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     Cathy Supporter Username: Clkelley Post Number: 690 Registered: 6-2002 |
My parents met Billy Joel in a piano bar in Baltimore. This is a true story: Their friend Sylvia was a piano bar singer & entertainer. Great personality, not the world's best singer or piano player though. (how I miss her, what a lady.) My mom & dad used to get their drinks for free because my dad actually does have a voice and loves to sing. :-) This bar is right across the street from the Convention Center, where Billy Joel has a concert on the night in question. This is in the early days of his career, and "Piano Man" is a big hit on the radio. After the show in he walks with his band. Right at this moment, Sylvia is singing "Piano Gal." Billy Joel walks up to the piano and says, "Pardon me ma'am, but I wrote that song. Mind if I play it?" and he does. My mom & dad spent some time chatting with him - they had no idea who he was. Never got his autograph or anything. My dad's reaction was - "he's got a nice voice and he can really play the piano, but man is he ugly." That same year, Hank Aaron came into the same bar accompanied by Bob Eucher. Both were drunk off their a**es. | ||
| Ben Citizen Username: Ros Post Number: 202 Registered: 5-2001 |
A few years back, Carl Reiner was at a club my band was playing. Not wanting to "out" him(but still wanting to acknowledge him), the band leader introduced the members of the band to the audience at the end of the set, using the names of characters from Reiner-Mel Brooks skits of many years before. Carl nearly cried, he was laughing so much. At the same club, the Ramones came in once. Mind you, this is acoustic swing-based jazz. They went to the back room, saying the music was too loud!Also Dr. John and Earl Holliman (Police Woman) would drop by. Hugh Carey came out a couple of times, and he could drink like no one's business! He was loaded! We also played the wedding of Julia Louis Dreyfus' sister, at the huge family estate north of city. Julia was very nice, and her husband (Brad Hall) knew all the words to every Louis Jordan tune we played | ||
| margu Citizen Username: Margu Post Number: 34 Registered: 6-2002 |
I went to Tony Kushner's for a birthday party for his lover and our mutual friend. I held his "Tony" and his "Pulitzer" (for Angels). Karen(?) Menheim was there too, way before The Practice fame. | ||
| Soda Supporter Username: Soda Post Number: 2574 Registered: 5-2001  |
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| Ukealalio Citizen Username: Ukealalio Post Number: 1832 Registered: 6-2003 |
Around 18 years ago I was at a party on the Upper West Side and I was getting bored. The guy who owned the apartment had this standard poodle who was a show dog and groomed to death. I asked the guy if the dog needed walking and he replied yes, thank you. Now I love dogs but this dog was so poofed up it was embarrassing, so, I hoped no one I knew saw me. I was walking along Central Park West when I noticed this other standard poodle walking towards us. The owners were going on about how beautiful my dog was, I politely mumbled, "Thanks but it's not my dog", put my head down and kept walking. The next morning the owner of the dog called me and asked if a couple with a poodle happened to stop and admire his dog, I said yes. He started laughing and asked if I knew who these people were, which I replied no. The 2 people with the other poodle were Jessica Lange and Sam Sheapard. I must have been really embarrased by that dog not to notice Jessica Lange. | ||
| Cato Nova Citizen Username: Cato_nova Post Number: 491 Registered: 12-2003 |
But did you ploink her? | ||
| Tom Reingold Supporter Username: Noglider Post Number: 5512 Registered: 1-2003  |
You folks keep bringing me more memories. My wife's friend plays with Vince Giordano, so he and we were at s party. The guy just can't stop playing. My daughter, at 11 or 12 at the time, was playing a simple tune on the piano with one finger, and Vince improvised along on a guitar. Very cool my daughter can say she jammed with him. I don't think she appreciates what an honor it was. | ||
| shoshannah Citizen Username: Shoshannah Post Number: 730 Registered: 7-2002 |
I once accompanied Corbin Bernsen to the airport in a limo. I was five months pregnant with my first child, and he was asking me what names my husband and I had in mind. I told him that my husband and I were having a disagreement about a particular boy's name that I thought was cool and he thought was too Jewish-nebishy. Corbin agreed with me that the name was cool. He then asked me what my husband's name was, and when I told him he went into hysterics and said, Now THAT's a nebishy Jewish name!" | ||
| Meandtheboys Citizen Username: Meandtheboys Post Number: 196 Registered: 12-2004 |
margu: I believe that's Camryn Manhiem? | ||
| redY67 Citizen Username: Redy67 Post Number: 594 Registered: 2-2003 |
I met Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox outside one of their concerts years ago. Security came up and tried to get us to leave and Dave Stewart said "leave them alone, these are my fans."  | ||
| Hank Zona Citizen Username: Hankzona Post Number: 2034 Registered: 3-2002 |
not a major celebrity path-crossing but an interesting one... We were staying at a resort in Antigua and two of the guests were a NY radio talkshow host and his wife. We would talk to them daily on the beach, had drinks with them, lunch one day, talked about all sorts of things...nice enough people. All week long, all these other guests would be all over him, kissing his ••• for some reason...I figured, he's on vacation, he doesnt want to talk about his radio show. On the last day, I dont recall what led to the question in our conversation, he asks me, "you do know what I do for a living, dont you?" and I said, "sure I do, I just figured its the last thing you wanted to talk about on vacation". | ||
| shh Citizen Username: Shh Post Number: 2180 Registered: 5-2001 |
Hank, who was it? | ||
| blackcat Citizen Username: Blackcat Post Number: 288 Registered: 6-2001 |
Hey Conan danced with my husband also....hhhmmmm. | ||
| kmk Supporter Username: Kmk Post Number: 438 Registered: 5-2001 |
I went to a wedding in LA of a guy who was a stand-up comedian. He was a friend of the guy I was dating in NYC...this is about 1984. The guy (groom) was sort of famous, he had a part in the movie "Roxanne". I am sitting at a table with some very funny people. When the video camera comes around to "memorialize" the day with a message for the bride and groom all hell broke loose and we were crying with laughter. A few years later I saw the guy I had sat next to on TV......it was Jerry Seinfeld. That said - I have had many other experiences hanging out with famous people. I worked in a field where we worked with the wealthy famous types. Honestly, because we were designing their homes, it often became a case of "too much informaion"! | ||
| Hank Zona Citizen Username: Hankzona Post Number: 2036 Registered: 3-2002 |
shh, I forgot all the MOL celebrity sightings Ive had, including you and Sbenois (not together -- separately). I cant mention the name of the talkshow host..a restraining order thing over the conversation. but the dancing comments remind me of a couple more..one, when Donna Murphy grabbed me out of my seat at a performance of "Song of Singapore" to dance with her. The second was at "Cabaret". We were sitting next to a well dressed older couple at a show with cabaret seating, and during the intermission, watched as they took out saran-wrapped sandwiches and ate them. Towards the end of the intermission and as the band started playing for the second set, Alan Cumming would walk through the audience and look over the men. He stopped in front of me, smirked, then grabbed the hand of the older gentleman next to me, brought him up on stage and danced with him. The audience and Alan Cumming and the gentleman all had a great laugh, but Mrs. Cronkite next to us seemed to enjoy it the most. | ||
| Duncan Supporter Username: Duncanrogers Post Number: 3902 Registered: 12-2001  |
I danced with Carrie Fisher at a wedding in NYC when I was a lot younger, met Paul Simon that night too. Worked with Dan Lauria, Elizabeth Franz, Sigourney Weaver, John Turturro, Jon Stewart, Danny Aiello, Wanda Sykes, Freddy Roman, Ben Stiller, Harry Shearer(one of the nicest people I came in contact with via the NYCFF) Anne Meara (her too), Matt Parker & Trey Stone, Dave Chappelle, Jeff Ross, many of the Friars, and a bunch of others, but the funniest ploink... Walking up 7th ave in the 40's Times Square about 3 in the afternoon and this man is walking toward me and he looks really REALLY familiar and he is getting closer to me and my mind is reeling and then it dawns on me and I blurt out Martin Landau.. a little louder than I should have but you know how that is when something suddenly jumps back into your brain? Anyway. He stops and says, Yes young man? I simply said, Nothing I just realized who you were and out popped your name, and he said somethingvaguely to the effect of "I've been trying to realize who I am for years", and he continued on his merry way. | ||
| Ukealalio Citizen Username: Ukealalio Post Number: 1833 Registered: 6-2003 |
Usually I'm a pretty jaded New Yorker but I was awe struck when I was recording at Air London Studios in London and the owner ( Sir George Martin) walked in. At the time, I was dating the receptionist there and Sir George was mad at her for some reason or the other and thought that I may have been keeping her from her duties. I didn't want to face the wrath of Sir George so after I said my hello's, I retreated into the control booth. As far as I'm concerened George Martin had nearly as much to do with the Beatles as the Fabs themselves. | ||
| Soda Supporter Username: Soda Post Number: 2577 Registered: 5-2001 |
Oh, yeah! The wife & I were at Kutscher's for a winter weekend in the late 70's, and while lounging around the indoor pool, we noticed Marv Albert in his swim trunks, reading the Sunday 'Times' on a nearby recliner... And when we lived in a building on W.79th Street, we often saw Eliott Feld, Melissa Hayden, and Joyce Brothers' mother (all residents) -- separately, of course -- on the elevator... And when we took Lamaze lessons from Elisabeth Bing, who lived across the street, David Canary and his wife were in our class... -s. | ||
| Ukealalio Citizen Username: Ukealalio Post Number: 1834 Registered: 6-2003 |
Duncan-Thats funny about Martin Landau. When I attended elementary school we had a sub named Ms. Landau who turned out to be Martin Landau's sister. When we got out of hand she would say, "My brothers on Mission Impossible and if you kids don't straighten up, he's gonna come down here and teach you a lesson." | ||
| Ily Citizen Username: Ily Post Number: 149 Registered: 7-2004  |
I met Walter Cronkite at a party. He was friendly and genuine. |
