wemr

1) Elvis, at a bus stop in Dallas
2) Jesus Christ on I-210 in San Antonio dressed in all white.
3) Marilyn Monroe at a drag contest in Omaha.
4) God, at a revival meeting in South Bend.
5) William Bennet in Bob's Big Boy Casino near Vegas.

YesItIsYesItIs

Sure, but it's only a brief meeting, focused on her book.

You know I'm batting a 1,000 recently. Bush just sent me a letter that he actually signed. No autopen. My mother-in-law, who doesn't like him, didin't believe me, so I sent it to her. She claims she used it to light her charcoal grill, LOL.

og719

I was in an LAX bar in the late 60s waiting for a flight overseas. I was in uniform (Navy) and the guy next to me bought me a beer. Turned out to be George Gobel. Really nice man who talked to me for a half hour about the war and politics. He was very gracious.

nataliemm

Worst impression of a famous person: Michael Cane in a hotel in Dublin. Said no to a photo with an 85 year old woman.

Danny Devito, Mike Tyson several times, Reba McIntire, Mimi Rodgers, Penn of Penn and Teller, Tori Spelling, Geena Davis all in Las Vegas & others I can't remember. Dr. Phil (not as tall or heavy as he seems on TV) at 4S Maui, Walter Cronkite (sp) at a London theatre,George Bush SR. waving from his limo in Pittsburgh , Aerosmith at a movie theatre when I was a child, Nick Nolte at Ihilani Resort Hnl.

doc_

Yesitis....She claims in her book the whitewater profit was intended for Chelsea's education. Ask her if it was or if the money went to a political contribution fund!

nataliemm

Forgot Tom Cruise who filmed a movie in my small hometown many years ago, saw him several places but he attended Catholic mass at my church. An old childhood friend chased him after church as he was running and laughing with his bodyguard.

I also saw Steevie Wonder being chased by a fan in the Las Vegas airport. That was pretty funny being as he can't see, he was also laughing while someone was holding his hand

JeanJean

My celebrity encounter is "Church with Charo".

We were on Oahu over Easter a few years ago and good Catholic guilt struck, so we decided to go to Easter Sunday Mass at the cute little church on Kalakaua (sp?) avenue in Waikiki. Sure enough, there was the "Hoochie-Coochie" lady herself. After the service she was surrounded by adoring fans.

Celine

The two I can remember are Farah Fawcett a few years ago, we ran practically into her as she was coming out from playing some sort of tennis game (can't remember the name) on Venice Beach in Santa Monica. She looked very old with tons of wrinkles (more than I expected for her age).

Rebecca DeMornay was sitting right across from us at the Hard Rock Cafe in Universal city a few years ago. She had no makeup, messed up hair, I hardly recognized her (but I did!). But she was still very pretty...

Lee4

I live in Arkansas, and growing up, Bill Clinton was ALWAYS our governor. When I was in high school, we attended a school club convention in Little Rock, and some us were walking to a downtown McDonalds for breakfast. A man was jogging along the sidewalk and we kind of stopped and moved out of his way--Yep, it was Clinton himself in some of those little jogging shorts. He said hello to our group and kept on jogging.

Years later, I moved to Little Rock and attended church at the one he used to go to. So, there 2 or 3 times that I remember his being there (during his first term). We had to go through security to get into church and he came in with his entourage, after everyone was seated. Then we had to wait to leave until he was out of the building. But, he always stayed outside a while to shake hands, hug, take pictures, etc. If you were parked in that area, you still had to wait to leave. Even though I don't care for the man, he does have a certain charisma about him that you can't help but notice.

This past March, I saw the lady who plays "Hope" on Days of Our Lives at DFW airport. She looked just as gorgeous and tiny in person as she does on the show.

YesItIsYesItIs

Doc, lol, I think you need to come along if you want an answer to an oldie like that. Thinking back, wasn't Whitewater a Bush Sr. issue? Bring along your copy of "Stand By My Man" and we'll get her to autograph it

YesItIsYesItIs

Sorry - "Your" Man.

ColletteRI

Many moons ago on a Sitmar Cruise, Lindsay Wagner ( the Bionic Woman!) was on with her husband and his family. We saw her alot.. in the pool, the elevator ... She had agreed to do a adograph(sp??) signing one afternoon and the rest of the time people were very well behaved and didn't bother her.

I was not on vacation but home in Providence and went to a museum where I noticed a lady in a trench, coat, kerchief and big sunglasses, and see the guide taking her onto a special elevator. Yup, Jackie O... John John was at Brown at the time so she was probably visiting him. I casually followed her outside but then I was afraid the secret service would think I was a stalker so I had to stop.
Oh, also met Angie Dickerson on a cruise,...

AAFrequentFlyer

Back in mid-80s, my beautiful wife and I, vacationing on Mustique Island in the Caribbean, walked over to the local bar(Basil's Bar, I think?), and there they were, the two biggest rock icons, Mick Jagger and David Bowie. Mick was my idol since the mid-late 60's, as I became a HUGE Stones fan back then, and when my musical taste expended, Bowie also fell ito the same worship category. Needles to say, against my wishes, my wife made me go up and say "something, duh". Anyway this was in the early afternoon, the place was deserted, so I took a chance. Both guys were extremely pleasant, and they even bougth us a round of 'Pain Killers #8'.
The few other celebs that I've seen later in my life never were able to raise such an excitment for me as these two guys.
Still listen to every thing they put out these days.

mm

I had a nice conversation with Scott Hamilton at the gate waiting for a flight from Boston to LA. He was in town for Nancy Kerrigan's wedding.

MM

JJason

Mohammed Ali in Alberta Canada about 15 years ago, Tim Henman at Dulles airport 3 years ago, Tamara Gray (American Idol)who used to be my neighbor and who I grew up with, Jenna Jameson in Providence Rhode Island (I have pictures), Tobey Maguire in Greenwich Village last year, Anna Kournikova in West Palm beach last year, Brian Dunkelman (American Idol host) in Utah last year.

Meesthare

A few years ago, waiting in a state of total exhaustion for our flight from LAX to Sydney, Australia - we saw a woman walk by in the departure lounge and out of my sleepy fog, I thought "Gee, she looks sort of like Sandra Bernhardt." The Roseanne show was still on the air then. The woman who "looked like" Sandra Bernhardt was indeed the genuine article, except that she looked worse than we felt at the time, and the next day we saw her at the Air Canada office complaining bitterly about something or other. Not impressed.

irishdame

Flying from Pittsburgh to Tampa for the Super Bowl in 1984 I was delighted to see on my flight the following:

Dan Rooney, Owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Chuck Knoll, ex-head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Rocky Blier, ex-running back for the Pittsburgh Steerers.

Myron Cope, beloved broadcaster for a local radio station in Pittsburgh..he still does all the Steeler games to this day!!!

I was in such heaven and all of them were very, very kind to a little girl who wouldnt leave them alone!

doc_

yesitis...Too funny! Have fun anyway. Maybe I could be so forunate to interview my Senior Sentaor, Ted Kennedy,and you could offer a question for me to ask. I know what mine would be.

Suzie

I agree with Lee4, despite your politics, there is definitely a charisma thing going on with Clinton. He came to our town after some serious flooding. I saw him from the side of a creek and he came over to talk to a few of us who had gathered. I was really surprised at the charisma thing.

Also ran into Steve Garvey (or ran into one of his forearms ) while touring the Hilton Waikoloa on the BI.

Smokyboy

About 7 years ago I was doing work at CNN building in Atlanta. Was staying at Omni Hotel? As my work could only be done late at night it was somewhere around 2:00am. Atrium was deserted and heard laughter coming my way. I looked up and immediately recognized Ted Turner and Jane Fonda. To my surprise they both headed my way and noticing the work I was doing remarked how good it looked. They had arrived on late night flight from out west. Ted seemed quite happy! Jane was very nice and the first thing I noticed was her beauty. What a remarkable person. We all three stood in that lobby for at least 15 minutes, the echoes from laughter and conversation was neat being we were virually the only ones there. I will say one thing, ole Ted is one down to earth, kooky kind of guy! My kind of person! His presence was astounding.