02-19-2004, 06:23 PM
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Re: Brushes with Celebrities
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Originally posted by sageofages
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.
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Cool you are from redlands...i am from victorville
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