Unexpected Places Where You’ve Met Celebrities

Liza -- Palmer House Hotel -- 1972.

She was walking down our hall as we came out the door to go to dinner. Her sister Lorna was playing in the hotel's Empire Room that night.

Steven Webber in the frozen foods aisle of Ralph's supermarket on Sunset Blvd. He opened the case where I was standing and smiled directly at me, and I remember being kind of flustered because a guy friend of his (?) (or a stalker?) was peeking around the corner and watching my reaction.

DL has since informed me SW is bi, and at least one person here's mentioned having a MMM threeway with him. I wonder if the pair were out trolling together for a third that afternoon?

Fancy hotel in Pittsburgh - Alan Rickman and Chris Rock. They were filming Dogma there. Rickman was trashed at like 8 am.

Eric Roberts - exiting a health food store in Toronto, right next to my building.

Alanis Morissette - a no longer in business New Age store on Queen St. in Toronto back in 1999 or so.

Maria Sharapova - elevator of 60 Thompson Hotel in NYC.

Julia Roberts - elevator of The Andaz in the Financial District, George Clooney at the lobby of the same hotel.

Jennifer Lawrence - in front of a poké place in Toronto. She petted my dog.

Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe from Pet Shop Boys - Ogilvy department store in Montreal.

I ran into Boy George at the men's fragrance counter at Saks NYC 1985. Walked past Warhol on 5th/42nd by the clock NYC 1986. Elevator with Wynona Judd (midget short) in a NYC skyscraper 1992. Gloria Steinem on the street by Roseland, NYC 1990.

Eve Arden looking through the rack of white blouses in Marshall Field & Company, Water Tower Place, Chicago.

I think she was in town doing a play.

First floor of Bergdorf's NYC….combing her hair….Jackie Elevators in NYC- Brandy, Oprah,Kathy Bates, Michael Shannon, Sondheim, Kathleen Turner, Kathie Lee Gifford, Carol Channing, Bess Myerson

Petted R4, Petted?

Long Island's MacArthur Airport gate, only like 12 gates in whole airport….Chuck Schumer and Michael Kennedy NYC Joe Allan restaurant, a celebrity hangout, but waiting for the locked Mens Room and who came out……..Anne Bancroft

Yes, petted.

Yours is the best so far, R9.

r7, did you have any conversations during your elevator encounters, or overhear any?

Cher at Balducci's in the village circa 1988. She was just shopping like a normal person.

Shane Landrum at UNC.

Not quite unexpected, but Our dog sniffed Owen and/or Luke Wilson's dogs butt in Santa Monica last week. They were with their mother and avoided eye contact (not that we were planning to say anything).. Alec baldwin was super chipper, much much friendlier and initiated convo with us when we crossed paths walking dogs in the village recently.

r14 is that you shady shane? ya know we said celebrities right? not queeny little frauds.

r16 nope, not Shane. he’s a celebrity in my eyes, you heartless heifer!

Brunswick, Maine indoor antiques mall, Stockard Channing perusing the wares. I looked up and there she was across the table. She pulled her dark glasses down over her eyes.

Diane Keaton pulling a cart through the Rose Bowl flea market.

Candice Bergen - she was behind me on line to get into a movie theater.

Blair Underwood - in an elevator; very handsome with a beautiful smile

Jackie Kennedy - I was behind her as she entered the lobby of an office building. She flung back her winter scarf, and it hit me in the face. I also rode the elevator with her.

Andy Cohen - on the platform of the Rock Center subway station.

On the streets of NYC - Mickey Mantel, Tommy Tune, Richard Lewis, Chelsea Clinton, Billy Bush in a kilt. It was St. Patrick’s Day. Curtis Stone and his then girlfriend now wife Lindsay Price, on another St. Patrick’s Day. He was talking to a group of young female fans and Lindsay looked annoyed. Stallone and Brigitte Nielsen when they were married. Brigitte was drop dead gorgeous. Lindsay Lohan’s father, who was standing on a line to get some free crap a company was handing out on 6th Avenue. Stephen King who was loudly trash talking about the Yankees.

Steven Seagal with several hookers in the elevator of a Vancouver hotel.

Stole a cab from under Sarah Jessica Parker's nose in Greenwich Village.

Harrison Ford and Callista Flockhart walking together in West Village. At first I thought it was a homeless guy dragging a stick figure along.

Matthew Broderick peeing at a urinal right next to mine in a NYC restaurant. he just made this dejected face that said "please, don't ask me anything!"

R21, did you get a peek at Ferris Bueller’s cock?

Not really. He doesn't do anything for me so when I took a glance and saw who it was I didn't care to know that much to be escorted from a fancy restaurant as the perv who stares at celebrities' cocks.

Beverly D'Angelo in line behind me at Koontz Hardware in WeHo.

Brenda Vaccaro at Dim Sum in Los Angeles Chinatown.

Levar Burton waiting for his BMW service in Sherman Oaks.

I've bumped into a lot of celebs, as I am sure most people have, living in NYC - all the time.

But one weird one was when one time I was standing on a corner somewhere in the east 30s in Manhattan waiting to cross the street and standing there next to me waiting was Chaka Khan - short, big hair, big ass. That was cool in and of itself. But literally the following week I was in San Francisco visiting my mom and was standing on a corner somewhere in the city waiting to cross the street, and standing next to me was Chaka Khan. It was so absurd, it was almost comical.

Young John Schneider at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas at the blackjack table I was sitting at in 1980.

Sandra Bernhard getting a pedicure next to me at some basic nail salon in Chelsea. I wanted so desperately to talk to her as I’m a huge fan but couldn’t get up the nerve.

I met Melissa Joan Hart once in the Delta lounge in Atlanta! She was just chillin getting some oatmeal and I didn't realize who it was for a second, then I purposely went to sit somewhat near her, but not creepily close. I said something stupid like "it's freezing in here" and she replied nicely "I knowwww, I hate being cold in airports." Not a riveting conversation, but she was quite nice.

I want to go to one of those autograph conventions, mostly out of morbid curiosity.

Celebs

Josh Radnor waiting for bags at LAX. He was on the same flight from Columbus.

John Lithgow peed two urinals down from me Sunday at LAX. He sighed as he peed. I wonder if he has prostate problems.

Kiefer Sutherland stood at a blackjack table I was sitting at in Vegas. He played four $25 hands, lost each one, then walked away.

Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson and I got out of our cars, parked next to each other, at the same time at Papa Christo's on a Wednesday at lunch. We walked to the door next to each other. He held the door for her and me, and then we awkwardly negotiated who would be in line before the other. (I insisted they go first.)

Sally Struthers at a Ralphs by Runyon. Trevor Donovan at 24 Fit in Hollywood and at Runyon. Alec Baldwin in the Equinox steam room on 92nd. Jerry Springer at the urinal of a movie theater. Kelly Osborne and Joe Rogan at Runyon. Cindy Crawford at Planet Hollywood. Andy Garcia at Tratoria del Arte. Bebe Neuwirth in Greenwich Village-she was a cunt. Rob and Kim Kardashian at the Grove. Sat by Rob, Chloe, and Nene at a Lakers Game. Sat next to Tom Wopat at Ragtime. Joan Van Arc and Rob Lowe in Hollywood.

r27 Is she stalking you, or are you stalking HER?

[quote]r20 Jackie Kennedy - I was behind her as she entered the lobby of an office building. She flung back her winter scarf, and it hit me in the face.

You should have pretended to trip, and crash to the floor.

LAWSUIT ! ! !

At the Atlanta Airport, I saw star baritone Sherill Milnes around 2000. I was in my 20’s and he was no longer performing at the big opera houses at that point (he may have retired), so he was pretty surprised that I recognized him.

I was at the Metropolitan Opera plaza fountain over a decade ago and Composer Phillip Glass walked up and stood next to me against the fountain’s edge. I was too shy to talk to him. Turns out he was in rehearsals for his opera at the MET about Christopher Columbus

[quote] Alec Baldwin in the Equinox steam room on 92nd.

!!!!

Roy Scheider, a hospital in Anchorage where I worked and his daughter got admitted

Tanya Harding and Mickey Dolenz, on the same flight from BUR to PDX

And tons of airport sightings. Jeri Ryan and Grace Park at PDX, who were nice. I fanboyed all over Steve Wozniac getting on a PDX-ATL flight when we boarded at the same time. James Hong on a flight from SEA to LAX. And LAX is a spotters dream. Captain Kangaroo (when I was like 7), Josh Malina, and two of the main characters from Grimm (Sgt. Wu and Captain Renard).

Carrot Top in the Orlando Airport boarding our flight to DFW. And yes, he's as hideous looking in person as you would expect.

James Marsden at LAX International security check line

Crispen Glover at the old Tower Records on Sunset

Brenda Vaccaro at a dim sum restaurant in LA's Chinatown

Carrot Top at a Vegas mall

Simon Cowell going up an escalator at the Pacific Design Center

Chita Rivera strolling a street in Buenos Aries

Alice Cooper at a Scottsdale are Macy's men's dept.

George Hamilton and son at Century City Mall

Magic Johnson at a Newport Beach area hotel

Beverly D'Angelo behind me at the check-out line at Kuntz Hardware in WeHo

Gee, celebrities in New York City. Imagine that....

You bitches are slipping! "Cedar Rapids, Iowa airport - Kristen Chenowyth." OH, DEAR!!!!!!!! What kind of gay are you?

Sharon Stone and Phil Bronstein Union Station, Washington DC a few months after they got married.

And yet it took 45 replies for anyone to comment, R45.

Strangest encounter? The baseball pitcher Bill 'Spaceman' Lee in a bar in Boston long after he had retired.

I’m here to do penance for spelling her name wrong.

BTW - seeing celebrities in NY, LA or Vegas isn’t exactly unexpected guys.

I started the thread because I was surprised to run into La Chenoweth in Cedar Rapids.

And, of course, to misspell both her names.

Andrew Stevens in a gas station mini-mart one night in Bellevue. He was cute and friendly.

Richard Gere outiside a bar one night in Seattle.

Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern in Disneyland.

Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke in Idaho skiing,

Judd Nelson sat behind me at a Sonics game in Seattle. Same game, Harry Connick Jr. was finishing a coke or something in small bar at a table next to mine and he tried to get some ice out of his drink. The ice went down the front of his shirt. He tried to remain cool, but it was funny.

Harry Anderson was having a drink in a local Mexican joint in Issaquah, Wash. I was with coworkers for happy hour.

Edgar Martinez, Rob Estes, Cynthia Geary and Elaine Miles (both from Northern Exposure) came into my work,

Jane Fonda in a bathroom at Husky stadium during the day. We were alone. She was touring it with Ted Turner. For the Special Olympics. We were alone and she was nice. Had knee-high boots with her jeans tucked in.

Robert Redford having coffee at Tully’s in Bellevue. I was on my break. I think he was fund raising for Obama.

Eddie Vedder having dinner in a restaurant late one night in Seattle.

Nicholle Tom from the Nanny strolling down a street. No purse, no phone, no bags.

Lil Wayne and a bunch of other rappers ( Manny Fresh , Method Man, and some more) at a convenience store off I-55.

Vince Gill eating breakfast by himself in a restaurant in Nashville.

Gena Davis at the Planet Hollywood in Costa Mesa back in the 90s.

My husband was next to JFK, Jr at a pay phone bank in the Newark airport back in the 90s.

Wynona and Naomi Judd were having dinner right next to me at a steakhouse in NYC a few years back

Congressman Paul Ryan and his assistant were on a plane from NYC to Boston. He had just lost his VP bid and looked so lonely. It made me so happy

In the 80's, Goldie Hawn with her toddle son at Denny's in Silver Spring, MD

Joe Strummer checking out at a Klimpton Hotel in Chicago.

Johnny Ramone on St. Mark's Place.

OP, this thread has really just turned into people bragging about meeting celebrities anywhere, not just in unexpected places. I wish people could post within the confine of the rules OP sets.

Unless you’re seeing them perform, it’s always unexpected to see them.

I would expect to run into celebs at hotels and airports, as they travel for their jobs. I wouldn't expect to sit across from Linda Evans at a tire place in Reseda.

I know, R56 - I’ve run into many celebrities in non-surprising places: politicians on airplanes to DC, actors outside a Broadway theater, etc.

But I posted about KC (I dare not spell her name) but i was surprised to see her in Cedar Rapids

Queen Latifah (dressed in a romper suit, running late for AA #1) exiting the Admirals Club at JFK eating what looked like Chinese food in a takeout container. Which seemed odd at 7:40 in the morning.

Jason Robards taking a leak next to me in a men's room at Lincoln Center.

Ann Miller, who was lovely and had a glass of champagne with us in the lobby during the try-outs for "My One and Only" with Twiggy and Tommy Tune.

Carrie Fisher and Paul Simon - years ago, obviously - coked out and screaming at each other in and going out of Musso and Frank in Los Angeles.

Mike Dukakis in the barbershop. Shitty tipper: 50 cents for a haircut.

Donatella Versace at some overpriced restaurant in Woolloomooloo. Bitch has a mouth on her that matches her face: it's not pretty.

Audra MacDonald waiting in line to order at a Chipotle Grill.

Malia Obama in Harvard Square (the SS must like her: really good security w/o being obtrusive although I'm guessing there are sharpshooters on the roofs)

Vienna in the 80ies. A tiny figure in a furcoat and furhat flanked by two bodyguard-ish guys. You just saw fur and a nose. An unmistakable nose... Barbra

Shaq O'Neill in an elevator In Indianapolis: the biggest feet I ever saw. Robert Redford at a urinal off-Broadway: surprisingly short. Ditto Paul Newman on 45th in Manhattan. Marlo Thomas and Phil after theater in Orso. Cher at A Chorus Line. Al Franken at a urinal in Minneapolis airport (hung, if anyone cares.) Harry Belafonte on a flight to EWR: handsome and gracious. Freddy Mercury at a gay bar NYC. Ditto Harvey Fierstein (shocking, huh?)

Oh, and Barry Manilow and Gregory Hines at Gold's in Palm Springs: Barry is truly ugly. Hines denied it, but seemed gay.

Roy Scheider in the hot tub at the Sunset Marquis. He asked to borrow a section of my NY Times.

Same hotel, different stay, by the pool at about 7 am: Peter Allen making out with (presumably) last night's trick at the other end of the pool apron. The Latina waitress saw me looking at the two of them as she poured my coffee and said, "He's a peeg."

Greta Garbo, 6:00 a.m. w. 23rd St. NYC. and therein lies a tale. It was 1978 and I had been up for two days (in drag), speeding my brains out with Jackie Curtis. J.C. and I were out cruising in high heels for men/speed. As we were crossing the street a hag passed us going in the opposite direction. Jackie froze on the spot and said, "ohgodgarbo!" We turned on our heels and went after her. That Garbo was one fast walker. I remember J.C. had snatched a moldy flower off a bush by the time we caught up with her. He put himself in front of her did a quick curtsy, extended the beat-up flower to her and said "Mz. Garbo. " To which she said "Yes, daahlink. But vat happened to you?" End of story.

This isn't my story but I thought it was cute and random enough to pass on. A good friend of mine was in Minneapolis for work and was at a restaurant one evening. Katie Couric was at one of the tables near her. My friend was a smoker at the time and stepped outside to smoke. Couric walked out with her team of people while my friend was outside and they looked confused as to where to go, so my friend directed them. Couric thanked her and my friend apologized for the cigarette smoke blowing around. Couric was very kind and non-judgmental, but she did tell her she was doing research for a cancer segment and that she hoped she would /could quit. I always thought that was a sweet story.

Whoopi Goldberg at Six Flags over Georgia. It would have been around 1989-1990.

I dont know if it was unexpected but the first day I moved to LA ( a long time ago) and was staying at a hotel, the sportmans lodge in studio city,...........I saw Pat Boone making a commercial by the pool..........another time I was coming down an elevator after visiting my orthodontist on roxbury dr in BH in a medical building and one of the female stars of the old laugh in tv series came onto the elevator. Her face was very swollen after what I guessed was a dental procedure. Visiting Carmel I was in a restaurant and saw both Doris Day and Clint Eastwood. Those are the ones coming to mind....oh I saw Arnold Swartz a few times as I use to hike at will rogers park and at that time he lived adjacent. I also saw Nicole Brown Simpson at the Brentwood gardens shopping mall on san vicente in Brentwood maybe a year before she died. WHen she came into the store I was in I overheard a clerk say...........be nice to that lady, she is the ex wife of OJ Simpson.

While checking into a hotel in Atlanta during the Olympics, Arnold Schwarzenegger was on my left and Ray Charles was on my right.

Le bron James with his trainers in the sf st.regis workout room. I was running alone on the treadmill and they came in and were stretching him for the finals or something. I feel like it was last year but could’ve been two years ago. P

Seann William Scott at an amusement park in early OOs. Super, super nice to us and was happy to be recognized. AMERICAN PIE had just come out. Shorter than I expected, and not "fratty" at all...dressed really strangely and yeah, kind of pinged.

R67: Whoopi Goldberg being walked through Antoine's in NOLA being introduced to diners during a National Association of Broadcasters convention. It must have been 1999 - 2001 because I remember flying down on TWA with a stop at LaGuardia. Roger Ailes, then head of Fox News, got on and sat across the aisle from us. Friends told me later they knew it would have been a big sacrifice for me but that I should have taken the plane down - "Think of all the crap you would have saved us from. You'd be a national hero." Great friends, I know.

Whoopi just looked so stoned and seemed incapable of speech beyond saying "Hello." The couple who owned the place were practically holding her up as they sort of frog-marched her from table to table.

I was flying from San Diego to Boston but had to make a connection in Newark, NJ and then continue onto Boston. The flight from Newark to Boston was on one of those small commuter airplanes (some call them puddle jumpers). Nick Jonas was on the Newark-Boston flight. He sat near me. Didn't say anything. I think he was like the rest of us on the flight just wanting to get where we were going. I looked at him once after landing at Boston's Logan Airport, but he seemed just as confused as anyone wondering where he was supposed to go to exit the terminal.

bath houses. but really, why wouldn't they indulge as well?

Ron Perlman, Jet Blue Terminal, JFK. I smiled at his tiny, adorable dog, and he smiled back. (Perlman, not the dog!)

Ray Liotta exiting his NYC apartment building ca. 1979.

Helen Lawson getting a train pulled on her in the basement at Studio 54.

Sean Penn and Robin Wright (back when they were married) at a restaurant in Old Montreal.

Ed Harris. In a book store about 15yrs ago. Very intense, very handsome.

Jackie O in the elevator of the Park Av bldg where Doubleday used to be located. The elevator was going down, and as it filled up, she was in the back. The elevator was packed, and everyone turned around and stared at her on the ride down. She acted as if nothing were occurring.

Robert Reed in a bodega. He must have been heading off to the matinee performance of a B’way show he was doing.

I would love to have hooked up with Steven Weber, he’s cute.

Has anyone ever run into Michael Strahan? He's my celebrity crush 😍

I rode the elevator with Jackie O dozens of times. After the first couple, if we were alone, I looked in her eyes briefly, said "Hello" and then didn't stare. She said Hello. If there were other people, I said nothing. Poor Jackie, I guess. She was one of those people who, at a big party, everyone knew where she was at every single moment. Warhol was another.

Ethan Hawke on the streets of Bucharest, Romania, where his mother lives. At that time Bucharest was very poor, shabby and sinister -- he looked a little uncomfortable but trying to be a good sport.

Why does Leslie Carol Greene live in Bucharest?

Steven Weber - W Hotel at 54th & Lexington, in the elevator (twice). He smiled and said hello both times.

Donna Summer - in the Admiral’s Club at Nashville Airport. She was alone, talked to me for about 5 minutes.

Bruce Jenner - AA flight from DFW to LAX. He paced up and down both aisles in FC and seemed to want attention.

Cindy Williams - in the Admiral’s Club at LAX. She wasn’t very relaxed, and had an entourage.

George Hamilton walking alone on the beach in Santa Monica, at 1:00am. I was there photographing lightning in the distance. I got the feeling he was there for other reasons.

Sandra Lee. Not that she's a huge star, but I love her. I was in the elevator at Bergdorf Goodman and she was going up to get her hair done. This was just after the most recent Governor election here in NYC. I said, "Congratulations, btw" because her beau had just won. She said thank you and then "Actually, congratulations to us all, if you know what I mean."

Ethan Hawke's mother at that time was head of a social services agency that tried to help gypsies and poor people in Romania, of which there are many. Spotted her a few times, a striking, handsome woman like a friendlier-looking Lauren Bacall.

How was that unexpected, R76?

Chuck Barris (Gong Show!) in the revolving doors of the Plaza Hotel back in the 70's.

Lauren Bacall literally steamrolled over me as she exited MOMA making a beeline to her waiting car. 1970's.

R90, do you know what the word “literally” means?

[quote]Eric Roberts - exiting a health food store in Toronto, right next to my building.

No wonder he's getting fat.

Carrot Top, men's room level 3, Water Tower Place, Chicago, circa 1994. There were no barriers between the urinals at that time.

There were two times I've seen celebrities in Princeton, NJ. One was Fran Lebowitz, in a small grocery store... and the other time, I was taking a walk, then heard a very distinctive, recognizable voice... it was Dr. Ruth Westheimer, speaking to a student. I walked past them, and turned to say, "Hello.. nice to meet you.". Dr. Ruth was very nice and said, "very nice day."... then, I continued my walk. These sightings were in the early aughts. Another time, back in the 80's, I was in NYC and saw Ed Begley Jr. walking past me.

How did Carrot Top's carrot look? I heard a rumor that he is a FTM on loads of T, and was wondering if anyone can verify the presence of transmeat.

1) I ran into Marcia Wallace as we were both meandering through the spectacular Museum of Natural History in Victoria, British Columbia. We were both very impressed with the museum.

2) While reaching into my pocket for something at LAX, I accidentally elbowed veteran character actress Kathleen Freeman in the left tit–and SHE apologized to ME!

3) Years ago, a friend of mine and I were looking at the footprints outside of Grauman's Chinese Theater. As we were marveling at how tiny Mickey Rooney's footprints were, I looked up and there was Mickey Rooney, who didn't seem pleased with what we had been saying. He didn't say anything, but he certainly did glare. (But he DID have tiny feet).

4) While shopping at a supermarket somewhere in Connecticut while on vacation, I noticed that a couple of shoppers ahead of me were sharing right past me, so I turned around to see what was so interesting. It was Richard Dreyfuss. He's much shorter than I'd thought.

Jon Bon Jovi and his wife ( she was stunning) at an antique place in Lancaster PA.

Michelle Pfeiffer in a Starbucks. Dressed down, ball cap on head, very clean-looking. Nice feet (no, I do not have a foot fetish).

Jon Voight in a suit, standing in line to board first class. IIRC, this was Dallas Fort Worth airport, American Airlines. He appeared to be by himself and was smiling and looking around. He seemed approachable, almost like he wanted to be approached.

Bob Saget, Nashville airport, boarding a nonstop to LAX and not seeming approachable

Lorenzo Lamas on my flight to DFW. We were late and he ran through the terminal WITH A DUFFLE BAG to his connecting flight.

I remember that his was as it looked on TV, but his body did not.

^ his FACE looked as it did on TV.

Ok, you’re officially a stalker, R4. Wink.

[quote]r87 Sandra Lee. Not that she's a huge star, but I love her.

I wish you'd shoved a Kwanzaa cake in her face.

She sounds horrible, r87. Nightmarish

Florence Henderson, Tampa airport, mid 90s. At the baggage claim carousel. We had no phone cameras then, but she was very nice and chatted with people, seemed approachable. Until the bags started coming out -- then she turned into a barracuda

"I fought worse monsters than you for YEARS in Hollywood!"

Heidi Fleiss in cheap nail salon in West Hollywood back around 2002.

r87 Your mention of Sandra Lee has lead me down a horrible, slippery slope at YouTube

Why is she using (and decorating) those stupid aluminum things that will crush when she cuts her cake?

She has no idea what she's doing

The comments are so funny:

[quote]I've always dreamed of having my own hand me down family recipe of boxed cake, canned juice and synthetic dyes.

[quote]Mmm nothing like boxed cake, raspberry extract, peach-tinged sugar water and canned frosting on a trashy single use cake pan.

[quote]"We're not going to ice these"... shoves them in the ovens.... takes them out.... "Now i'm going to show you how to ice these."

[quote] "Grandma's icing was always homemade, but I'm gonna doll up just a store bought can and make it taste homemade!" adds some raspberry extract and food coloring.

[quote]"We're leaving the top rounded so everyone will think we made it from scratch" / literally no one would think that

The TWOP message boards on Sandy's "Semi-Homemade" show were a national treasure. I hope they've been preserved somewhere.

About 100 years ago, Earl Holliman holding court over a bunch of caftaned queens in a restaurant in Laguna Beach.

Liam Neeson on some random street on the UWS. The man is a Sasquatch....HUGE!

Ricky Nelson, Delta baggage claim LAX, also Vincent Price at LAX. Greer Garson, row in front of me at a theater in West LA, Robert Conrad, Lorne Green, Richard Hatch (yum), John Ritter, various places in Malibu, Danny Thomas, getting out of his car on Wilshire, Jane Fonda and Ted Turner sitting at the next table at an Atlanta Braves baseball game (I guess not too surprized since he owned them at that time), civil rights hero, John Lewis, MARTA train, Atlanta, Colin Farrell walking around outside the stadium at Wimbledon, Charles Durning, having lunch at a state park in upstate NY, Donald Sutherland, on the beach in Venice, CA

R115, who in the hell are all those people?

Today at 11:00 in a restaurant (Colbert, Sloane Square) was Eddie Redmayne with his daughter. She was very well behaved and no sign of the wife.

Really, r116? You've never heard of Colin Farrell, Jane Fonda, Ted Turner, or John Ritter?

Marlo Thomas (years ago) at an appearance at Carson Pirie Scott department store on State Street in Chicago. She was promoting some sewing patterns for McCalls (see one linked below).

She was late in arriving and they kept making excuses.

When she arrived, she explained that she was late because she had been doing "The Phil Donahue Show" and what a nice guy he was, and did we all know about him, etc. And on and on about Phil. (It was apparently the day she met him.)

She answered questions, but got perturbed when more than one person asked her about "Donald".

She was very thin and tiny.

Larry Kert. Steamroom of the Club Baths Indianapolis.

Flying from Boston to DC on USAir years ago. In first class, aisle seat, as I used to fly this damn shuttle all the time and got upgraded a lot. I'm frantically working on my idiotic 200+ slide presentation deck. Guy whispers "do you want to change seats?" I say "no" and ignore him. He sits in the window seat and the flight attendants are hovering over him which is frankly annoying as they're just a distraction. I work through the short flight. He whispers "Is it okay if I get out before you?" I tell him sure. I only notice he's wearing a hell of a nice suit. I mean it's like a $10K bespoke suit.

The flight attendants are all over the guy and it's really creepy-stalkery. I throw the laptop in the bag and get off the plane. I'm waiting for my team. They're grinning and ask me about the flight. I'm confused and ask what they're talking about "You were sitting next to Ben Affleck"

R64 -- I met Bruce Springsteen at the hot tub at the Sunset Marquis in 1983. I didn't realize it was him, though, as he was so wet, and I am bad with faces... It was a great place to meet people, that hot tub.

How did they know you were sitting next to Ben Affleck since he got off ahead of you and you were waiting for your team?

Mo Rocca - Bath House.

Jonathan Price walking down Broadway on the Upper West Side in NYC 1997. Weirdly it turned out to be the night Princess Diana died. Katherine Hepburn stood outside a brownstone on the Upper Eat Side in the early nineties. She gave me a withering look so I averted my eyes and walked on, lol. JFK Jr stood outside ABC Carpet in NYC in the early nineties, I did a double take for the hotness before realizing who it was. Tyne Daly getting her kid an ice cream in Central Park in the early nineties. Seemed very nice and normal, reminding the kid to say thank you to the ice cream seller.

R121: Likewise oblivious if not for the whole flight. I used to fly on TWA all the time and they needed the business: in the 90's I got upgraded on about 90% of my flights. One night in 1995 or '96 flying F from St. Louis to Boston the FA's were fawning over the man across the aisle. Like you, I had work to do and so didn't pay much attention. Until the FA's were asking "Mr. Bailey" how he wanted his steak cooked, what he wanted to drink, if he was comfortable" and so on but because two of 'em were chatting him up in the aisle, I couldn't see who it was and didn't care. In First, they know your name so I figured WTF?

I kept working and the flight attendants kept it up through the service with "Mr. Bailey this" and "Mr. Bailey that" so much so that some of the other passengers who'd figured out who it was joined in, but sounding a lot less awe-struck than the cabin crew: "Still think OJ is a good dad, Mr. Bailey?" "Happy you helped that bastard get away with it, Mr. Bailey?" "If I was as guilty as OJ was, I'd hire you, too, Mr. Bailey" and so on.

All things considered, F. Lee Bailey took it with pretty good grace. I guess he knew he was outnumbered that night.

Ryan Adams in 2001 walking down Halstead street in Chicago. I saw him play at the Vik that same night...really cool guy!

They "cook" steaks on a plane?

Yesterday I met Kevin Spacey in Barron's bedroom.

Hepburn might have been standing in front of her own house, r125, and that may have been a territorial glare.

Late 80's at Disney's Typhoon Lagoon wave pool I got swept up in a big wave and fell right on top of River Phoenix. I was so mortified and in a rush to get away after apologising that I didn't recognise him (probably because I wouldn't look him in the eye) but my friend realised who he was and asked him for a photo. He was very sweet and obliged, getting out of the pool with us.. I was still embarrassed though and slunk off in shame without saying anything else as soon as she took that picture!!

I found Louise Closser Hale hiding in my broom closet!

[quote]Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern in Disneyland.

I didn't know they were an item. It must have been around the Jurassic Park time.

...for several years, r133.

Alice Cooper at a shopping mall in Toronto I could almost put him in my pocket

R131, oh to have been in your place, on top of River Phoenix!

Renee Zellwegger. Paris Starbucks.

Several years ago, I met Celeste Holm at intermission while attending a Broadway show. She was lovely. Some New Yorkers might have seen her from time to time, but I was visiting NYC and was only there for a few days.

My favorites:

[quote]Walked past Warhol on 5th/42nd by the clock NYC 1986.

That's one to remember.

[quote]but waiting for the locked Mens Room and who came out……..Anne Bancroft

Was she older then?

[quote]Cher at Balducci's in the village circa 1988. She was just shopping like a normal person.

Cool.

[quote]Diane Keaton pulling a cart through the Rose Bowl flea market.

One Sunday morning I was driving in Hollywood and I saw her in her black G class Mercedes driving from the opposite direction. I spotted a white shirt and a black hat first.

[quote]Jackie Kennedy - I was behind her as she entered the lobby of an office building. She flung back her winter scarf, and it hit me in the face.

I smiled when I read this.

[quote]Beverly D'Angelo in line behind me at Koontz Hardware in WeHo.

I wonder if she lived nearby.

[quote]But one weird one was when one time I was standing on a corner somewhere in the east 30s in Manhattan waiting to cross the street and standing there next to me waiting was Chaka Khan - short, big hair, big ass. That was cool in and of itself. But literally the following week I was in San Francisco visiting my mom and was standing on a corner somewhere in the city waiting to cross the street, and standing next to me was Chaka Khan. It was so absurd, it was almost comical.

Great story.

[quote]Jane Fonda in a bathroom at Husky stadium during the day. We were alone. She was touring it with Ted Turner. For the Special Olympics. We were alone and she was nice. Had knee-high boots with her jeans tucked in.

I like your eye for detail.

[quote]Vienna in the 80ies. A tiny figure in a furcoat and furhat flanked by two bodyguard-ish guys. You just saw fur and a nose. An unmistakable nose... Barbra

Ha!

[quote]Al Franken at a urinal in Minneapolis airport (hung, if anyone cares.)

Yes.

[quote]Peter Allen making out with (presumably) last night's trick at the other end of the pool apron. The Latina waitress saw me looking at the two of them as she poured my coffee and said, "He's a peeg."

Great story.

[quote]Greta Garbo, 6:00 a.m. w. 23rd St. NYC.

Love it.

[quote]Ethan Hawke on the streets of Bucharest, Romania, where his mother lives.

One snowy day in NYC I went for a run along the Hudson and the only other two people running that day were Ethan Hawke and his wife.

[quote]While reaching into my pocket for something at LAX, I accidentally elbowed veteran character actress Kathleen Freeman in the left tit–and SHE apologized to ME!

Made me laugh.

While on a business trip, I met Chrsitine Baranski while attending a concert at Carnegiie Hall. She was sitting near me, and we chatted at the end of the concert and in the lobby for a couple of minutes. It topped off a wonderful evening. She used the used "sublime" to describe the concert. I would say meeting Baranski was also sublime. I complemented her on her work on The Good Wife, which was on the air at the time. Delightful, charming and a gracious woman.

I met designer Bill Blass in Central Park, introduced to me by my friend's uncle, NYT photographer Bill Cunningham. What a day. Bill knew everyone. Lovely man, polite, private, unassuming, talented and extraordinarily down to earth.

It's nice to hear a good story about Christine Baranski. I've heard others say she's cold as ice.

Renee Zellwegger was in line next to me at a deli in Mississippi while she was filming that movie with Greg Kinnear and I was visiting my parents. Lovely lady. This was immediately after the plastic surgery controversy and I thought she looked great in person. It must have settled by then, because she looked very much like herself. She was soft spoken and seemed very kind to the staff.

Jude Law at a restaurant in London. No one pestered him.

Fergie with her kid at the Salt Lick BBQ in Austin. She was very nice.

During my short career as a waiter I was delivering room service and Ed Asner opened the door wearing nothing but a sleeveless t-shirt, boxer shorts and black socks.

R128 Reheated in a convection over; longer equals less pink.

R130 Hepburn lived in Turtle Bay.

Right, r146. So?

Is that UES? I don't know.

I guess it's technically midtown east. 49th between 1st and 2nd Avenues.

I wonder who lives there now. Maybe the family still owns it.

George Maharis........guess

Hepburn's house has been sold. If you google her name plus E. 49th Street you might still be able to pull up the listing, with photographs and a floor plan.

One of the Sprouse twins walking down the beer aisle at 10 o'clock in the middle of Texas 8 years ago. I think they were filming a movie.

Woody and Mia, UWS, back in the mid-'80s. She looked wasted, haggard, with that limp and long blond hair, wearing some shapeless long summer skirt that could have dragging on the sidewalk, it was so long. He was short of course, as ugly as he looks in pics, what hair he had was all frizzled looking, a reddish tinge to it. I stared at him as I passed and he stared right back. I turned around to get one last glimpse of them--and he had turned around, too, like daring me to say his name. Creepy couple even then.

Tina Louise sometime in the '90s (at a salon getting her long red hair blow dried). She looked skeletal, pinched face--- and was being rude to the stylist straightening her hair. She acted like some diva bitch who was A list, rather than some 2nd rate creature from a dumb '60s sitcom.

I have only posted this on DL once before for fear of being totally crucified. But it happened and you guys can take it or leave it. When I started out on Wall Street, our form had a deal with the old Downtown Athletic Club over on the very end of the west side highway. It used to be very nice. Ten floors of weights, tracks, pools, boxing rings, everything. Plus restaurant and bar. An old "men's club" vibe. It is now condos. Anyway, JFK Jr used to work out there when he was intern at DAs office. I went to Brown (after him) and used to wear a Brown tee shirt to lift in. A few times in weight room, he gave a head nod/hello. I was low key and just did the same. A few weeks later, he was standing in open showers buck naked. He said "didnyou go to Brown?" We had a nice conversation showering. Nothing more. But to answer questions, he had a great build and he was hung very nicely.

Celebrities never do the showering in the gym thing anymore because of cell phone cameras.

The Beverly Hilton , Golden Globes 2019

Kendall Jenner buying Clearasil in the Duane Reade on W. 51st St. in NYC.

Even our idols get zits?!!

I wouldn't be able to pick Kendall Jenner out of a lineup.

And now Kendall is the spokesperson for Proactiv. Guess that Clearasil didn’t work.

Oh, to have nudged Kathleen Freeman’s left tit!

I hope you never washed that elbow, R96.

R124 is mo rocca hung?

He's got mo rocca cocca.

[quote]Oh, to have nudged Kathleen Freeman’s left tit! I hope you never washed that elbow, [R96].

It was more than just nudging, I got her pretty good. I turned around to see what I'd done and Ms. Freeman apologized to me for "getting too close." I of course recognized her instantly and made some stupid remark about forgetting I wasn't on a basketball court. Neither of us were seriously injured. Alas, it didn't occur to me to not wash my elbow until you brought it up. I guess it's too late now. The mishap occurred some 20 or so years ago, but every time I see her in an old movie or TV show, I fondly remember the time I whacked her in the tit at the LA Airport.

Club Car on Nantucket

We should become best friends, R96.

[quote]r154 Tina Louise sometime in the '90s (at a salon getting her long red hair blow dried). She looked skeletal, pinched face--- and was being rude to the stylist straightening her hair. She acted like some diva bitch who was A list, rather than some 2nd rate creature from a dumb '60s sitcom.

Oh! Oh! This reminds me I have an encounter to add to the thread: I was in a shoe store at the Beverly Center in (West?) Hollywood and my friend pointed out Tina Louise was sitting on the customer bench alongside us. I complimented her and she was very nice.

I kind of go into a trance and start burbling around celebs (or just freeze up entirely), and I'm sorry to say I took out my drag business card -- which had a nice pic of me on it as a glamorous redhead --and said something like, "I even chose red hair because of you!"

Even that didn't phase her. I think she said, "Well, that's very nice."

In the late '70s, I saw the musical "On the Twentieth Century" starring Madeline Kahn and John Callum during its pre-Broadway tryout at the Colonial Theatre in Boston. I just had to meet Madeline, but didn't know how I would. But I did! Later that evening, both Madeline and John were walking through Boston Common heading back to the Ritz where they were staying. I recognized them of course. I had my Playbill. I walked up to them and said I has just seen the show. Both were very friendly and chatty. I asked if they would sign my Playbill, which they did. It was a chance meeting. I was thrilled.

It's "faze", r168, not "phase."

Boy George at a yoga class in Bayswater, London. He was right next to me and flirting (no thanks, gurl)

Then I saw him at Porchester Baths a week or so later.

High Grant - Pret A Manger, Fulham Road. He sat right next to me for some reason. I didn't stick around to find out.

sorry, HUGH Grant.