Famous people you have met.

[Svipdag]

Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz [got his autograph]; physicist, Harold Edgerton (inventor of the strobe light); harpsichordist, Ralph Kirkpatrick;
mezzo soprano, Marilyn Horne; and photographer, Ansel Adams.

This is actually an Addendum. I completely forgot that I met Andres Segovia in the audience at a performance by his friend and countryman, harpist, Nicanor Zabaleta. I was with a guitarist friend who recognised Segovia at a distance. We got to talk with him for a few minutes during Intermission.

[Longbowman]

1. Why do you misinterpret my post on purpose.

2. How can you be sure I wasn't there.

1) for fun

2) you didn't grow up in my village

[Sodium]

I've met a shit ton of famous people working in the hospitality industry but my two favorites were Christopher Lee and Cheech Marin, both of which I had nice conversations with (both about golf). Roger Clemens used to call the restaurant I worked at and ask for me by name to let us know he was coming and he hooked me up with a bunch of perks (free cd's and stuff) from his pals in the entertainment industry.

[Piccolo]

I have met Hulk Hogan, Spike Lee, and Jane Goodall. I've met some local politicians in Chicago but I don't know if they would be considered famous, especially on an international board like this. I have also had a few quasi-encounters with famous people.

James Caan: I was with my family at the Mirage hotel and casino in Las Vegas and my grandmother spotted James Caan and started yelling "Sonny!" (the name of Caan's character in The Godfather). He gave her a dirty look and kept walking by. She then swore at him loudly.

Michael Jordan: I have seen him twice in pubic. Once at a high school basketball game where his son was playing. He had a whole section of the bleachers roped off for himself and his entourage. The other time was again at a Las Vegas casino and he was with a huge crew of men and women. I never approached Jordan because he is supposedly a big jerk in real life.

Finally, my aunt's sister was supposedly dating a drummer for the '80s band Survivor ("Eye of the Tiger" and all that). I met him once. He just looked like some balding middle-aged dude. I have no idea who he really was so I am not sure if my family was just messing with me by telling me he played drums for some '80s rock band.

[Rudel]

Jacques Chirac, François Hollande, Henri Guaino, Marine Le Pen, Florian Philippot... And a bunch of writers, journalists and whatnot.

[barbatus]

I met and spoke briefly with former Premier of Ontario Dalton McGuinty. Not too exciting unless you're into politics. I never liked the man anyways.

[Era]

Keanu Reeves

[JoeyGee8688]

My mom once saw Jesse Jackson in an airport many many years ago. I told her I wish she'd shot him.

[Piccolo]

I met and spoke briefly with former Premier of Ontario Dalton McGuinty. Not too exciting unless you're into politics. I never liked the man anyways.

Meeting politicians is often underwhelming. All of the ones I have met were pretty personable, put you can never know if it is just a façade or not. So much of their job is glad-handing and baby-kissing for good publicity.

[oh-nahhh]

you can never know if it is just a façade or not.

Perhaps it's just an Atlantic facade!?