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    Gee, Mike, I don't think I can top meeting Dave Barry, but
    
    1)  When I was a child, I accompanied my family on a vacation
        to Las Vegas.  We took our poodle with us, and thru her,
        met Eartha Kitt (actually we met her poodle, who happened
        to have Ms Kitt with him).  For the duration of our stay,
        I walked the dogs on a regular basis.  On the last day, she
        invited me into her cottage (into her bedroom no less, where
        she was very nonchalantly completely nude!) and autographed
        a photo for me.
    
    2)  I once sat at a table across from Dick Van Dyke, in a vegetarian
        restuarant in San Diego.
    
    3)  During my term of office as student body president of the college
        I attended, I met (met-heck we played cards and ate M & M's
        together!)  the Ozark Mountain Daredevils.
    
    
    Oh, yeah, and I've met (and have autographs of) several members
    of the Chargers football team-Kellen Winslow and Dan Fouts.
    
    Deborah
    
    

    My famous people aren't too exciting; however, I have two family
    members who've rubbed shoulders with people of note.
    
    My mother once sat next to Robert Redford on a flight to Denver
    and chatted with him all the way.  She didn't know who he was but
    found him to be very attractive and "nice."  When she left the plane,
    she asked him his name and he told her.  Later, in relating the
    incident to my sister, she happened to mention his name, and my
    sister about dropped in her tracks!
    
    My husband, Michael, lived in Corona del Mar (a portion of Newport
    Beach, CA.) before his stroke and hobnobbed with a number of famous
    people.  He knew the Kennedys and especially liked Bobby.  He took
    etiquette lessons from Nancy Roosevelt--FDR's daughter-in-law and
    a former nanny to his children.  FDR's son, James was quite prominent
    in politics in California and had quite a bit of memorobilia from
    his dad.  Michael lived next door to Dan Guerney of Indy 500 fame,
    and shared a barber with John Wayne.  He tells some interesting
    stories about his life there.
    
    Barb

    Oooh, I get it Mike, lifestyles of the almost famous and still obscure!
    
    One of the houses we lived in during the mid-60s ("8711 Higdon
    Drive, Vienna, Va") was across the street and down the block from
    Hubert Humphrey's house.  I think.
    
    In 1972, while still in the running for the Democratic nomination,
    then-Senator Ed Muskie hobnobbed with the congregation after services
    on the steps.  I shook his hand (I was a kid, it was a big deal!)
    
    Summer of 87, I was lunching with a friend in Santa Fe, when she
    said, "oh, don't look now, but thats ___ ___, the actor who was
    "Frank" in Blue Velvet and the mad scientist in Back to the Future!"
    [she knew his name, but I've forgotten it.]  Well, I looked anyway
    (very casually, of course) but I didn't recognize him even though
    I'd seen both movies.  [Dennis Hopper?]
    
    DougO

    
    ERTHA KITT WHAT!!
    
    I used to live near Washington DC. I ran into all kinds of Congressman
    and Senetors but my real brush with greatness was one day in 1978.
    I got on an elevator and there was 4 people in it. I thought I
    recognized the shortest guy in there as Henry Kissenger. We chatted
    briefly and he introduced me to someone else...George Bush who at
    the time was unemployed. 
    
    At one of my sites the nightime operator was a Redskins cheerleader.
    I'm not saying she wore tight cloths but the dime in here back pocket
    was dated 1973 (someone told me).
    
    My wife (who finds so many 4-leaf covers that she doesn't even try
    to look for them because its so distracting to see so many) has
    shaken hands with the Cowsills. She danced for some kind of amatuer
    hour thing in Atlantic City. Marty Allen was also performing at
    the same place and he autographed her arm and shirt. She also has
    all the First Edition's autograph but not Kenny Rogers'.
    
    YOUR FREND IN FIELD SERVICE,
    
    Fred Mudgett   

    STORY #1...
    Several years ago (maybe 14) I wrote to the Trouble Shooter which
    is a help column in a southern California newspaper.  You can ask
    for help finding odd things, selling odd things, etc.  Anyways,
    I wrote to him about an old set of encyclopedias that my mother
    had passed down to me.  It was hers as a child and in beautiful
    condition.  Only problem was, it was missing one volume.
    
    The day the article came out I got a phone call at work from a little
    old lady named Mrs. Jones.  She told me she had the volume I needed
    and would I like to come by and see it.  I said sure and went to
    see her after work.  When I got to her house, she was in the backyard
    working in her lovely garden.  As she and I walked back toward her
    house she looked at me and ask what size clothes I wore.  I was
    a bit shocked by such a strange question but went ahead and told
    her what she wanted to know.  She told me she had a daughter who
    was in 'show biz' (doesn't everyone in So Cal?) and that she thought
    that I may be interested in *buying* some of her daughters old stage
    clothes.  At this point I was still pretty confused.
    
    We went into her house and she had me wait in the den while she
    went to get the book.  As I was waiting I noticed there was a wall
    covered with photos of a lovely woman with long blond hair.  This
    I figured was her 'show biz' daughter.  I didn't really catch on to
    who her daughter was until I reached the far end of the room where
    there was indeed a very familar face, only this one had lonnnng
    black hair, parted down the middle.  All of a sudden it hit me.
    This woman was Mrs. Jones, mother of Carolyn Jones, Morticia on
    the Addams Family (snap snap).  
    
    Just as Mrs. J handed me the encyclopedia, the phone rang.  It was
    Carolyn.  She had called to see if the book her mom had was the
    one I was looking for (Carolyn knew I was looking obviously).  Anyway,
    as it turns out the book was one year younger than the set I had
    but I took it anyways.  Apparently the set had been Carolyn's when
    she was a child and after she grew up, grandma would send one volume
    at a time to the grandkids and this one (and a couple others) just
    never got sent.  Lucky me.  By the way, Mrs. J asked me to pay her
    $5.00 for the book, which I did.   P.S.  I didn't buy any of Carolyn's 
    clothes, they were really glitzy.
    
    STORY #2...
    At about the same time as story #1 I sold Avon.  Every other week
    I would go out to regular customers, take orders and sometimes sit
    and have tea and cookies with my favorites.  One such favorite
    was Mrs. Medley.  She was a kind woman and I always enjoyed my visits
    with her.  Well, one Saturday I dropped in to deliver an order and 
    tried to make it brief because she had company.  She wouldn't hear
    of it and offered me tea and introduced to her guest.  The introduction
    went something like this..."Jodi, this is Kathy, she is one of Bill's
    groupies..."  I had no idea who Bill was or what a groupie was for
    that matter.  I stood there kind of dumb-founded until she realized
    I had no idea what she was talking about.  She kindly explained
    that Bill, her son was Bill Medley of the Righteous  Brothers. 
    Boy did I feel stupid.  All this time I was in the house Bill Medley
    grew up in and didn't even know it.  sheeesh.
    
    STORY #3...
    About 8 years ago my husband and I were invited to a party where
    Buddy Hackett was a guest.  He had just done the Abbott and Costello
    story with Harvey Corman so he was in demand, as they say.  Large
    numbers of women were crowded around Buddy to get a closer look,
    or whatever.  My husband suggested I join the crowd, I said no thanks.
    I had absolutely no desire to get close to Mr. Hackett.  We moved
    to a different part of the party.  I told my husband I had to poweder
    my nose and headed for the bathroom.  As I came out of the bathroom
    Buddy came out of the next room.  I tried to be cool and not let
    on that I *knew* who he was.  All of a sudden an arm wrapped around
    my shoulder and a voice asked my name.  I turned and there was Buddy
    hangin' off my bod ("yuk" I thought).  We walked down the hall and
    when we got to the end he steered us off to another room, making small 
    talk all the way.  I couldn't believe it.  The room was large and I
    didn't notice much about it.  Buddy leaned even closer to me and
    whispered that he wouldn't mind a kiss.  I said I didn't think
    that would be such a great idea but he persisted until I finally
    asked him what his intentions were.  He grinned, pointed across the
    room to a man standing behind a camera and said "just one for the
    camera" and gave me a gentle kiss.  It turned out to be some kind
    of promo deal and I was just at the right place at the right time.
    
    Well, I've got other stories to tell but it's getting late and I've
    got people to meet, places to go...(i.e. kids and home)
    
    Jodi-
    
        
    

- One evening while I was working on a dude ranch outside Tucson, Arizona,
  I was sitting on the fence watching the sunset and this dude came up and 
  started talking about how pretty it was. We babbled for a while and then
  I turned around and looked at him and I was face to face with Hal Holbrook!

- I beat Meadowlark Lemon's brother in a game of ping pong..also in Tucson.

- I got rip-roaring drunk with the Clancy Brothers (Irish Band) once when they
  were playing in Burlington, VT.

Jenna

    Great notes so far!
    
    When I was a kid, I shook hands with "Yaz".  I hated (and still
    do) baseball, but loved him.
    
    My mom tells a story about her mother (whom I never met--she died
    tragically of cancer) who worked as a pastry chef in a
    restaurant.  At the time, (early '40's) chiffon pies were a new
    and popular dessert, and she made the absolute best.  One day she
    was called out of the kitchen, and introduced to a smiling man sitting
    behind the remains of a huge piece of her strawberry chiffon pie.
    It was Rudy Vallee, the singer, and he was so impressed with the
    pie that he just HAD to meet its maker!
    
    I was in the audience when Barry Goldwater made one of his speeches
    in my home town, Wolfeboro, NH (HOW long ago??).
    
    When I was in summer stock in '69, my director was Francis Cleveland,
    son of the late president Grover Cleveland.  Matter of fact, I wore
    Mrs. Cleveland's inaugural ball gown as "Gigi"!
    
    ..now if I could just get to meet William Hurt....
    
    ;-)
    
    Jane

    
    Well, in high school I did a little speech/theater, and won an
    award which sent me to Chicago for dinner/meetings/mingling with
    a wide range of 'famous folks' including Jonathan Winters, Hugh
    O'Brien, Neil Armstrong, Sir Edmund Hillary, and the like.  No big
    deal....I mean I was a sr. in high school, that was MUCH more
    impresssive!!  ha!
    
    As for Mr. Baker...he was MY senator..I lived in TN for several
    years, and met him on a few occasions.  He's a great guy--too bad
    he hasn't run for president!  Also met tricky Dick Nixon...the
    standard White HOuse handshake/photo...not exciting.
    
    Actually the most excited I've gotten meeting someone was a
    few months ago on a business trip to CA I sat across the aisle
    on the plane to Norm Abrams -- you know...the master carpenter for
    This Old HOuse---ooooohhhhh 
    
    Just prior to that my boss was flying back from CA and sat just
    behind Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman and their kids....  small world
    afterall!
    
    deb
    

    I was an officer of the student government at the small liberal arts
    college I attended.  Jimmy Carter was governor of Georgia at the time
    and was about to announce his bid for the presidency.  He came to the
    college for an awards day, and I had lunch with him (with 2 other
    people.)

    Also, in high school, my sister's boyfriend was Carter's son Chip's best
    friend.  They used to double date often.

    My sister is currently involved with a member of a well-know Irish
    band.  I probably shouldn't say who since they're both married (not to
    each other.)  She gets around, huh?!

    Susan

    
    
    When  I went to Los Angeles a few years ago, we ran into
    Robert Conrad, when we asked him for his autograph he told us
    to F*** off.  That the last time I will ever watch any of his shows.
    
    Good experiences...
    I met the following people at a telethon in St Louis
    LaWanda Page (From the Sanford and Son show Aunt Esther)
    Gloria DeHaven 
    Monty Hall
    
    Don Ho - at an airport.  There was this tall guy in a long leather
    coat about 5 feet away from us.  We didn't know who he was.  Then
    this guy came running in, asking us if we had seen Don Ho.  My mother
    said "Is he here?".  Then the tall guy turned around and said here
    I am.  It was kind of embarrassing.
    
    Tony Orlando - in Cohasset when He walked off stage after having
    his nervous breakdown.  I have pictures of him after he walked
    off stage.
    
    That's all for now.
    
    Kathi
    
    P.S.  My father rode in an elevator in New York City with Paul
    McCarthey of the Beatles
    
    
    

    
    my brushes with fame are pretty minor (only include hand-shake and
    autograph from ted kennedy and tony canigliaro (red sox late 60's),
    and being on a tv show once with ted hood (america's cup racer,
    sailmaker).
    
    the rest of my family has done much better.
    my parents were at arthur fiedler's 75th birthday party, and when
    arthur couldn't finish his prime rib, my dad offered to polish it
    off (which he did).  they also had dinner with eddie arnold, and
    were back stage with the monkees (i have an 8x10 glossy of that!!).
    
    my uncle won a presidential award from LBJ, so both he and my
    grandmother were guests at the white house.
    
    my aunt used to take skating lessons from tenly albright (olympic
    figure skater, now doctor in boston i believe).
    
    sarah
    

    
    At a Halloween party in my college dorm freshman year, I helped
    Benazir Bhutto carve a pumpkin.  
    
    					cathy

    *I* didn't have this experience, but my husband did, and I now have
    the glass.
    
    In a NY bar one evening, Perry Como (you *don't* know him? he was
    and still is the most lovely singer and at that time at the top
    of his popularity) and his agent came in, had something to eat and
    drink, and as soon as they left John stole the glass that Perry
    used.  
    
    Meeting political people nowadays is pretty easy, so I don't consider
    them as special people to meet.  Sargent Shriver was once at Martha's
    Sweetshop in Nashua and kept forgetting whose hand he had shook
    and kept going round and round shaking hands with people several
    times over, smiling his toothy smile with the most vacant eyes!
     
    M
    

    
    Wow, I feel fortunate!  I used to be quite the "stargazer" in my
    younger days, my friends and I used to get a big kick out of seeing
    what rock bands we could meet.  This can prove to be quite a challenge
    for any of those who have tried it, but it's really as simple as
    booking a room in whatever hotel they happen to be in.  Once you
    have a room key, you have easy access to roam around and someway
    or another you get to go to the after-show parties.  Don't think
    we were "groupies" or anything, we weren't in it for the sexual
    conquest or anything like that, we just liked to meet and get to
    know these people.  I can honestly say there were hundreds of "famous"
    people we met.  We went to every concert, everyone from Aerosmith
    to Bon Jovi to Ratt to Kiss to whoever...
    
    Some of the highlights:
    
    We spent a couple of days with The Romantics (anyone heard of them)
    and they had us flown to NYC to see their gig the following week.
    
    I went on a few dates with a member of Billy Squier's band.
    
    I babysat for Ric Ocasek's son a few times (he's the singer of The Cars)
    at his wife's house and met Ric.
    
    I waitressed at my old job at in Inn in Newburyport, MA for Robert
    Redford and his wife, Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley (God, she
    is so gorgeous!  Do we need women around that look like that??
    She was really nice, too)
    
    Can't think of anything else right now.  All old news.
    
    Stacie
    

    
    My daughters Godmother and Godfather are very good friends with
    Sam Jones (former Celtic) and I got to socialize with him and several
    other 'Celtics' quite a bit during their reign. After the initial
    meeting, you forget that they are famous.
    
    About 25 years ago I was in Logan airport with my son (then 2 years
    old) waiting for my husband to arrive. We got there early because
    my son was crazy about airplanes and I wanted him to have time to
    watch them. I was busy watching him and not paying much attention
    to what was going on around me, when I looked up an noticed people
    nudging each other and whispering and pointing at my son and me.
    Finally someone approached me and aske me what I was doing at Logan,
    I stammered that I was waiting for my husband, the crowd around
    us grew and people started to get excited, meanwhile I am busy chasing
    after my two year old. Too make a long story short, they all thought
    that I was Mrs Casious Clay (Mohamud Ali), and that I was waiting
    for him to get off a plane.  I was told that my son looked like
    a miniature of him.

    
    I probably was in a better position then most when it comes to meeting
    people, I was a waiter for the Monticello Dinner Club in Framingham
    MA during it's hay day in the late 60's early 70's.
    
    The most memorable:
    
    Jerry Lewis, a very strong family man.
    
    Diana Ross, she had just broken up with the Supremes and was putting
    together a act to use in Vegas.  Terrific lady and one hell of a
    worker!
    
    Dionne Warwick and the co-star of I Spy, I can't remember his name,
    came to see her perform
    
    Todi Fields, very funny person.
    
    Wayne Newton.. Excellent performer.
    
    And a smattering of other performers.
    
    I ran into Hans Conrad down the cape when I was living there, he
    was Uncle Tanoose on the Danny Thomas show.
    
    Have run into Steve Grogan several times in the Natick Mall, and
    also ended up at his home in Foxboro.  I was doing a favor for a
    friend and had to pick up some tickets to the playoff games between
    the Jets and the Patriots when they went to the Superbowl and the
    guy who answered the door was Steve Grogan.
    
    Cal.
    

 The lead singer for BOSTON (why don't I remember his name) and I have met.
He goes to the same dentist as I do.

 The trainer for the Celtics lives across from us (Ed Lacerte). I have met a
few of the Celts (but not Larry, yet).

 I met John Sununu and Judd Gregg a few months ago (before the election).
John Sununu and I belong to the same fraternity (as does one of the Smothers
brothers who I met last year at Club Casino).

 I met KC Jones the last time I saw the Celts (vs Charlotte). (No, my daughter's
not named after him, right Ms. Fahel? :-)

 The doctah

    
    
    Good heaven's, how could I forget this one?  I went thru high
    school with Bill Walton (I think he plays for the Celtics). 
    And my next door neighbor for several years was an ex-Harlem
    Globe Trotter (well known, from what I understand).
    
    Deb
    
    

    
    My encounters come from the world of jazz.  I met Earl "Fatha" Hines
    at Blues Alley in Washington, D.C.  It was between sets, so he had
    a few minutes.  His hands were twice as big as mine (and 100 times
    as talented).  I told him how much I enjoyed his music, and he said
    it made him glad to see young people groovin' to an old man's beat.
    What a warm and gracious man!
    
    I also got to meet Ella Fitzgerald (regal and mischevious at the
    same time), Cleo Laine and John Dankworth, Jo Jones, and Roy
    Eldredge.  I saw Jo and Roy at Jo's 65th birthday party at the
    Smithsonian.  Jo was as dedicated as tough as ever - a perfectionist
    who's not the easiest guy to work with, but who has *absolute*
    musical integrity.  Roy said all that trumpet work made him thirsty,
    and made many a trip over to the champagne punch.  We talked to Roy
    and told him we were sorry not to have gotten the chance to talk to
    him when he was at Wolf Trap (opening for Ella when we met her).
    His comment - "I played my stuff and I left."  A night on the town
    with Roy would be quite and experience...
    
    Ron

    Let's see,
    
    When I was a senior in college John Glenn's daughter lived
    in my dorm. I saw the ex-astronaut and future senator when
    she moved in.
    
    I attended a church camp where Ruth Carter Stapleton was the
    featured speaker (before her brother ran for President).
    
    When my neice was a baby (about 18 years ago) my sister was
    traveling on a plane with her. A very nice man chatted with
    her for quite a while during the trip (commenting on what
    a lovely child my neice was). After the trip was over my
    sister realized she'd been talking to the Celtics Bill Russel.
    
    I've been present in the  audience when Hubert Humphrey
    and Ted Kennedy spoke at a college I attended and one I worked at.
    
    and I spoke to Ian and Sylvia briefly after a concert once.
    
    Bonnie

    I was on horseback at a ski slope in Iran in the early sixties when
    the Shah of Iran and Emperess Farah (plus a significant entourage of
    bodyguards) went walking by (about 50 yards away). He was an avid
    skier, I understand. (I don't and didn't ski, and there were these
    hawkers renting horses by the half hour.)
    
    As I was stumbling into the front door of the Mill some years back,
    reading a stereo magazine, a gentleman opened the door for me. KO...
    
    Sat two rows behind John Updike at a concert in Ipswich; sat on a
    picnic blanket adjacent to our (MA) lieutenant governor (Evelyn
    Murphy); have hobnobbed with (aka annoyed) various famous folkies
    (traded puns with Utah Phillips; jammed with Mike Seeger; Michael
    Cooney played my tiple - that's a 10-string uke; interrupted
    conversation between Pete Seeger and Michael Cooney; etc.)
    
    In a folk club in Baltimore in 1969, a small-time folksinger knocked
    down my Yamaha guitar and cracked the neck. (Called himself Omar at
    the time.) I had to work to get $25 out of his manager. Some years
    later I noticed he'd made the "big time" as a rock'n'roller: 
    Greg Kihn.
    
    ...

    My uncle used to be in commercials and on soap operas in the '70s.
    
    My grandfather lost his bid for congress in the 50's to a man named
    Tip O'Neil.
    
    I lived for 2 years with major-jazz-and-movie-soundtrack-dude Dave
    Grusin's son - and he cooked us dinner once at his house in Aspen (and
    was really nice). 
    
    -Jody
    

        While working as a waiter I waited on Prarie Prince, Michael
    Cotten and Sputnik Spooner of The Tubes.  Later when I worked at
    another company a former dancer of The Tubes and I shared the
    honors for cutest costume at a Halloween party.
    
        I helped wait on Perry Como and also took photos of him and
    the restaurant owner at that same restaurant.  I also waited on
    one of the 49ers, but back when they were a lousy team.
    
        We were stuck at the intersection where that motorcycle cop
    in Reagan's motorcade fell off his bike.  We also got stuck behind
    a motorcade carrying George Bush a few years ago.
    
        A number of members of an improv group I did lighting for while
    in college are making names for themselves in the San Francisco
    comedy and theatre community.  One of them was on a set of humorous
    Christmas cards.
    
        A friend of my wife, she was a theatre major at San Francisco
    State, has his picture plastered around the bus stops up there
    because he has the lead in "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To
    The Forum" at the major theatre company in the city.  He also later
    worked with the improv group after they left college.
    
        Someone mentioned Robert Conrad earlier, my folks own a mountain
    house across the street from his mountain home in Bear Valley.  He
    has a sign on the gate of his place calling it the Conrad Hilton.
    I walked through it while it was being built and its huge.  It has
    four stories, a wine cellar, and a jaccuzi in the master bedroom.
    There's also a wing with three two story condo like units for his
    families.
    
        I've seen him several times up there at the beach, in a bar, etc. 
    LLoyd Bridges lives up there too and I've met him, but I've never had
    a chance to meet his sons.
    
    ASP

A couple of jazz experiences, and some others for the civilians (i.e.
those who don't play or listen to jazz):
    
    Once when I was at Tufts, I got to interview Dizzy Gillespie. 
    I asked him why he thought he was more famous among the general
    public than most bop musicians of his day. He replied, "It's my 
    face. An ugly face is always easier to remember than a pretty
    face."
    
    Later he walked over to the piano and spent about 40 minutes talking
    to me about rhythm and harmony. It was one of the best lessons of
    my life.
      
    This is another experience I just remebered, but in a way a very
    sad one. A few months before Jaco Pastorious died I was in 
    New York City going
    to meet some friends in Greenwich Village. I was late getting there
    and they were waiting inside a restaurant on W. 3rd St off 6th Ave
    (namely, MCDonald's). I went in and they said "We came in here because
    there was a man out there spitting apples on the ground. He said
    his name was Jaco and he was a famous bass player (my friends aren't
    musicians.) I went outside to investigate, and sure enough there
    was this man standing around with some friends acting rather
    hyperactive. I asked him if he was Jaco, and he said yes, and I
    mentioned I was a pianist, etc. I wanted to say,"what happened to
    you", but thankfully it came out as "What are you doing here?" 
    Before we had much chance to talk,
    someone in the street yelled "Hey Jaco!" and he was off and running.
    That's the last I heard of him until I heard he'd died. When I got
    home that night I looked at an old Weather Report Album cover, and
    sure enough it was his face, although a lot younger and healthier
    looking than that night

	Speaking of Jo Jones (re a couple back), I met his son, Jo 
Jones, Jr., also a great drummer, soon after his father died. Turned
out he had been at my mother's house in Queens because my brother, who knew
him through a drummer friend of his, was copying a tape for him. Still
can't believe Jo Jones Jr was in my basement.
  
    A couple of weeks ago I played with a quartet at the reception
    following Ray Flynn's State of the City address in Boston. Sure
    enough the mayor was there. I could have gone up to talk to him
    but all I could think of to say was, "Why are you letting all the
    jazz clubs and movie houses in Boston get closed down, destroying
    what little culture this city has?" so I kept my mouth shut.

    I was walking in Central Park in New York a couple of years ago
    and passed the actor Tony Roberts walking his dog. I wasn't sure 
at first it was him, because he looked older, then I heard him say, "Good
doggie," and I recognized his voice. I still kick myself for not talking to 
him. At least I would have liked to tell him how much I liked him in those
Woody Allen movies.
    
    My ex-boyfriend's father own's a jazz club in New York, and he has
met lots of famous people, including many non-musicians. Next time I 
talk to him I will try to get some good stories. I know he has tons.
    

Roberta

    I met Bobby Kennedy once when he was running for Senator in NY.
    Likewise Jim Buckley (once a US Senator from NY). But politicians
    are easy. I've met the whole NH Congressional delegation at one
    time or an other. I used to eat dinner regularly with the Majority
    leaders of the NY Senate and NY Assembly. (They were both boyhood
    friends of my fathers as is the current RC Archbishop of Brooklyn).

    I flew on the same plane with the President of Israel about 15 years
    ago. We didn't even know he was on the plane until he had departed.

    My father has met Presidents Johnson and Nixon. He used to have a
    pen that Johnson used to sign some legislation with but it was
    destroyed in a fire.

    My wife saw Lilly Tomlin in NY once.

    We all met  M L Carr at the Museum of Science once. He was a real
    nice guy. A bunch of kids were asking him for autographs. My wife is
    a serious Celtics fan and went over and asked if she could shake his
    hand. He shook her hand (and mine) and after exchanging a few words
    we left to find that a whole line of adults had replaced the children
    behind us.

    				Alfred

    	There have been so many; my wife's first.
    
    	My wife went to Baptist Hospital School of Nursing in Nashville,
    	TN. Well, of course, Elvis was one of her patients. She's so
    	laid back that nothing phases her. She admits it, but has
    	nothing else to say about it.
    
    	I met Rayfield Wright on 24 September, 1973. I know th exact
    	date because I was at Love Field in Dallas waiting to pick up
    	my mother in law. She was coming down to see her new
    	granddaughter (my first daughter) who was born on the 21st.
    	Oh yes, he played offensive line for the Cowboys.
    
    	I met Jethro Pugh on the golf course in Dallas. He played
    	defensive line for the Cowboys.
    
    	I went to class with Wilbert Montgomery. I also went to school
    	with Cleotha Montgomery and Johnny Perkins. All three were
    	fine football players who later played pro ball.
    
    	I met James McCracken nd Sondra Warfield (husband and wife)
    	back in 1983 or 1984. Both are fine opera singers of the
    	past. James used to sing at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC.
    
    	I met Colonel Van Winkle in Vietnam in 1967. He had won the
    	Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism in the Korean War.
    	Actuall, I more than met him. He and I were together the
    	better part of the day during an operation his outfit
    	(2nd Battalion, 1st Marines) and my outfit (K Company,
    	3rd Battalion, 1st Marines) were on. He was a lot of
    	fun to be around, and could crack you up at any time.
    	He didn't seem bothered by the fact that he was a colonel
    	and I was a corporal.
    
    	I guess that's enough for now
    
    	Scott

	Re Robert Conrad:

	In the late sixties, my brother (an avid fisherman) was
	fishing in a remote spot in California, when he came across
	a gentleman who was trying to fish and obviously didn't know
	what he was doing. My brother went over an showed him how to
	keep from tangling his line and such. Only after the man
	introduced himself did my brother recognize him as Robert Conrad.
	He later took my brother out for dinner.

	My mom used to babysit for Ralph Nader.

	Despite living in NH where you supposedly can't walk down the street
	during primary season without being accosted by several Presidential
	candidates, the only one I've met was Pete DuPont.

	I met several of the people in Tracy Kidder's "The Soul of a New 
	Machine" a few months before the book came out, at a Halloween
	party given by a friend who worked at DG. 

	I've also met a few people many may not have heard of, but who 
	are famous in aviation circles: Montaine Mallet (I had to ask 
	her to turn off the Emergency Locator Transmitter which she had 
	inadvertently set off during her airshow routine), Bob Weymouth, 
	Jim Parker and Frank Kingston Smith.


						Tom_K

    	I know, I already had a turn, but Pat would shoot me if
    	I forgot him. Actually, he wouldn't.
    
    	My inlaws moved to Carolina Beach, NC, in 1986. They
    	bought a condo on the beach. Next door neighbor is
    	Pat Hingle. When we visited, we went on a short supper
    	cruise. Pat and his wife were there. It was funny watching
    	the reaction of people when they realized who he was. He
    	was kind enough to stand with each of my daughters for a
    	picture.
    
    	He could talk all the legs off a centipede. His wife is
    	really nice, and quite unaffected by her husband's fame.
    
    	Scott (yes, I'll shut up)

    I grew up in Hopkinton, MA. where they start the marathon each year.
    While I was in junior high, I was in the band and we played at the
    common each time during marathon day.  Pat Paulson was staying in 
    a trailer parked on a classmates front lawn.  Me, in my band uniform
    (ugly!) and friends had surounded the trailor waiting for a glimse of
    Mr. Paulson and he did finally come out.  He patted me on the head.
    That turned my off of him, after all, I wasn't a baby!!!
    
    Again while I was in junior high, Ken Hodge was doing a benefit in
    Hopkinton.  My girlfriend and I help Mr. Hodge down the hill to the
    rink because he was wearing his skates at the time.  He put an arm
    around each of our shoulders and we walked down the hill.
    
    While I was in high school, I worked as a mother's helper.  Tom
    Hienson (ex-celtic's coach) lived up the street from where I was
    working.  His son, (I forget his name) used to make obscence phone
    calls to me!  
    
    Anna
    

    When I was about 8, I was in love with Wayne Newton, so my parents
    took me to one of his concerts.  When he sang "Red Roses for a Blue
    Lady", the ushers picked me out (I was probably glowing just to
    be at this concert) to bring a rose up to him on stage, which he
    took and gave me a kiss.  Quite the thrill for an 8-year-old.
    
    My cousin Billy likes to lift weights and works out about 3 times
    a week.  Once, while he was working out, he started to talke to
    this guy who was also working out.  It seems the guy was in town
    for a visit and didn't know what else to do with his time.  My cousin
    took him home for dinner, and it wasn't till he introduced him to
    his father that he realized he was with Peter Lupus from Mission
    Impossible.
    
    My sister-in-law Wendy seems to be always meeting people from the
    jet set and such.  She met F. Lee Bailey (the famouse lawyer --
    isn't he in trouble for something now?) and became friends with
    him.  She used to go with his family for outings on the family yacht,
    and she lived with his mother for a while til she found her own
    apartment.
    
    In the past 6 months or so, Wendy has been running a bed and breakfast
    in Bill Walton's (the Celtic) house in Boston.  Seems like she's
    always running into someone famous.
    

    re .30
    
    Tom Hienson's son name is Paul...
    
    re. .3
    
    The actor's name from Back To The Future is Christopher Lloyd.
    
    
    Anna
    

Wow!  The more I thought, the more I remembered!  In sortof chronological
order:

    Queen Elisabeth II - When I lived in Luxemburg, I managed to get on the
front row of a parade route.  She walked right in front of me!  I snapped 
a photo of her back as she walked away.  Ah, fleeting fame....

    Summers between college, I worked at the Sheraton in Dover, DE where
I grew up.  As the BIG summer event was the Delaware State fair, we had
all the entertainers staaying at the hotel.  Chief among my "thrilling"
experiences were having a pass made at me by a very drunk famous black
soul singer, Al somebody whose name I don't remember, AND

    making out with one of the Gatlin Brothers (a famous C&W band).  
Young and naive (huh!) as I was then, we ended up in his hotel room
where he gave me a lecture/demonstration on how a woman should help
"her man" take off his cowboy boots - all before I escaped (relatively
unscathed!)

    I went to the same college K. Hepburn went to.  One night I was sitting
at the bells desk ( a rotating dorm responsibility) and she walked into the
dorm with her woman companion and asked me to give her a tour of the new
(read wierd architecture) dorm.  She even came into my bedroom and sat on
my bed.  She was awfully old, even then, and suffering from Alzheimer?
disease so she shook alittle.  I was so in awe I think I blanked out
during the entire affair!

    I also went to college with that famous Brat packer, Judd Nelson.
He was a brat back then, too. 

    Last summer I went to Club Med, and guess who was there?  Brooke
Shields, her boyfriend and his mother (chaperone)  We never met, but
I looked and listened alot!  (She's alot different in person that
I would have expected.)

    Also, just last month I went out to dinner with a guy who it
turns out was the International Yachtsman of the Year last year,
James Hatfield.  I even saw his picture in one of the sailing magazines 
recently (unfortunately, he was just engaged :-(  )

    Guesss that's it for now.  This was fun!!

Victoria    

    Dennis Hopper, Christopher Lloyd, I knew I couldn't remember who
    it was because I didn't recognize him at the time!
    
    I forgot one other brush.  At Bubonicon 16 (in Albuquerque NM) the
    Guests of Honor were Spider and Jeanne Robinson.  Late one evening
    I ran into a bookstore owner friend of mine and his wife, and he
    invited me out for a drink in his van with "someone else" who turned
    out to be Spider and Jeanne!  I'd brought snacks and I remember
    they liked the cheese but turned down the tuna fish.  We were drinking
    some strange kind of bourbon I'd never heard of called Eagle Rare;
    it was pretty good and Spider told a bunch of stories once he got
    started.  I remember asking him to explain a story about a famous
    author who'd written a very trashy story on a bet (which Spider
    had described in one of his books) which his fans demanded then
    be turned into a series, and the author was never permitted to end
    the series; turned out to be Edgar Rice Burroughs and Tarzan.  Jeanne
    was very quiet, I don't remember her very well.  I also remember
    walking home (too smozzled to risk driving) at 2AM, 3+ miles!
    
    DougO

    
    re: .33
    Small nit (though not to Katherine, I'm sure):
    I believe Katherine Hepburn suffers from Parkinson's disease, not
    Alzheimer's.
                                                  
    How could I forget! I got to meet and shake hands with Milton Babbit,
    the famous composer. A teacher of mine introduced me to him, and
    he remembered my father, who was also a composer. He was very nice.
    
    Roberta

    
    I happened to go to a high school where 3/4 of the student body
    were sons & daughters of the 'rich and famous'.  Like Newton Minow's
    daughter ("TV, the vast wasteland") gave a New Year's Eve party
    I went to.  And Aerie Crown's grandson was in my gradeschool class.
     Mom didn't believe me when I told her my playmate's granddad just
    sold the Empire State Building.  Charles Percy was a member of my
    church.  One girl left her junior year 'cause Dad got appointed
    Ambassador to Japan.
    
    Best part of the whole deal - my best friend's Dad was manager of
    the Chicago Stadium.  Back in the late '60's, during the Bobby Orr
    / Derek Sanderson era, we were watching a game from seats between
    the team benches and my friend got Derek Sanderson kicked out of
    the game for abusing a fan.  He was fun to tease, he reacted so
    nicely :-).
    
    Alison
    

    When my son was young I took him to the Whitehouse Easter Egg Roll
    on the back lawn of the Whitehouse.  He walked up to Betty Ford
    grabbed her arm and said "You're not using REAL eggs, that's not
    right!"  She patted him on the head and went on her way.  I have
    a picture of him standing under sign made for the occasion with
    a very dissatisfied look on his face.
    
    Another time my son came home from grade school elated because he
    and his whole class had been in a movie, a made for tv movie and
    he was looking forward to seeing himself on tv.  He was part of
    the crowd as Joanne Woodward ran by in "See How She Runs" made in
    Hopkinton.  Sure enough, he was right in front as she ran by in
    the beginning of the movie!

    	Yeah, I know, third time in a coupla hours.
    
    	Scott Hamilton is originally from Bowling Green, Ohio, where
    	I did my master's work. During a visit home, he went to
    	Crim Elementary school, where both my daughters went. They
    	were so excited to meet him. Quite a skater.
    
    	Scott (not quite a skater)

    Many infamous people, and a few famous people.
    
    I met Maurice Sendak (the children's book illustrator) when he was
    working on the "Nutcracker" movie in Seattle.  Very friendly, immensely
    talented guy.  Lindsay Wagner (the actress who played the $million
    woman) came to one of the opening night performances of the ballet.
     She was surprisingly down to earth (nice to know that they're not
    all Prima Donna's).
    
    When I stayed at a guest house on Nantucket, a group of us were
    chatting over breakfast, and I asked the gentleman beside me where
    he worked.  "Pepperidge Farms", he replied.  Putting my foot firmly
    in my mouth, I asked what he did....he was the president.  (No,
    I didn't get any cookie samples...I just slunk out of the room shortly
    after my gaffe.)
    
    Ah, fame...how fleeting it is
    Judi
    

    In the mid-late '60s, I used to jam fairly frequently with various 
    members the J. Geils Band, Ultimate Spinach, and the Beacon Street
    Union.   This was a rare honor shared at the time by perhaps only
    40 or 50 thousand other people who wandered into a Back Bay basement
    on Boylston St. that (on Monday nights) went by the name The
    Catacombs (aptly yclept, I must say).
    
    Steve

My cousin had a bit part as the prostitute who had her towel yanked off 
during a 'raid' in "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" (quite the family 
scandel ;-).  She said that Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton were fun to work 
with.

She also ended up marrying McGiver's cousin this past fall........guess 
with a far stretch of the imagination he could be considered my 
cousin-in-law :-).

    
    ~robin

    When hubby and I went on vacation two years ago, we were headed
    into this little restaurant in Aspen.  Who came out of the door
    as we were walking in?  Martina Navratilova!  
    
    We sat down in the restaurant and she came back in and sat two tables
    away from us.  She must have ran out to the car for something. 
    
    Susan

    
    
    A few years back I got in line at Wendy's in Framingham and noticed
    that this TALL person in front of me was Danny Ainge of Celtics
    fame.
    
    Keeping with the Celtic theme, my fiance and I live on the west
    coat, but are both from MA and are still Celtics fans.  He's a
    construction worker and about a year ago he was on a job and noticed
    this guy from another company who had on a Celtics hat (very rare
    to find people with Celtics hats in Lakers territory!) and when
    he looked closer he saw the resemblance this guy had to Dennis Johnson.
    Being the kind of outgoing guy he is,he went up to Mr. Celtics and
    introduced himself and told him he looked like an older version
    of Dennis Johnson.  The man corrected him immediately "I don't look
    like Dennis - he looks like me!!"  It was DJ's dad!  My fiance said
    he was a real nice guy, and runs that other construction company!
    
    We went back east last Christmas and after mega problems with our
    flights we got bumped up to two first class seats - and found out
    from our steward that those seats were originally purchased by Chevy
    Chase but he had just cancelled.
          
    Cherie

    During the World Science Fiction Convention, 1988, in New
    Orleans, my SO and I went to eat at K-Pauls.  (This was the
    night of the masquerade, for anyone who was there, and we
    missed the masquerade.)  Shortly before we left, several
    people walked in, and someone at my table gasped and said
    "That was Eric Clapton!"  My SO swung around for a look, and
    said, "Nah, that's not Eric Clapton...although he *does* look
    kinda like him..." 

    When our waitress came back, we asked her if she knew who
    that guy over there was...she took one look and said, "Oh,
    yeah, that's Eric Clapton."  She looked at *us* like we must
    be *really* out of it not to recognize him immediately!

    -- Linda

    
    Oooh. I forgot a good one. I played a party at the Myopia Hunt Club
    (no, not a country club for the nearsighted), and the guy from the
    Channel 68 Movie Loft was there - Dana Hershey (?). 
    
    Also, I noticed this INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL man there, whom the waitress
    said was Doug somebody from General Hospital. Since I don't watch
    GH, to me he was just this amazingly handsome man (which in this
    case was enough), but if anyone has an idea - well...I met him!
                                                     
    Roberta

    I haven't met too many famous people.  However, my hubby used to
    drive limo service for a bunch of stars when they were filming Airport
    1978 (?) here in Salt Lake.  He met Helen Hayes, Linda Blair
    (Exorcist), Charlton Heston (really a tall guy and very polite-at
    least success has not gone to his head)George Kennedy, and Karen
    Black, who asked my hubby to stop at a 7-11 to pick up a bag of
    M & M's (guess we are all chocoholics at heart).  
    
    He also met Mark Eaton, who if you don't know who he is back East,
    he is the guard for Utah Jazz (basketball) and is 7ft something.  
    My husband is not a small guy (6'2 1/2" and 215 lbs)
    and he said Mark TOWERED over him.  He had to duck to come through
    the door.                               
    
    I guess some of us are just born to be in the right place at the
    right time.
    
    Louise

    Well, nothing really spectacular in my life...
    
    My mom tells me I met Shari Lewis (with Lambchop) when I was a tyke,
    but I don't recall it...
    
    When I was 15 or so, I was pulled out of the audience at a Steppenwolf
    concert (in Bangor, ME) and asked to stand backstage and make sure
    nobody else tried to get through.  I didn't really meet the band, but
    I was sure close to them!
    
    I shook hands with Ed Muskie when he visited our high school.  I always
    liked Ed, and wished he had made it to president.
    
    Maine Senator Bill Cohen was my mother's lawyer for many years.
    
    The last one I remember is chatting with Pete Seeger backstage after
    a concert of his in Montreal.  He gave me instructions on how to make
    a simple kind of instrument (sort of a recorder) and when I told him
    I had also seen his recent concert in Orono, ME, he apologized for
    repeating so much material.
    
    
    Since we seem to be allowing "related brushes", my half-sister runs
    one of the larger Monkees fan clubs and answers fan mail sent to Micky
    Dolenz at Columbia Records.  She's met many rock celebrities, and
    has dated a few.  She also has a crush on skater Brian Boitano, whom
    she's met a few times.  During a New Year's Eve dinner in Manhattan,
    she found herself sitting next to Julian Lennon.
    
    				Steve

    	Well, I met Harry Chapin a number of times before his untimely
    death.  I even have a letter from him, politely refusing an invitation
    to a party a bunch of us were thowing before one of his concerts.
    
    	My dad spends a lot of time in NYC, and is friends with Jimmy
    Hosbein (sp?) [5 years - Broadway cast of Annie] who now lives with
    Andrea McArdle. [Annie]  I was introduced to Jimmy several years
    ago.  He can be seen doing commercials on national TV.
    
    	A number of friends from my community theater group have done
    TV or Radio.  Lots of folks on Spencer For Hire, and several TV
    mini-series and movies.
    
    	My college activities bumped me into all sorts of folks:  I
    went to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and ran into all
    kinds of Country Music folks.  I was introduced to Amy Grant
    (contemporary Christian music) by a high-school friend of hers.
    I ran lights for the Hartford Ballet, and went out drinking with
    the crew.  That night I received an offer to "stop by Hartford and
    ask for Ed" if I ever wanted a job.  I had a chance to be in Coal
    Miner's Daughter.
    
    	My girlfriend's family (when I was 15-16) were old friends of
    Jim & Ingrid Croce.  Jim was dead then, but they had tapes of him
    that had been made in their living room.  Gina's uncle Joe, was
    the author of "Thursday", which Jim recorded.
    
    
    						--Doug

    I was raised in southern California, celebrities were everywhere!
    The most memorable moments that come to mind, I grieved with Roy
    Rogers and Dale Evans, hugged Johnny Weissmuller, whittled
    with Kirby Grant, wept with Lon Chaney Jr., dated Micky Dolenz (after
    Circus Boy and just prior to Monkees), chaufferred Senator Pete
    Dominici, modeled a red felt hat for Elizabeth Taylor, sang with
    Nat King Cole (at Disneyland! What a thrill!), danced with Micky
    Gilley and have chatted with Miles Davis.

                                                -sunny-

    *I* have had lunch with KO!  So there!!!

    My daughter's doctor at UMASS Med Center was the Red Sox Team
    Doctor (Dr. Pappas)!  We were bumped UP to his expertise since
    there has been a possiblity of her losing her leg.  She was
    16 at the time and spent six weeks in a private room running
    him on a merry chase during Grand Rounds....would tell him
    she was sleeping and to come back later.  She made him do it
    too!

    My husband graduated from college with Buffy St. Marie.  My
    college Freshman class included Taj Mahal!  I interviewed with
    the editor of the Collegian (school newspaper at UMASS) with
    Paul Thereaux!  

    I was part of the political line-up for picture taking when
    the ex-lt. gov. Donald Dwight came into town for a shoot to
    help the candidate I was town co-ordinator for who was 
    running against Chet Atkins for his first shot at the Mass
    State Senate.  We kept Chet in town for the whole day the
    day of the election tooo!  Chet only won by 10%!   James 
    Michael Curley's grandson made a pass at me years ago at
    the Ancient's Dance!

    justme....jacqui

    One more, which I just remembered...
    
    A bit over a year ago, my son Tommy was staying at the Floating
    Hospital for Infants and Children in Boston, being treated for what
    was eventually diagnosed as Kawasaki Syndrome.  While he was there,
    Dr. Benjamin Spock was admitted to the adjoining New England Medical
    Center for a heart operation.  During his recovery, he asked to meet
    with some of the sick children in the playroom upstairs.  The
    press would be there, and they wanted two kids to pose with Dr. Spock
    for a picture.  The staff chose Tommy and his roommate, a boy name
    Bobby - good choices, since both were photogenic and not so ill
    as to be a problem.
    
    Unfortunately, on the morning of the visit, Tommy wasn't up to posing
    with Dr. Spock, but we went up there and met him anyway.  I shook
    hands with him, met his wife, and we exchanged a few words.  Bobby
    got his picture in the Globe.
    
    					Steve

	I once lent my coat to Mary Travis - we were standing outside
	after a concert and she wanted to talk to a group of us but
	was chilled. (She was the same size as me.)

	I met and talked with Susan Brownmiller in 1976 before she
	gave a talk in Lowell, MA.

	I have MZB's autograph on my copy of "The Mists of Avalon"

	When I was in Straford-on-Avon I had lunch with a Shakespearean
	actor who played the lead in "The Tempest" in the BBC televison
	production (I have since seen him in other British productions).

	While at a summer program at Oxford I met a number of "famous"
	British and American poets (and spent a lot of time with three
	not so famous Romanian poets who drank volka warm and straight).

	My daughter and I went backstage when she was about 5 to meet
	Carole King and had a chance to talk briefly with her (mostly
	it was Greta and Carole who talked while myself and Carole's
	friend look uncomfortable).

	I know all the moderator's of =wn= by name and sight.

	_peggy

		(-)
		 |
			"There have been many women I have met
			at conferences, rallies and meetings who's
			names I don't recall."

	Oh, yes there is one other - I went to school with Pat
	Bradley and had a intense crush on her brother.

	_peggy

		(-)
		 |
			You never know who is going to become
			famous so be nice to everyone.

   From the feminist world, I have met Kate Clinton, feminist comedian
   radical feminist Mary Daly.
    
   From the political world:
   Met Rev. Jesse Jackson at a demonstration in Cambridge, Ma about
   3 years ago and was in a social work seminar attended by John F. Kennedy, Jr 
    
   From the world of sports:
   I have a postcard from Dave Cowens, former Celtic star; worked for
   Jim McCarthy (and knew Eddie Andelman and Mark Witkin) of Boston
   radio's "Sports Huddle" fame; met former Red Sox Carl Yazstremski,
   Reggie Smith and Carleton Fisk.
   
   From =wn=, Liz Augustine's cat, Juliet!
   
   am 
   

    When I was in 8th grade, I met the real Maria von Trapp (the one
    whom the Sound of Music was loosely based on).  She didn't give
    autographs, unfortunately.  She was amazed that I had read the real
    autobiography she had written and had not just seen the movie!
    
    I had 3 of Bill Cosby's kids in school (at 2 different schools no
    less...), and several delightful conversations with Camille Cosby
    (Mrs.) who is bright and beautiful and charming.  Bill only visited
    school once that I knew of, unannounced, and it was sort of hard to
    keep the kids in control! 
                                                                  
    And I just saw another of my former students in Newsweek last week
    -- she is apparently making quite a name for herself as an 18 year
    old film actress.  It's kind of a shock to see them as adults all
    of a sudden!
    
    When I was an intern at the Archive of Folk Song at the Library
    of Congress, a delightful older gentleman came into the reading
    room and asked me to help him look up some information.  I got him
    a few books, and chatted with him from time to time throughout the morning.
    After he left, the library staff told me that was Charles Seeger
    -- father of Pete, Peggy and Mike.  He died a month or 2 later.
                                                       
    I talked to Kate Millett after a lecture for a while.  
    
    I made Meg Christian lunch one day at the ashram in the Catskills where
    she often spends times with her spiritual teacher (everyone at the
    ashram has to do seva, service, and I was working in the snack bar that
    day).  She gave me a piece of candy on another occasion (sigh!), and a
    hug on another.  
    
    I don't know if anyone remembers Jade and Sarsaparilla from the 70's
    (women's jazz duo), but I co-produced a concert in Amherst Mass
    featuring them, and had the pleasure of driving them around while they
    were in town. 
    
    After Ted Kennedy broke his back in the 60's in the plane crash,
    my dad pulled his car alongside an ambulance at a light and saw
    Ted in the back being transferred between hospitals.
    
    It was interesting reading through this string  -- I realized how
    many famous people I don't even know of since I don't watch TV,
    listen to pop music or follow sports.  (I've got my hands full 
    following folk and women's music!)
                
    Holly

    
    How could I forget music!
    
    I got to drive Esayha (sp?) Barnswell of Sweet Honey in the Rock
    around Boston a couple of years ago when the group was in Boston
    for a concert.  She bought me my first Andreas Wollenvieder album.
    
    *sigh*
    am

    re. .46  Roberta, wasn't it?
    
    That person you seen from GH could have been Doug Sheenan.  He's 
    not on GH anymore but can be seen on the sitcom (not very good)
    Day By Day.
    
    Anna
    

Let's see.  I have been active in the Boston Marathon so I have met
and worked with a lot of "famous" people there.  Bob Lobel, Bill
Rodgers, Joan Benoit, Ray Flynn, Guy Morse (Director), Ibraham
Hussein, Orlando Pizzaloto, Juma Ikanga, Ingrid Kristainson, Rosa Mota, Steve
Jones, Lisa Larson, Lisa Martin, and all the top marathon runners.
All the runners as a general rule are just folks like you and I.

My uncle has some "famous" people at his 50 birthday party - Kevin
White, Bob Crane, Billy Bulger.

I went to high with some famous kids - Jeff Carey - his godfather was
Hugh Carey, former governer of NY and others who fathers were
presidents of company and such.  

A cousin of mine is a VP at Digital.

I saw Vanna White being made up at NBC studios - she didn't look that
great up close in case you were wondering.

I wonder about this fame stuff.  Its interesting to see how we react
around famous people and vice versa.

john

    How could I forget?!
    
    I rode Trigger (Roy Rogers' horse) when I was three; even have a
    picture of it.  Trigger was being stabled at the time by some friends
    of my grandfather.  I thought I was in heaven.
    
    Susan

    Writers that I know....Joe Hudak, famous Landscaper who teaches
    in Massachusetts, personally autographed both his Landscape
    Design books for me; Gary Provost, writes for Writer's Digest
    and wrote the story of the Massachusetts nurse who went on 
    trial for murder of a patient.  Also, have met and yapped with
    Robert Rimmer, notorious for "The Harad Experiment" and a 
    whole line of alternative lifestyles BEFORE they became part
    of the pattern of life.  He looks like a very conservative
    banker!!!  Also, he autographed and gave me one of his books!!

    justme....jacqui

When I was around 14, my family was on vacation in New York City.  We
ate lunch at the UN Delegate's dining room.  Sitting at the next table
were Elenor Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson, and No�l Coward.  My brother
(younger) got their autographs on a menu.  I still regret being too
proud to ask.

During the time I lived in Sweden, I used to sneak into rock concerts
with a camera and (home-made) press credentials.  Ended up going out
to dinner with Jim Morrison and (different occasion) the Everly Brothers.
Nice folks.  Not freaky off stage.

During last year's New York Marathon, I passed by Boston Mayor Ray Flynn
at the 25th mile.  Said, "Hi Ray, what the fuck you doing here?"  (I was
suprised that he was running so slow: this became my worst marathon ever.)
Ray, looking like death warmed over, did not seem to be in the mood for
a pleasant conversation with a fellow athlete.

Of course, I'm famous, too.  With the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue
in mind, women looking for pictures of cute men wearing very little clothing
 need only look for my photo on the wall at any of a half-dozen Boston bars,
including the Bull and Finch, The Eliot Lounge, and Crossroads.

Martin.

    Re:  .64

    What year???  What page????

    justme....jacqui

In high school English, I sat behind Frank Mann, whose name preceded my
maiden name.  His little sister became lead singer for Til Tuesday.

When I was an undergraduate, one of the basketball stars at my
school was Marc Iavaroni.  Marc had a job bagging groceries at
the local A&P (which says something for the scholarships back then),
and he bagged my groceries once.  In the early 80's he played for
the Phildelphia 76ers. (Only serious hoop junkies will probably 
remember him.)

In 1976, I waitressed at a banquet for Queen Elizabeth II at
the University of Virginia.  Only men were allowed to serve at the
table where the Queen and Prince Philip sat.  I never learned 
if this is royal protocol or the Queen's preference, but I
envied the two guys who got the job.  I got to wait on the
Mayor of Charlottesville.  There were Secret Service agents all
around the balcony overhead: I wondered if whether they'd blow
me away if I dropped a plate.  All the servers had strict
instructions not to stare at the Queen, though being an Anglophile
I sneaked a number of surreptitious looks.  We all went through a
security check and a *rehearsal* for the luncheon, but it was worth
it.  I saved the flowers and a menu from one of the tables afterwards.
(Queen Elizabeth roses, don't you know?  Still have the potpourri I
made from them.)

Jane

    
    When I was a student at Burdett in Boston, Joanne Woodward was filming 
    "See How She Runs".  To get to classes, we had to walk through the area 
    they were filming on many occasions and several students were actually 
    in the film because of this.  One morning, I found myself speaking to 
    this gentleman and later realized that it was Paul Newman who I'd been
    conversing and shaken hands with.
    
    At the age of nine, I became good friends with the niece of my mother's
    best friend.  Little did we know then that she would become successful. 
    She is Lita Ford of the Lita Ford Band in Beverley Hills.
    
    My mother and niece once had an interesting experience in Logan
    Airport.  My mother was flying my niece back to Atlanta when a group of
    musicians sat down next to them.  My niece was wearing a KISS T-shirt
    when one of the band members spoke to her and said that KISS was good,
    too, but when she got home to tell her friends she met RUSH.  They took
    the same flight to Atlanta which made my niece's day.
    

       Most of the people have been mentioned earlier.
       
       Politics:  Talked to Jimmy Carter on a flight from Boston to
       Baltimore in 1974, when he was a mostly unknown governor, and
       I've still got a handwritten letter he sent me.  Saw HM Lizzy
       when she was in Boston in '76 and have a few decent photos of her
       cruising down Hanover St in Dukakis' convertible.  
       
       Jet setters:  Jackie Kennedy and I were on the same 7am American
       flight from Boston to Laguardia some (many) years ago.  I was in
       the coach section, and she was not.
       
       Sports:  Was on three Sports Huddle shows with Andelman-Witkin-
       McCarthy, broadcasting from the beautiful Hotel Bradford. Played
       golf with Derek Sanderson before he became a jerk. 
       
       Others: My Dad knew Princess Summerfallwinterspring, and I got to
       be in the Peanut gallery on Howdy Doody twice. 
       
       My uncle Murray D., who ran a delicatessen, had a affair going
       for years with Ilonka Patotsky, who had previously been a "close
       friend" (if you get my drift) of James Michael Curley.  In his
       autobiography, (which is a classic, btw), Curley refers to the
       bemoled Ms Patotsky as "Countess Ilonka". 
       
       Was in a cab with Richard Burton from the Ritz Carlton Hotel to
       the Shubert Theatre.  He rode in the back seat; I was in the
       front. 
       
       --Mr Topaz
              

    When I was a young girl growing up in New Hampshire, my mother liked
    to insure my cultural education by partaking of free concerts given
    by artists at the McDowell Colony in Peterborough.  I remember one
    summer evening listening to a young classical pianist named Leonard
    Bernstein who went on to find pretty steady employment...
    
    My nephew is a "gaffer" and has worked on movie sets with some pretty
    famous people.  He was with Katherine Hepburn, Diana Canova and
    Mason Adams (Lou Grant's old boss) when they were making a made
    for TV movie in China several years ago.  Diana gave my nephew's
    wife (who was along as wardrobe mistress) a beautiful parasol used
    in the movie as a keepsake.
    
    And if my son was contributing to this note, he would be able to
    say that Arnold Palmer once told him to "get out of the way, kid"
    when he stood too close at a golf tournament.

    re: < Note 453.66 by BOOKIE::HALVORSON >
    
    	Is that the same Frank Mann who later founded MannData - a software
    company in Newton Upper Falls?  If so, I worked for MannData for
    two and a half months, before they went bankrupt.  It was my first
    software job after college.
    
                                    *****
    
    	I forgot Bob Lobel. (Boston Sportscaster for those of you outside
    the greater Maynard Area)  I met Bob one night while he was having
    dinner with one of my SO's housemates.  The fact that he was married
    may have been the reason I never saw him there again...
    
    						--D

       Ever since I can remember I've been involved in theatre.
       My ex was a regional theatre actor and I was a box office
       manager so have rubbed elbows with a few of the rich-and-
       famous.  I'll try not to make this too boring.
    
       At age 17 I spent a summer managing a box office in Central 
       City, Colorado.  There I met Nancy Dusault of "Too close
       for Comfort" fame and Celeste Holm.  Also, the Royal Shakes-
       peare Company from Startford came in so I got to meet
       dame Peggy Ashcroft and Sir Michael Redgrave (Vanessa and
       Lynn's daddy).  He was so out of it most of the time that the
       other actors had to literally push him around the stage, yet
       somehow he managed to deliver all his lines beautifully and on-
       cue.  
    
       In college I met and chatted with John Housman (of the Paper
       Chase and Silver Spoons).  What an intelligent far-seeing
       gentleman!
    
       Professionally I met and worked with Werner Klemperer (of
       Hogan's Heroes) and Alan Schneider (who directed Who's 
       Afraid of Virginia Wolff on Broadway and won a Tony for  
       same).  Also met and had dinner with Gregory Peck while
       at the LaJolla Playhouse (where he is a founding member).
    
       Also at the LaJolla playhouse I met Patrick McNee (of the
       Avengers) and Kurt Weil of Threepenny Opera.
    
       At the Colorado Shakespeare Festival I met Buddy Hackett
       and William Shattner (whose daughters were both graduating
       that summer).  My parents were good friends with some
       people who went to school with  Robert Redford at the
       University of Colorado.  They all got together for dinner
       when "Bob"  would come into town.  (My Mom says he's not
       nearly as good looking in person and tends to talk environ-
       mental issues adnauseum.)
    
       At the Oregon Shakespearean Festival I watched the Super Bowl
       with Kyle McLaughlin (of Dune and Blue Velvet).  He makes an
       incredible marinara sauce.  I also met Annette O'Toole at a
       party (her husband, Bill Geissinger was in the company).  Our
       daughters are a few months apart so we talked babies all after-
       noon. (She was Superman's high school sweetheart in one of
       those Superman movies, also played the tutor in One on One
       with Robby Benson.)
                           
       Oh, also auditioned for and worked with Eric Christmas who
       plays bit roles in movies (psychiatrist in Harold and Maude,
       principal in Porky's).  Funny man but a bit of a space cadet.
    
       Nanci

    Forgot one - my folks also used to hang out with Bob Beattie
    (of Wide World of Sports) when he was coach of the ski team
    at the University of Colorado.
    
    Nanci

Ooops.  I forgot.

I have met Martin Minow, famous pinup guy!

;-)

    
    The mention of golf in .71 reminded me of one I hadn't thought of.  In
    1983, I worked as a DEC Volunteer at the Marlboro Classic where I met
    Arnold Palmer, Don January, Billy Casper, and one other pro whose first
    name I cannot recall but last name is Sanford. 
    
    A few years back there was a NH television program that aired on
    Channel 50, Best of NH.  The host, Brian Tracey, was an old friend. 
    He left to pursue a spot on television in Seattle.  From what I heard,
    he is still doing well.
    
    I once knew a guy from a local band who left to become lighting person
    for the Village People.
    
    

    When I was younger, pre-teen years, I was a fan of Jane Blalock
    who was/is a member of the LPGA and a damn good golfer.  There was
    an LPGA tournament held in Southbridge, CT (my great aunt and uncle
    lived there) and every year I would attend the LPGA tournament and
    stay with said great aunt/uncle for the duration of the tournament.
    
    Jane always let me walk right down the fairway with her (I mean
    during the tournament no less) and would give me pointers about
    my own golf game when I would go with her to the practice driving
    range.  I still have some of the golf balls and gloves that she
    gave me (and that was over 20 years ago!)  Maybe I should be putting
    this in true confessions!
    
    During this time I had the opportunity to meet Kathy Whitworth,
    Sandy Palmer, Mickey Wright...the 'big' names on the women's pro
    gold tour, but Jane was always my favorite.
    
    Zoe
    

    When I was in 4th grade, we took a trip to D.C.  We stopped at the
    usual tourist spots along the way.  Liberty Bell, Philidelphia Mint,
    etc.  While in Philidelphia, we went to lunch at a resturant whose
    name I cannot remember, and Mike Douglas (talk show host) and Joey
    Bishop (I'll be honest, I didn't even know who he was) were both
    there.  The only reason I knew who Mike Douglas was, I used to watch
    with mom.
    
    I consider my best friend famous.  Her name is Kristine Kinney and
    I'm sure that none of you have heard of her, but if any of you have
    kids that go to UNH, they very well may.  She is a senior majoring
    in Sports Communication.  Anyway, she has been starting on the womens
    varsity basketball team since she was a freshman.  She is on a FULL
    Scholorship.  She hasn't missed a game or a start.  Her first year
    she received the Rookie of The Year award for Division I.  And she
    has been averaging over 20 points a game.  She has received the
    MVP award each year since.  Just 2 weeks ago, she hit 2000 points
    which is the all time scoring record for UNH for women and men !!
    and she still had approximately 11 games to go from that point!
    She participated in the Olympic Festival during the summer of '87
    and will be going to Europe after graduation to play Professionaly!
    
    Okay, I know you all are probably not as excited as I am over this
    so I'll cut my babbling off here.  I am just so proud of her and
    lover her to death.  Had I not had a sister, (who I adore) she would
    have been my Maid of Honor back in September.  She was the first
    friend I met since moving to NH 13 years ago.
    
    -Michelle-

< Note 453.74 by TOOK::HEFFERNAN "Accept provolone into your life" >


Ooops.  I forgot.

I have met Martin Minow, famous pinup guy!

;-)

****************************************************************************

WELLL......

    		*I* sat next to him at din-din one night!

M.

    Oh, yeah, my roommate in college was Patti Corbetta,
    Jerry Corbetta's sister (of the 70's band Sugerloaf).
    
    Nanci

    O.K. - not a big deal, but last November, I got on a flight from
    Calgary to Vancouver, and who is sitting in the first row (no 1st class
    - just an economy-only 737) but Richard Dean Anderson of MacGyver fame.
    He was just recovering from a back injury, so he didn't look too
    comfortable, and he looked older than he does on the tube. However,
    that (injury, not age!) didn't prevent him from smiling at anyone who
    recognized him, or amiably signing autographs for those few (3 kids)
    who asked.
    
    Some people claim Canadians are known to be more shy and/or respectful
    of others' privacy and will usually smile, but seldom stare at, start a
    conversation with, or ask for autographs from a famous person - I think
    it's too broad a generalization, as most generalizations are - which
    reminds me: exactly 44% of all Statistics are inaccurate! :-) :-) :-) 
    
    Not too surprising to see him on the flight actually, since MacGyver is
    filmed in Vancouver, and his favorite NHL hockey team is the Calgary
    Flames, who (gloat, gloat) currently have the best record in the
    NHL this season and could go all the way!
    
    Otto. 

    bartending in vail, co, i got to meet a lot of celebreties.
    tom cruise, john delorean, klinger from mash, hal linden, sammy
    davis jr., kojak (what's his real name?), art linkletter and his
    wife, mr and mrs jerry ford, dorethy hammal, bob hope, greg alman,
    members of Poco (country and western group, i think), john travolta
    and mari lou henner, john and bo derik, walter mondale, the guy
    that played hawkeye's friend in Mash(not bj honeycut),the Mahr
    brothers,along with several other world cup skiers, arnold palmer,
    clint eastwood, who's the kid that played in ordinary people?, 
    and others whose names i can't think of, sat at my bar. the one's
    that really impressed me were the Fords, Bob Hope, and John Delorean.
    they were real nice people.
    my girlfriend back in jersey dated bruce springsteen once and i
    got to see him then. looks very diff. up close.
    Got to shake hands with Ed Koch at my neighborhood street festival
    a couple of summers ago. what a jerk!
    
    

Telly Savalas is Kojak
	Mez

    Aren't we all "well-connected"??
    
    When I was a teenager, I went to a summer theater in New Hampshire
    and met Patty Duke backstage after the show.  She told me she liked
    *MY* haircut.
    
    My parents used to have season tickets to the Bruins and became
    friends of Ed Westfall.  He and his wife came to our house in 
    Framingham one night for a post-game celebration.  Dad knew we kids
    would be so upset if we didn't get to meet Ed, so he had Ed wake
    us each up, give the girls a kiss (of course I had braces at the
    time, quite unromantic), and give us each an autographed poster
    of him in his uniform.  I thought I was pretty cool.
    
    At college I waitressed for school functions, and met Ellen Burstyn
    and Linus Pauling at a symposium, but I can't seem to remember what
    is was for.  That's what 10+ years will do to you.
    
    Before Digital, I worked for Eastern Airlines as a Flight Attendant
    and met (ie saw) some interesting folks:  the band Motley Crue (aptly
    named I thought, although my brother was quite impressed), Billy
    Carter (he drank black coffee, no beer), Karen Black, and Claude
    Akins.
    
    Finally, last summer Linda Evans came to my mother's house at Lake
    Winnipesaukee in N.H.  Linda's sister lives nearby and has become
    a friend of our family.  Her name is Charlie.  Charlie knew that
    my brother (27) has an immense crush on Linda, so she asked if he
    wouldn't mind taking Linda for a ride in his boat!!  He walked on
    air for a week, cleaned and polished the boat, picked out his outfit,
    etc. etc.  Linda is more gorgeous in person and is so, well, normal.
     She seems totally unaffected by her fame and success.  We all sat
    around and talked about the writers' strike, our favorite scenes
    from Dynasty etc.  We took some pictures of the family, and dog,
    with Linda, and she sent my brother a beautiful picture that she
    signed with a cute note.
    
    Gee, can I think of any more?
    
    Julie
    
    P.S.  A few months before my wedding I had a dream that Dan Fogelberg
    (my favorite) sang at my wedding.  Unfortunately that one didn't
    come true.
                                                     

    Being a science fiction fan, means you get to meet a lot of science
    fiction writers.  As I was registering for my first-ever science
    fiction convention, I felt an arm encircle my waist; it belonged
    to Isaac Asimov.  The next year I did some stoneware sculptures of
    Pierson's Puppeteers for the Art Show, since Larry Niven was Guest
    of Honor.  As I was arranging them, someone came up and started
    discussing their functional plausibility.  I had noticed some problems
    with them, and was about to speak when I realized that I didn't know
    what Larry Niven looked like, and I didn't want to badmouth his
    critters to his face. I sneaked a peak at the badge: Hal Clement. Whew!
    (Later I met Larry, of course.  We now hug and smooch whenever we meet.)

    You meet a lot of famous non-writers too.  I remember listening to
    John Schoenherr (He once painted a tiger for the Shah of Iran.) and
    Jack Gaughn explaining to `George Richard' the best technique for
    painting crescent planets.  When I told this to Wendy Pini ("Elfquest")
    she went green.  "Oh, I hope they didn't try to change his style!"
    (I reassured her.)  I met Jim Frenkel just after he had started
    Bluejay Books, and remarked that I had heard of him.  He said he'd
    heard of me too. (!)  Judy-Lynn delRey, the founder of DelRey Books,
    was kind enough to remember me the second time we made contact.
    (Yeah, yeah, I know.  Nobody forgets "Broomhead".)  Jack Chalker,
    the owner of Mirage Press, (He writes some, too.) auctioned off the
    above-mentioned stoneware pieces.

    Among my fellow sf fans are Peggy Kennedy, who was on "Jeopardy"
    some months ago, and did quite well.  That's not surprising; her
    father was Norbert Wiener.  My friend Ben Yalow's mother won the 
    Nobel Prize.  I once got a printout as a thank you from Richard
    Stallman.  My good friend Tony Lewis has a certain notoriety.  He
    wrote "M.I.T. Ph.D. M-O-N-E-Y" (to the tune of the Mickey Mouse Club
    song, of course) and many other Tech songs, which are now attributed
    to Anonymous.

    Tony even gave me his permission to hit John McNamara, when John
    and I were working together.  This was after I worked for Tom
    Stockebrand, who took great delight in complimenting my legs and
    watching me turn bright red.  Long after that, I walked into my
    office one day, to find a strange man in an embroidered shirt using
    my phone -- Gordon Bell.

    Growing up in Rhode Island, I went to school with Channing Gray, who
    is now a newscaster.  My orthodontist has turned into the mayor of
    Newport.  My family has been in the catering business for a looong
    time, so my father and brother have met presidents and princes,
    admirals and ambassadors.  (My brother delights in hassling Secret
    Service agents.)  Ed Begley (Sr.) once ate in the tearoom -- before
    his Oscar -- and was so thrilled at being recognized that he dashed
    out to his car so that he could provide autographed photos for
    everyone.  A distant cousin was once on the cover of "Time", and a
    former uncle was a co-inventor of the silicon transistor.

    I also knew the translator of "I Am Curious -- Yellow" before he
    became that famous pin-up guy.  ;-)

    						Ann B.

    I once had drinks with the band "Chicago", met and had dinner
    with Frank Zappa and his band.
    
    Of the two, Chicago was the most congenial - Frank was quiet and
    somewhat aloof. The rest of his troupe were absolute pigs. One of
    them actually put out a cigarette in my date's dinner! I guess it
    was supposed to be some expression of superiority because they were
    famous. Frankly (no pun intended) it was merely a gross show of
    their lack of class. Just goes to prove money doesn't buy everything!!
    
    

    Sorry, not the same Frank Mann.  The Manndata Frank was pictured
    in Mass High Tech or the Globe recently and it wasn't the one I
    knew in Virginia.
    
    Jane

I'm visiting my sister Sarah who works for DEC, and while she's not looking
I couldn't resist adding my brushes with fame.

My boyfriend's best-friend-from-High-School's Mom played the violin for
Albert Einstein. 

My drama teacher in High School had Jon Voight as a student one summer at
a summer stock theater, but didn't think he had any acting talent, so
assigned him to painting sets.  Next time he saw him was in the film "Dr.
Zhivago."

My boyfriend and I went to the movies last weekend and afterwards he peed
in the urinal next to Art Buchwald who was doing the same.  The film wasn't
too bad either. 

I stopped to tie my shoe in the hallway one day at work and Ralph Nader
tripped over me.  (He worked down the hall).

Wow, it's amazing how many "famous" people I've come in contact with in my
life once I thought about it!  These are the ones that come to mind:

1.  I used to live in NYC and ran into Soupy Sales in a bagel place
    once--literally.  The guy he was with thought it was funny and
    said "Do you recognize this gentleman?"  (I was only 18, felt
    like a little kid and was dying of embarrassment.)  He introduced
    us and we shook hands--then I got out of there as fast as I could!

2.  I have a picture in my office of myself and Jacko, that obnoxious
    Energizer battery guy.  He was at the Georgia Tech campus doing 
    something for MTV when I was at grad school there; I just went 
    up to him and asked him if he'd have a picture taken with me.  He 
    was funny (not to mention HUGE!)--he said "Sure, darlin'--wrap your 
    arms around a REAL man!"

3.  Kirk McCaskill, who pitches for the California Angels, was a friend 
    of mine at University of VT; I dated his roommate (who plays hockey 
    now for the Minnesota North Stars and was the last person cut from 
    the Olympic hockey team that beat the Russians.)  Kirk is one of
    the nicest guys you'd ever want to meet; it was fun watching him 
    pitch in the World Series on television a couple of years ago!

4.  Beth Heiden, Eric's sister and an Olympic athlete herself, 
    was in my 8 AM math class my sophomore year at UVM (she made it 
    to class a lot more often than I did ;-)).

5.  A TV movie that is now shown every year at Christmas time (I 
    can't remember the name of it, but it's about a department store
    that closes or something--a pretty awful movie) was shot about
    6-7 years ago in Burlington, VT, right around the block from my
    apartment.  The papers in Burlington at the time were carrying 
    stories about rumors that Tom Selleck was in the movie [he wasn't], 
    so I went down to the set and hung out with my camera in hopes of 
    seeing him.  One of the grips noticed me hanging around and we
    started talking.  He told me that Tom Selleck wasn't there BUT
    that he was on his way to go get lunch for the stars who WERE in
    the movie--Lee Remick and Angela Lansbury.  So I went with him
    to a Chinese restaurant downtown and then he took me inside the
    house they were shooting the movie in and let me deliver the
    Chinese food to them!  (exciting, huh?!)  I shook hands with both
    of them, but they were very busy and pretty much just grabbed the
    food and took off.  Oh well :-)

6.  I shook hands with both Ed Koch and Mario Cuomo, on separate
    occasions, when they were running against each other for mayor of
    NYC back in the 70's.  They'd stand outside subway tunnels in the
    morning, stumping for votes with commuters.  

7.  When I lived in New York City, Studio 54 was in its heyday--lines
    of people waiting outside just to watch the celebrities come and
    go.  A cosmetologist friend of mine came to NY to take a seminar
    with Mark Traynor, who is the guy who created Farrah Fawcett's
    famous hairstyle.  He took his whole class (and me, thanks to my
    friend!) to Studio 54 one night--it was a riot walking right to 
    the front of the line and being immediately let inside, and seeing
    all the celebrity-watchers trying to figure out who the heck we
    were.  What a strange place that was, BTW ... I didn't see anyone
    famous inside, though.

8.  I met Jerry Seinfeld (of David Letterman fame) in a small Atlanta
    comedy club.  After he finished his show that night, he came out
    and mingled with the folks (well, actually the women) for awhile.
    I felt like I already knew him because I have a friend who looks
    exactly like him (who is also a comedian), so that was really 
    strange.  

9.  I stood next to Steve Lundquist (the Olympic swimmer) as he was being
    introduced to the crowd at a makeup show in Atlanta last year; he and 
    Tristan Rogers of General Hospital were sort of "featured attractions" 
    to draw people to the show.  (I was too chicken to talk to him, though;
    lots of braver girls asked him to pose with them for pictures and he
    was glad to oblige.)

10. My sorority sponsored a charity ice show for UVM every year (mainly 
    because one of the girls in our house was a champion skater herself).
    I helped Elaine Zayak (remember her?--World Champion figure skater a
    few years ago) change costumes during the show, and she was
    at a party I went to later that night (at Kirk McCaskill's apt.!)
    She acted like a spoiled brat the whole evening ...

11.  Sam Snead stayed at the Holiday Inn Marlboro during the Digital
     pro golf tournament-thing in 1983; I had just started working for
     DEC and was staying there while I looked for an apartment in Mass.
     The desk clerk introduced us one night when I went down to pick
     up my mail.

12.  Anybody ever heard of William Kunstler, the attorney?  (Kind of
     up there with F. Lee Bailey) ... he defended Kristina Berster,
     the German woman arrested in VT and accused of being a Russian spy 
     a few years ago.  I was working as a legal secretary in Burlington
     at the time and got to type some of his legal briefs on that case,
     since he used our office as his local headquarters.  (That one is
     only exciting if you are into Perry Mason and stuff like I used
     to be :-))

And last but not least (for now, anyway--I have a feeling I've forgotten
some) ...

13.  Last year I was sitting at a table at a club in Atlanta with some
     friends and we looked over and discovered that Dominique Wilkins
     and some friends were at the next table.  My friend Jim, who is
     the biggest sports nut I know, practically had a conniption; he 
     asked the waitress to buy Dominique a cranberry juice (because
     Dominique doesn't drink), but she told us that he was cranky that
     night and didn't want to be disturbed.

Gee, if I ever got to go on David Letterman's "Brush with Greatness", I
wouldn't know which one to pick!!!  This was fun ...

Laurie

p.s. Re: .60--Hey, John, you forgot to mention that John Sununu was 
one of your college professors and that he wouldn't let you take an
exam once because you were late!!  (Hope I got that right :-))

    Singers and songwriters Jonathan and Carolina Edwards were neighbors of
    ours when we lived in New Hampshire.  They came driving around shortly
    after they moved there and we talked to them quite a few times at
    dinner parties at other neighbors houses.  They eventually got divorced
    and sold their farm.
    
    Shelley Hack was in my Freshman English class in college.  She was a
    model then (this was way before Charley's Angels).
    
    For anyone in Western Massachusetts - Ray Hershel, one of the news
    anchors for Channel 40, is my cousin.
    
    						Jan

    *  I saw Dorothy Lamoure in a lounge in Hawaii.  My parents were
       pretty impressed, but I hadn't heard of her.
    
    *  Tip O'Neil lives near my folks and goes to the same church.
    
    *  My brother stole John John Kennedy's remote control boat out
       of the water off the Cape when John John was a little tyke.
       The secret service caught up with my bro and his friends really
       quick.  
    
    *  A friend of mine played baseball for the Milwaukie Brewers and
       Cincinatti Reds.
    
    *  I got to meet Cardinal Humberto Mederios when he came to my college.
    
    *  I saw Joe (mr coffee) DiMaggio in LaGuardia.
    
    *  I played b-ball in the Boston Garden and was one of many girls
       who tried chasing Jo Jo White into the locker room.
       (I was in High School!  What can I say?)
    
    *  I went to school with James Spader, who played in "Less Than
       Zero."
    
    
    

    I met M.L. Carr at Digital, when I was working in MRO and he was
    still playing.  WOW, is he tall, good looking, too!
    
    Then I met Terry O'Reilly at Digital, too, when I was working in
    ICO.  I have a photo of us together in the lobby.
    
    You just never know who'll walk through the Digital doors!

    -Dotti.

	My choir director at the church I grew up in was Robert Warfield.
	His brother is William Warfield who sang "Old Man River" in
	"Show Boat", and was Porgy in "Porgy and Bess".  I met him after
	he sang in "Elijah" in Rochester.  Wonderful voices (both of them).
	I believe other Warfield's are also in show business.

	...Karen

Last week, my wife and I stayed at the same inn as Pierce Brosnan (with his 
wife, kid, and babysitter). Didn't actually meet him, of course. Unlike some
entertainers, he looks exactly the same in person as on the tube (with the
possible exception of the scan lines...).

    My brother-in-law is an actor and has played bit parts in Dallas,
    Dynasty, General Hospital and Superior Court (among others).
    His name is Blake Conway.
    
    This last Monday was the debut of a Post Oat Flakes tv commercial
    he is in.  I haven't seen it yet.  
    
    Let me know if anyone catches the commercial.

    FYI...Blake is tall, dark haired with a narrow face, 44 years old. 
          Not sure if he still has his moustache.  My mother-in-law
          thinks he looks like a cross-between Sam Elliott and Tom
          Selleck.  You be the judge.

    
    Jodi-

    Some of the Celtics were on my flight from Charlotte Wednesday morning.
    I have no ideas which ones, not being a basketball fan.
    
    Some episodes of _Dallas_ (when Jock was having a brush with cancer
    or something) were filmed at the hospital where my mother works.
    She rode in an elevator with some of the actors once.

    	
    	When we were on our way back from Florida last April, we
    stopped in Washington D.C. to catch our next flight.  We took  
    like a tram to get to our gate.  The Celtics were on board.
    Before we boarded the next plane, we got pictures of Larry Bird,
    Robert Parish and I had my picture taken with Danny Ainge.  At the
    time my younger sister was in love with Danny, so I had to get a
    picture to rub it in...she ended up getting the negative from me
    and had it blown up - when she received the picture, she cut me
    out of it and put Danny in a key chain...
    
    

    Not as exciting as some, but here are mine...
    
    - I met Garrick Utley (news commentator) at a wedding (my cousin
      Debbie married his brother Jon)
    - I had brunch at One Fifth Avenue in New York years ago and 
      Gavin McLeod was at the next table
    - When Ted Kennedy was running for something he visited the
      insurance company I was working at then and he walked past
      my desk
    - I was on a flight from Boston to LA and Geraldo Rivera sat
      two seats back
    - I've seen and stood very close to Jay Leno a few times at
      Dallas/Ft. Worth airport...one of these days I may get the
      nerve to say hello.  He's very nice about signing autographs
      from what I've noticed.
    - I saw Robin Leach in the Grill at the Ritz Carlton in Houston
      (formerly the Remmington Hotel)
    - I've stayed at the Four Seasons Boston the same time that
      Michael J. Fox and his wife have...didn't get to see them.
    
    P.
    

    
    My neighbor was in a Genessee beer commercial a few years ago.
    
    Up until last year (did Slap Maxwell get cancelled?) he was the
    boss guy on Slap Maxwell story, the tall guy who was Slap's boss
    at the newspaper.  His name is Brian Smiar.
    
    It was funny, I had watched the show many times and hadn't realized
    it was him until the middle of the season.  I guess I just didn't
    expect it.
    
    An *Amesbury* person, wow!
    
    Stacie

    I shook hands with Jimmy Carter in 1975 when he was campaigning
    in New Hampshire (and I was in college).
    
    My husband and I sat with Huey Lewis's band on a flight from
    Boston to LA on our way to Hawaii. Lee Thornburg (sp?) was the
    one I sat next to. He and most of the other band members were
    the old Tower of Power.
    
    I used to babysit for Charlie Long of the Boston Patriots
    in Framingham when I was a kid.
    
    When I was a girl scout, we had an outing at the old Monticello
    dinner theatre on Rt. 9 in Framingham (behind where Pier 1 
    Imports is now). We went to see Jerry Lewis. We sat right
    smack dab in front of the stage. I didn't realize it at the time,
    but I was coming down with the flu. Jerry thought it would be
    fun to pick on us girl scouts, me in particular. About 30
    seconds into his schpiel, I vomitted on the floor right in
    front of him.  He made some silly comment that he didn't think
    his routine was *THAT* repulsive. I don't think I've ever been
    that embarrassed since...
    
    I watched a beer commercial being filmed at a restaurant in
    Maynard a few years ago. I believe it was at May Ling's before
    it became May Ling's. Don't know if the commercial ever aired.
    
    My husband didn't realize he was on a plane with most of the
    Celtics one night. As he got off the plane and went into the
    terminal, he realized it because of the mob scene.
    
    Jim Morris is a comedian/impressionist who became famous for
    his Reagan impersonation. He's been on Hollywood Squares, had 
    his own special on cable, had a stage show called "Rapmaster Ronnie" 
    in Boston, was interviewed on t.v. several time by Joyce Kulhawik 
    (WBZ TV4 in Boston), was on Carson, was in Newsweek several weeks 
    ago, and will be on HBO on the 18th in the 3rd round of some comedy 
    special (can't think of the name!)
     
    He was a good friend of mine from junior high all through high 
    school. We used to "hang around" with the same bunch of kids.
    When we were in the 7th grade, tons of kids would gather in the 
    courtyard at the school, and Jim would do his impressions of all 
    the teachers. We all used to say that he'd be the next Rich Little... 
    
    It's such a kick to see his face everywhere now...  I wish I could
    see him in person because it would be so much fun to talk to him
    after 14 years.
                   
    RE: .84 -- I had the same dream about Dan Fogelberg playing at
               my wedding! I settled for insisting that the band
               learn some of his songs...!