Who are the top 10 most famous people that you've met?
 

Not merely seen, but actually interacted with?

Mine (in no particular order):

-Alex Smith (class)
-Urban Meyer (fundraiser)
-Karl Malone (Jr. Jazz camp)
-Ronnie Lott (promotion)
-Tony Dorsett (promotion)
-Emmanuel "Webster" Lewis (installed his satellite)
-L. Tom Perry (luncheon)
-Jenny Oaks Baker (high school, seminary)
-Former playmate of the year Julie Cialiani (had seats next to her at a 49ers game, the guys on the other side of us knew who she was, bishop that's all I swear)
-Antonin Scalia (luncheon)
-Gwenyth Paltrow (Sundance)

Beck (I wielded a press pass to get back stage of one of his shows. He is super nice.)
Jared Leto (Covering Sundance for the Daily Universe)
Andie MacDowell (Walking out of Long's Drugstore. She filmed Bad Girls in my hometown.)

And then a whole host of Utah/Mormon celebs
Larry King
Donnie Osmond
Stephen Covey
Picabo Street
(All of the above covering 4th of July stuff for the Des News)
President Monson (Hanging out with my family in the church office building)
President Faust (In the foyer at Stake conference)

And finally...
MikeWaters

I also met Al Joyner.

aw man!! You totally stole my thunder! I was going to list that Flash and I had lunch with Archaea once.

Tough it up Gordon. Marsupial beat you fair and square.

All these were met when I was a valet at the Marriot in downtown SLC

10. Kobe Bryant's Dad "Jelly Bean"
9. Pre fame Britney Spears - (she was touring with In Sync)
8. Ron Artest
7. Ron Mcbride
6. Rick Majerus
5. Karl Malone (good tipper)
4. John Wooden
3. Bob Costas
2. George Carlin - Great Tipper
1. Bad Religion - Those guys are the best. Cool down to earth guys who were great tippers. In fact they gave everyone either. They would always drive up in their rented minivan and eatign cheeseburgers.

sigh. If only I'd met Seattle. or Grapevine!

I don't really have a very good list.

In no particular order:

Orin Hatch
John Huntsman
David Robinson
General John Shalikashvili (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time)
Elizabeth Dole
Darryl Green maybe a dozen times in an airport.

Tom Selleck
Robin Williams
Mike Wallace
Barbra Streisand
Tom Clancy
Itzhak Perlman
Tom Osborne
Lady Bird Johnson
Rosa Parks
Barack Obama


I'm still hoping for Kirk Herbstreit (he can call my plays anytime!), and the only man to ever look good in burnt orange: Matthew McConaughey. I'm also willing to consider visits from Brett Favre or John Cusack.

My 10 year old insists that I play "Los Angeles Is Burning" on the way to every baseball or football game of his. I have no idea why. He says it pumps him up.

Al Gore
Bill Clinton
Yitzhak Rabin
Ronald Reagans' Casket
Melanie Griffith
Staci Keanan
Karl Malone
Steve Garvey
Muhammed Ali
A host of GOP politicians

That's a great list. How did you keep your hands off Tom Seleck?

Come on. This list is fake. Then YOhio has the audacity to turn around and tell Barbara, "That's a nice list."

Did Steve Garvey try to do you?

Babs did have a great list. Next to Patrick Swayze, Tom Seleck is the biggest heartthrob of women over-50.

His wife was in the room, but I have no doubt he wanted to.

Martin Sheen

Sidney Portier

Tony Curtis

Jeff Bezos

David Neeleman

David O. McKay (open casket)

Ticky Burden

Danny Vranes

Jeff Judkins

Mark E. Peterson

Bruce R. McConkie

Rod Stewart

Tony Kukoch

Dennis Rodman

Gary Payton

Frank Moss

Eddie Sutton

Willie Wise

Add Rex Lee

I didn't! Did I never tell you the story about the time I took advantage of Tom Selleck? Jeez. I can't believe I forgot to mention that one! It's a great story. Better told in person, tho.

I worked security at the then Delta Center when I was in college, so I've "met" a good chunk of the NBA players that were in the league from 2003-2004 as well as a bunch Utah and natonal media types. Outside of that...

Merril Jenson

John Huntsman

John Bytheway (yep, that's right)

David A. Bednar

David Robinson

Daryl Green

Joe Gibbs

John Haddow

Mac Haddow (he's infamous, which means he's more than famous)

Richard Hatch (although I've never met him, he used to be an instructor for my company...that counts on some level).

I'm sure there are others. With all the name-dropping that goes on here, I suspect we could put together a pretty good list.

Slick Watts (played ball with him when I lived in Seattle at the Supersonic club)

Gus Williams (i was in the shower with him at the club and we talked about the draft that day)

Andre the Giant (I worked for United in Boise and he was flying out one day and I checked him in)

Dirk Kempthorne (I fixed his sprinkler system also while I was in school)

Bernard Hinault (At Interbike he saw our product and stopped and said hi)

Hot Rod Hunley (Sat next to him on a plane this spring. I think the dudes put down to much alcohol in his day)

Davis Phinney (Before a race in SF I had an issue of Winning that he hadn't seen and we talked about the Giro for a couple of minutes)

Spencer W. Kimball (set my Dad apart to be a HC)

Angus Young (see Andre the Giant)

Greg Kite (Played in a pick up game with him down in Provo)

Meadowlark Lemon (ball boy for him for the weekend they were in town)
LaVell Edwards (multiple times)
Steve Young
Bruce R McConkie (sang for him with my siblings)
Roger Reid (cleaned his office, 2nd counselor of my BYU ward)
Danny Ainge
Liza Minelli (brother ran her over at Laguardia)
Shawn Bradley (dated my sister’s roommate)
Orson Scott Card
Joel Meyers (broadcaster on a flight with)

George Bush I
Barbara Bush
Joe Liberman
Tom Foley
John Chafee
Howard Baker
Nancy Kassebaum
Buzz Aldren
Fred Smith
G. Gordon Liddy
Steve Young
BatGirl

Huh, mostly political. There may be more. I did have the chance to meet Bill and Hillary but opted out.

Yes, of course! I almost forgot. I used to play soccer with Big John Stud's son.

Ronald Reagan
George Bush's brother
Kathy Ireland (she wanted me)
GBH
SWK
Gordon Monson (talked to him about his son who went to New Zealand)
George Foreman
Rex Lee
Dallin Oaks
Several of the strip entertainers
Several Chinese Vice "premiers" or whatever they're called
Bruce Willis
John Cusack
Angeli Jolie

1. Pete Rose. My friend's father opened a sports hall of fame and he paid Pete to come and sign autographs on opening weekend. Since I was a friend of the owners kid I got some decent time with the hit king. He was kind of a dick.

2. Steve Young.

3. Jeff Chatman. He was famous in 1989.

4. Patrick Duffy. That's right Babs, you may have met Tom Selleck, but I met Bobby from Dallas. Sadly for Patrick he was flying coach as his Dallas days were long gone.

5. Pres. Faust while crossing a street in downtown SLC. He chatted me up and I thought that was kind of him when he was so busy.

6. The drummer for Iron Butterfly. I have no idea what his name is but he was standing in my living room.

7. Orin Hatch. I was dating his daughter's best friend/roommate. The good Senator came to visit the girls one evening whilst I was watching TV in the living room. I'm pretty sure I saw him give a disapproving look to my girlfriend as if to say "why are you wasting your time with that mullet sporting loser"?

8. Ken Griffey Sr. I went to Jr's very first pro ball game when he was playing single A ball. The Bellingham Mariners were playing the Medford A's. Sr. was sitting right behind me and he gave me his autograph. When Jr. broke his bat during one at bat he walked to the dugout and chucked it in the trash can located right next to us. My little brother was smart enough to go fetch it and he got it signed after the game.

9. Ken Griffey Jr. Same story

10. The entire Portland Trailblazer team in 1985 or 6, I can't quite remember the year. In those days you could hang out right outside the locker room door outside. We waited for the players as they made their way in from the parking lot. I had a cast on my arm and every player signed it on the way in. They were all very cool and Clyde Drexler was my favorite player but Sam Bowie was by far the nicest one. Perhaps he was sympathetic to the broken bone thing, but he spent a lot of time talking to a couple of punk kids.

Stu Lantz (before Lakers/Clippers game)
Mike Smith (in my stake)
Peter Vidmar (my bishop - now in stake presidency)
The girl who played Julie in the Saturday's Warrior movie (dated my brother who is now gay)
One of the members of Manhattan Transfer (our kids had an acting class together)
Clarence Thomas
Neal Maxwell (set my father apart as M.P.)
Howard Hunter
Zach on CB (:))
Also, on my mission, I taught a discussion to a guy who claimed to be one of the original Harlem Globetrotters.

I'm still waiting for my brother to introduce me to Chester Bennington (Linkin Park's lead singer), who is a good friend of his.

Does sticking a dollar in a g-string really count as "interacting" with?

Babs, did you see this? You met someone who met John Cusack. Now, I can't even say that.

Well, I am going to top all of you:

JFK Jr.

Well, I am going to top all of you:

JFK Jr.

His son served for a very short time in our ward, he looked very much like his father. He seemed shocked that I knew who his father is/was. I guess that's a generational thing.

Did it have the same affect on you that it did Elaine.

Come to Vegas, lose Danimal and then we can meet.

The strange thing is, being in my business I meet semi-famous people not infrequently, but I'd rather meet Arthur or Marsupial, than some of the dickweeds I meet.

And famous come up, now and then. For the most part, the famous people aren't worth meeting. Unless they want to lay down a huge retainer or form a network to increase my business contacts, I don't see much value in meeting them. I'd rather have lunch with creekster, Lebowski and Farrah than the ones people stargaze about.

I don't have ten, but here's what I have:

- Charlton Heston (Call me "Chuck.")
- George Tenet
- LaDell Anderson (I coached his grandson in Sophomore football. We talked coaching for 45 minutes after a game one fall.)
- Andre Miller
- Mike Doleac
- Kirk Cameron (airplane - he rides coach, and my wife told him some jokes just to see that million dollar smile).
- My wife has chatted up Joe Paterno, but I wasn't there.

I once shared an elevator with Cloris Leachman and her two yippy not-dogs. I said hi and asked her what kind of dogs they were. She pretended like she didn't hear me and left the elevator without acknowledging my existence.

I've always chalked her stony silence up to the fact that I'm too real and she wasn't emotionally able to deal with it.

She knew you were too hot for her and it hurt her deeply that she didn't have a chance with you.

President Clinton
Scalia
Ken Starr
Gingrich
Alberto Gonzales
Hinckley
Monson
Faust
Margaret Thatcher
Al Gore

Some of these are pretty marginal as celebrities:

Howard Zinn
Steven R. Covey
Larry Hagman
John Schneider ("Yee haw!")
Orson Scott Card


and the shining stars on this list:

Kim Novak
Robert Redford
Stephen King



My Dad has met tons of top-tier politicians:

George W. Bush
Dick Cheney
Bill Clinton
Hillary Clinton
George H.W. Bush
John Kerry
John Edwards
Barack Obama
Ronald Reagan
Jimmy Carter
Gerald Ford
Ted Kennedy
Orrin Hatch
Gordon Smith
Jesse Jackson
...