Have you ever met anyone "famous" ?

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Celebrities ? Political figures ? Sports stars ?

I've never had the urge to go to autograph sessions or meet and greets of famous people. So my short answer would be no. As for celebrities , someone famous could come up to me and say hi and I wouldn't know them from a hole in the wall ! :eek:
 

George Goble was my flying instructor.

My cousin is Mark Russell who used to have his own TV show.

Met Shirley McClaine when I had to get her signature for auto insurance.
 
Actually met, spoke to or shaken hands with ?.....no.

Seen in person and been a few yards from ?.....yes

1. The deposed and deceased leader of Libya Muammar Gaddafi.

2. Anthony Quinn when he was in Libya filming the 'Lion of the Desert'.
 
Back in 93 or 94 I won a trip to the American Comedy Awards in Los Angeles. Got to rub elbows, meet or just see many folks from the comedy world. Met Martin Landau and Tony Curtis. Had conversations with a few stand up comics of the day, names escape me. Saw Estelle Getty (sophia on Golden Girls) but it was minutes after walking past her that I realized who she was. She looked so different out of character. By the time I turned back she was out of sight. Stood in line in ladie's room next to Ellen and Jamie Leigh Curtis. Saw many others too.
 
I got knocked off my feet (literally) by Hulk Hogan at Disney World. I ran into (literally) Godfrey Cambridge on the fire escape staircase at the newspaper office where I worked. I kissed John Davidson (if anyone remembers who he was....) after a concert when I was a teenager and I was kissed by Pat Morita at a parade in Honolulu. Nobody "A-List".
 
I shook hands with Al Gore when he was vice-president. The security checks were very thorough, and we were stuck in the 'secure area' for well over an hour. They put us in a very long line along a rope which Mr Gore walked down. I was watching him shake hands with the guy after me when Tipper Gore grabbed my hand and said 'hello'. Took me by total surprise as I didn't know she was there too. She's very nice looking in person.
 
Our governor and former representative Asa Hutchinson was my attorney in a civil case before he got elected to congress.

I had breakfast with representative Tom Cotton when he was running for senator.

I shook hands with Jerry Lee Lewis at a show In Fort Smith, but I guess that doesn't count because I didn't actual get to know him.
 
When our family was on a summer trip out West in '68, we were staying at the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles for couple days.. I was in the elevator with late character actor,Paul Ford. He played'Mayor Shin" in 'The Music Man'. I was 16 at the time,so'star struck' couldn't say anything to him.When I told my parents and siblings,they had no idea who I was talking about Sue
 
Rock Hudson had family in the town where I grew up and one of my friends was his cousin. He came to visit his family a number of times and spent some time with them so I got to know him pretty well. He visited the retired gentleman's ranch that was owned by our former neighbors several times when I was there. He was interested in their ranch operation that was created to breed prizewinning animals; he was thinking about doing something similar. He was a nice man and a little shy, not "Rock Hudson" at all.

I've known quite a few famous people in the music business, like Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson. I met Rosanne Cash through mutual friends and got to know her well.
 
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I've never met anyone considered famous.

But my brother was a NASA scientist for 42 years.

He was one of NASA's last Apollo era scientists to retire.

He was one of the pioneers who created the Apollo lunar receiving analysis lab in Houston.
He even learned to blow glass to create specialty test tubes he needed for the lunar samples.
When he wasn't analyzing moon rocks, he analyzed meteorites. He has found diamonds inside
meteorites and discovered the Martian origin of meteorites found in Antarctica. When he wasn't
in his NASA lab, he was working with government officials, helping universities get science grants.


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KingsX said:
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I've never met anyone considered famous.

But my brother was a NASA scientist for 42 years.

He was one of NASA's last Apollo era scientists to retiree.

He was one of the pioneers who created the Apollo lunar receiving analysis lab in Houston.
He even learned to blow glass to create speciality test tubes he needed for the lunar samples.
When he wasn't analyzing moon rocks, he analyzed meteorites. He has found diamonds inside
meteorites and discovered the Martian origin of meteorites found in Antarctica. When he wasn't
in his NASA lab, he was working with government officials, helping universities get science grants.
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That sounds interesting. Was he a geologist?
 
Smiling Jane said:
That sounds interesting. Was he a geologist?
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His PhD was in nuclear geo-chemistry.

When he was a teenager we lived in Odessa, Texas which was a booming oil town.
He wanted to be a geologist for an oil company. Like most teenagers in the 1950s,
he loved to read science fiction books. Once he was in college, the oil boom turned
to bust, so he altered his major and hooked his star to the upcoming space program.
After a two year post-doctorate at Cal-Tech, he joined NASA and moved to Houston.
He helped to create what he could only read about in his teenage science fiction books.
NASA gave him a medal made from Apollo 11... same medal given by NASA to all those
pioneers who helped put the first man on the moon.

Ironically, his niece is now an oil company geologist.

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Guy Lombardo, Bert Parks who presided over the Miss America pageant and Prince Andrew and his then wife Fergie.
 
KingsX said:
His PhD was in nuclear geo-chemistry.

When he was a teenager we lived in Odessa, Texas which was a booming oil town.
He wanted to be a geologist for an oil company. Like most teenagers in the 1950s,
he loved to read science fiction books. Once he was in college, the oil boom turned
to bust, so he altered his major and hooked his star to the upcoming space program.
After a two year post-doctorate at Cal-Tech, he joined NASA and moved to Houston.
He helped to create what he could only read about in his teenage science fiction books.
NASA gave him a medal made from Apollo 11... same medal given by NASA to all those
pioneers who helped put the first man on the moon.

Ironically, his niece is now an oil company geologist.

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My dad was in the oil business and I always wanted to be a geologist.

Sounds like he made the right choice. Good for him. I knew some people at NASA but they were all into propulsion and that kind of stuff, astrophysics I guess is the umbrella term. That never interested me much. His field would have fascinated me.
 
Shook hands with Ella Grasso campaigning for governor.

Met Art Garfunkel in a restaurant bar when he was teaching math in a nearby town.

Met one of the executive producers of the TV show "Modern Family" at a memorial service of a mutual friend
 

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