Have you ever met anyone "famous" ?

Smiling Jane said:
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.
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Me too !

I took geology courses in college and went on class geology field trips, etc.
But I left college when I married and moved to another city.

My niece went to UT but received her PhD in England. Her oil geology work
has taken her all over the world and she lived abroad for awhile.

One of my uncles [long deceased] was an executive for Shell Oil in Odessa, TX.

Another uncle [long deceased] was an executive for Halliburton Oil in SE Asia.
He lived much of his adult life in Singapore and Australia.

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I would have loved to do what your niece has done, KingsX. What an exciting life.

Some of my friends are volcano experts. That's something I would have enjoyed, that and earthquakes.
 
Smiling Jane said:
I would have loved to do what your niece has done, KingsX. What an exciting life.

Some of my friends are volcano experts. That's something I would have enjoyed, that and earthquakes.
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Me too !

I am especially interested in earthquakes.

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The geology department at my school offered a series of courses on earthquakes and volcanology. I took all of them and I could barely stay seated because the videos were so exciting. They actually showed how a volcano formed in the ocean near Iceland (IIRC) by flying helicopters over it and filming the entire process.
 
The closest I got to any famous person was when Mr T was signing autographs at the AF Academy in Colorado. My kids got a picture with him. It was the eighties.
Other than that I've only seen a couple celebs from afar. Mike Tyson at the airport, Ted Kennedy on the campaign trail sometime in the sixties, Gene Shallot a few years ago eating at Friendly's in Vermont. Oh yes, Rhia Pearlman, at the airport in L.A.
 
I'm so jealous ! The closest I ever came to meeting someone famous was ..... when I was talking on the phone with my best friend... and her uncle ---
George Carlin was on the other line. SO close and yet so far ~~~~ LOL
 
Jay Leno, John Davidson, Keyshawn Johnson.....I know I'm missing someone, I'll have to think about it some more...:confused:
 
Smiling Jane said:
The geology department at my school offered a series of courses on earthquakes and volcanology. I took all of them and I could barely stay seated because the videos were so exciting. They actually showed how a volcano formed in the ocean near Iceland (IIRC) by flying helicopters over it and filming the entire process.
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Speaking of earthquakes and volcanoes... some think there might be a connection to the moon cycle.

Awesome "supermoon" tonight.

https://www.seniorforums.com/showthread.php/33768-Awesome-New-Year-Full-Moon?p=749747#post749747

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Too many to mention. As a pilot for United, I flew a lot of non stops from Washington, D.C. or New York to LA and San Francisco. Flying out of D.C., I shook hands with a lot of congressman and women and flying out of New York, I met several celebrities headed to New York to be on a talk show or to perform on stage. Some are more outgoing and social than others. It was nice to have met them all, but I never tripped over myself trying to get a handshake. The F/A's would always check over the manifest to see if they recognized any of the names, especially flying to or from New York. Burt Reynolds was probably one of the more popular stars with the ladies.
 
I have seen some famous people and obtained some autographs. My brother worked on a movie set and obtained Dean Martin's autograph for me and I have seen President Carter when visiting our town and husband shook hands with him. Most were singers who performed in our town and I heard a concert by the Rolling Stones from my apartment balcony which sounded like they were next door. Some of the music performers I saw in person were Roy Orbison, Tom Jones, a few country western singers and rock n roll singers in the past. Sorry, I can't name then all. :D
 
Met John Inman, actor from Are You Being Served? (British sitcom) shook hands, autograph
Robert Redford on movie set in New Mexico in 80's, took picture.
Charlie Daniels, got autograph (unreadable)
Wilfred Sellars, philosopher
John Astin from The Addams Family TV show, after a theatre show.

oTHERS...
 
My first singer I saw in person was Patty Page...OK, I'm old...She was the entertainer at my Uncle's night club...She did stop and say hello...LOL...I did see Paul Anka in NYC when my husband's boss,
brought us to New York, many years ago..at a Restaurant...He did say hello...
Celine Dion in Los Vegas, I was in the second row and she actually waved to me...I do have a Rock Star entertainer cousin, but I won't give the name...He is old now....
The Beach Boys at the PNC center in Jersey...Didn't talk to them though...
My husband was in a singing group, I met Tony Orlando and Dawn (remember them) Singing groups were singing in a huge Armory at the time...Tony was very nice...I didn't talk to Dawn...I wonder what happened to her!!! I dud see Taylor Swift with my granddaughter, in a concert in Philly.., but of course we couldn't get near her...We went 2 times...
So you want the old groups.....Remember the Oldie but goodies...the songs of the 50's and 6o's . we went to see those groups often...Many are not with us anymore...
I never met an actor or actress...But I'm not a movie person...I hardly go to the movies... My father in law knew Frank Sinatra before he was famous...But my FIL didn't like him. .He was a gambler
in the area where my in laws lived....Then when he had his fame he lost his friends in Jersey....He was too big to bother...

I did bring my older Granddaughter to see Britney Spears...in Atlantic City...We didn't get near her...And I did see Cher in Philly for my 60th Birthday...My daughter and daughter in law's birthday gift...
 
I met Julia Child, in 1972-3, when she promoting her 1st book. There were about 30-40 people in the audience, and she cooked an egg dish and gave everybody some. Yup, it was good. I really liked her. I got her autograph. It hangs in my kitchen, where I nuke frozen dinners. I met some other famous types, but now, they just don't sound so famous. I guess fame is "in the eye of the beholder".
 
...Paul Anka sang to me on a stage in FL

...Sandra Oh at a wedding in NC

...Howie Long was my son's baseball coach and his son Chris was on the same team (no, not football)

...Katherine Hepburn was walking alone on a narrow hilltop path along the Potomac River at the Washington Mt. Vernon Estate, VA near D.C. My friend and I were walking toward her (my friend and I stopped for a short conversation about planning a wedding there). She was fun, friendly, delightful, and thoroughly interested in my friends wedding plans.

...Lawrence Welk came over to our table at his restaurant, picked up my baby in his arms and kissed her head. We were there for my mother-in-law to see his restaurant as she had been a life-long fan of his show. It was a thrill for her.

...Bob Barker (nuff said lol)

...Charles Durning at the Highlands Inn in Carmel by the Sea, CA, while my fiancé and I were booking the chapel there. Nice man. Low key.
 
Well, "crossed paths with" might be a better way to put it - for me (vs"met")

When I was about 10 yrs old I spent a lot of time at my aunt's house. Her son/my cousin was in college at OSU and sometimes he would bring 3 friends home to play basketball - Jerry Lucas, John Havilcek, Bobby Knight.

In the 1950s a friend of the family worked for people who had a famous guest while I was there - Ernest Hemingway.

In 1976 I stopped in a bookstore to get a Cosmopolitan magazine. I noticed a man sitting at a table with a stack of books. It was Alex Haley, and he soon became quite famous for "Roots".

Saw Michael Douglas & Catherine Zeta Jones while walking down the street. They were in town to film some scenes for the movie "Traffic".

Saw Robert Wagner & Stefanie Powers at a deli downtown. They were appearing in a play. Very good looking people (lots of people staring), and they were friendly to folks talking to them.
 
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I watched Pernell Roberts shooting a scene on a small boat docked in San Francisco, for his series Trapper John, M.D., I assume. Didn't get close enough to meet.
 
Hmmm. Merry a lot probably don't remember them all. John Wayne, Michael Landon. My uncle did some TV and movies. He did a lot of guest appearances on Bonanza. Played Pat Garret in the movie Chisum with John Wayne. He drove the Corvette in the last season of Route 66. His name was Glenn Corbett. Not many heard of him, but he was always busy with TV, or the movies. Through him met a lot of people.

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Hmmm. Merry a lot probably don't remember them all. John Wayne, Michael Landon. My uncle did some TV and movies. He did a lot of guest appearances on Bonanza. Played Pat Garret in the movie Chisum with John Wayne. He drove the Corvette in the last season of Route 66. His name was Glenn Corbett. Not many heard of him, but he was always busy with TV, or the movies. Through him met a lot of people.

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O my gosh, Glenn was your uncle? People DO remember him, don't think otherwise! :) Great in so many roles, and l personally thought that he was just as good, if not better than George Maharis in R66. I was sorry to learn he had died relatively young.
 
1) Frankie Avalon ~ 1973, Houston.

2) Tom Selleck and the entire cast of Magnum, PI... in Hawaii ~ 1982.

3) Prince at the San Antonio Airport, early 1990s.
 

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