn't end up happening.


I'll update with some more when i get a minute.

[Autocratic]

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Chelsea Clinton in 2002, I think.

She was dating a kid at my college who my girlfriend at the time was friends with. The boyfriend threw a party that I attended. I was wearing my Nat'l Honor Society shirt from high school and she made a comment so we chatted for a little bit, mostly about her grad school plans, I think. A bunch of us went out to a bar a few nights later. She was nice enough and a little soft spoken.

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Does that usually get the attention of such fine ladies?

I have a friend of a friend whose father works for MTV in some capacity, and once I was at his place of work and met Rick Rubin. At the time I was about 13 and didn't have as much appreciation for the guy as I would now, but it was still pretty cool.

[samjjones]

Most famous would probably be Will Smith. He was doing an interview in my building, and I ran into him at the food court/lobby. Exchanged "how you doing"s.

[shortline99]

Three stories.

(1) When I was eleven, I was out in California with a woman who used to babysit me when I was in kindergarten. We went out to see a Clippers game, but when we got to the window her credit card couldn't be read and we couldn't pick up our tickets. We were just about to give up and go eat pizza instead when suddenly this huge dude who looked a little like Fabio came up and tapped her on the shoulder. "Are you looking for some tickets?" he asked. And he gave her two tickets. Before we could thank him, he had disappeared, along with the two ladies he had with him.

We walked inside, intending to go straight to the balcony seats, when we were stopped by an official who asked to see our tickets. We showed him, and he practically fell over himself trying to take us into a roped-off area. We walked through and found ourselves at courtside, second row, being seated by like 8 ushers. Pretty exciting stuff.

The guy comes over at halftime and my former babysitter takes off to sit with him while I sit alone with one of his (very hot) lady friends. The Clips hit a shot at the buzzer to win. It was cool.

Turns out the guy who gave us the tickets used to play Hercules on that TV show. Best night of my former babysitter's life.


2) Curt Shilling lives in my town, and he goes to all his son's little league baseball games (my brother plays against him all the time). I gave his daughter a piggyback ride while she was wearing his world series ring.


3) I was on a game show hosted by Dick Clark. He's a douchebag. That probably deserves its own thread some time.

[surfinillini]

I was a kid I was on my way back from Rochester Minnesota from the Mayo Clinic (my mom had some wierd surgery)...

anyway, on our red-eye plane which was about 90% empty was OJ Simpson. This was about 1 year prior to the trial/murder.

He was nice, I shook his hand, that was it...

Honorable mentions:
-Flava Flav @ the SouthCoast bowling alley in Vegas at 2am on a Tues night
-The riddler from the batman 60s TV series
-The kid from little big league
-Elton's john's bassist is my brothers best friends dad

[Lazy Meatball]

Martin Scorsese (to someone who would recognize what he looks like) and Sean Connery on one trip has to be the winner of this thread.

For me, I have a picture of me with Ted Kennedy, I took a picture of my frienfd with John kerry, and I've also met Deval Patrick and Mitt Romney. No close interactions occured besides the standard publicity handshake.

[archangel]

mine is about marisa tomei and took place in the summer of 1988 or 1989, when i was 13 or 14, and around the time she was on 'A Different World'. I had a HUGE Crush on her at the time:

back then i was still living at my parents house in Brooklyn and we had a house on the corner of the block with a relatively big backyard with a fence around it. at that time, the fence was low enough that you could see people walking on the sidewalk adjacent to the fence.

one day, i was in the backyard shooting hoops by myself and as i was dribbling past the fence i could see a cute woman walking up the sidewalk in my general direction. i shot a couple of baskets and as i came back to the fence, the woman had drawn closer (but was still about 50 yds away). at this point, i realized that she kinda looked like marisa tomei but i live in nowheresville brooklyn so it couldn't possibly be her, right? what would she be doing here? (i didn't know that she had grown up in the area yet).

so as she's getting closer, i continue to dribble my basketball near the fence in order to get a better look at her. in a few seconds, she's right at my fence and we make eye contact and then i realize "OMFG it IS marisa tomei!" like a complete geek, i'm speechless and can only manage an awkward smile while staring at her. she smiles back at me but then her smile turns into a very hearty laugh as she stops walking and pauses right in front of my fence. i'm not sure what she's laughing at so then i start laughing too out of nervousness but then starts laughing even harder.

now i'm really confused but i'd luckily regained my ability to speak so i ask her "um, are you Marisa Tomei?" she says, "yes i am. now can i ask you something too?" i said, "sure!". she asks, "are you missing something?" as she points to my basketball which is rolling across the other end of my backyard.

apparently, as i was standing at the fence trying to figure out if it was really her, i become so entranced with her that i didn't realize that the ball i had been dribbling had rolled away from me. so as i'm standing there staring at her, i'm just *pretending* to dribble a basketball ... essentially looking like a totall idiot.

anyway, i was totally embarrassed but she told me not to be then explained that she was in the area b/c she had grown up in the area and was visiting a cousin.

then she smiled and walked right out of my life .

[shortline99]

oh wait.

i also got a noogie from rob corddry. it's my cell phone background.

[IHateKeithSmart]

Eminem. He was staying at the same hotel I was in Hamburg, Germany. We were bringing booze back to the hotel for our weekly happy hour, and a bunch of groupies outside thought we were with his crew. Unfortunately, not true. Seemed like a nice guy, just exchanged pleasantries for a minute.

Have also met a few others, Billy Mayfair (golfer), Scott Williams (BBall player), the guy from Late Edition and King Kong (forget his name), Wayans brothers, Shaggy. Maybe a few others. This is all in the context of normal business travel (airports, hotels, etc.).

[12ressiMorP]

Met Bill Clinton with my baseball team when he was president. He just shook all of our hands and took pictures with us. Seemed to be a little rushed but was a nice guy.

Kirby Puckett gave my baseball team a pregame speech before a little league world championship game versus China and told us we'd have to play a perfect game to even have a remote chance cuz "they real good". Thanks Kirb.