I didn't realize until I saw Gary's photo on the Bloomberg piece. Yes...met him down at The Square in March. He is very down-to-earth and I was shocked that the person we were chatting with was Gary Morse! Very very nice man and very unassuming!
Met him several years ago at the Pittsburgh International Airport while waiting to pick up a friend. I still have his autograph.
__________________ “I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.” ... Albert Camus
That's it for my list of "famous" people. I think everyone is famous to someone, even if in a small way. We can only hope that we have touched the life of someone to make a difference.
"To the world you might be one person,but to one person you might be the world."
César Estrada Chávez, Ralph Nader, Walter Mondale while I was a law student (Class of 1989) then assistant librarian at the University of Minnesota Law School from 1986 through 1991. These people were giving speeches at the U of MN Law School and had various informal meetings with law students and others afterwards and Walter Mondale's son was in the law school one year behind (Class of 1990) me while I was there.
Shared e-mails and/or letters with Elie Wiesel, Tom Clancy, someone claiming to be "George Clooney" and a few others not as famous about activities for survivors of various kinds of crimes I have been involved in and hurdles faced in these since leaving the University of Minnesota Law Library's employ in mid-1991.
Never did find out if this was the real George Clooney but really doubt it. This was in answer to a bunch of posts I made on Findlaw's message boards from around 2001 through 2005. Got e-mails because of these from interesting people.
Aside from just getting an autograph or seeing them in a concert, what famous peopl have you met? Under what circumstances did you meet them?
I had dinner with Senator Kennedy in 1987 when he came out to my ship (CV-41) in the Persian Gulf region. Don't agree with almost any of his politics, but that man was a heck of a politician. He could politic with the best of them. He wasn't back home but a couple of days when my father got a call from him (personaly) letting him know how I was doing.
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In my career I've meet a few hundred famous people over the years, and gotten to interview most of them. Just like the rest of us, some nice, some not so much. My highlight was seeing Toni Tennille in her underwear. Sure wish her husband, and my wife hadn't of been there. Yeah, like that would have made any difference. And for those of you asking, powder blue.
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