Have you met or seen a famous person up close? If so, who was it?

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Just curious what famous people CAF folks have seen up close in person in your lives. It doesn’t mean you actually met them or had the opportunity to speak to them, but if so, all the better. It could’ve been at an event, the airport, or somewhere else where you maybe were within a few feet of someone famous. Just curious who people here may have seen.
 
As for myself, I once saw famous actor George Burns at the Dallas DFW airport waiting on a flight. He had his trademark unlit cigar in his mouth. He was in his late 90s at the time. He seemed friendly, and he was surrounded an entourage of people.

I also saw Isiah Thomas (NBA basketball player for Detroit Pistons) at the LAX airport as he waited for a flight. Just as I was getting enough nerve to go ask him for an autograph, he got on his flight. 😉
 
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Ludacris. In a hotel in D.C. My son went up to him and asked for his autograph. He said “what, do you think I am someone famous?” Then he laughed and signed a piece of hotel stationery.
 
Oh, I forgot. I waited on line to get an autograph from Harry Chapin. Got a kiss too. 🙂
 
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That’s almost as good as meeting him in person. 😀
I really liked his song, ‘Taxi’, although it’s hauntingly sad, though beautiful. “Harry, keep the change”. 👍
 
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Lol, I edited that, I actually met him in person, not online.
 
He was a really nice guy, energetic and dedicated to his cause of ending hunger. And a great storyteller in his songs.
 
My wife met country singer Mel Tillis at a dinner in Nashville, along with some former ‘Hee Haw honies’.
 
George Wallace.

Of course I was very young and remember very few details other than a man in a suit.
For several years after, I would receive birthday cards from him.
 
Betty White walking in NYC.
Barbara Eden sat near us at the Broadway show Cabaret.
Joe Biden at a Phillies game.
Bob Crane (Hogan’s Heroes) at a Laker game shortly before he was murdered.
Gary Carter (baseball Hall of Fame catcher) he was two years ahead of me in high school and lived a few houses away.
Peter Falk(Colombo) in a NYC diner.
 
Mr Rogers. Very gentle and nice man. Very much just like you saw on TV. I absolutely enjoyed that encounter.

Lawrence Welk. I was much younger at the time, so was he, come to think of it. 🙂 Don’t recall too much so he must not have made an outstanding impression.

Was on the same plane as Ellen Degeneres. Nodded in passing.

Also met “Jaws” (Richard Kiel) at Orange County John Wayne airport. Now that’s one tall big dude.
 
Just remembered I saw Alan Alda in NYC at The Russian Tea Room. Fritz Weaver was there as well, and my friends said they saw Lauren Bacall in the Ladies room. Yes, all in the same afternoon!
 
My wife and I plan to see the Mr Rogers movie soon. That must’ve been a fond enduring memory to have met him in person!
 
I have always been a MASH fan in which Alan Alda starred. I sometimes wonder how he was in real life.
He either was very quick-witted or had very good writers.
 
My father and mother were big Lawrence Welk fans. I remember “having” to watch it on Saturday nights when I was little or else nothing at all because we only had one TV at home. When I see reruns of it on PBS, it brings back fond memories of them, Saturday nights of my childhood, and Saturday nights being “ice cream night” at our house. 😀
 
Raymond Arroyo (at my daughter’s HS graduation) and Jason Everett. I think that’s as close to famous as I got. Every time we stood by while Marine One was landing I was off duty. At least the other guys got to pose with Pres. Bush and Clinton. :roll_eyes:
 
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