@jst1ofknd@lljk Met Mr. Spiner at a comiccon in the 90’s: Interesting guy. But Misha Collins (Castiel in “Supernatural”) really carbonates my hormones.
Lin-Manuel Miranda. I keep a photo of him, his father and Barack Obama that was included in a package of t-shirts I ordered from his store so I can pretend I have the coolest friends
So I got to meet George Bush Sr last year at the Texans Lions game. That was my “oh shit” moment. I looked over at my boy and said “You’re Colombian and you have no idea who that dude is being escorted by secret service but we have to go shake his hand!” I asked the gentlemen with him if they would let us and sure enough… YASSSSSS!
@compunaut I’d second that, along with Mikaela Shiffrin. I missed my chance this past winter to see Lindsey. I was on a ski trip to Ischgl, Austria and a couple of the guys in our group (one is a certified instructor) drove up to Garmisch for the day to hang with some of the instructors there. They ran across Lindsey as she was there practicing for the upcoming Olympics.
@cinoclav You lived in Germany then? I worked for for a while for Project Bold (run by DoDDS) which was run out of Hinterbrand Lodge which was up the mountain in Berchtesgaden. We did kayaking and hiking in Austria (well and in Germany too along with rock climbing, glaciers, etc.).
@Kidsandliz What made you think I lived in Germany? I only mentioned being on a trip to Ischgl and that some guys drove up to Germany. They’re about 2.25 hours apart.
@cinoclav Because for decades there was a large USA military presence there, the bases ran a number of rec trips in Germany and Austria as well as the DoDDs and American Abroad Schools… and so I thought maybe you fell into one of those categories.
@Kidsandliz There’s still a large presence there. The guy who was an instructor on my trip had taught there. One of his friends, another instructor, came down and skied with us in Ischgl for a few days. He mentioned how all the instructors are American because they have a lot of the military as students.
No one anymore. Maybe when I was younger I would have lost it over whatever hot actress I was infatuated with at the time. Even that might have been chalked up to general uneasiness with beautiful women though. Hormones and whatnot.
When ten or so, dad took me to the Auto Show, thinking I would want David Hasselhoff’s autograph since Knight Rider was my favorite show. He was all excited for me, I saw the line and said uh, no, lets just see the car. I like the car. His second wife stood in line for over two hours because she wanted his autograph. Crazy.
So, getting to sit in one of the set cars was cool. I could not believe how small it seemed with all the junk jammed in there. It was one they used for the interior shots. Must have been very uncomfortable for DH.
@ponagathos I used to go to a lot of the car shows as a kid too, in part to see favorite celebs. I distinctly remember going one year just to see Heather Thomas. Mmmmm
@cinoclav@ponagathos my sister went to an auto show once and waited forever to see Scott Baio (Happy Days years). That autograph hung on her Tiger Beat wall for many years.
Anyone from star trek. I met bruce campbell about 20 years ago, gigi edgley 3 years ago, nichelle nichols 2 years ago, and Michael hogan, richard hatch, and aron eisenberg last year. I fan girled hard on gigi and nichelle. It was pretty embarrassing lol. Thank god for comic cons.
@hchavers I would be delighted and honored to have met Jimmy Stewart. John Wayne and Charlton Heston after that. But I also don’t lose it to meet some celebrity/actor/singer/star no matter how famous. So far.
There are several, quite a few actually, who if I bumped into on line in a deli, for example, I wouldn’t mind complimenting on their work, ala “Hey! Cool to meet you! I really enjoyed the way you played (whomever)! Thanks!” but I’d likely never go out of my way to bother someone in most situations.
I did meet NYC Mayor Ed Koch in exactly this way, though the words were more along the lines of “Hey! Hello, sir! Thanks for your service!” And Robin Williams used to buy C64 games from the store I managed on West 57th Street; he was a really nice guy.
@Limewater Hmmm… I’d have to think quite a bit to determine the exact year, but it would have been somewhere around 1982 or 1983. It was C-64 (or maybe VIC-20?) only.
@Limewater No, I don’t. Mostly one of the guys who worked for me helped Williams. If I looked thru a list of C64 games from back then I might remember something but meh.
I am (slightly) curious why you seem to care… Did you also shop (or work, even) at the Digibyte Computer Center store at 351(?) W 57th Street (it was across 57th Street from The Compleat Strategist).
@baqui63 Ha ha! I just have a particular interest in old video and computer games. Robin Williams was known to have been a big fan as well. It’s interesting to hear what he might have been interested in. It would have been particularly notable if y’all had sold him The Legend of Zelda, because he was known to be a huge fan of that series in particular.
Apparently there was a version of Zelda for the C64 (see this) but I got out of retail in early 1984, before Zelda existed, though the store lived on for a while and it is possible that Williams got it there.
@mehcuda67 heh… I was just watching The Ten Commandments last night for the first time in many decades and had forgotten that he was in it until I heard that voice.
@JoetatoChip They do in my book.
Jay Baruchel, for one. And the dude from Slivki Show (I assume his name is Slivki?). Morgan Freemab of course, would also settle for the True Facts guy though. Also Nancy Cartwright, AKA Bart Simpson. To name a few.
@JoetatoChip so funny story. About 4- years ago we were traveling to Denver and i look over. I tell my son (who is now 28) hey i think i just saw kristen schaal walk by while you guys were in the bathroom. He flips out and asks if i got am autograph, talked to her, etc. Of course i say no cuz she’s walking through the freaking airport and that’s rude. So we go diem to wait on our ride and who is standing 20 feet from us waiting for her ride? Yep. Kristen Schaal. Brett goes over and gets her to autograph a digital copy of her wikipedia page with the stylus on my phone (NO paper grr) and she says “omg are you a wizard? What is this magic?” And makes a joke about getting a priest or having exorcism or stoning or something. It was hilarious. She was amazing and ended up talking to him for about 15 min while we were waiting. It was 4th of july and she was flying home to visit the rents. Apparently she grew up near there and her parents still live in the area. Brett had to tell her how much i loved watching her on the daily show and louise on bobs burgers.
I was in love with Miranda Cosgrove from iCarly when I was in high school. If I met her I would probably pass out. It would also be super cool to meet Hugh Laurie, but I probably wouldn’t ask him to marry me.
Wouldn’t “lose my shit” (plus somehow I got old) but… Rob Lowe, it’s always been Rob Lowe, ever since West Wing. Other contenders Richard Dean Anderson, Jason Momoa (hey @oldcatlady), David Letterman, Stephen Colbert, Paul Gross from the TV Show “Due South”…
@llangley You aren’t that old if you consider “it’s always been Rob Lowe” means dating back to West Wing. I think of West Wing as his “new stuff”. “Always” would mean The Outsiders or Class. I guess we both are a little skewed since West Wing is almost exactly the mid-point between those movies and current day.
@DrWorm@llangley That was my reaction, too. The West Wing is recent. I consider the whole DNC Atlanta video tape thing to be the midpoint of his career.
@DrWorm ha, think what I was trying to say was that I never paid attention to him before West Wing. Guess I’m only 6 yrs older but he was too teenybopper in his early stuff for me. Now, however…
@llangley@qwerty82 A few years back I discovered they’d continued to make the show for Canada after it was gone from the U.S. I found a few episodes, but they replaced his Chicago partner (Vecchio? The guy on the right) with someone else not as interesting.
I don’t remember if they replaced Diefenbaker or not.
@DrWorm@llangley Really. I remember Jane Pauley hitting on him (Rob Lowe) on The Today show many moons ago and catching hell from Gumbel the next day for it. And she was like… oh hell… it’s fine for a guy to ogle a chick that’s 19, that’s all prime time but let an older woman do that with a young guy and you wanna string me up. lol. He was fairly young at the time. It was the first time I had ever seen him and I thought… damn… he’s a good lookin’ kid.
Anthony Bourdain. He wouldn’t actually describe the taste of brains, but would reflect on the shift in cultural diversity of New Orleans following hurricane Katrina, and discuss Delta Blues. Also he’d gobble up them brains because he’d be a zombie.
As for living celebrities, pick one, I would quote something they did 25 years ago and they would look confused because they moved on and I didn’t.
“Honey, that’s great coffee!”
@PocketBrain Just to clear the air here, I just love Bourdain and Parts Unknown. His untimely death crushes me. Sometimes I make bad jokes to deal with my issues.
I wouldn’t “lose my shit” over meeting any of them, but think it would be cool to complement a few for their talents - Bruce Willis, Chris Pratt, Sandra Bullock, James Earl Jones, etc.
@emt305 Bruce Willis is from the area where I work. Apparently his sister worked quite a long time at the hospital I work in and he used to stop in here. People still say they see him in the area once in a while. He’s supposedly a super nice guy.
I probably wouldn’t recognize any of them in public. And if I did, I’d probably try to ignore them. The only alternative would be something like, “Hello, let’s have a superficial exchange that is meaningless to me and, at best, too much of a good thing to you.”
Hello, Mrs. Famous-Face. I have seen you represent personas on products and I think that has something to do with who you are.
Sure thing. Boy, harrassed-by-strangers-time sure does take a lot of hours. Kisses.
@craigthom I have been on the receiving end of lots of compliments from people who aren’t equipped to judge the validity of the compliments. It doesn’t mean that much. Especially after the hundredth time.
A professional actor, say, is going to see their own work through a critical eye that doesn’t have anything to do with a fan’s smalltalk way of saying “I like the movie poster version of you that I have constructed in my head.”
@craigthom@InnocuousFarmer I’ve had a lot of people call me pretentious who aren’t really equipped to make judgments. It doesn’t mean much. Especially after the hundredth time…
And let’s not get started on compliments. They’re so tiresome.
When I worked for the airlines, I met a lot of famous people. My ex-wife was in the music industry, so we met a lot of entertainment people. I’ve lost my shit a number of times. Couldn’t think of anything to say…
I would love a day of dance lessons from Patrick Swayze or Derek Hough. Maybe a one-on-one convo with Luke Bryan or Mark Walhburg. Lewis Grizzard, John Grisham.
I am so in to Keanu Reeves that if we where to spit and then dye then I would dye happy…and hopefully purple because purple is my favorite color. But ya he my fav actor in my fav movie cough John Wick cough
One thing about going to science fiction conventions is that you get to meet or at least share a room with a lot of really famous people. At Comic-Con San Diego I’ve been in the room with hundreds of famous actors including Robert Downey jr., The Rock, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Jason Momoa, Adrien Brody, the major cast of Firefly, the major cast of Lost, the major cast of Twilight, etc etc. If I had anything worthwhile to say I could have gotten up to the mic and spoken to any of them. My friends and I volunteered at a Star Trek convention and met most of the cast members including William Shatner, Walter Koenig and James Doohan. At regular science fiction conventions I’ve met all manner of well-known authors including George RR Martin, Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, Jack Chalker, etc etc. Also many artists that are mostly well known in science fiction circles, including Michael Whelan, David Cherry, Donatello, Alan Clark, Kelly Freas, etc etc. I physically ran full on into Lou Ferrigno at one con (like hitting a brick wall). At another I stumbled on some stairs and caught the shoulder of the burly guy in front of me for balance and it turned out to be Adam Baldwin, who was very kind about it. I rode on an elevator with Alice Cooper, and I was the volunteer assigned to Edgar Winter for a weekend, which is the most time I’ve spent with a famous person.
@lseeber He was one of the quietest and most reserved people I’ve ever met. I would never have guessed he was an entertainer from his off-stage demeanor.
@moondrake James Doohan was a truly nice person when I met him. He gave a talk at UNLV when I was there, and hung out afterwards to sign things and talk; he loved hearing from engineering students
@moondrake So many entertainers are. Sometimes that’s how they got so good. So many were introverts and/or shy and pretty much buried themselves in their instrument (or whatever). I know a few like that. I think I actually saw Johnny more than Edgar tho.
no one really, but it would be funny to be out with my partner and see keanu so we could both look at him, and then at each other and do our best “whoa!”
Blech. Not a one of them. I’ve met and mingled with several so I know I wouldn’t lose anything over any of them but these days there might be 2 that might get my blood pumping a little faster. The Rock DJ and/or Ryan Reynolds. (Maybe a few others if I were to sit and think about it a while)
@Al_Coholic You know… it’s funny. I never thought about Heston much before but since I just watched the 10 commandments last night for the first time in ages… I realized… he was a good lookin’ fella.
@hems79 Today is her birthday! Also her man Michael’s birthday, who is 25 years older. You might have a good chance of landing her, she should be widowed soon enough.
Needs a “who cares” option.
@lljk
I agree completely… They are just people. Though it would be cool to meet Brent Spiner (Data from TNG).
I wouldn’t have much to say besides I prefer him in makeup.
@jst1ofknd @lljk Met Mr. Spiner at a comiccon in the 90’s: Interesting guy. But Misha Collins (Castiel in “Supernatural”) really carbonates my hormones.
@lljk
/youtube Star Trek Data Lifeforms Song
/image Star Trek Data android phone
Jenna Fischer
Tom Hiddleston.
@Pony That’s who my granddaughter is going to marry. She told me that 3 days ago.
Jason Momoa. Or Harrison Ford. Or Benedict Cumberbatch.
@OldCatLady I could go with Momoa… not so much the others.
Lin-Manuel Miranda. I keep a photo of him, his father and Barack Obama that was included in a package of t-shirts I ordered from his store so I can pretend I have the coolest friends
So I got to meet George Bush Sr last year at the Texans Lions game. That was my “oh shit” moment. I looked over at my boy and said “You’re Colombian and you have no idea who that dude is being escorted by secret service but we have to go shake his hand!” I asked the gentlemen with him if they would let us and sure enough… YASSSSSS!
@reclaimercube Sweet!!
Kelly Rutherford
Bono
Tom Hanks. Most everyone else I can immediately think of is no longer alive. So I’d really lose it if I met them.
@katbyter I was going to say Cary Grant or Audrey Hepburn.
Probably Lindsey Vonn
(not an actor/actress tho)
@compunaut I’d second that, along with Mikaela Shiffrin. I missed my chance this past winter to see Lindsey. I was on a ski trip to Ischgl, Austria and a couple of the guys in our group (one is a certified instructor) drove up to Garmisch for the day to hang with some of the instructors there. They ran across Lindsey as she was there practicing for the upcoming Olympics.
@cinoclav You lived in Germany then? I worked for for a while for Project Bold (run by DoDDS) which was run out of Hinterbrand Lodge which was up the mountain in Berchtesgaden. We did kayaking and hiking in Austria (well and in Germany too along with rock climbing, glaciers, etc.).
@Kidsandliz What made you think I lived in Germany? I only mentioned being on a trip to Ischgl and that some guys drove up to Germany. They’re about 2.25 hours apart.
@cinoclav Because for decades there was a large USA military presence there, the bases ran a number of rec trips in Germany and Austria as well as the DoDDs and American Abroad Schools… and so I thought maybe you fell into one of those categories.
@Kidsandliz There’s still a large presence there. The guy who was an instructor on my trip had taught there. One of his friends, another instructor, came down and skied with us in Ischgl for a few days. He mentioned how all the instructors are American because they have a lot of the military as students.
I’d totally lose my shit if I encountered Marilyn Monroe.
@phendrick Who the F is “Merle Streep”?
@phendrick Spelling is not their strong point.
@cinoclav @phendrick As noted in the ts, ts in the write up instead of tsk, tsk.
Merle Haggard and Meryl Streep had a baby???
No one anymore. Maybe when I was younger I would have lost it over whatever hot actress I was infatuated with at the time. Even that might have been chalked up to general uneasiness with beautiful women though. Hormones and whatnot.
When ten or so, dad took me to the Auto Show, thinking I would want David Hasselhoff’s autograph since Knight Rider was my favorite show. He was all excited for me, I saw the line and said uh, no, lets just see the car. I like the car. His second wife stood in line for over two hours because she wanted his autograph. Crazy.
So, getting to sit in one of the set cars was cool. I could not believe how small it seemed with all the junk jammed in there. It was one they used for the interior shots. Must have been very uncomfortable for DH.
@ponagathos I used to go to a lot of the car shows as a kid too, in part to see favorite celebs. I distinctly remember going one year just to see Heather Thomas. Mmmmm
@cinoclav @ponagathos my sister went to an auto show once and waited forever to see Scott Baio (Happy Days years). That autograph hung on her Tiger Beat wall for many years.
@katbyter I’d like to see Scott Baio these days, simply to punch him in the face.
@katbyter
Anyone from star trek. I met bruce campbell about 20 years ago, gigi edgley 3 years ago, nichelle nichols 2 years ago, and Michael hogan, richard hatch, and aron eisenberg last year. I fan girled hard on gigi and nichelle. It was pretty embarrassing lol. Thank god for comic cons.
Charlize Theron.
John Wayne
@hchavers Yes. He would have been top of my list.
They say he was quite a person to talk to.
Also… Lauren Bacall
@daveinwarsh @hchavers I lose my shit too, mainly because John Wayne is dead, but I liked his movies too.
@hchavers I live like 10 minutes from his birthplace
@hchavers I would be delighted and honored to have met Jimmy Stewart. John Wayne and Charlton Heston after that. But I also don’t lose it to meet some celebrity/actor/singer/star no matter how famous. So far.
Totally lose my shit? No one.
There are several, quite a few actually, who if I bumped into on line in a deli, for example, I wouldn’t mind complimenting on their work, ala “Hey! Cool to meet you! I really enjoyed the way you played (whomever)! Thanks!” but I’d likely never go out of my way to bother someone in most situations.
I did meet NYC Mayor Ed Koch in exactly this way, though the words were more along the lines of “Hey! Hello, sir! Thanks for your service!” And Robin Williams used to buy C64 games from the store I managed on West 57th Street; he was a really nice guy.
@baqui63 C64 games? What year was this? Was it only Commodore 64, or any other games?
You didn’t sell him Legend of Zelda on NES, did you?!?!
@Limewater Hmmm… I’d have to think quite a bit to determine the exact year, but it would have been somewhere around 1982 or 1983. It was C-64 (or maybe VIC-20?) only.
@baqui63 You don’t remember any specific titles, do you?
@Limewater No, I don’t. Mostly one of the guys who worked for me helped Williams. If I looked thru a list of C64 games from back then I might remember something but meh.
I am (slightly) curious why you seem to care… Did you also shop (or work, even) at the Digibyte Computer Center store at 351(?) W 57th Street (it was across 57th Street from The Compleat Strategist).
@baqui63 Ha ha! I just have a particular interest in old video and computer games. Robin Williams was known to have been a big fan as well. It’s interesting to hear what he might have been interested in. It would have been particularly notable if y’all had sold him The Legend of Zelda, because he was known to be a huge fan of that series in particular.
@Limewater Ah…
Apparently there was a version of Zelda for the C64 (see this) but I got out of retail in early 1984, before Zelda existed, though the store lived on for a while and it is possible that Williams got it there.
@snapster and @dave obviously
Tina Fey and/or Amy Poehler.
Vincent Price, because either it means he’s not dead or I am. Which would be appropriate either way, considering it’s Vincent Price.
@mehcuda67 heh… I was just watching The Ten Commandments last night for the first time in many decades and had forgotten that he was in it until I heard that voice.
@mehcuda67 omg yes i LOVED him so much
Do voice actors count? I’d lose my shit if I met Kristen Schaal.
@JoetatoChip They do in my book.
Jay Baruchel, for one. And the dude from Slivki Show (I assume his name is Slivki?). Morgan Freemab of course, would also settle for the True Facts guy though. Also Nancy Cartwright, AKA Bart Simpson. To name a few.
@JoetatoChip so funny story. About 4- years ago we were traveling to Denver and i look over. I tell my son (who is now 28) hey i think i just saw kristen schaal walk by while you guys were in the bathroom. He flips out and asks if i got am autograph, talked to her, etc. Of course i say no cuz she’s walking through the freaking airport and that’s rude. So we go diem to wait on our ride and who is standing 20 feet from us waiting for her ride? Yep. Kristen Schaal. Brett goes over and gets her to autograph a digital copy of her wikipedia page with the stylus on my phone (NO paper grr) and she says “omg are you a wizard? What is this magic?” And makes a joke about getting a priest or having exorcism or stoning or something. It was hilarious. She was amazing and ended up talking to him for about 15 min while we were waiting. It was 4th of july and she was flying home to visit the rents. Apparently she grew up near there and her parents still live in the area. Brett had to tell her how much i loved watching her on the daily show and louise on bobs burgers.
Paul McCartney
David Hatcher Childress is the only famous (?) person who I wouldn’t strenuously pretend not to notice if I ran into them. He is just delightful.
As for that hair guy…I don’t go to strip clubs or tanning salons, so I probably wouldn’t ever see him.
I was in love with Miranda Cosgrove from iCarly when I was in high school. If I met her I would probably pass out. It would also be super cool to meet Hugh Laurie, but I probably wouldn’t ask him to marry me.
Merle Streep?
Stormy Oh Stormy !
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@Zebra I’d hit that.
@therealjrn @Zebra Trump? hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahha!!
@lseeber You’ve got a dirty, dirty mind. LOL
@therealjrn hahaha…
@lseeber @therealjrn @Zebra No.
Just… no.
Wouldn’t “lose my shit” (plus somehow I got old
) but… Rob Lowe, it’s always been Rob Lowe, ever since West Wing. Other contenders Richard Dean Anderson, Jason Momoa (hey @oldcatlady 
), David Letterman, Stephen Colbert, Paul Gross from the TV Show “Due South”…
@llangley Nice! Totally forgot about “Due South”! Good show
@llangley You aren’t that old if you consider “it’s always been Rob Lowe” means dating back to West Wing. I think of West Wing as his “new stuff”. “Always” would mean The Outsiders or Class. I guess we both are a little skewed since West Wing is almost exactly the mid-point between those movies and current day.
@DrWorm @llangley That was my reaction, too. The West Wing is recent. I consider the whole DNC Atlanta video tape thing to be the midpoint of his career.
@DrWorm ha, think what I was trying to say was that I never paid attention to him before West Wing. Guess I’m only 6 yrs older but he was too teenybopper in his early stuff for me. Now, however…
@qwerty82 Nice, I was afraid it was too obscure…
Thank you kindly
@llangley @qwerty82 A few years back I discovered they’d continued to make the show for Canada after it was gone from the U.S. I found a few episodes, but they replaced his Chicago partner (Vecchio? The guy on the right) with someone else not as interesting.
I don’t remember if they replaced Diefenbaker or not.
@llangley @qwerty82 I loved that show!
@DrWorm @llangley Really. I remember Jane Pauley hitting on him (Rob Lowe) on The Today show many moons ago and catching hell from Gumbel the next day for it. And she was like… oh hell… it’s fine for a guy to ogle a chick that’s 19, that’s all prime time but let an older woman do that with a young guy and you wanna string me up. lol. He was fairly young at the time. It was the first time I had ever seen him and I thought… damn… he’s a good lookin’ kid.
Adam Savage, because I’m a nerd.
Elvis - I mean really. What other answer is there?
Robert Downey, Jr. I’ve always loved the crackhead.
Really? John Wayne, pilgrim.
Anthony Bourdain. He wouldn’t actually describe the taste of brains, but would reflect on the shift in cultural diversity of New Orleans following hurricane Katrina, and discuss Delta Blues. Also he’d gobble up them brains because he’d be a zombie.
As for living celebrities, pick one, I would quote something they did 25 years ago and they would look confused because they moved on and I didn’t.
“Honey, that’s great coffee!”
okay, closer to 35 years ago there…
@PocketBrain You know that’s more recent than the roles people usually quote at him.
@craigthom Well, it was a boring conversation anyway.
@PocketBrain Just to clear the air here, I just love Bourdain and Parts Unknown. His untimely death crushes me. Sometimes I make bad jokes to deal with my issues.
I wouldn’t “lose my shit” over meeting any of them, but think it would be cool to complement a few for their talents - Bruce Willis, Chris Pratt, Sandra Bullock, James Earl Jones, etc.
@emt305 Bruce Willis is from the area where I work. Apparently his sister worked quite a long time at the hospital I work in and he used to stop in here. People still say they see him in the area once in a while. He’s supposedly a super nice guy.
I probably wouldn’t recognize any of them in public. And if I did, I’d probably try to ignore them. The only alternative would be something like, “Hello, let’s have a superficial exchange that is meaningless to me and, at best, too much of a good thing to you.”
@InnocuousFarmer Or “Hello! You did a great job bringing <character name> to life. Thanks.”
@craigthom That’s what I said
@InnocuousFarmer No, it isn’t. It’s acknowledging their skills at their craft, not confusing the characters with the actors.
@craigthom I have been on the receiving end of lots of compliments from people who aren’t equipped to judge the validity of the compliments. It doesn’t mean that much. Especially after the hundredth time.
A professional actor, say, is going to see their own work through a critical eye that doesn’t have anything to do with a fan’s smalltalk way of saying “I like the movie poster version of you that I have constructed in my head.”
It is what I said.
@craigthom @InnocuousFarmer I’ve had a lot of people call me pretentious who aren’t really equipped to make judgments. It doesn’t mean much. Especially after the hundredth time…
And let’s not get started on compliments. They’re so tiresome.
@craigthom @Limewater Oh gosh, thank you. I do it for the fans.
I always feel that I would have a cool presence meeting anyone famous. But. I think I would totally lose it if I ever met Madonna in real life.
Tom Baker… or actually most any of the Doctor Who cast, some companions excluded…
@nasman6 I’m the one in the middle. The Bendu.
When I worked for the airlines, I met a lot of famous people. My ex-wife was in the music industry, so we met a lot of entertainment people. I’ve lost my shit a number of times. Couldn’t think of anything to say…
I literally just showed one of my partners Dirty Computer and blathered about The 10 Droid Commandments at a queer trivia night, so uh, yeah, Monae.
I’m more likely to flip out about musicians than actors in general, but she happens to be both!
@Kawa
/youtube Make Me Feel
I would love a day of dance lessons from Patrick Swayze or Derek Hough. Maybe a one-on-one convo with Luke Bryan or Mark Walhburg. Lewis Grizzard, John Grisham.
@tngrannyd That’s going to be a pretty boring lesson from Swayze.
@cinoclav well if we are dreaming, I can dream he’s not dead.
Jeremy Renner. He always gets my heart rate soaring. Though I hear he’s an asshole in RL, which ruins the fantasy, dammit!
I think it would be fun to meet Ryan Reynolds and his wife Blake Lively.
I’d love to watch them interact. I’d probably just sit there with my mouth open, spittle running out the corner.
I am so in to Keanu Reeves that if we where to spit and then dye then I would dye happy…and hopefully purple because purple is my favorite color. But ya he my fav actor in my fav movie cough John Wick cough
@Zigzagoon I love purple.
P!nk
One thing about going to science fiction conventions is that you get to meet or at least share a room with a lot of really famous people. At Comic-Con San Diego I’ve been in the room with hundreds of famous actors including Robert Downey jr., The Rock, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Jason Momoa, Adrien Brody, the major cast of Firefly, the major cast of Lost, the major cast of Twilight, etc etc. If I had anything worthwhile to say I could have gotten up to the mic and spoken to any of them. My friends and I volunteered at a Star Trek convention and met most of the cast members including William Shatner, Walter Koenig and James Doohan. At regular science fiction conventions I’ve met all manner of well-known authors including George RR Martin, Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, Jack Chalker, etc etc. Also many artists that are mostly well known in science fiction circles, including Michael Whelan, David Cherry, Donatello, Alan Clark, Kelly Freas, etc etc. I physically ran full on into Lou Ferrigno at one con (like hitting a brick wall). At another I stumbled on some stairs and caught the shoulder of the burly guy in front of me for balance and it turned out to be Adam Baldwin, who was very kind about it. I rode on an elevator with Alice Cooper, and I was the volunteer assigned to Edgar Winter for a weekend, which is the most time I’ve spent with a famous person.
@moondrake Never got to talk to or meet Edgar but got close enough that I coulda grabbed that skinny leg and jerked him off stage once, lol.
@lseeber He was one of the quietest and most reserved people I’ve ever met. I would never have guessed he was an entertainer from his off-stage demeanor.
@moondrake James Doohan was a truly nice person when I met him. He gave a talk at UNLV when I was there, and hung out afterwards to sign things and talk; he loved hearing from engineering students
@moondrake So many entertainers are. Sometimes that’s how they got so good. So many were introverts and/or shy and pretty much buried themselves in their instrument (or whatever). I know a few like that. I think I actually saw Johnny more than Edgar tho.
@moondrake I’ve had several convos with Adam… I really like him. And I know he’s a huge gamer.
no one really, but it would be funny to be out with my partner and see keanu so we could both look at him, and then at each other and do our best “whoa!”
Natalie Portman.
Blech. Not a one of them. I’ve met and mingled with several so I know I wouldn’t lose anything over any of them but these days there might be 2 that might get my blood pumping a little faster. The Rock DJ and/or Ryan Reynolds. (Maybe a few others if I were to sit and think about it a while)
Charlton Heston!
@Al_Coholic You know… it’s funny. I never thought about Heston much before but since I just watched the 10 commandments last night for the first time in ages… I realized… he was a good lookin’ fella.
@Al_Coholic @lseeber Ever seen El Cid? Yowza!
@Al_Coholic @sammydog01 I have not, but I might take a peek.
Anyone on that list except Janelle Monáe. Who the hell is that?
@sammydog01
Catherine Zeta Jones, because I want to meet my future wife.
/giphy Catherine Zeta Jones
@hems79 Today is her birthday! Also her man Michael’s birthday, who is 25 years older. You might have a good chance of landing her, she should be widowed soon enough.
Don’t forget Rin Tin Tin.
He would have been a great dog to play catch with.
/giphy maggie gyllehaal
@btwonder
/giphy sir patrick stewart
@btwonder Not if he tries to kiss me…
@btwonder @daveinwarsh oh please. I’m as straight a man as they come, but @SirPatStew can kiss me anytime he damn well pleases!
@btwonder @daveinwarsh @earlyre I’m married and i can safely say if sir Patrick Stewart wanted to kiss me, jake would say OK.
Kristen Bell
I’d be pretty excited to see Meryl Streep. Not sure I’d even recognize this Merle Streep guy…
@JaredParker He’s the cousin of Meryl Haggard.
Audra McDonald
Not only is she obscenely talented, but she steals the show by just walking on stage.
@cranky1950 Oohhh, love Audra McDonald.
But I love Bernadette Peters, too.
No one
this is southern california
Imma goin 2 see Darlene Darling and whatever brothers are still surviving next week.
@cranky1950 omg how cool! !!!
They’re just people. I wouldn’t lose my shit over any of those people.
Tom Hanks or Bill Murray though? Shit loss confirmed.
Jennifer Love Hewitt… mostly because she was my crush around that time. Still would probably lose my shit even now if she walked in the door.
This guy:
Not really.
I wonder how many stars would lose their shit over seeing me, though:
OMG it’s the refrigerated battery guy!!! <faint>
Karen.
…sigh…
My first true love.