Celebrity Encounters

[NickNack]

I guess it's true --- we New Yorkers are COLD. You see them a lot and it becomes 'no big thing'.

The "music people" I've met are already in my interview for Bernie (I won't relist). I used to live right in the heart of the "theater district" in NYC so you were always seeing celebs.

Some I've seen and/or met:

Whoopi Goldberg
Lauren Bacall
The 'easy, slow-talking' cop from the old Barney Miller tv series (the name just vanished)
Racquel Welch
Wayland Flowers (Used to hangout in the club with "Madam" --- HILARIOUS!)
Al Pacino (filming "Cruising" --- Why they filmed it I've never out.)
Ron Perman & Everett McGill - promoting their movie, "Quest for Fire".

I'm sure there's more, but I can tell what I JUST REMEMBERED while doing this --- I met Tina Turner --- on the phone. She was doing a morning thing on WBLS, I believe, and they called my home. Unfortunately, I had just crawled in the bed from being out all night. When the person said, "Hi, I'm Tina Turner on BLS...", I said, "Who?". She repeated and I said, "Yeah, right, and I'm Jesse Jackson", and slammed down the phone. Of course, it was after the phone hit the cradle that I woke up and realized what I'd done. What a complete jackass --- I'd just hung up on the woman I've been crazy about since I was nine years old and she sang "Fool In Love". Damn, damn, DAMN!





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[HustleBaby]

On 2002-06-12 19:35, Nano wrote:
Hey Hustlebaby! Please tell me about Mrs. Peel. I just adored her in The Avengers and that 007 movie. She's more than sixty now, but right then she was one of the most beautiful people on Earth.

Hi Nano,
I was working in Saks during Christmas time five years ago when this customer wanted to purchase a cashmere Loro Piana scarf. I was tired and a bit grumpy so I didn't notice her right away (even though she was in my face) until she gave me her charge card. I read the name Diana Rigg and then it clicked seconds later that it was "Emma Peel"! I said "You're Emma Peel" and everyone looked at me because I was a bit loud but she was very pleasant with this huge smile on her face. At that time she was visiting the USA so I saw her in my department several times after that first encounter.

*DISCO DELIGHT*

[Nano]

Ah, HustleBaby... I envy you!
I remember Uma Thurman said she never had seen The Avengers before she made that horrible remake, and that every male friend she told about this prior to filming was babbling for hours about how insuperable she was and how difficult would be to fit her shoes, even for someone like Uma. Well, they were right!

[Funky Dude]

NickNack wrote:
I'm sure there's more, but I can tell what I JUST REMEMBERED while doing this --- I met Tina Turner --- on the phone. She was doing a morning thing on WBLS, I believe, and they called my home. Unfortunately, I had just crawled in the bed from being out all night. When the person said, "Hi, I'm Tina Turner on BLS...", I said, "Who?". She repeated and I said, "Yeah, right, and I'm Jesse Jackson", and slammed down the phone. Of course, it was after the phone hit the cradle that I woke up and realized what I'd done. What a complete jackass --- I'd just hung up on the woman I've been crazy about since I was nine years old and she sang "Fool In Love". Damn, damn, DAMN!

Is it too late for you to try and somehow contact Tina and apologise and explain that you were really tired when she called? If not, try and contact her, I'm pretty sure she'll understand.

[Boodikka]

Just wanted to add that most of the celebrities I've met have been great people. Keeping that in mind, here is Boodikka's WORST Celebrity List:
1) Richard Kline (Three's Company) - THE WORST! This has-been (or never-was) is a fucking jerk (sorry, Ricardo). Behaves as if he still has a TV show (not that Three's Company is a shining jewel on his resume).
2) Roberta Flack - nice lady, but a lunatic! I mean a rubber-room, straight-jacket, lunatic.
3) Greg Gumbel (CBS Sports} - a giant rectum. Everyone says Brian is supposed to be the jerk, but having dealt with both of them, I'll take Brian every day, any day.
4) Beau Bridges - arrogant cuss. Didn't inherit any of Dad's charisma, just his nose hair. Probably mad that Jeff got all the looks in the family.