defeating the purpose of the thread.....

I have seen the president's brigade stop my car and wait as he passed through in his 'convoy' He was waving to people and I saw his face clear as day through the probaly 3 inches of bullet glass.

When I was 4 on a plane from germany I wandered around teh 1st class since it was pretty empty and my mom was watching me (I was only in the Eisle) and my mom saw some guy talking to me and she walked over there and sat in the row of seats across from him, then he picked me up and talked to her and my mom had no clue it was Eddy VanHalen at first so the convo was normal between her and him (him being a complete stranger), but then she figured out it was him and he kidna realized she wasn't talking to him like a 'real' person anymore so the convo slowly faded and she took me back to my seat.

Man, I'd love to meet that guy. He has my respect, as a director, actor, and storyteller.

I also met Mil Mascaras and the director of Bubba Ho-Tep when I was an extra.

james earl jones about 6 years ago. I won an essay contest on martin luthor king Jr and he came to my town to give a speach and accept the keys to the city. I was like 3 feet from him, but i went to shake his hand and a goon on the other side of him gave me a dirty look, so i didn't. He smells funny...

Will Farrell
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Ron Howard
Gary Seniese
Ryan Styles
the band "Simple Plan" - I hate them.. their music sucks IMO

(they all came by my movie theatre to watch movies...)

people that stopped by, but I wasn't there for include

George Clooney
Sandra Bullock
Alice Cooper
George Lucas... that's right.. he came to watch a movie (can't remember which one... my friend tore his ticket..

I've also talked to ALL of the members of Mushroomhead (except JMann)
and the lead singer of Dope & Crossbreed

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Held the door open for Bruce Willis at a local restaurant, and got to meet Wesley Snipes. But my dad got to interview the Blade man himself for the local newspaper. And that's it.

Not counting gigs/sets/plays, I've only seen/recognised Finnish politicians, "celebrities", musicians, or TV personalities on the streets of Helsinki.

Including:
Paavo Lipponen (Buying a book at the Akateeminen kirjakauppa, he had a photographer with him and was posturing for some good ol' PR).
Kirka Babitz (Several times. He lives somewhere in Kruununhaka, Helsinki. Last seen in Café Engel on Vappu day).
Ben Zyskowicz (Having coffee with a girl I assume was his daughter. She wasn't half-bad looking and she was taller than him).
Ruben Stiller (talking to his cell-phone and looking confused behind the Graniittitalo).
Redrama (Looking really nervous, walking around with apparently a bag full of LP's. While waiting to cross a street he turned around quickly like he had forgotten something. He's actually kinda short, heh).

Oh! Forgot to mention the coolest ever! How could I....

I was playing a guitar in guitar center one day and in walks a man in all denim with sunglasses a cowboy hat and a beard past his neck. BILLY GIBBONS OF ZZ TOP! w00t. I got to jam with him!

(He has a house near where I live, Houston)

C3

I haven't seen any celebrities other than Dikimbe Mutombo (sp?) in the airport once.

However, I have seen a flash movie that involves Japanese pop music, Teletubbies, some fine photoshopping and Matthew Lesko. You can try finding it, I'm lazy.

Since this is mostly going to be understood by our bunch I'll just quote you and add my list

Tarja Turunen (saw her in a bar in Helsinki about a year ago)
Heikki Malmberg (met him at the civil service training center in Lapinjärvi, he's REALLY a nice guy and one hell of a drummer)
Tommi Forsström (whom I also met at Lapinjärvi, a really fun guy as well)
Andy McCoy (Saw him and Angela McCoy in a McDonalds in Helsinki)
Simo Frangen (passed him on the street)
Minttu Mustakallio (saw her in a bar in Helsinki)
Heikki Kinnunen (at a racehorse track, he shook my hand when I bet on the right horse :p )
That's all I can think of right now, I know there are more (and I didn't include politicians) and maybe I'll update

I was there too

Chris Byrd

His kids go to my school, and believe it or not he's done a lot for no one ever hearing of him. He has like... olympic gold medals and such.

The most famouse person I've actually met, as in spoke to for a while is probably Chris Cheney from the living end. Chances are only the aussies here know him. I've seen many famouse people, but not met them.


And I'm REALLY ANNOYED that I once had the opportunity to meet James Hetfield of Metallica, but was too shy to go up to him. He was just walking out of the melbourne arts centre as i was loitering around inside.

i emt jermaine dye, a baseball player, adam vinaterri from the patriots, i think that might be it

My father-in-law was the long-haired git from the English version of the Gladiators... many many moons ago, before ITV said goodbye. Yes, not very amazing, and yes, he is a fat balding git.

I met Ken Jennings this weekend in Chicago. He was moderating a trivia game I was playing in.... Got a picture with him and stuff.

Shook Bill Cinton's hand. Shook hands with and briefly spoke to Lou Diamond Phillips. Seen Bush and Rumsfeld. Shook hands and spoke with "Bubba" from In the Heat of the Night at least once. Saw Margaret Thatcher. Some others I probably can't recall.

Wierd Al

My soon to be brother-in-law was the lead in Eurotrip...

Is anyone familiar with Mary Kay Letourneau? She's that teacher from Washington that had a child with her student a few years ago. Our neighbors (including my best friend at the time) were very much buddy buddy with her. Their dad was her lawyer.

I helped her pack boxes before she was shipped off to jail.

Haha, I just find it amusing.

Substituting important for famous in a few cases.

I've seen the Moroccan King and met the Foreign Minister. I'm one degree of separation from meeting Bush and two from the King of Saudi Arabia. I shook John Edwards' hand at a rally before he joined Kerry's ticket.

My best friend went to an international high school in Paris and was friends with the 20th in line to the Saudi throne. He mentioned it almost like it was nothing, but I was blown away.

I've met the White House press secretary, a bunch of big-name bands (too many to count, thats what you get when you work at an amusement park with a big concert area), including Weird Al, Newsboys, Britney Spears (She got boo'ed, hahahaha), Green Day, Linkin Park, Jimmy Eat World, and plenty of smaller bands also: Firehouse, Ratt, REO Speedwagon, etc.

In addition, I've personally met both Bush and Clinton for about a minute, Bill Gates (well, only saw him really), the head of Paramount, and Steven Spielburg was supposed to come here for something this year, but I think it was canceled.

Some may know the park, its Paramount's Kings Island, the most popular seasonal park in the US.

apart from graham roundtree, some england rugby player, the only famous person i know is... me!

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Um... my dad met Sandra Day O'Conner in a grocery store once.

I've only met the people in Lacuna Coil. Christina Scabbia is so amazingly beautiful.

god i'd so hit that she would die from excessive bruising

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I met Marilyn Manson once, laughed at all the silly Mansonite fanboys, and walked on.

And I ran into Alexi Laiho when me and my dad went to pick up my uncle from the airport. Shame I didn't get to actually talk to him.

Does Robin Cook count?

I've seen Ted Nugent driving around my hometown quite a few times. Apparently he hunts there.

His brother's funeral. My dad was employed at the funeral home.