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Guri Guy



Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island

PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I met Steven Hawking in Glasgow, Scotland. My sister married his son, Robert. They are now divorced but it was nice to talk to him. Good sense of humour I recall. Smile
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uberscheisse



Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.

PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i forgot to say that i used to sit next to daniel powter - that guy who sings that annoying-as-fiberglass-in-your-shorts song "bad day" in band class in senior high.

nice enough guy.
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Tiger Beer



Joined: 07 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bjork - putting up promotions in the venue for her show in Minneapolis, and she came early.

Kurt Cobain, his wife, and Francis Bean: Tower Records in Seattle...he was shifting through the local records sectionf.

Glenn Close, Richard Dreyfus, and Gene Hackman: Saw them in a broadway show, and hung around after the show....watched Glenn Close dart to a cab, and Dreyfus talked to us out front for awhile until his driver showed up. Hackman just walked into the Manhattan crowd and disappeared among it.

I lived in NYC for 2 1/2 years and saw all kinds...many of them I know their faces, but don't know their names offhand...there is one very popular one - Latin Music Singer, but I always forget her name...she was promoting and in NYC walking down the street with bodyguards and cameras...and the whole thing came up from behind me as I was walking down the street..so many others I've spotted randomly, but again, know the faces, not the names. I've never been good with celebrity gossip or names anyways.
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HapKi



Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL

PostPosted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I met Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins in Kimpo Airport. The whole band were just sitting on the floor in front of duty free. I shook his hand and lied and said I was at the concert the night before.
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Tiger Beer



Joined: 07 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 12:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just recalled walking by Hulk Hogan in Vegas' McCarran Airport...he was on the cellphone chatting away. Easily recognizeable!
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The evil penguin



Joined: 24 May 2003
Location: Doing something naughty near you.....

PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Never understood the whole celebrity worship thing... personally couldn't give a crap who somebody is..

Having said that, i had Wendell Sailor (brisbane broncos fame) and a another player... dunno his name, I'm not into football, in my taxi one night driving a cab during my postgrad student days.

without a doubt the two most obnoxious assholes (especially wendell) ever to enter my car...
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michaelambling



Joined: 31 Dec 2008
Location: Paradise

PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 12:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was amused when I was at an airport waiting for the monorail to go to the terminal and I turned and saw Ron Jeremy standing alone. Then I looked at everyone else at the terminal, and all of the guys kept doing double takes and subduing their reactions, as if they were thinking "OMG that's Ron Jeremy but I can't acknowledge in public that I know who he is!"


Laughing
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Are they the lemmings



Joined: 15 Feb 2007
Location: Not here anymore. JongnoGuru was the only thing that kept me here.

PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Should I be concerned that I don't know who a lot of these people are?

I would, however, gladly pay $20 to see a show by some weird art-noise band called
Tiger Beer wrote:
Hackman Walked Into the Manhattan Crowd
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RedRob



Joined: 07 Jul 2003
Location: Narnia

PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

David Lange twice- super nice guy

Peter Blake belonged to the same yacht club as me, but each time I met him I was a bit over-awed to have anything sensible to say. I was 20 on a yoof development racing programme, he had just won every single leg of the Whitbred round the world race. He shouted us beers every now and again, 'cos he knew we were all on the bones of our arse. Sweet dude. I cried when he was murdered.

Anton Oliver (up close the dude looks like he carved outta rock!) and a buncha other All Blacks. NZ is a small place- most celebs are pretty easy to meet if thats yr buzz.
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sjrm



Joined: 27 Jul 2005

PostPosted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

michaelambling wrote:
I was amused when I was at an airport waiting for the monorail to go to the terminal and I turned and saw Ron Jeremy standing alone. Then I looked at everyone else at the terminal, and all of the guys kept doing double takes and subduing their reactions, as if they were thinking "OMG that's Ron Jeremy but I can't acknowledge in public that I know who he is!"


Laughing


Why not? I've actually got a picture of myself with him.
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Thewhiteyalbum



Joined: 13 Nov 2008

PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 3:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The evil penguin wrote:
Never understood the whole celebrity worship thing... personally couldn't give a crap who somebody is..

Having said that, i had Wendell Sailor (brisbane broncos fame) and a another player... dunno his name, I'm not into football, in my taxi one night driving a cab during my postgrad student days.

without a doubt the two most obnoxious assholes (especially wendell) ever to enter my car...


Yep, football and rugby guys tend to be assholes. I worked in a cafe in a gym that the Hurricanes (and all blacks) trained at. Golden rule - anyone with dreads is lovely, shaven heads = assholes. Jonah Lomu held the door open for me in his early days (nice guy, seemed overwhelmed by his fame).

Musically.. had a smoke with Evan Dando and the MC5. (Evan went home with the Mayor's daughter later that night Shocked )
Said 'hallo' to Meg White after the White Stripes played a gig to 20 people before they were famous.
Met the Kills, the woman was pretty cold, but the guy was nice.
Damo Suzuki who was really cool.
Snuck backstage and rambled on to the guys from Wire about how much I loved their music.
Met the Misfits after their show and they were really good to their fans.

I met Robert Muldoon when I was five! he scared me.

My sister interviewed Peter Jackson just after he made 'Bad Taste' (he went her school).
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komtengi



Joined: 30 Sep 2003
Location: Slummin it up in Haebangchon

PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 4:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kylie Minogue - me her when she was in Neighbours
Guy Pearce - see above
Hugh Jackman - was introduced to him on the street, with his wife
Darren Bennett - used to practice punting with my junior team before going to the NFL
Ugly Duckling - hung out after the show in Seoul
EPMD - snuck backstage at the show
Hakeem Olojuwan - met him at a autograph signing
Xzibit - at the show in Seoul
DJ Jazzy Jeff - at the show
Doogie Howser - at Disneyland. almost took my mums eye out with some silly toy in the magic shop

I'm sure there are more but cant think at the moment
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SMKOREA



Joined: 29 Nov 2005

PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 6:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fedor Emelianenko
Bas Rutten
Larry Bird
Bobby Valentine

There's more but these are the only ones that matter to me.
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McSensei



Joined: 12 Nov 2008

PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 9:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Steve Nash = awesome guy, same height as me and he didn't seem to mind me being shitcanned and in the locker room telling him how awesome he was and that he was my new idol
Micheal Finley - at the Mavs game when they were both there.
Don Nelson - He is actually kind of my step-uncle I guess you could say. His wife is my mom's half-sister. Therefore I get to go to the locker-room and drink beer
Chris Mullen - Don't worry, I hid my beer from him
Chris Bradley - I shook his giant banana hand as he was kidding Mullin about giving him the bald spot with his elbow in the post!

And Jean-Claude Van Damme at the set of UNIVERSAL SOLDIER he put his arm on my shoulder and it was like a piece of freakin steel.

then my brother stood behind Dolph Lundgren to get water. That guy is a giant!

speakin of giants, met K1 fighter and recent movie star, Sammy Schultz in Insadong a couple of weeks ago. I'd like to see those two square off actually. any predictions?
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dimnd



Joined: 19 May 2005
Location: Western USA

PostPosted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 5:57 am    Post subject: famous people Reply with quote

Went to Top Gun in California about five years ago and Danny Glover was next to me in gray t-shirt, jeans and sneakers and just said hello as we stood there and listened to the band....

dealt blackjack at Binion's Horseshoe during 2 yrs of undergrad at UNLV and dealt to Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman at a private table..and then the gal that plays Peg Bundy joined them...

My son was one of the Mikey's on the Life cereal box when he was five and he did a walking part on Magnum PI...so met Tom Selleck and his cast..

Lived in England as a little girl and when we moved back to the states my parents took my sister and I to meet the Beatles when they were on a talk show. Have every record they ever made..I really thought that was something then.
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