Celebrity Encounters!

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So, way back in nineites I took some time of to go visit New Zealand. 
Me and a guy I knew from the country were walking around Auckland.  He
was showing me the sights and such.  We were in a store and there's this
big, giant hulking guy.  He was probably 6'4" or so and built.  Not
super muscled, but just solid looking.  He says, "Jonah!" and the guy
just nods back at him and said "Hi" or something.  I just sorta nodded
and was like.. "Hey.."

A fe wminutes later, it occurs to me.. who the hell was that?  I ask my
friend and he says it's Jonah Lomu.  I'm like "Who?"  It turns out he's
some superstar Rugby player from New Zealand.  (And, as I found out
during my stay, Rugby is huge in New Zealand... about the same as
Football is in America.)

So it's weird..  I met this guy no one in America has ever heard of, but
everyone in New Zealand knew who he was.  So I guess that's a celeb
encounter.  (Kind of.)
 

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OK tOdd, here I go...
So I was 6 months gone with my daughter and working part time in an upscale cafe.  The cafe was located in the San Francisco Film Centre Building in the Presidio, so it was not uncommon for local celebs and directors to be in the building working.  Anyway, Sundance was using our cafe for it's luncheon in the private conference room. It was an incredibly busy day in the cafe, so I ended up bringing the Sundance group their order.  As I waddle around setting up the buffet, the people settle in and seem to be waiting for someone.  I finish setting up and am Just about to leave, in comes Robert Redford.  Now here I am, six months knocked up, and in an apron.  He greets the people at the conference table with a nod and smile, then looks at me.  I blush a shade a million times more red than a strawberry in June and cannot think for the life of me what my name is.  He is shorter than he looks on the big screen, but he was magnetic.  He oozed charm and charisma.  Then he smiled at me and said "Looks good!"  It took me a moment to realize he meant the food(!), and tried to respond, but my window had closed.  Someone had his elbow and was guiding him away.  I had never realized until the very second how damn sexy Mr. Redford really is.  I left and our paths did not cross again.  But it was sure fun!
Rachel in SF

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Hey Todd, Effedup here yet again for another gripping story from my life.  There's actually 2 stories here....enjoy!

My first story takes place about 10 years ago, while I was living in Palm Harbor, Florida.  My father, brother, and I decided to go to a park...I don't rememebr the name but there was boardwalks all over the place so you could go and look at all the alligators in the water.  Cool stuff.  Anyways, we're doing the hike and we come across this camera crew filming an interview, with "The Macho Man" Randy Savage.  Oddly enough, there wasn't anyone else around (I guess his level of celebness isn't as high to the general public as it is to me with my WWF obsessed childhood).  Anyways, they get done filming and he sees us and chats with us.  The first thing I thought was "Wow, he's a lot shorter than he looks on TV".  Macho Man starts doing his Macho Man thing for my little brother, and my brother's all like "Who the hell are you?!".  He was pretty good natured about it, though...and a really nice guy.

The second story takes place with the same brother at Chicago's O'Hare airport, we were flying out to LA to visit my father.  We're waiting around to get our boarding passes, and I hear a bunch of commotion behind me, so I turn around and there's "Puck" of Real World Fame (or infamy, depending on who you ask) with his entourage.  He came off the same way as he did on TV back in the day...loud-mouthed and obnoxious, but funny as hell.  He actually helped us out a bit, too.  They were screwing around in getting us on the plane to leave, delaying us without any explanation why or how long it was going to be, so Puck says "I've got an idea" and him and his whole crew start playing strip poker right there in the terminal.  They had gotten their shirts off by the time the gate attendents saw this going on, and we were on the plane in no time after that.  Funny stuff...

Peace out...

     EffedUp

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This one goes back to New Year's 1990, 91 or 92 (can't remember which). 
 
I was living in Washington, DC at the time and in Union Station they had a bar called "Fat Tuesday's".  They had about 20 of the "slushy" machines and you could get any kind of mixed drink frozen from the machine. 
 
At the time, (unfortunately), I was one of the biggest "regulars" in the place after work each night... but stuck to beer.
 
Everybody told me that I HAD to come for the New Years Eve celebration... told 'em I would.
 
I had a bunch of other places to go first (read: drinkin' a bunch) and I didn't get there 'til about 12:30.  The doorman said "I knew you would make it so I held these back for you", as he handed me 3 splits of champagne.
 
On about 2 AM (after the 3 splits and several more drinks) a gal came in with her boyfriend and she was dressed like this:

(without the sword and mask).
 
In my "less than sober" state of mind I announced, "Hey... It's Zorro!!!"
 
I went over to the area of the bar where they were seated and asked for an autograph.
 
She was very nice, picked up a cocktail napkin and signed it. 
 
Not getting the expected "Z", I looked at her and said, "Hey thanks (pause) Who Are You?"
 
Wound up that it was Rosanna Arquette (Desperately Seeking Susan, Pulp Fiction, etc.)

She and her boyfriend had taken the train down from NYC for a party and were waiting for a train to take 'em back around 4 AM. 
 
As I recall, the three of us had a really nice conversation. (and maybe they were just thinking... "Go Away. Go Away. Go Away."
 
Chuck

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