Lets see:

Last March, I went to the Palladium in Worchester with my friend Cat to go see The*Ataris & The Julianna Theory. During the concert I went to go buy my obligatory tee-shirts, and Brent from TJT was right next to me. Some guy was like "oh go give him a hug, it's his birthday." But that guy was handing out Peta packets with dead chickens on them so I got out of there wuick. At then, at the end of the show...We went to the back and hung out by The*Ataris tourbus. Stalkerish, I know. But we ended up meeting Mike, the guitarist & we talked to Kid, the drummer for about 5 minutes. We wanted to meet the lead, Kris Roe...but it was his 3 year anniversary with his wife so he got out of there quick...

2 summers ago I met two, kinda not famous baseball players...But they will be soon! They lived with my friend when they were playing in the Cape Cod Baseball League (think "Summer Catch", cute baseball boys come to the cape for a summer and infest the cape). Michael Bourne...he played at Houston in College, played the YD summer team in 02, and was drafted to Philadelphia. And then there was Matt Farnum, who played for Texas A&M in college, played the YD team in summer 02, and got drafted to texas.

And then two GORGEOUS members from the Chatham team came into Pirates Cove this summer, and the two other boys my friend was hosting...but I forget their names.

One more...lol...Mike & Coral from the Real World: Back to New York came to BSC to give a speech and they were doing autographs afterwards. So I met them. And my friend Dolan ended up following them to Boston to go to the bar they were going to. She played pool with them (plus CT from RW:Paris), and drank..and Mike checked her out.

Okay..this post is way longer than I meant it to be. :p

And they are the absolute nicest guys...I was kind of skeptical/afraid to talk to them but E.Vedder is so, so kind.

I would give my right arm to meet Pearl Jam. I am a HUGE fan. I've heard that Eddie is one of the nicest celebs; he'll always sit and chat with his fans. You are so lucky!!!!

Oooh, do tell! He was my favorite actor for years and years (from grades 7 to 10, until I discovered Edward Norton) and I would love to meet him... I sold a 2-liter of soda to a guy who looked a lot like him the other night, but I don't think it was him... yeah.

Well I was like, 12...he was in his first big movie, can't remember hte name....
Anyway, I was with my parents in 1st class flying from Chicago to L.A....he was like, bopping all over the cabin. The kid could NOT sit still. After about 45 minutes the stewardess told him he had to take a seat, so he sat in the empty one next to me!! I knew who he was but acted dumb. He was really friendly but kind of hyper, like most 12 year olds are. :) Just said that he was going to L.A. for "a summer job"...I'm like, come on kid, you're 12. Anyway- hot much else to say. He asked my parents where we were staying and his manager was all like, "I could take the kids to McDonalds or something..." but my parents thought they were freaks and wouldn't let me go :( I got back at them by disappearing for a few hours once we got to Hollywood, but that's a whole other story ;)

I also met Brad Renfro at a party in Knoxville...dude was he messed up. I don't think he woulda known his elbo from his knee. But he was still HOT!!

My friend Derrik had a Halloween party a couple years ago and I went with one of my sisters (who is from K-town) and there he was. He was pretty quiet and kept to himself...then he got trashed and he was party boy!

I've met several famous people, including:

Ann M. Martin, writer of my favourite childhood series, "The Baby-Sitters' Club" when I was 10 years old. I had the Superspecial #4 autographed by her (it's the one where they were stranded on an island)

Several well known theatre actors, including Colm Wilkinson (after seeing Les Miz in Toronto back in 1998) and Ma-Anne Dionisio (after seeing West Side Story at the Stratford Festival in '99. Ma-Anne played Kim in the Toronto production of Miss Saigon)

I went to high school with a girl whose mother was on a national morning news program here in Canada. I've met the girl's mom a few times when she came in for career day and stuff like that.

In Grade 9, my entire class went to Ottawa and we met then Prime Minister, Jean Chretien.

As for my connections to famous people: A girl I went to high school with claims that the person who baby-sat her when she was a kid dated Brendan Fraser. I also know tons of guys who went to the same school Brendan Fraser did, some who may have been there while he was still a student.

let see

Laurence Fishburn (Morpheus)
Danny Glover
One of the girls on the show 24 (Austrailian actress but I can't rememember her name)
Brett Lehr (the kid in the movie identity, hes my friends little brother)
Jerry Seinfelds mom (she might as well be famous)
Pauly Shore
Vince Vaughn
Tommy Lasorda

well, hes not really famous, at least not to most people..but he will be one day

last night i met matt nathanson, who was just about the sweetest/nicest person i have ever met.

I am jealous.

I met Bonnie Blair, the speed skater.
That's really about it, I think.

Anyone on here met Johnny Depp? I am obsessed.

Okay, let's see....

Several years ago, the Chicago Sun-Times had all these summer events, and one of them was having a picnic lunch with several of the writers. I went to that and met Judy Markey (now does Kathy and Judy on WGN and has written a few books), Richard Roeper (of Ebert and Roeper) and Jay Mariotti (on Around the Horn).

Alan Henderson, who now plays for the Atlanta Hawks, was in an honors seminar with me our freshman year at IU. It was a really small class so I did talk to him sometimes.

I was coming out of a final exam freshman year and bumped into (almost literally!) Calbert Cheaney, who now plays for the Golden State Warriors.

I used to see Jared Jeffries (now with the Wizards) around the union at IU.

I didn't talk to him or anything, but John Mellencamp once sat a row in front and about seven seats over from me at an IU basketball game.

In high school, I used to help out in the athletes' after-school tutoring room twice a week. One of the guys who came in there every so often was Robert Farmer, formerly of the New York Giants.

I don't know if anyone here watched High School Reunion last season, but Holly ("The Shy Girl") was in my Hebrew School class many, many years ago.

Gary Cherone (formerly of Extreme and Van Halen) called to place an ad in the paper I worked at. He hit on me indirectly. *heh*

Saul Williams
Aaron McGruder
Amerie
Bhutrous Bhutrous Gali (sp)
Marion Barry
Isabel Allende
Jerry Porter (Raiders)

Brushes with Celebrities
 

Living where I do in Iowa...especially during caucus season, we get all the candidates and celebrities stumping for them in our town. I LOVE IT. Amongst the celebrities this year, I got to shake hands with Jeannie Garfalo, Joan Jett, Carole King, and Anni Defranco. I met all the candidates upclose and personal...shaking hands and chatting. Did I say I love Iowa in caucus season?

I went to HS in So Cal (Redlands) with Harry Blackstone III (son of Harry Blackstone Jr, magician). What a babe! I thought I was going to melt in his arms during a slow dance at the Drama Club party....maybe I did ;) Highlight of my Jr year in HS :) :) :) (his dad was pretty nice guy too...although very tall!)

My uncle was, in years past, in tight with Chicago Cubs players because he kept his *cough* yacht in the same harbor as
many of them. Got to meet quite a few of them that were in Billie Williams time. Another uncle was in tight with the Bears of the Jim McMahan era. Met a few at a party...big guys with "roamin" hands..ugh.

My boss (at the time) lived next door to John Mellencamp (when he had his residence on Hwy 46 just east of Bloomington, IN). Her property was adjacent to his and they shared a pond. She said he was the worst neighbor and "I wouldn't walk across the street to spit on him if he was on fire". Foul mouthed and thought he was always right (in property dispute). Eventually she sold out to him (for a premium) and he converted her place to a recording studio.

I was a guest on the Oprah Winfrey show in Nov 1996. Flew out, stayed in OmniSuites :). She was definitely the boss. All business, did not interact with her audience during breaks like you would have expected. I was a big fan before then, don't even watch her now.