?

As many here know....my list is very long. 

I'm curious. Have you met any?

Who would you most like to meet?

I've only ever met 2 celebrities, and they are both (former) NHL players:

Kirk Muller and Norm Maracle

I'm actually a distant relative of Maracle.  He is the son of my grandmother's 2nd cousin, or something like that.
I once played Road Hockey with Muller.  When he was starting out in the NHL, he lived on my street in the off season

If sports athletes count, I met Gordie Howe, Mario Lemieux, Rocket Richard, Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Gary Carter, Willie Stargell, disgraced Canadian runner Ben Johnson and some others.

I met the "man in motion" Rick Hansen, Canadian Prime-Ministers Jean Chretien and John Turner.

And I was told the Shah of Iran walked right by us at either Expo 67 or 1970. But that doesn't count as a meeting.

Mr. T at Ed Mirvish's store on Bathurst and Bloor.  I got to shake his hand.  :D

Mr. T at Ed Mirvish's store on Bathurst and Bloor.  I got to shake his hand.  :D


Did he say his quote?

Did he say his quote?


"I pitty the fool?"?

No.  I didn't have the nerve to ask him?

"I pitty the fool?"?

No.  I didn't have the nerve to ask him?


I hear ya. When I show people my pic w/Alfonso Ribero everyone wants to know if he did the Carlton....no cuz I didn't want to ask him to.

I haven't met too many celebrities, despite living in Southern California. The other night though, I did get to talk to Vanessa Carlton after her show, she was very nice. :)
Interestingly, Dinah Jane, who was on X Factor last season, went to my school, so I guess she counts as well.

Funny story though, back when I lived in Houston when I was 11-12, I got confused for a celebrity. I walked into a CVS and some kid came up and started asking me if I was Dylan/Cole Sprouse from the then-popular programme, Suite Life of Zack and Cody. However, I didn't even notice him until my mum said something, I guess I was too focused on getting what I needed from CVS to even notice, haha. And besides, what would someone like Dylan or Cole be doing at a random CVS in suburban Texas? Who knows...

I haven't met too many celebrities, despite living in Southern California. The other night though, I did get to talk to Vanessa Carlton after her show, she was very nice. :)
Interestingly, Dinah Jane, who was on X Factor last season, went to my school, so I guess she counts as well.

Funny story though, back when I lived in Houston when I was 11-12, I got confused for a celebrity. I walked into a CVS and some kid came up and started asking me if I was Dylan/Cole Sprouse from the then-popular programme, Suite Life of Zack and Cody. However, I didn't even notice him until my mum said something, I guess I was too focused on getting what I needed from CVS to even notice, haha. And besides, what would someone like Dylan or Cole be doing at a random CVS in suburban Texas? Who knows...


That's funny.  Then again I've run into Walter Higgins ( Justified) at a target...
My friend ran into the guy who plays Olaf on 2 broke girls at cvs. So it's possible....even in Texas.....location shoot  ;D

My mother and I swear that we saw Paul Gross, Constable Benton Fraser From Due South, in our local pharmacy looking at stuff on racks.  I'm wondering if he lives in town or somehwere near here? ;D

I've gotten close to a few, but never actually interacted with them.

Case in point...

April 9th 1995: then-President Bill Clinton, at a religious service at the then-cathedral in downtown Los Angeles
February 8th 1997: Weird Al, at a Dr. Demento show; he was sitting across the aisle from my family & me; I didn't realize until the intermission
August 12th 2018: Bob Eubanks at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza; he hosted a presentation in which he discussed how he got the Beatles to perform at the Hollywood Bowl in the 1960s
December 3rd 2023: Jennifer Holliday at a concert hall in Camarillo; yes, she performed music, but also asked someone in the audience to turn off the bright light on their phone because it was distractive



As for this question posed near the beginning of this thread:


Who would you most like to meet?


I have a long list of potentials.

I've gotten close to a few, but never actually interacted with them.

Case in point...

April 9th 1995: then-President Bill Clinton, at a religious service at the then-cathedral in downtown Los Angeles
February 8th 1997: Weird Al, at a Dr. Demento show; he was sitting across the aisle from my family & me; I didn't realize until the intermission
August 12th 2018: Bob Eubanks at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza; he hosted a presentation in which he discussed how he got the Beatles to perform at the Hollywood Bowl in the 1960s
December 3rd 2023: Jennifer Holliday at a concert hall in Camarillo; yes, she performed music, but also asked someone in the audience to turn off the bright light on their phone because it was distractive



As for this question posed near the beginning of this thread:
I have a long list of potentials.


You went to a Dr. Demento show? I am jealous. I was a proud member of the Demento Society or many years. I still have about a year's worth of his radio show on cassette.


Cat

You went to a Dr. Demento show? I am jealous. I was a proud member of the Demento Society or many years. I still have about a year's worth of his radio show on cassette.


Cat

Yes; this was at Caltech in Pasadena, California. Dr D showed plenty of novelty music; and as I mentioned in my previous post, Weird Al was in the audience. He may have come up on stage later on; I don’t quite remember. I just know that I had just started to get acquainted with his music at the time. (I later attended a Weird Al concert at the Orange County Fair in the summer of 1999.)

I've gotten close to a few, but never actually interacted with them.

Case in point...

April 9th 1995: then-President Bill Clinton, at a religious service at the then-cathedral in downtown Los Angeles
February 8th 1997: Weird Al, at a Dr. Demento show; he was sitting across the aisle from my family & me; I didn't realize until the intermission
August 12th 2018: Bob Eubanks at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza; he hosted a presentation in which he discussed how he got the Beatles to perform at the Hollywood Bowl in the 1960s
December 3rd 2023: Jennifer Holliday at a concert hall in Camarillo; yes, she performed music, but also asked someone in the audience to turn off the bright light on their phone because it was distractive



As for this question posed near the beginning of this thread:
I have a long list of potentials.


Couple of questions about your post if I may Jeff?

Why isn’t the LA cathedral still a cathedral?

Can you name your top three celebs you’d like to meet

I’ve met Jonathan Edwards (UK triple jumper when he was visiting the university research lab I worked in. It was for a radio programme he was making on sports fabrics. Therefore I have also met two of the professors he talks to as I worked with them for several years.

I also briefly met Heinz Wolff as he was the external examiner for the university department and he asked me the way to the department office.

Yes; this was at Caltech in Pasadena, California. Dr D showed plenty of novelty music; and as I mentioned in my previous post, Weird Al was in the audience. He may have come up on stage later on; I don’t quite remember. I just know that I had just started to get acquainted with his music at the time. (I later attended a Weird Al concert at the Orange County Fair in the summer of 1999.)


I heard Weird Al puts on one hell of a show. I haven't had the privilege.


Cat

I’ve met Jonathan Edwards (UK triple jumper when he was visiting the university research lab I worked in. It was for a radio programme he was making on sports fabrics. Therefore I have also met two of the professors he talks to as I worked with them for several years.

I also briefly met Heinz Wolff as he was the external examiner for the university department and he asked me the way to the department office.


I can recall you informing us that cricketer Philip DeFreitas can to your same establishment.

I can recall you informing us that cricketer Philip DeFreitas can to your same establishment.
Of whom I have met several times and other leading cricketers at Lord's Cricket Ground.

I ruined the wedding night of former child star Corey Feldman.  I never actually met him, but I talked to him, so our voices met :D

Danny John-Jules and Lalla Ward.

Couple of questions about your post if I may Jeff?

Why isn’t the LA cathedral still a cathedral?


Apologies for missing your reply to my post earlier.

The place where I saw then-President Clinton in 1995 was the Cathedral of St. Vibiana, located in downtown Los Angeles. It was closed down a year later after damage (from the 1994 earthquake) was discovered in parts of the building. A few years later, a new cathedral was constructed nearby; it opened to the public in 2002 as Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. The old cathedral building is still standing; repairs were made and it has since been repurposed.

Can you name your top three celebs you’d like to meet

No, not at the moment.

I could probably brainstorm and write down a few names, but it might take some time to narrow it down to just three of them.