One of the greatest charicaturists of the 20th century. He drew illustrations for many Broadway productions and he always hid his daughter’s name somewhere in the drawing.
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@abasket can I tell who I ran into at a funeral? Ah…I see the title was changed…
How about Meryl Streep. We were at the same funeral, and at the reception afterward were right across a small table where tea was being served. I saw her, and family several additional times when seating them at a concert they were attending. She really is a very nice person.
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I have a family friend who used to work for a craft services company (craft services supplies the food on tv/movie sets). Her list of nicest celebrities include Steep and Clooney. Others were Adam Sandler and Henry Winkler.
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Paul Stookey, of Peter Paul, and Mary. My very good friend’s father was a tour guide (this was when I still lived in Israel), and was Paul Stookey’s personal tour guide for a couple of weeks. So I did meet him and his family.
My wife would probably have a lot more to write, but she’s not on CC.
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Maybe not “famous” enough, but we knew Paul Winter and the Paul Winter Consort members from the 90’s. They actually knew our DS on a first name basis, and our kids sang in a children’s choir directed by their keyboard player.
They were really nice!
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If we are only including grocery stores and restaurants:
We saw Greg Allman (may he rest in peace) at two different restaurants on Amelia Island about ten years ago.
Saw a very pregnant Heidi Klum and Seal eating a late lunch at a Mexican Restaurant in Manhattan. That must of have been almost 20 years ago. She was going to town on the chips and guacamole. 
Tyler Perry offered to pay for my groceries at an Atlanta Publix a couple of years ago. I had taken my elderly mother for her weekly grocery shopping. She liked to use her own grocery cart to help her balance and I grabbed a cart to do my own shopping. I was behind her in the checkout line unloading her cart when the man behind me in line tapped me on the shoulder and told me that this was a one of the kindest things he had witnessed in a while and he would like to pay for my groceries. He obviously thought I was helping a stranger. I turned down his generous offer and explained to him that I’m really not very nice. The elderly lady I was assisting was my mom and I’m obligated to be kind to her. We both had a good laugh.
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If it’s wherever now… Michael J Fox in what was then the smoking area just outside Reagan in DC. He had a kind of “please leave me alone” look on his face so I did, even though I was dying to ask for an autograph! I found out after that he had been there to testify before congress about Parkinson’s.
Oh also, mick jagger was at D19’s graduation last year. Not to see D19, but because his son was also graduating. (And D19 was… ohhhhh, THAT Jagger! Had never even thought he might be son of a famous dad haha. They weren’t close obviously)
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If a bar counts, I sat next to Boz Scaggs at a bar in the late 70’s in Woodland Hills, CA. Very uneventful, he never spoke a word in 2 hours.
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Hall of famer and Mr. October - Reggie Jackson…although I knew of him I didn’t realize I was speaking to him- saw him at a hotel and he started chatting w/me, later ran into him again in the elevator along w/my DH and baby and he chatted again. When we parted ways my DH said, do you know who that is? lol He was very nice.
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My friend’s daughter was a bartender in Boston, and got to work with Bryan Cranston and someone else one day. Maybe he has some kind of liquor brand he’s part of and was promoting, I’m really not sure. But she was very excited, and got her picture with him and someone else. And as she says “they broke a lot of liquor laws that day.”
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I think one of my kids had Paul Stookey come to his school and sing for their class or something like that. We are in the Maryland suburbs of DC, and I think some relative of his went to the school.
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I’m embarrassed to say I don’t know who some of these people are.
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Halle Berry in a restaurant bar in NY.
A news person on that same trip - Soledad Obrian (or something like that)?
Some of the Baltimore Orioles including Rick Dempsey, Jim Palmer, Cal Ripken Jr. and Cal Ripken Sr. (My ex husband was related to a close relative of the Ripkens, and we got to go under the stadium and meet a bunch of the guys.
A bunch of the Redskins in a bar in DC, back in the early 80s. I had no idea who most of them were.
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My husband’s aunt and uncle were visiting us over Thanksgiving last year. Their son who is in his 30s graduated from NYU film school and is trying to make a go of it as a filmmaker. The aunt and uncle were going on and on about how their kid is dog sitting for Sarah Paulson. My husband’s aunt spent the whole time knitting sweaters for Sarah Paulson’s dogs. I had no idea who Sarah Paulson is but I acted really impressed.
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Married to the mom on Two and a Half Men…and in a Law and Order episode. All I know.
Well…if we are talking about actors or actresses who appeared in Law and Order…that’s just about everyone in NY who has been in a television show. We know more than several people who have done this (no one who is a household name…but two went on to lead Broadway parts).
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She may be - that’s all I know. I love the show and look at the bios. I’m sure she’s very talented but that’s what I know - her wife is Charlie’s mom.
I know who she is now. I have mad googling skills. At the time I had no idea who she was - other than she is a celebrity and her dogs have some snazzy sweaters.
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Cal SR was a friend of a neighbor, so he was around our neighborhood a lot. Brooks Robinson was also a friend of a neighbor (who had played for the Orioles in the 1960’s and for many years (like 10?) had the last unassisted triple play). Jim Palmer’s daughters went to the same hair salon I did.
I’ve run into a lot of sports people John Elway in a Bennigan’s (he later went to my dentist but we never overlapped). Joe Sakic’s son went to the same hockey camp as my daughter and he was at the graduation game. My nephew recently was the umpire at Peyton Manning’s son’s game, and Peyton went up to my nephew and shook his hand after the game and said “Good game.” My nephew was thrilled.
My mother went to a Church which was just down the street from where all the NFL teams stayed, so often on a Sunday morning she’d turn around in church to find several thousand pounds of linemen sitting behind her (John Madden was there one morning).
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