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well...
Cornell Wilde
Pamela Sue Martin (grrrr)
Anne Lockhart
the cast of LOST IN SPACE (except Guy Williams) 
some of the cast from TIME TUNNEL & LAND OF THE GIANTS
Adam West
Gary Lockwood
Keir Dullea
Dee Wallace Stone
George Takei
John DeLancie (he wasn't that friendly!)
Robert Picardo
Marina Sirtis
James Doohan (RIP)
David Hedison
Erin Gray
Travis Walton (UFO abductee)
Most of YES & GENESIS band members
MOODY BLUES & Patrick Moraz
KING CRIMSON (Wetton era lineup)
ASIA's Geoff Downes
Bob Seger
Three Dog Night
Glen Campbell
David Arkenstone
Kitaro
John Tesh
Lou Ferrigno
Ann Robinson (WAR OF THE WORLDS)
Ginger Lynn Allen (wink wink)
....there's more but it's late.....
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Jackie Onassis
Had a friendly conversation w/her at a gallery opening at NYU
Steve Forbes and Parker Stevenson went to my prep school, Forbes 2 yrs. ahead of me, Stevenson 2 yrs. behind. Except that wasn't his name then.
Did a show directed by James Earl Jones.
Olympia Dukakis was my acting teacher for a year at NYU.
Met a few more here and there...
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Dec 6, 2007 - 11:04 PM
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JSWalsh
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"Met" as in actually had a conversation with, as opposed to signings, would be a very small list, but...
Harlan Ellison--some friends bought tickets for a lecture and writing class he gave one weekend, and we chatted for a couple of minutes. Nice guy, no BS about him.
Henny Youngman--was working a bar mitzvah at a country club where I worked in the 80's. Very nice man.
Anthony Quinn--was a repeat customer at a bookstore in Rhode Island where I worked, and asked the manager, "How come he (JSW) can find me all these books I want to order, and you can't?"
Oh, and Natalie Portman held a door open for me once.
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Dec 6, 2007 - 11:15 PM
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Cdouglas
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Lots of professional baseball, football, and basketball players... John Elway, Dale Murphy, Joe Montana, Chipper Jones, Michael Vick, Dominique Wilkins, Scottie Pippen, etc... I've had a chance to chat with Tom Glavine several times.
When I was a teenager working at a fast-food restaurant, Evander Holyfield yelled at me because I didn't have his food ready fast enough.
I ran into Jeff Foxworthy in an elevator.
Met Will Smith once at a baseball game.
I met Jason Schwartzman just a few weeks ago at a screening of "Darjeeling Limited", got to talk with him for a little while.
Got a chance to speak at length with Doug Jones following a screening of "Pan's Labyrinth".
Met Cuba Gooding Jr. and Steve Harvey when they were filming scenes at my radio station for "The Fighting Tempations".
Got to meet Jim Caviezel, Claire Forlani, Jeremy Northam, and Malcom McDowell when I was an extra in "Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius". McDowell was particularly fascinating.
I've spoken of the phone with over a dozen composers of note, but I won't count those.
The person that I've never met that I would really love to meet: Werner Herzog.
Back at ya later
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Dec 7, 2007 - 12:37 AM
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Josh
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I know this doesn't really count (since I didn't actually meet him), but about ten years ago I was at LAX (the airport in L.A.) when lo and behold, I looked over and there was none other than Morgan Freeman, about ten feet away from me, chatting to a couple of people that were apparently waiting for him as he arrived on an inbound flight.
The funniest part was, as soon as I saw him I was thinking, "Where do I know this guy from?," as if I had known him personally or something. It took a few seconds for me to realize who he was, and while I was trying to discretely inform my friend sitting next to me that THE Morgan Freeman was practically standing right next to us, fans had already begun to swarm seeking autographs, so I didn't bother to accost him. Pretty cool, though!
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Dec 7, 2007 - 3:01 AM
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There are others but ones us FSM-ers (as well as some of the general public) would consider famous, many backstage after gigs but others interviewed:-
Composers: Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Michael Kamen (he also sent me a freebie CD of his Saxophone Concerto), Lalo Schifrin (interviewed 1998, met again 1999 and remain in regular contact), Elmer Bernstein (after a talk at the NFT and interviewed him the day after), Howard Shore (probably the only person to ask him a non-Lord of the Rings question in recent times!), Francis Shaw (interviewed at the RCM and sat in on one of his lectures for an article), Roy Budd, John Scott, James Cameron, Nigel Hess.
Musicians: Saxophonists Branford Marsalis and Sonny Rollins, John Dankworth, Tim Garland (also played saxophone with him in a masterclass and he was impressed by one of my autistic students who had only been playing six months), harpist Skaila Kanga (at the RAM - interviewed 2003 and met again at a talk there), trumpeter Chris Botti, Branford’s fellow musicians - drummer Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts, pianist Joey Calderazzo. Sonny’s bassist Bob Cranshaw (who also does the music for Sesame Street), pianist Stan Tracey.
Actors: Tom Baker (once in the seventies and again at a petrol station!), Dave Prowse twice, Ken Earl (stage name of Clifford Earl), actor in many productions, lots of TV series of the sixties and seventies and also films such as The Sea Wolves. He borrowed my hat when going to exotic places to film The Sea Wolves!
Newsreader: Moira Stuart (backstage at a Sonny Rollins concert).
Playwright: Alan Ayckbourn.
That’s the ones off the top of my head.
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And I've had some conversations with people, without actually meeting them. I used to answer phones in the Room Service Depts. of The Plaza Hotel, for 4 yrs., and The Waldorf-Astoria, for 1 yr., back in the late 70's/early 80s.
Peter Weir: discussed going from Australia to Hollywood, and the wear and tear on his creativity.
Samuel Fuller: staying at the Plaza for promotion of THE BIG RED ONE. Complimented him as a "real craftsman" of film, someone who knows the mechanics of making movies, without splashy attention-seeking, and I added he was a real survivor. He sent down a paperback copy of the novel he wrote based on the film, with an inscription saying, "For John Archibald, whose comment makes survival a joy, Samuel Fuller." I still have it.
Ava Gardner: called down at the Waldorf at 2:30 PM for breakfast, still, sadly, under the weather. I complimented her on her haunting performance in ON THE BEACH, a film I've always loved, and she told me it made her day. (She was staying in the suite in the Waldorf Towers, belonging to her ex-husband, Frank Sinatra, who left standing orders with the hotel staff that she was to be given every courtesy whenever she was in town. That's devotion.)
Also used to carry on more or less ongoing conversations with Valerie Harper and Cloris Leachman, whenever they were in New York, and staying at the Plaza. We used to discuss film, theatre, and acting in film and theatre, and the business of acting in film and theatre. Classy ladies, both of them.
And then there was the matter of Richard Crenna's stolen salmon, a fish he had caught in Alaska and brought back with him, stored in a freezer in the Plaza, from which it mysteriously disappeared.
But he got it back. Eventually.
And there's a lot more.
And, though I never met him, I once had an ongoing correspondence with J.R.R.Tolkien, who, along with my father and the headmaster of my prep school, Frank Ashburn, was one of the more honorable men I have had the pleasure to communicate with. But I never met the man.
And there are others, I suppose, whom I just don't recall as of now...
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Does it count if'n we name everyone who meet and contributes to our fabulous (oft-times fractured) FSM merry-go-round?
Being famous just for being famous still pales before those whose overall (if publically unheralded) humanity is worth far more in the long run.
So here's a salute to all of YOU ... 
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Jerry Goldsmith at 58 Dean Street Records.
I don't believe you -- there is NO WAY two people could fit in that store! 
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I'm impressed by all of these longs lists, but how do you find "meet"? Have you been to signings? Have you seen them in a public place somewhere? IMO, this doesn't qualify as "meet".
In my opinion, it requires some actual conversation between you and the celebrity.
Good point- in many cases, I met and talked with some at the USA FILM FESTIVAL here in Dallas, Patricia Neal was very gracious and Robert Wise signed my insert card from THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL commenting he didn't even have one of them. Others, like Vivian Vance resided across the street from the 7-11 I worked at as a teenager and came in for sundries and would chat every time they came in. In fact, two I left off from that period were June Allison, and her son Dick Powell, Jr. ELlison appeared at a comic book convention in '73 and was off and on- accessable to some people, totally stand offish to others. I knew the programmers of that event, which didn't hurt.
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Dec 7, 2007 - 1:40 PM
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Michael24
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I'm impressed by all of these longs lists, but how do you find "meet"? Have you been to signings? Have you seen them in a public place somewhere? IMO, this doesn't qualify as "meet".
In my opinion, it requires some actual conversation between you and the celebrity.
Shaking hands, saying "Hello, I'm...
Pleased to meet you". They in turn
saying something to the same effect.
Having a brief or long conversation
with them. I think that qualifies
as "meeting someone".
Den
I agree. Most of my encounters have been at autograph signings (at conventions and elsewhere), which I think more than qualifies as "meeting a famous person." I mean, you walk up to the them, exchange handshakes, and talk while they sign whatever item you've got. Sounds like meeting someone to me.
Public meetings (like the time my mom and I met George Seifert outside a Costco) seem harder to come by and typically last much shorter, since the famous person in question is usually attending to personal matters rather than appearing somewhere specifically for the purpose of meeting fans.
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