Lynn_Gibson

Don Rickles - Burbank airport

Nick Nolte - LAX (looking like he just got out of bed - wearing a robe and slippers)

Goldie Hawn - Santa Monida (looking wonderful)

Jamie Lee Curtis - AA flight to LAX from Chicago in first class. Talked a lot when she got on the plane, then sat down and was quiet for the flight. Shorter than what I thought, but great figure.

Robert Schuller - flight from Honolulu (very nice and didn't harass the flight attendants)

Laura Dern - restaurant in Beverly Hills

Jesse Jackson - Chicago airport between flights. He sat next to me and his secretary met him in the airport. He gave her instructions, dictated some letters, etc. before boarding a flight. He was very nice.

Daryl Hannah - Roy's Restaurant in Hawaii Kai

Smokyboy

One little footnote to my story: Cat Ballou was my favorite movie of Ms. Fondas but for some reason every time I would look at her all I could think of was the beginning of her film Barbarella!

Daniel_Williams

The funny thing is, I never really think I'll be anywhere where a celebrity might go...but for some reason, I seem to see quite a number.

Dorval Airport, Montreal. Ed Norton
Unity Club, Montreal. Nathan Lane
Downtown Montreal. Sporty Spice
Penn Station, Baltimore (!). Lauren Velez (NY Undercover and Oz)
Broad Street, Philadelphia. Peter Jennings.
Reading Terminal Market, Philadelphia. the star kid of Malcolm in the Middle
Williamsburg, Va right outside my dorm. Prince Charles; I knew he was in town, but I certainly didn't expect to see him as well as I did.
I also think I might have seen Martin Short the other day in Montreal, but I felt I could easily have been mistaken.

I've seen quite a number of people who are famous here in Quebec as well: JoJo, Gilles Duceppe, Julie Snyder, Real Menard...etc...

I always tell myself not to stare and respect a celebrity's privacy, but for some reason I always seem to do a double-take. I need to learn to be more nonchalant.

YesItIsYesItIs

With EMK, perhaps keep off bridges and out of Olds. But that was long ago as well, and at times I think that might have been Richard M. Or was that CREEP.

KinLA

I've run into quite a few famous people through the course of my work and by virtue of living in LA:

Reggie Jackson - Corona Del Mar
Kareem Abdul Jabbar - Movie theater in the San Fernando Valley
Lou Ferrigno - Twice in Santa Monica
Catherine Bach, Jason Alexander - Beverly Hills
Magic Johnson, Snoopp Dogg, Ice Cube, Leonardo DiCaprio, President Clinton, Christina Aguilera, Michael Eisner, Pat O'Brien, Rita Wilson - Staples Center elevator
Hugh Hefner - Rode on the Staples Center elevator with him. He was with several "girlfriends" and a few body guards, but grinding on a girl.
Tiffany Amber Thiesen - Rode the elevator with her in the building housing Aaron Spelling productions. She was gorgeous
John Ritter, Tony Danza - Dodger Stadium, same night
Former Dodger, Ron Cey - Dogdger Stadium
Rita Moreno, Steve Garvey, Jim Belushi, Ted McGuinley - Brentwood
Andre Agassi, Steffi Graff - Westwood
Tiger Woods - Valencia, I smiled at him as he was walking on the fairway, he smiled back.
Coach John Robinson - Century City
Ricky Shroeder & Alfonso Ribero - An arcade in Sherman Oaks (When Silver Spoons was still on the air)
Marlon Jackson - same arcade
Keenan Ivory Wayans, Bill Maher, Andy Dick - Six Flags Magic Mountain


Through my travels, I've seen:

Sugar Ray Leonard - MGM Grand,Las Vegas playing blackjack ($500-$1500 a hand)
Julius Erving (Dr. J) - Bally's, LV. I played BJ on the same table for about an hour.
"Cousin Larry" from Perfect Strangers - Barbary Coast, LV
Elliott Gould - MGM Grand, LV
Peter Jennings, Heidi Klum - Manhattan
Judge Lance Ito & Governor Gray Davis - Rode on the same plane from Sacramento (different trips)
Baseball Commisioner Bud Selig & Former LA Laker Elden Campbell - Milwaukee (same trip)

JCE

Bumped into O.J. Simpson at O'Hare in June of 1994. He was just hangin' around a trash barrel,looked like he was putting a bag with heavy objects in it. He gave me his autograph and I noticed this cut on his hand,would'nt tell me how it happened.

ilisa

While on our honeymoon in Antigua we saw Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown dancing at Shirley Heights. Not travellling, I once gave a tour of the Air and Space Museum to Caroline Kennedy, her husband and kids, and Ted Kennedy's wife and her kids. There are more but that I have seen and met, but living in Washington, DC it is not uncommon.

DanB

Paul Newman at Tanglewood, it was if he was in color and everyone else was in black and white. Sophia Loren at Chicago O'Hare looking very made up, almost orange, and being whisked away by guys in sun glasses. She had the whole sucked in cheeks nose up in the air thing going. Very glamorous, like back when movie stars were movie stars. My wife said it couldn't have been her, but then we found out she was getting some kind of award at the international film festival.

Big drop

I stood on line for an Amtrak bathroom with Michael Gross of family ties. I asked him why he was on the train and he
siad he hated flying.
I saw Potsy from happy days walking around LA once too. Looking slightly lost.

Gigantic drop

I saw Gary Coleman at a bar in Chicago talking VERY loud the whole time. Any cuteness he had is gone.

missy2000

Went to Disney World back in 1997 and stayed at the Grand Floridian. Disney was giving a black tie hall of fame dinner for some celebs. Several were staying at our hotel including Oprah Winfrey , Regis Philbin,Walter Cronkit and Andy Rooney.

Also, in 2001 we were in San Franisco and staying at the Fairmont. President Clinton was staying at our hotel with his entourage of secret service. We got to shake his hand as he walked out the hotel and he calmly proceeded to go for a walk down to Union Square, surrounded by his body guards of course.

BoulderCO

Burt Bacharach - sat next to him on a flight from Denver to L.A. - super nice guy
Matt LeBlanc - Loew's Hotel in Annapolis attending his cousin's wedding
Gerald Ford - Mirabelle's restaurant, Beaver Creek,CO
Yogi Berra and Johnny Bench - Beaver Creek Golf Clubhouse
Bob Hope - Beaver Creek Clubhouse
Jack Nicklaus - Gashouse restaurant near Avon, Co
Dali Lama - Grosvenor House Hotel, London
Steven Stills - Kaanapali Alii Condos, Maui

PamSF

my ex at Sundance! And, once riding up in an elevator in Union Square..Angela Davis..does that count?

smoot60

Perhaps one of the most thrilling moments for me while traveling happened when my wonderful husband treated me to six fab days at Las Ventenas in Cabo San Lucas. At dinner one night who should be see but the Swartznagger's - Arnold and Maria. I was beside myself. It was a true thrill I'll never forget. Las Ventenas is probably the most fabulous places in the world. It is very expensive and this trip was a big splurge but it was worth every penny!!!!

clairelong

I saw Burt Reynolds last year at the Orleans, he looked very frail.

Scarlett

OK, PamSF, you have to tell me who your husband is!!!
You tell me and I will tell you who mine is~ LOL

BuffaloGirl

Not as impressive as some of your star sightings, but in a restaurant in Marina Del Ray in 1985 Jim Backus sat at the table next to us (for those of you who don't who he is he played Mr. Howell on Gilligan's Island). He really talked like that, too!!!

James Caan filmed a movie here some years ago and many of the scenes took place in my neighborhood and at my old grammar school. I saw him several times.

OJ Simpson in the 1970's when he played for the Bills...we stood near him at a Buffalo Braves basketball game.

Heartburn3

On the way home from California, I was checking in behind Ed Begley, Jr, in LAX. I forgot his name, but knew he was famous. I politely asked him who he was because I simply forgot. His reply was, "Sometimes I forget, too." And he continued to the plane without telling me. I had to ask the airline personnel. They said he's weird and I thought he was, too. I think he had a ferret in the little cage he was carrying onto our red-eye flight to Orlando. Oh well... c'est la vie!

At work I had the chance to meet Mickie Rourke, but I don't care for him, so I just took the pic of my girlfriend with him. He was weighing in for a boxing match -- it was a publicity stunt.

In a Vegas casino I saw Shari Belafonte talking to Bonnie Hunt (Bonnie has her own sitcom now and was in many films including Jerry McGuire.) I spoke with Bonnie later (the body guard around Shari made it difficult to get close.) Bonnie is a riot! She even asked us later if we'd seen her hubby anywhere. She looked just like she does on the screen.

Also in the same weekend I met Alan Autry ("Bubba" on In the Heat of the Night series, and Grace Under Fire's good looking boyfriend) he looked shorter, but just as good looking in person (the man looks really, really looks good in a tux!) He's now the Mayor where he lives.

nataliemm

Also remembered:

Oprah's Steadman Graham in the Amer Airlines lounge - really tall!
Whitney Houston & Bobby Brown at a Gladys Knight cocert in LV
Dennis Miller also in LV, ran into him a few times
Wesley Snipes - shorter than on TV
Tiffany Amber Theissen at a Go Go's concert in the HOB Mandalay Bay- prettier and thinner in person

Heartburn3

Oops, I forgot that years ago I met Cloris Leachman after a play she was in. And Earl Morrall (Miami Dolphins QB during one of their "Perfect Seasons") was our Mayor a few years back (I work for the City and spoke with him often). Earl is a sweetie. I asked him how the players in the '70's got those huge afros under their football helmets and he said he didn't notice, but it was funny watching them take them off and seeing all that hair pop out... FWOMP!!

nataliemm

typo- Steadman AA lounge in Chicago

BAK

Once upon a time I was sitting on the wharf in Monaco watching the yeachts when a big boat arrived. It lowered speedboats from the side (this was a huge boat, with a helicopter on deck)which acted like tugboats to get it into position, and the Frank Sinatra got off and walked right by me, about five feet away.

And I shared a double seat with Buffy Ste. Marie once, from Minot, North Dakota, to Regina, Saskatchewan, and then went to her concert the next night.

And I once shared an elevator in Edmonton with Wilt Chamberlain. I'm six two and felt like a midget.

BAK