Brushes with greatness

[lapoker17]

numerous experiences with mj and barkley - hilarious when they are together.

dr. j a bunch of times.

i went elk hunting w norman scwharzkopf.

one of my buddies is tight w adam sandler, so i've hung out w him quite a bit - very good dude.

r kelly and master p a few times - not greatness, just insane.

one of my best friends from home co-wrote half baked and is the producer of chappelle show - he no longer returns my calls - wtf?

sat with kevin spacey at his first swimming with sharks screening.

my favorite was playing nlhe with manny pacquiao at commerce - any boxing fans would give him "greatness". he was a fun dude. he had an evnvelope of cash he kept digging into - in 4 hours i think he bought in for 3k about 8 times, then somehow got it all back.

[Kyo Souma II]

I met sinbad on a plane.

I went to college with minkus from boy meets world.

Ellen Muth from that 'dead like me' or whatever show went to my grade school for a year.

I played frisbee with lauren ambrose from Six Feet Under. Her brother went to my high school.

[Blarg]

I worked at the UCLA alumni phone solicitation center with David Koepp, who wrote Death Becomes Her, Jurassic Park, and the first Spiderman, among other things. He was sorta okay enough, but seemed really oblivious and off in his own world, just substantially hollow somehow. You can see it in his movie writing, too. He was strangely not quite dislikeable without ever crossing over into being likeable either. You could look at him and know that here was a guy who just didn't give a crap about anything in the world. Like -- disassociated, while still highly functional. Not ill -- just ... not right.

[jester710]

I was at a stoplight in LA when who should pull up alongside me but the man himself.......Mr. Bob Saget.

He was with a younger woman, and they were talking with the windows down, so I rolled mine down as nonchalantly as possible to eavesdrop. I thought about trying to drive alongside him for as long as possible, but ultimately chickened out.

[Sponger.]

My dad is an insane lakers fan so when I was younger I got to go into the locker room and meet guys like Magic and the rest of the team. I got to meet all of the dream team when they were practicing in San Diego. He also knew Chick Hern and I got to talk with him a few times when I went to games.

He also helped Minneapolis Lakers coach John Kundla get elected to the hall of fame. He got all of his contact info through Jim Pollards wife and sent out letters to many hall of famers and I have the binder filled with all of them, during a visit to Jim Pollard's house I got to stay there for the night and check out all his old memorbilia and stuff. My dad flew out to the ceramony and he has tons of pictures of him just hanging out with Kareem and other famous old time basketball players. The kind of autographs and memorobilia and pictures that my dad has are almost too incredible to believe.

If anyone is curious about the full length of the binders I have I could check it out when I get home to San Diego on friday and rebump this thread.

[Matt24]

Not quite greatness, but I intercepted a Rex Grossman pass in a summer 7 on 7 tournament. Played bball against Jared Jeffries.

Met Scott Linebrink(Padres reliever, one of the best in the league) here in my hometown in a bar(the only bar in town). A friend married his sister.

[Villainaire]

I met DJ Paul & Juicy J from 3 6 Mafia while shopping in NY.

In LV, I was going up the escalator while Kenyon Martin was going down, and as my eyes lit up and I was about to say "Aren't you..." he shook his head no, as he obviously wasn't in any mood to draw attention to himself.

Met Vanilla Ice... [censored].

Met Tech 9... [censored].

Met R Kelly. Is much bigger than he looks on TV, and he knows how to ball.

That's all I can think of.