<p>I met Dick Cheney in graduate school, before he was famous.</p>
<p>In one of my summer jobs (motor pool at Paramount Pictures), I met several movie “stars.” Drove Ann Bancroft from studio to her home, took Elke Sommer from studio to filming location, delivered shampoo to Steve McQueen’s home, etc.</p>
<p>I’ve also met the last two governors of Michigan (Engler and Granholm) as well as Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.</p>
<p>mack - wonder if anybody who isn’t also on the “getting old” thread knows who Elke Sommer is?</p>
<p>Good point. Or Jill St. John? (another one whom I ‘squired’ (well, transported)). I think they were both in “The Oscar”(1966), filmed at Paramount. (I also got to “move” Chuck Conner’s Wnnebago once.)</p>
<p>People may need to go to the Internet Movie Database on these. <a href=“http://www.imdb.com%5B/url%5D”>http://www.imdb.com</a> .</p>
<p>Oh yeah, I was once in a passionate embrace with Goldie Hawn …then I woke up. (The thread did say “almost” met)</p>
<p>Greybeard- I met Perry Ellis in the 70’s. He invited me to go to his showroom to “pick something out”, which I did.</p>
<p>lol Concerned dad</p>
<p>Dmd77 will be the only one who gets this one-
I was at a school auction last night & my H said "Ive finally seen someone I know- Nancy Guppy ( A local comedian/writer) from Almost Live et al. Bill Nye was also a regular.
I didn’t see her until I went back to browsing the tables and looked up and she was across from me, making a funny face( something she was * very* good at)</p>
<p>I also used to live across the street from Gertrude ( clown in long running local childrens show) :)</p>
<p>While attending a party I met the poet/author Robert Bly. </p>
<p>We hit it off really well–I was a big fan of his writing since my college days. My father had just died and one of Bly’s poems was read at his funeral, when I told him the story he was very moved. After a while, to get away from the hubub of the party we made our way into the only empty room in the house: the attic. </p>
<p>We spent a couple hours sitting on the floor with him reciting some of his works-in-progress. One of the most memorable evenings I’ve ever had.</p>
<p>He and his wife ended up visiting our home in Montreal later that year.</p>
<p>I’ve met a few–W H Auden once, Bill Bradley. Wife shared a small dorm with Hillary for 4 years, so got to meet Bill. But the one I totally clutched at was in the Phila airport, in line behind Joe Namath. Unable to speak.</p>
<p>great topic … it depends on how famous the people need to be and how close I need to be from them</p>
<p>As a kid ran into the Celtics (very tall) at the airport getting off a commercial flight (which led to a great moment as my Mom asked the players for autographs for her son (me) … and said please sign them “to Mary” (her name)). A couple of the Crowder brothers (who played for the Bruins) lived next door for a time. Joe Leflebve (10 year major leaguer) was a high school classmate of my sister (and shot hoops on my basketball quite a bit).</p>
<p>Ran high school track againt Brian Hallaway (big) and mumble Hallston(?) who eventually played in the NFL. Also ran high school track at the same time as the Wieman triplets but that is more of a local Maryland thing.</p>
<p>In college was a teammate of Pete Pzfitzinger who was the top US marathoner at a couple of olympics and lived across the hall from Dean Harwood (who I believe became a TV/movie producer). </p>
<p>Once was at the same orthepedic surgeon’s office as Bubba Paris (49ers tackle … VERY big) … walked by Frank Jobe (famous sports surgeon) at his office (checking out my bad knees). </p>
<p>Through Vermont connections met Governer Kunin a few times. I have riden the subway at the same time as Mass ex-Gov Micheal Dukakis (along with everyone else in Boston) … and almost was run over by Walter Mondale’s motorcade when he ran for president when I was out for a run.</p>
<p>One of my past companies ran an event where Micheal Hammer (business guru) was the main speaker and we got meet him.</p>
<p>Hmm … I think that is about it</p>
<p>Stayed in the same guest house in Providence as Hillary Clinton. Well, I’ve stayed in this former President of Brown’s house a few times, and they keep guest books from the last 40 years or so, which are open for inspection on a shelf, and there was Hillary Rodham Clinton’s name and signature from around 1992 or so. Evidently at the time Chelsie was choosing colleges, Brown was a possibility (she ended up attending Stanford) and Hillary visited Brown and “took over” the old guest house for a couple of days.</p>
<p>I once shook hands with Harry Chapin outside the Broadway theater where he was performing, left a quarter in his hand, and said, “Harry, keep the change.”</p>
<p>Now, another man might have been angry, and another man might have been hurt, but Harry slipped the quarter in his pocket and said, “Thanks, I always wanted to be rich.” He then autographed my Playbill right across the “Carlton is Lowest” ad.</p>
<p>Scott Adams once confirmed in an email to me that he had indeed based a character in Dilbert on my boss. (Not the pointy-haired guy - a obscure character who disappeared from the strip years ago.)</p>
<p>mackinaw -</p>
<p>Wow, Hillary must have been even more college-obsessed than we are, because in 1992 Chelsea Clinton would have been about 12 years old.</p>
<p>Sorry, but I have another one.</p>
<p>I was sitting in a bar at O’Hare Airport waiting for a flight when I noticed George Plimpton sitting at the next table. Being from Detroit, I asked him some questions about Paper Lion. We had a nice, interesting converstation until I asked him what year he graduated from Yale. He responded “Uhm, that would be Hahvad.” That pretty much ended the conversation.</p>
<p>courer, I no doubt have that year wrong – early by a few years. Chelsea was a couple years older than my daughter, so probably born around 1980. But they definitely scouted colleges and visited Brown before Chelsea made her final decision.</p>
<p>Wow, Coureur, you’re a clinical chemist? Pathology here. And no, I haven’t seen too many buff lab guys either, even back in my residency days when the toxicology staff was a bunch of straight-out-of-college HPLC jockeys ;).</p>
<p>I grabbed Jimi Hendrix and gave him a great big hug! ;-)</p>
<p>I have a photo of myself with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. She was very shy (!) and he was one of the nicest, most regular people you could ever meet.</p>
<p>I can’t imagine Kathleen Turner being shy.
I have been seriously debating buying tickets for a panel discussion with Howard Dean , Sherman Alexie among others that include dinner so that I can get my picture taken with Eddie Vedder <swoon>
then again I may wait till I lose 10 lbs and just casually run into him at the coffee shop.</swoon></p>
<p>besides my husband wants to go too, talk about cramping my style! ;)</p>