Connections/Meetings with famous people?

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Last night I was watching the movie, Serving in Silence, starring Glenn Close as Grethe Cammermeyer. It occurred to me it might be fun to learn about each other's links to famous people. Grethe Cammermeyer lives here on the island and I see her at hospital board meetings and local political party meetings. I was at her house once when she hosted a political gathering.

When figure skating champion Peggy Fleming was about 4 years old, she was my next-door neighbor. She used to come over and visit my mother a lot -- to escape the bickering in her own home.

The Steve Bechtel Jr. family had a summer/weekend ranch about a mile down the road from us. Mom was their cook and I sometimes baby-sat their 5 young children.

What about you? Do you have stories to tell?
 
When my daughter lived in CA, she had a children's clothing store, Kevin Costner's wife shopped there all the time, & at times, he came with her. They must have mentioned the place, as other celebs came as well. Alas, when I was there, nary a one did I see. LOLOL
 
Perry Como dated my aunt when he was younger and lived in PA. One day he told her they had a new barber at the shop, and he'd like to go on a double date. My aunt hit it off with the new guy, and Perry hit it off with the other woman. The two new couples married, and stood up for each other. All remained good friends until their deaths. We called him Uncle Perry when he visited back home after making it big, and he sang at my cousin's ordination to the priesthood Mass plus my grandparent's 75th anniversary Mass.

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I was visiting my brother and sister-in-law for 2 weeks around Thanksgiving one year. They told me that we were all invited to their friend Anne's home for Thanksgiving dinner. When we got there, their friend was Anne Howard Bailey!!!! A former head writer for Days! She invited me in like I was an old friend. Showed me her Emmys, Oscars, and Tonys plus photos of her with the Cordays and various actors / actress from Days & Broadway plays and movies she wrote. She even had my sister-in-law take pictures of me with her and her memorabilia. She was simply amazing, and so warm and welcoming. She told me of things she did like turn Jack into a nicer character because she had worked with the actor (present Jack) before he came to Days as a replacement for the original, and she could not see him playing the nasty horrible Jack the rapist. Of course I had to email Poirot to let her know of my wonderful adventure as soon as we got back from dinner that night.
 
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Another time I visited my brother, he had just had a litter of kittens dumped over his back wall. He kept one and found homes for the others. We went to buy all of the necessary things for the little guy. While at the store, I hear someone calling my brother's name in the next aisle. I go around the corner to see Brian Boitano, the figure skater and coach. My brother introduced us, and said I was a big fan visiting from PA. Brian asked what we were doing for fun, and we said we were doing the tour of the stars' homes in Palm Springs the next day. Well, the next day, the tour bus pulls up in front of one home. The guide points out Brian Boitano sitting in a chair on his driveway. The next thing, Brian is walking to the bus, gets on, and walks back the aisle to say hello to me in front of all the people!!! He just made my day.

Just an FYI...he said most agents call the tour companies to tell them when their clients are in town so people can "accidentally" see them
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Once in a grocery store, my brother was talking to Mary while we were waiting to check out. He introduced me, and she was very cordial, asked how I liked Palm Springs, etc. After we got in the car, he told me she was Mary Bono, Sonny's widow, and at the time their US Representative. My brother knew her because he'd run into Sonny ( when he was mayor of Palm Springs) and their son at a pinball arcade on Saturdays , and play with them. After Sonny died, Mary would bring her son when they were in town.
 
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About 27 years ago, I was an extra in a movie called Samurai Cowboy that started Matt McCoy (father from The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and for Poirot, played a priest at a homeless shelter at Christmas), Conchata Galen Ferrell (housekeeper from 2/12 Men and Robert Conrad. In one of the scenes I was sitting in the bar when Robert Conrad and Matt McCoy enter. I joked around a bit with Robert Conrad and after that scene, went home. The next day while working at a gas station Robert Conrad came in to grab a coffee and remembered me from the day before. The coffee was about 2 hours and gave it to him for free.

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While backpacking in Australia, I worked at MGM Grand Casino with banquets and was given the Prime Minister's table to take care of. Very nice man and took time to ask about my travels Down Under.

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While Days was on their 50th anniversary tour, Eric (Greg Vaughn), Kate (Lauren Koslow) and Theresa ( Jenn Lilley) were in Calgary at the TV station Mike worked at. He called me to come over and I spent about 20 minutes with them just chatting about stuff. Jenn and I grabbed a coffee together, recreated the firepower scene but with an iron and got some photos taken with them. All were very welcoming and very engaging.

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I met Jane Seymour very briefly where Mike worked. He introduced me and I had to go but Mike spoke a while with her and has a picture with her. Mike said she was so down to earth and approachable.
 
I am a fine art photographer. Many years ago I did a piece that involved interviewing and taking photos of some well known people, mostly in their homes and only for my art. Some included Gilda Radner, Ed Asner, Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows, Sally Struthers, Norman Lear, Loretta Swit, Regis Philbin, Tommy Smothers, Abigail van Buren, Alan Young, Sissy Spacek and Margot Kidder. We spent hours together.

I met, in my former hometown, James Reynold (Abe) and John deLancie (Eugene) in various places around town. John was very tall, and sweet as we explored the cheese section at Trader Joe's. James is a dear sweet man.

Oh, also Stacy Keach

Christine Lund, Michael Lerner, Stockard Channing, etc.
 
Muzzaman said:
Sorry, I guess I didn't read the title correctly........connections......not who we met. :):)
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Hey, Muzza, connections are who you met!

Other than Perry Como, mine are all people I was introduced to the same as with you.

Oh, I've got one more.

The street where I worked was shut down for filming scenes for the movie, Tiger Warsaw. I got to meet Patrick Swayze when he asked if he could come in to use our restroom with real soap and water to wash up. He stayed a few minutes to say hello to everyone.
 
My only famous connection is my cousin Liz Holtan, she's not super famous (at least not so far), but she as had guest spots on NCIS, The Good Wife, As the World Turns, and a few other shows. She's also been in a few movies with small parts, mostly she works in theater. She has a page on IMDB, if you want to see her beautiful face.
 
Back in college, I visited a friend who lived in the DC suburbs. One day we went into DC to see the sights and he decided that we should go watch a congressional hearing. At the Capitol, we got onto an elevator and Senator Robert Kennedy then came down the hall and also got on. He stood directly in front of me and because of the height difference, I could look down at the top of his head. I can still recall how carefully his hair was combed -- not a strand was out of place.

During the early 80s, I had a summer job as a customs inspector at JFK airport. (This was when everybody had to go through the customs line and they needed a lot more inspectors during the summer.) I saw numerous famous people who turned up, including model Brooke Shields and her mother, actress Barbara Eden, actor Bill Murray, opera singer Leontyne Price (she had a full set of Louis Vuiton luggage), singer Bobby Vinton, and actor Anthony Quinn. None of these people ended up going through my line, but I did handle the Uncola Man man, performer Geoffrey Holder, who once did TV commercials for 7-Up, Orville Freeman who was Secretary of Agriculture during the Kennedy Administration. (Mrs. Freeman was very pleasant, but her then-elderly husband never said a word), and the once well-known advertising executive Jerry Della Famina (who arrived on the Concorde SST and was wearing a watch made from a vintage $20 gold piece).
 
I have met and hugged a couple of folks.... I worked as scenic design in a production of Guys and Dolls and Peter Reckell (Bo) portrayed Sky Masterson that was a fun show with a great cast....

I stopped by the rehearsal hall one year to get a CD of Beauty and the Beast autographed for a friend, Paige O'Hara was in rehearsal for South Pacific she was going to be Nellie Forbush, as I was leaving the director of the program came in and asked if I'd stay for a minute he wanted to introduce me to someone.... He introduced me to Cathy Rigby who was in town in talks to play Peter Pan in Sacramento.... I shook her hand and said I was pleased to meet her. ... the director said "Ms. Rigby this is Thomas Schumacher's younger sister." Ms. Rigby replied, "Oh, that is great he is so much fun to work with!"... I said yes and politely made my way out of the rehearsal hall...

I am not my brother's younger sister...... but who is going to correct that error? If you can be younger be younger.... right??
 
Wow, I'm surprised how many of you have met famous people. I've never met anybody very famous. Buck Taylor, who played "Newly" on Gunsmoke, lives near me. I have a picture of him with my sister and me. I also met "Mr. Whipple" of Charmin Paper back in the 1970s, when my husband was a manager at a Charmin plant in Pennsylvania.
 
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