Celebrity sighting

[SerenityNow]

Was down in Jacksonville in the late 90s watching the TPC. At a local bar the first night there, Tom Lehman was at the bar having a drink. My buddy wanted his autograph for his young son, but he was too scared to go up to him. I had a lot of liquid courage, so I went up and asked him for an autograph. Tom signed it to my buddies' son, and he still has it to this day.

Still my favorite golfer even though he's on the Champion's Tour now.

 

[oldman]

Sean Connery at a swanky L.A. golf resort and he wouldn't give me a damn autograph.

Did he think you were too...pusshy?

 

[oldman]

Weirdest one for me was Harrison Ford randomly walking into a Sioux City Outback Steakhouse I was working at around '00. Saw plenty of celebs pretty much weekly waiting tables in downtown Chicago the next year, but none as huge as the one I saw in Sioux City. Diane Lane, Harold Ramis, Will Ferrell, at least 50 mlb/nba/nfl players and coaches, and dozens of character actors like Harry Dean Stanton who would perform at a theater close by.

He and E. Emmett Walsh are my favorite character actors.

 

[ruxCYtable]

Weirdest one for me was Harrison Ford randomly walking into a Sioux City Outback Steakhouse I was working at around '00. Saw plenty of celebs pretty much weekly waiting tables in downtown Chicago the next year, but none as huge as the one I saw in Sioux City. Diane Lane, Harold Ramis, Will Ferrell, at least 50 mlb/nba/nfl players and coaches, and dozens of character actors like Harry Dean Stanton who would perform at a theater close by.

This reminds me. I had a friend who worked at Chop House in downtown CR (no longer in business.) One night he's doing his thing and in walks Harrison Ford. As you may know, Ford is a pilot and was having a minor problem with his plane and had to set down in CR. He went looking for dinner while he waited for his plane to get checked out. He was very friendly and posed for pictures with several patrons.

 

[ruxCYtable]

I can't believe I didn't remember this when I posted before. I was waiting tables in a restaurant in CR about 20 years ago. Our lunch rush had died down and I was just holding down the fort until the night crew arrived at 4pm. About 3pm, in walks an entourage with Jesse Jackson and I waited on him. He had catfish and mashed potatoes. He was in town for a speaking engagement.

 

[andybernard]

While in LA for acting school in 2006, rode in an elevator with Bruce Willis. Our school was on the top floor of the building that housed the production offices of Live Free or Die Hard. One of my classmates was an American Apparel model who was dating the bass guitarist for the Killers (no idea what his name is). She took me and a girl in our class to a show, backstage, and out with the Killers who met Jessica Alba, her boyfriend at the time (not certain if still is) Cash Warren, and Lindsey Lohan. We all sat at the same table and I talked to Lindsey for a while, I felt pretty cool. Went to a taping of Deal or No Deal and sat right in front of the models and we were able to talk to them during every commercial break. Lisa "Number 3" will forever hold a special place in my heart.

 

[HFCS]

This reminds me. I had a friend who worked at Chop House in downtown CR (no longer in business.) One night he's doing his thing and in walks Harrison Ford. As you may know, Ford is a pilot and was having a minor problem with his plane and had to set down in CR. He went looking for dinner while he waited for his plane to get checked out. He was very friendly and posed for pictures with several patrons.

Sounds pretty much exactly like why we saw him in Sioux City, I wasn't his waiter but he was nice to the server he had. The owner wisely forbid any of the rest of us to talk to him although a handful of other customers did, it was a big story on the news...got to love small market news stories ;-).

Just incredibly random and out of nowhere, I'm working my summer college job in Sioux City and in walks Indiana Jones.

 

[loki8838]

Ice-T at the Memorial Union.

Spring semester 1996: Ice-T did a speaking engagement/Q&A at the MU. Somebody asked him about the ongoing east coast/west coast rap feud and if it was just a marketing ploy to sell more records. He got real serious, and said that the feud was no joke and that there was bad blood between the two sides. A few months later, Tupac became a hologram, and the next spring Biggie Smalls was murdered.

Anyways, the next morning on my way to class, I was cutting through the MU to get warm, and Ice-T was sitting on a bench in the lobby waiting for his car to arrive. I got his autograph and chatted with him briefly.

 

[mkcrawford]

Jake "The Snake" Roberts in line for the log ride at an amusement park in Chicago - circa early 90's.

 

[SNEDDS3]

Had Ziggy Marley in studio back in the day when was in radio, also entertained Blue October for night. Bob Feller was a personal friend of my little league coach back in the day, taught me some pitches. Met Archie Griffin at the airport. Also met Lou Pinella and Willie Randolph when I was a kid at Longbranch in KC after a game with dad (yes he took me to the bar).

 

[letsCYber]

You Ankeny clones who are easily star struck by sports stars like me might find this interesting. We were golfing at Otter Creek yesterday and talked to the 4some ahead of us a few times, and they were 3 olympians and a coach. 2 of the guys were Renaldo Nehemiah and Harvey Glance, and the 3rd was a gold medal winner from Britain who's name I forgot. For you younger Clones Nehemiah was the top high hurdler in the world during the late 70's and went on to play receiver for the 49ers, getting a superbowl ring. Glance was an elite sprinter during the late 70's and early 80's, winning Olympic gold and other world gold medal competitions. They were great guys to talk to and really cool watching these former world class athletes playing a round on our local golf course.

Let's define celebrity...

 

[aauummm]

Let's define celebrity...

Celebrity - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary

1
: the state of being celebrated : fame

2
: a famous or celebrated person

 

[Farnsworth]

I have 0 celebrity run ins.

I saw some Cubs players while attending a game at Wrigley Field, and I saw Leo at the design building while he gave a speech.

I did see Bobcat Goldthwait at a hotel bar in Cedar Rapids once, but I'm not sure he's "famous"

 

[MLawrence]

When I was an intern for a sports station in Chicago in 2011, I went to a Chicago Bears post game locker room for a game and the Blackhawks locker room after a practice.

 

[FarminCy]

I can honestly say I don't have any.

However my sister and her husband partied with Vince Vaughn all night in Chicago once.

Have a really good friend who was at an after hour party somewhere in DSM area and ran into Caitlin Coyner walking around the kitchen buck naked. He was pretty proud of that.

 

[CapnCy]

I was in NYC and Russell Simmins and his then wife, Kimora, rode by me on their bikes in Battery Park.

 

[letsCYber]

Celebrity - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary

1
: the state of being celebrated : fame

2
: a famous or celebrated person

I think cykofan is the only person that celebrates Renaldo Nehemiah or Harvey Glance.

 

[letsCYber]

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[nickcyv]

I was on a plane from NYC to Memphis once with Emma Stone. Managed to weasel my way next to her to pick up my luggage but I was too afraid to tell her I loved her or anything. Still regret that...

 

[letsCYber]

One time I was at an Olympic track meet, and I locked eyes with one of the athletes. He was wiping sweat off his face with a towel. He was a small, stallion of a man standing at around 5'8". The man smiled and tossed the towel in the direction of a fan sitting next to me. I wrestled the fan to the ground and obtained the towel. That very towel now sits in a shrine in my basement. It is enclosed in glass and has not been touched since 1976. You may be asking yourself... who is the glorious athlete that threw me the towel? That man is none other than Harvey Glance. The most incredible celebrity that ever lived.