have you ever met someone famous?
By shmeedia
@shmeedia (1044)
Canada
December 5, 2006 1:11pm CST
if you did, explain where, who and how. did you go to a press conference, book-signing, music in-store, etc, or just meet them by accident on the street?
any funny anecdotes to go with that? like if you or they said something funny or interesting?
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14 responses
@shireishou (896)
• Indonesia
8 Dec 06
yes I often to meet my idol. ^^ lol
We comunitcate each other ^^ his name is Kuple. one of basist in my country. I like him because he erally care with his fans ^^ He send me his band video at youtube. GYAAAAa
and I made it become SMV. how happy when he said "I like it. Thx a lot."
WOOOOW... (embrased)
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@shmeedia (1044)
• Canada
8 Dec 06
hahahah poor you, trouble with the pic, but very nice onigiri anyway ;)
yeah it's great he can communicate with you! i used to have an email penpal who was the drummer of one of my old favorite bands. because i took some photos of his band playing a concert, he put those pics on his website. even now the badn doesn't exist anymore, but the pictures are still there on the same website :D
@shireishou (896)
• Indonesia
8 Dec 06
Ah yes.. I post their band. Called Alv band. U can watch their clip at youtube^^
@shireishou (896)
• Indonesia
8 Dec 06
aaahh wrong image.. I sghould post that for my topic. So sorry T___T but I can't post image now. it's lagh hix hix sorry
@misskatonic (3723)
• United States
8 Dec 06
My best 'famous' person story is when I bet Bill Mummy. For those who don't know, Bill Mummy was on the original Lost in Space, and played Lennier on the award winning series Babylon 5. There was a big yearly B5 convention in Boston that I'd go to every year. He was one of the guests one year, and I went to get an autograph.
I was dressed as Lyta, which meant I was in black leather pants and a black leather low cut tank top. I got up to the table and asked for an autograph, and we chatted for a bit, and then I asked if I could get a picture. Bill Mummy grins and says 'sure! Come on behind the table!'. I go behind the table - I'd had pictures taken with a ton of cast members before and this was all normal. usually they'd hug me or put an arm around me. Claudia Christian kissed me, which was awesome! Anyway, I get behind the table and he's sitting on a chair. Instead of getting up, he pats his lap and says 'how about it?'. So I sat on his lap and he put his arms around me and made a funny little joke about that picture would seal his divorce. He kissed my cheek and told me I was a sweetheart.
I've still got that picture, somewhere.
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@misskatonic (3723)
• United States
8 Dec 06
It was a really awesome day. Bill Mummy is great!
Sadly, I don't have the pic of Claudia Christian on the computer. :( I need to get someone with a scanner to scan my collection of actor photos! But that made my year, seriously. I admitted that I had a huge crush on her and she grinned and said that was great and gave me a kiss on the cheek.
@Signal20 (2281)
• United States
7 Dec 06
Haven't really met them, saw them while I was working. I'm not the type to go up and say hey, autograph please. I just kinda smile at them and leave it at that. Used to work at an airport, saw Ted Nugent, Larry Bird, a Chicago news/sportscaster, guy who played Newman on Seinfeld, couple of big wig politicians that I didn't really care about especially during election years lol, few others can't remember at the moment. I know some of the guys I worked with saw Nicole Kidman, Sharon Stone, Shania Twain, etc.
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@shmeedia (1044)
• Canada
7 Dec 06
nice!!
you have the same kind of response to these 'famous people' as i usually do. i don't tend to say much to them. an acknowledging smile, nod or 'hi' is usually it.
a couple of times, i was standing right next to a star and said absolutely nothing just coz i didn't know what to say. sometimes 'hi i'm a huge fan' is just innappropriate! when i saw miki berenyi from lush (she was the one i stood next to and said nothing), we were both watching a concert, she looked really into it, so i was not about to scream over the music, 'excuse me, i love you!' LOL
@Signal20 (2281)
• United States
7 Dec 06
LOL Yeah, I figure these people get that all the time, must be so annoying to them. I remember watching Larry Bird walk through the screening point at the airport, I just sat there, and all the TSA screeners were going oh my gosh oh my gosh, can I have your autograph? The guys with his whole family, trying to fly out, and they were all drawing attention to him, and all the other people around started coming over to him. I couldn't imagine living like that, must be a real pain!!
@shmeedia (1044)
• Canada
7 Dec 06
you just reminded me of when i met samuel l. jackson. i used to work in a film production house, so there were departments like, animation, voiceovers, film processing etc.
i was in the kitchen having coffee with some colleagues, and as my friend standing in front of me came by to serve me a cup, he just sort of froze, looked way up behind me and the coffee went to someone else (samuel l. lol).
it was pretty funny, but all of us kept our cool. at first mr. jackson went quite unnoticed, even though he's rather tall, because it was the first time he'd shaved his head after doing movie roles with hair, so we were thrown off at first :)
@Justme2007 (1848)
• United States
8 Dec 06
I met Boys II Men,I had won tickets on KDIA back in the day and got backstage passes for myself and my daugther it was really nice and she enjoyed it alot
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@sootix (92)
• India
18 Dec 06
seen loads of the hindi bollywood movie people in mumbai.. so yeah, i guess you could say i've seen a few..
the one i do remember is when i met, spoke to, and spilt pop-corn on a celebrity during a documentary screening!! gawwd i was so totally embarassed.. to top it all, it was a 'she' (there go my brownie points)!!! but she was all graceful and all that and said it was ok.. guess she had no choice, considering the press was around :-D
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@abccba (1914)
• Denmark
5 Dec 06
I have met a lot of people who are really famous in denmark! And i also have a couple of friens who are famous in denmark, but they are not very famous, but their music get played in radioes, and on TV! But i don't really look at them as nothing special, so i don't really have any funny anecdotes about it, cause it's not something i think much about!
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@forfein (2507)
•
10 Dec 06
Hi
Yes I was lucky enough to be involved in a movie!!
Filmed by Paramount studios!!
I was only an "Exra" but you asked if they were any funny stories behind it....
One of the Star's in the Film was Alber Finney, and towards the end of making of the movie I asked him for his Autograph....
He Produced a copy of the Script for that days filming, and wrote on it ........
"So very pleased to act in your movie Geoff"
The reason why he put this....
All during the filming of the movie, I was determined that I "would be seen" and so where ever the camera's where, so was I!!
I even managed to get behind one of them whilst they were filming!!
It was excellent.
Another one of the Stars was Greta Scacchi, and in one scene we were supposed to be walking out of the door of a very old school.... in fact it was not a church, it was a VERY OLD church, and they "Pretended" it was the school.
We had to hide our selves behind the "buttresses" of the church and then all just walk out, as though it was a door.
The Director of the movie said that they could see the skirts of Gret Sacchi, and could "she hide a wee bit more"
I was behind her, and I put my arms around her, and pulled her close to me!!
She looked up and smiled, and didnt say a word....
I had some very good fun on this movie!!!
The cast of the movie:-
Actor Role
Albert Finney .... Andrew Crocker-Harris
Greta Scacchi .... Laura Crocker-Harris
Matthew Modine .... Frank Hunter
Julian Sands .... Tom Gilbert
Michael Gambon .... Dr. Frobisher
Ben Silverstone .... Taplow
Jim Sturgess .... Bryant (as James Sturgess)
Joe Beattie .... Wilson
Mark Bolton .... Grantham
Tom Havelock .... Laughton
By the way, in the scene below "I am just in it"
@forfein (2507)
•
12 Dec 06
Sorry it is underneath the picture!!
It is called "The Browning Version"
It was the British entry at the Golden Rose Of Montreax
You CAN get it on video, not sure about DVD, if you ever watch it, nearly right at the end, after they have played the game of cricket, and they are clapping the team into the pavillion, the camera's are on a boom, this particular day, I took a girl friend of mine along to watch the filming!!
We are RIGHT IN FRONT of the camera, and if you look close, I bend down to her ear and whisper "If we are not in this movie now, my dear, we never will be" !!!!!!
@camara_me (615)
• United States
18 Feb 07
I met michael jackson when i was a teenager. He was in the same motel as we were and we had caught him and his brothers in the hallway. My best friends step dad is a actor and country western singer. So we grew up with him. We met lerch that played in the old adams family. He got out of a real small car. wow was he tall.
@Willowlady (10658)
• United States
5 Dec 06
Once I met a few professional bowlers. I was a score keeper hired in a city where the tour came through. I kept score for Purvis Granger and got to dance with him once also a few others I cannot remember at this moment. Was alot of fun since I am a bowler too...well used to, not bowling at this time. I found out that they are people just like us HaHa...should have known!
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@hassei_takano (1411)
• Indonesia
9 Dec 06
ahahahahahah.... ne chan... U post that onigiri in this discusion and forget to post onigiri on Ur on discusion. wahahahahahha baka desu ne!
Ah shmeedia-san nice to meet you.^^
I'm shireishou's younger sister.
And yes.. we actualy often meet many Insonesian famous artist on backstage. why? As U know, we are Alv band fans. And on every Alv show, we can get 'backstage ticket'. Of course e able to meet many artist. But we don;t care to another artist. many people say that we are stupid. wahahaha
O yeah.... I try to post their photos.
@shmeedia (1044)
• Canada
9 Dec 06
hi shireishou's li'l sis :)
thanks for joining us in this discussion :)
haha i don't think you are stupid for only liking one band...i am the same way!!! a long time ago, i always met my favorite band sloan (they are from eastern canada, and kind of getting to be old men now lol), and even my parents told me and my sister 'you girls are CRAZY...how many times do you need to watch their concerts!?!?!' but they were also really friendly people, and always remembered us even when there were a huge amount of people hanging around waiting to meet them.
and now i don't care meeting other bands, just globe is what interests me. even though people may think i'm stupid i only like globe, if i could meet them probably i would not say anything, especially since i would have to translate what i want to say into japanese very quickly before they would walk away from me! my japanese is so limited, it wouldn't even be fun!
@hassei_takano (1411)
• Indonesia
9 Dec 06
ahahaa yes yes.. Thx a lot. But my mom happy while know that they vocalist invited us in his wedding ceremony. BUt since we can't come in curch (we are not Cristian), we come to his reseption. ^^ And wow.. so many artist. wahahaha but we don't know who they are. Only know
"oh.. I was see him/her on television". wahahahahaha
@ugetaddicted (4)
• India
9 Dec 06
IT'S TRUE, I MEET MY SOUL THAT TOO FOR 3 HOURS I WAS TALKING TO MY SOUL AND THAT DAY HAS CHANGED MY LIFE.. I DO NOT BELIEVE ALL THIS EARLIER TO THE INCIDENT THAT HAS CHANGED MY LIFE. BELIEVE ME WHEN EVER YOU NEED A ANSWER TO THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE IN UR LIFE TRY TO CALL UR SOUL THAT'S ONE WHO CAN ANSWER THAT WILL NOT BE BIAS.
;LOVE;
ME-ALWAYS
@perfectstranger (727)
• Indonesia
18 Dec 06
I ever meet Katon Bagaskara, one of the famoust singer in my country. But that time I was a assistant of Stage manager on his show
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