RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Comic Books Legion Fans' Celebrity Encounters

A long time ago I coughed and up came a sequin. And this was several months from the last time I had been near a sequin. What the hell had that thing been doing in my body for all that time?

I work in a restaurant in a fancy hotel in NYC, so I've seen my share of celebs-many w/ spinach between their teeth!!

Mick Jagger had lunch with a couple of other people and left me a $100.00 tip on a $140.00 check. I love that man!

Liam Gallager of Oasis invited me up to his room to "powder my nose".
I did.

I gave Drew Barrymore a rose I fashioned out of bar napkins and she kissed my cheek.
No, I have not washed that cheek since!

Liza Minnelli had dinner with a party of 9. She chain-smoked all through dinner and had her own ashtray in her purse!

Hillary Clinton asked me my name when I first approached her table. On her way out after the meal, she took my hand in hers and said," Alec, the food was delicious and your service was excellent! Thank You very much!"
I melted.

Marilyn Manson came in with the whole band and they were so polite and well-behaved!
I was very dissapointed!!

More later!!!

You know, it just makes the entire world outside my window somehow better when I know that Liza Minelli carries her own ashtray in her purse.

Hi Stuey -

Glad you like the Prince Planet Avatar.

Later on, I'll put more installments into the Legion story I've been writing here.

I was going to end it, but I think I want to drwa it out a bit.


LLASH - Super Sequin Lad - Able to hold a sequin in his body for months.

Maybe the subs could use ya!!! ( Ps - Glad it didn't make you ill! )


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I worked in a trendy place in Covent garden for about 8 years and often saw celebs, my fave being Boy George who was always chatty and friendly, Zoe Wannamaker who always asked after whoevers served hers health, Lulu who is shorter than you could imagine....oh gawd so many others... I shut the doors on Michael Stipe once as he was being a dickhead, gave Yazz (of "the only way is up" fame) a free cup of tea as she called me "darling", refused to serve Michael Portillo until he came out.... oh gawd I miss it now.... why I wasn't sacked for my cheek I'll never know....

Alright, more dish:

Nell Carter(RIP) came in while she was appearing in Annie on Broadway. She sat in one of the deep, plush leather easy-chairs in our bar/lounge.
It took three of us to get her out of it!

Jim Brickman used to be a semi-regular and was very flirtatious. He once asked if I was latin. I said Cuban. He then asked if it was true what they said about Cuban guys.
Let me just say, at that moment, it was !!

Carson Daly used to come in after filming TRL across the street. He would drink three Johnny Walker Black's, smoke an entire pack of Marlboro reds and curse like a sailor.
Loved him!

Ashley Judd came in one afternoon wearing an old sweatshirt and faded jeans. Her hair was tied back and there wasn't a lick of make-up on her face.
She was still so absolutely luminous , it was nearly unbearable!!

More later!

Cool posts, Alec and Cargg!

I KNEW IT!!!!!

(Jim Brickman, I mean.)

{The Man From Cargg}
"... I was the only person there that recognized Donald Pleasance (The Great Escape/Hallowe'en), I followed him to the elevator as he moved through the crowd unmolested. He was so happy that someone knew who he was."

Celebrities seem to fall into one of those two extremes, I've gathered: those so bored or put off by "fame" that they can't be bothered to be recognized, and those who would like to be thus bothered.

"Stars" fall, from all reports, largely into the first category, character actors largely into the second. I think those in the latter group know it's a craft, and those in the former confuse themselves with their roles.

I've met a few people here and there:

Comics folk:

Mike Kaluta
William Stout

I've had correspondence with
Wally Wood
Robert Loren Fleming
Trevor Von Eeden

Musicians:

Dave Cousins and Dave Lambert of the British folk/rock band Strawbs, just last month (and I've got pictures!). They had just done a live webcast in Lexington, KY. These guys are musical heroes of mine and it was a gas to meet them...

Billy Ray Cyrus, just before he hit it big with that godawful Achy Breaky Song. He's from Kentucky, y'know, and one afternoon, when I reported for my shift at the small alternative-format radio station where I DJ'ed part time back in the late 80s-early 90s, he was sitting there talking to the DJ before me. He had heard our station while driving back and forth between Louisville and Nashville, liked the music we played, and brought a demo tape hoping we would play it. To the best of my knowledge we never did, although one of the other guys might have played it in the morning when we had more country. Next thing you know, it was a month or so later– and there he was on CMT doing that goddamned song.

Randy Travis, at a Nashville Fan Fair. He had a line waiting to get his autograph that had to be a mile long. This would have been in 1990, at the height of his popularity. I was there because I had promised a girl I would get his signature. The things I do. Anyway, when I got there, I got the sig, shook his hand, said "The price of fame, huh!" which got a laugh. At the same fanfare I met the Bellamy Brothers ("Let Your Love Flow") and hooked up with an actual acquaintance who I hadn't seen in years: Bowling Green's own Bill Lloyd, who was then having chart success in Foster & Lloyd with Radney Foster. I went to a show they played later that night, and had a beer or two and caught up with Bill after the show.

Founding members of the 60s-70s alternative country group Goose Creek Symphony. You may or may not remember these guys, but they flirted with fame about '71 or so.

I met Slim Dunlop, who was Bob Stinson's replacement in the Replacements. Nice fella. I started to go over and introduce myself to Paul Westerberg but he was shitfaced drunk and so I thought I'd pass.

I met Vernon Reid and Corey Glover at a 1988 Living Colour show at the Exit/In in Nashville, months before "Cult of Personality" hit. They came out and mingled with people after their set. Earlier, a friend of mine, who was seeking an autograph on a promo single he had, got me to go with him to the Winnebago they had parked outside the bar. They didn't let us in, but they took the record and signed it, and we got a look inside the bus.

Jill Sobule, whom I saw open up for two different acts in the space of one year, for Joan Osborne and as the opener and member of Lloyd Cole's band, the Negatives. She was meeting and greeting people after the Osborne show, and I walked up and struck up a short conversation. It was the first time I had heard anything she had done, besides "I Kissed A Girl", and I've been a big fan ever since. I wanted to strike up a conversation with Lloyd Cole, but he had too many other sycophants around him and I had a long drive to get home.

Finally, one movie star: Vincent Price, who gave a lecture at Western Ky. University in 1975, when I was 15. I came up to him after the lecture and told him what a big fan I was of his movies, especially Dr. Phibes, and he accepted my gushing gracefully.

That's all I can think of...

Wow, Bacardi! You met a lot of interesting people!

Cool!!!

I once saw Sidney Poitier at a car wash. I recognized him and said hello. He was very nice. He said few people recognized him anymore, except to the extent he was mistaken for Danny Glover. It was kinda funny, but kinda sad.

Vincent Price is God!!!!

Sigh... About the only 'famous' person I've encountered was Rob Quantock - and if any of you non-Aussies have heard of Rob, I'd be surprised.

(And those of you that have, you'll understand my use of '' marks around 'famous'. )

You tell 'em, Pariah Carey!