Inconsequential Brushes With Fame

[DatDude]

I was sitting at a small bar in Miami and I looked over my shoulder to see Dennis Rodman standing behind me. He stepped out to smoke a cigar with some Russian dude. My wife and I went out and had a picture taken with him. I was a big Bad Boys Pistons fan growing up.

[Eccles]

Last year saw a crap play Wallace Shawn (Princess Bride, Toy Story series) was a couple rows in front.

Also in the bar afterwards were British comic actors Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan and Ben Miles

[Eccles]

Years ago I was in Camden and saw Amy Winehouse ahead of me buying a kebab. Girl was fucking tiny

[madmonke]

Around 15 years ago I was at a Church just outside of Downtown Dayton. I went to wash up and saw an older lady holding a little dog standing by the doors asking to come in. I told her I would have to ask the office people about it. She was wanting some water for her dog. They let her in and We were all in the office. I kept looking at her thinking how familiar she looked. The Secretary looked at her and said.. "You look like Glenn Close" and the lady said "I hear that a lot but I am Cloris Leachman"

[Eccles]

Here's a missed one. Two years back my stepmum's parents had an anniversary party at my dad's house. I had completely forgotten and was at work, (this was a Saturday) and said I try and stop by afterwards.

When I get there, it's late, everyone is pretty much gone and I'm told that Jarvis Cocker from Pulp had been at the party. I can't exactly remember why he was there. I think his son knew someone involved or something. Anyway I missed him

[strommsarnac]

Two for me.

When I was in High School (before I got my license), my mother was in the turn lane to go into Veteran's Memorial (large conference center really) parking lot. This was during the "Columbus Ford 500" race weekend.

Just as we were turning, this major douchebag comes screaming out to the right from behind us and right in front cutting us off. My mom had to slam on the brakes to get from broadsiding him. 1984 Ferrari Testarossa with RAHAL on the plate. Flicking us off and yelling "Get out of my way!" as he went sliding into the lot.

So I get to the "exhibit" I was going to. I told a neighbor I'd help out monitoring his cars. He owned ELEVEN Lamborghini's. 400GT, Mura, Jalpa, Islero, Espada, Countach (four models). Even an LM002 and a 50's farm tractor

Well, 10 minutes after I get there, Rahal comes driving in with his Testarossa and demands that we move one of the Lambos so he can park his car in one of the spots. He went livid because we didn't care who he was. Security had to escort him out. The saddest part was that all of the press around were obviously "ignoring" him. No cameras taking photos, no one writing down notes, nothing.


The second was at a Rush concert in the early 90's, I'm in the front row. This was at Cooper Stadium in Columbus. Open air baseball stadium. Some guy with a big cowboy and being a drunk ass dick shows up with a few big guys with him and sit folding chairs down right in front of me and my date. I ask him to at least take off his hat (it was that big). He turns, looks at me and says "Fuck off punk". ?!?!?! Well, I didn't just pay $80.00 for a ticket to have part of my view blocked.

So I tell him "Hey, now you've pissed me off. You're not allowed to just come up here and sit down". Again the fuck of, but now "Don't you know who I am". "UH, NO and I wouldn't give a shit if I did. Move the fuck out of my view!" This is when his goons start walking towards me. I stand up (not really afraid... years of martial arts and some friends were also in the row with us. I see some security moving my way and I tell the goons they might want to be smart and stop before 30 Westsiders stomp their asses into the ground. They actually paused, one of them reaching into his jacket. A guy behind me says "Dude, SLOWLY take your hand back out. Cause if you move too fast we're going to shoot you". I look back and there was three homies pointing guns at him

So the security shows up and this guy demands I'm removed. I explained what was going on and so did others and they escort him and his goons somewhere else.

Turns out it was Billy Ray Cyrus. What a dick.

[Volfie99]

In '95 or '96, I walked behind Eric Roberts (actor Star 80) for a few blocks down Broadway in Manhattan. A friend of his with a beard was telling him where the strip clubs were off of Times Square, where they turned.

[slooby_doo]

Several years ago I went to a Merle Haggard concert and hung out with his equipment driver. He got upstairs into VIP where I chilled two tables away from Chris Robinson from the Black Crowes and Goldie Hawn's daughter. I waved. They waved back. I then did shots with BR-549. Never got to meet Merle though.

Also, in 97 or 98 I met Boy George at an 80's Rewind Tour show and had him sign my WPLJ radio station shirt.

[el_victorino]

In 1993 I drove past George Harrison's house in Beverly Hills. He had a cool mailbox. It looked like a giant hand. I waved, but there was nobody outside to wave back. I also went past Walt Disney's house, but he was already dead, so nobody waved back there either.

[el_victorino]

My wife and I were sitting in a local pub drinking some beers and admiring the paintings on the wall. One of them was a nude blonde walking through a wheat field. The bartender/server/owner came over to bring us two more just as I was saying to my wife that the model's butt must have really itched, walking naked through the waist high wheat. Bartender said "Why don't you ask her - that's her and the artist sitting behind you."

That's more of an inconsequential brush with inconsequential fame.