Cargo ([info]cargoweasel) wrote,
@ 2008-06-13 10:52:00
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My List Of Celebrity Sightings
1992 - Tie Domi, hockey player, in stereo store I worked at in Toronto
1997 - Brendan Fraser (George of the Jungle), Baja Fresh on Sunset Blvd, LA
1997 - Luke Perry (90210), Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on Sunset, LA
1997 - Tyra Banks, Sunset, LA
1998 - Terry Jones of Monty Python, Thai fast food place in Santa Monica
1998 - Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes), model train store on Sepulveda, LA (best ever)
1998 - Drew Barrymore (ET), at a fundraiser party, LA
1998 - Jerry O'Connell (Sliders), same fundraiser
1998 - Leonardo DiCaprio (Titanic), party in Hollywood Hills, LA
2005 - Geddy Lee, of Rush, at French restaurant in Toronto
2008 - Michael Imperioli (Sopranos), video store in the West Village, NY
2008 - Sarah Michele Gellar (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Saw), Cadence Cycling in TriBeCa, NY

Members of this list I actually talked with: Michael Imperioli, Geddy Lee

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[info]axiomaxiom
2008-06-13 03:52 pm UTC (link)
I was there for Geddy and Imperioli, but missed Buffy. Lucky weasel!

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[info]toob
2008-06-13 04:20 pm UTC (link)
Do famous writers count? I've met a lot of them: Neil Gaiman, Billy Collins, Salman Rushdie, Tony Hoagland, Clive Barker, Peter S. Beagle, Jim Carroll, Z.Z. Packer... as far as movie stars and their ilk go, I've only seen Arnold Schwarzenegger (pre-Governator) and Brandy Norwood.


... you DID know posting that would be a prompt for everyone else to reply with their sightings, right?

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[info]cargoweasel
2008-06-13 04:55 pm UTC (link)
Exactly, I'm trying to start a meme here. :)

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[info]kinkyturtle
2008-06-14 01:11 am UTC (link)
What, no line about "You HAVE to post this on your own LJ, do it dammit grrrr"?

Good, I hate those. :}

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[info]cargoweasel
2008-06-14 01:24 am UTC (link)
Yeah, me too. Silly things. I'd rather just let it grow or not organically.

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[info]kinkyturtle
2008-06-14 01:31 am UTC (link)
That's precisely my beef with The Game. (Y'know, "If you think about The Game, you lose.") The idea of a game that you play by trying to forget about it is interesting enough on its own; it doesn't need "Rule 1: You are playing the game [whether you like it or not]" tacked on. All that does is trigger my antibodies.

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[info]fredchook
2008-06-14 03:07 am UTC (link)
I'm not always a fan of xkcd, but their twist on that was fantastic: "You just WON the game! That's it!"

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[info]cargoweasel
2008-06-13 04:55 pm UTC (link)
And yes famous writers totally count.

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[info]bohor
2008-06-13 05:00 pm UTC (link)
1998 - Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes), model train store on Sepulveda, LA (best ever)

Was he riding one of the trains?

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[info]cargoweasel
2008-06-13 05:38 pm UTC (link)
I bet he got that a lot. :)

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[info]potoroo
2008-06-13 05:08 pm UTC (link)
Robert Redford - at the coffee shop I used to work at
Seth (comic artist, Palookaville) - a regular at my old coffee shop
Paul Bellini (Kids in the Hall) - coffee...again
Neve Campbell - coffee in Guelph, her hometown
Ed Robertson (Barenaked Ladies) - cd store
Lawrence Gowan - a regular at my cd store, would only order cd's if I was serving him ;)
Ashley MacIsaac (musician, fiddler) - a few bars in Toronto, skinny dippin at Hanlon's Point, and he spotted 'me' at Wellesley Station two years back ;)

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[info]kjaer
2008-06-13 06:35 pm UTC (link)
I have to ask. Did you.... touch Bellini???

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[info]megadog
2008-06-13 05:23 pm UTC (link)
My only real claims-to-fame are that I've shaken hands with Her Royal Highness Princess Anne, taken Alyson Hannigan and Anthony Stewart Head [of Buffy fame] for a walk in the woods with wolves, and spent half an hour talking to [the late] King Hussein of Jordan.

Oh yes, I also appeared on TV with The Revd. Lionel Fanthorpe some years ago.

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[info]cargoweasel
2008-06-13 05:37 pm UTC (link)
Oh I didn't hang out with any of these folks, just happened to be in the same physical space for a short time. :)

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[info]axiomaxiom
2008-06-13 06:23 pm UTC (link)
King Hussein was a real score. Remarkable man.

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[info]megadog
2008-06-13 07:33 pm UTC (link)
Indeed. He was a radio ham [callsign 'JY1'] who would come on-air irregularly, happy to talk informally and off-the-record to anyone who the troposphere just happened to make available.

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[info]fredchook
2008-06-14 03:09 am UTC (link)
I've always wanted to meet Tony Head. His album is amazing.

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Celebrities
[info]ankhorite
2008-06-13 06:03 pm UTC (link)
c1982 - worked alongside Ellie Smeal for the ERA; did security for Betty Ford

c1986 - long chat with Jay Leno before he got famous

c1987 - Photograph and chat with Chuck Norris, filming A Force of One

1991 - got to shake hands (actually, rub whole forearm!) of Mary Lupo, the sensible judge of the William Kennedy Smith trial

c1992 - shook the enormous hand of Teddy Kennedy (and I am a big woman)

c1993 - Photograph and brief talk with Hillary Rodham Clinton at White House

c1995? - no photos, but nice talks with Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Janet Reno; also Judge David Tatel.

1995 - got to actually hold hands with Stephen Jay God! Er, Gould! And flirt! For a long time! While everyone else in line seeeeeethed with envy!

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[info]skippyfox
2008-06-13 06:12 pm UTC (link)
Seems like this kind of stuff doesn't happen on the east coast. I don't think I have ever encountered a celebrity O_o

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[info]skippyfox
2008-06-13 06:13 pm UTC (link)
NATIONAL celebrity anyway. I have chatted (IRL anyway) with a few game developers I idolize and with one or two DJs. But that's not Hollywood...

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[info]potlan
2008-06-13 06:57 pm UTC (link)
My sister goes to school with Geddy Lee's daughter.

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[info]toob
2008-06-13 06:57 pm UTC (link)
Wait a minute, I'M famous! Everyone I know knows me!

And I spend SO MUCH TIME around myself -- I've really started to buddy up to me -- and in a PERSONAL and INTIMATE way, if you know what I'm getting at? I think you do.

There's gotta be some hella major cachet in that!

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[info]astolpho
2008-06-13 09:25 pm UTC (link)
This isn't fair, I can't talk about any of mine. :/

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[info]oddbunnyout
2008-06-13 10:00 pm UTC (link)
I cant remember all the celebrities I have met from working at Disney. Also Sarah Michelle Gellar was not in Saw.

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[info]cargoweasel
2008-06-13 10:23 pm UTC (link)
Really? She was in some crappy horror movies or others. I forget which.

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[info]oddbunnyout
2008-06-13 10:24 pm UTC (link)
she was in the American remake of the Japanese horror film Ju-On called The Grudge

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[info]cargoweasel
2008-06-13 10:25 pm UTC (link)
And the scooby doo movies!

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[info]oddbunnyout
2008-06-13 10:26 pm UTC (link)
and she is playing Alice in the upcoming film based off of American McGee's Alice

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[info]nyrockcity21
2008-06-13 10:15 pm UTC (link)
sarah michelle gellar goes to cadence? i hear matt broderick does too...

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[info]cargoweasel
2008-06-13 10:22 pm UTC (link)
I dunno about regularly, but she was there this morning on the treadmill.

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[info]fredchook
2008-06-14 03:11 am UTC (link)
We used to see local celeb Rod Quantock all the time - lived in the same town.

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[info]fredchook
2008-06-26 06:53 am UTC (link)
And last night, we saw photographer Bill Henson in a Japanese restaurant. He recently had child pornography charges against him dropped. Overzealous cops, works seized from galleries - fairly ridiculous.

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[info]rigelkitty
2008-06-14 03:20 pm UTC (link)
I want to play, too!

Famous people I've seen: ...

Man, I suck. :P

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