Famous Encounters???

[AKAShannon]

OMG, I fogot Ray J, Nappy Roots, Doug Banks, Dee Dee, Tom Joyner, & Bootsy Collins! I did not realized that I have met so many famous people!

[luv4denzel]

In my lifetime so far, I've met...

1. Tatiana Ali
2. Robert Guiallme (sp) b.k.a. Benson
3. Glynn Turman
4. Tim and Daphne Maxwell Reid
5. Suzanne Douglass
6. Ralph Tresvant
7. Jamie Foxx
8. Brandy
9. Ludacris (Spoke to him at a World Aids Day function)
10. Brian McKnight (spoke to him on the telephone)
11. Harrison Ford (spoke to him on the phone when he called my job)
12. Kelly Price
13. Brad Jordan a.k.a. Scarface
14. Carl Anthony Payne (at a New Edition concert a long time ago)
15. Ja Rule
16. Donnie Simpson (WPGC 95.5)
17. Big Tigger (WPGC 95.5)
18. Kelly Ripa
19. Charli Baltimore
20. Pat Southall-Lawrence (ex-wife of Martin Lawrence, but was married to him when I met her)

[Blessed2bDST]

What a great thread!

I work in media so I've met quite a few and I'm just going to list the "highlights" off the top in no particular order except the first three:

Nelson Mandela
Winnie Mandela
Barack and Michelle Obama
Ice Cube (in the newsroom!)
Bill Clinton
Jesse Jackson
Brian Dennehy (in the newsroom)
Allen Payne (right after Jason's Lyric, when he was still fine)
Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown
Grant Hill (total sweetheart!)
Lennox Lewis
Alonzo Mourning
Michael Jordan
Dr. J
Maxine Waters
Chaka Khan
David Alan Grier (kind of a jerk)

[jojapeach]

I thought I posted here, too. These are the ones I can think of, but I bet there's more. I live in ATL after all.

I've met:

Ludacris - went to HS together, and I interned at Hot 97.5 while he was there. In the few times I've encountered him since, we always hug and play catch up.
Big Boi from Outkast - COOOOOL dude
E. Lynn Harris
Black Eyed Peas (pre-Fergie)
Saul Williams
A Tribe Called Quest - hugged Q-tip
Bill Cosby
MC Breed - I didn't even know who he was, but my Taco Bell coworkers were crunk
Sheryl Underwood

I've encountered:

Toni Braxton
Usher (filling up at a gas station)
Evander Holyfield
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Andrew Young (awkward)
Mayor Shirley Franklin (just shopping at Barnes & Noble in East Point...cool)
Chuck D - at the DMV in College Park. I didn't recognize him until I found it unusual to see someone in CP wearing wood beads and a Celtics hat.
Jermaine Dupri and Da Brat together

[f8nacn]

Throughout my lifetime...I have met...

Donnie Simpson and his daughter...sitting in front of me @ a concert in the early 90's.

Clarence Avant - actually related to him - extended cousins through marriage

Missy Elliot - at a People's Expo in DC (want to say 1996 or 1997)

Chelsea Clinton - when her parents were considering sending her to my junior high school (Alice Deal) but she ended up going to Sidwell Friends (private school).

Robert Rubin - US Department of Treasury Secretary - met during 1996-1997 when interning in the Chief of Staff's Office.

George Stephanopoulos - met him while interning with the Department of Treasury and he had meetings with the chief of staff

CeCe Winans - she is very humble and down to earth; met at a concert @ my church

Tye Tribbett - met him at the Winter Retreat 2007; he is another person who is extremely down to earth and has not allowed his "stardom" to keep him away from the people.

Zakiyah Williams - she starred in Madea's Family Reunion the stage play...we worked together on a play that she did at my church in Richmond, VA.

[Little32]

Met a lot of authors, because that's the crowd I run in.

Gloria Naylor
Alice Walker
Leann Howe
Salman Rushdie
Octavia Butler
Nikki Giovanni
Sonya Sanchez

There are more; maybe later, I will remember.

Some Scholars

Henry Louis Gates
Patricia Hill Collins
Cornel West
Hazel Carby

These are the ones that most people have heard of.

Numerous celebrities, I can't really even remember. Though I did mention Hill Harper in that other thread.

[GMAKA1949]

Halle Berry
David Justice
Bruce Bruce

[DIVA1177]

I lost my MIND when I met Dr. Cornel West. I had all of his books before the storm. I also met Tavis Smiley, BBD(years ago), Monica(she was really down to Earth), Immature, the guy who played Cochise in Cooley High(lOL). that was so funny. He started talking to us and asked me if I was OK. All I could say is "How was it to play Joe Jackson?"

[Proverbs31]

I met Oprah when I was really young, maybe 9 or 10 year old. I was with my dad in some building in Chicago. She was walking down the hall in a gown, there was some type of Gala going on, and she came over to speak to us.

Nikki Giovanni back in 2004 (or 2005) when she visited my campus.

Barack and Michelle Obama at the Bud Billiken (sp?) parade in Chicago (2004) during his Senate campaign.

Marlon and Shawn Wayans back in Cleveland (Randall Park Mall) when I was in middle school.

Yolanda King, a year before she passed.

[Granny]

Jill Scott (not nice at all)
John Canada Terrell (Flash from Five Heartbeats)
James Brown (may he rest in peace)
Phyllis Hyman (may she rest in peace)
Christopher Williams
Leon (I love my part time job at the Theater)
Sean Levert (may he rest in peace)

[krayziigyrl]

I used to work for a radio station so I have met way more enteratiners and famous people than I can remember. But my most memorable encounter was way before I began working in radio...

I was in highschool, it was late 1996 I met Jay-Z . This was before Jay-Z was Jigga, Hova, and what ever other names he has called himself in the last 12 years. He had just come out with his first album Reasonable Doubt ( which in my opinion is one of his best albums) and he was doing a promotional tour. I was at a college recruitment event and they had a party/concert that night. my friend and I were wandering trying to find the bathroom. I heard voices coming from one of the rooms and with my nosey self I had to see who it was. I peaked my head in and much to my surprise it was Jay-Z and crew! I remember he had a great sense of humor, and he was very down to earth.I wanted an autograph and of course being 16 at the time I didn't have anything to write with so he took a napkin and wrote a small note. I was on a natural high for like a month!!!

[teena]

Originally Posted by Granny

Jill Scott (not nice at all)
John Canada Terrell (Flash from Five Heartbeats)
James Brown (may he rest in peace)
Phyllis Hyman (may she rest in peace)
Christopher Williams
Leon (I love my part time job at the Theater)
Sean Levert (may he rest in peace)

WHAT?!?!

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by teena

WHAT?!?!

I know! That broke my heart LOL

[Granny]

broke my heart too at first.

[DSTCHAOS]

Celebs have no obligation to be nice or welcoming 100% of the time. Just like noncelebs don't.