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Let’s play.

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Because it beats working that’s why.

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I was shopping the outlet stores in Freeport, Maine with a girlfriend one summer a few years back. We were strolling in and out of the clothing stores… just browsing for the most part. But once we walked into Banana Republic I knew I was going to have to try a few things on.

Which is where, on my way to the dressing rooms I ran into –

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Alec Baldwin.

Alright, technically I didn’t run into him. There was no bouncing off a celebrity, but I was looking at something on a rack to my right instead of directly in front of me and if he hadn’t swerved out of the way? I would have run right into his chest.

He smiled.

And I apologized before I even realized who it was.

Missing a prime ‘River almost collides with a movie star’ selfie.

How about you…

Run into any celebrities lately?

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53 thoughts on “Let’s play.”

      1. He was younger and not a political animal, yet. I was working as additional security at the hotel he was staying at and everyone was bracing for a riot. As I was going up the elevator checking for lurking fans, he got on. We exchanged pleasantries and he went to his room and went to sleep…

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  4. You wouldn’t believe the number of celebrities I “met” when I was younget, but then you probably wouldn’t know a lot of them either. The first one, I was about 10 years old, was Johnny Wayne of Wayne and Shuster, Canadian television comedians, at the Winnipeg airport. (I didn’t really want it but he gave me his autograph.) I met Burton Cummings of the Guess Who just walking down a street in Vancouver. (We talked about being from Winnipeg.) I watched Neil Diamond buy the bottle of wine that inspired him to write the song Crackling Rosie “while sitting on a midnight train” going from Winnipeg to Regina. I spoke to Eric Burdon in a pub in Victoria. I sat at a bar in Delta, BC with Jeff Healey. The list goes on and on but I think you get the picture. Gordon Lightfoot, Fred Penner, Winston Marsalis, Diane Krall, Oscar Peterson, too many to remember now. A number of world famous curling personalities like Jennifer Jones, at one time the greatest woman curler in the world.
    I think it is time to shut up.

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      1. The rock musicians were luck. The Jazz musicians because I volunteered at Jazz Winnipeg and the Vancouver Jazz Festival. I started because I couldn’t afford tickets to the shows, so got to see some while volunteering. When they gave me the job of picking up people at the airport, and taking them to their gigs, I met a lot of very famous people, but the ones I named are the ones I remember. Oscar Peterson was “the nicest person” I have ever met. Many of others were best forgotten.
        I knew Fred Penner because we hung out in the same places as teenagers, long before he became a children’s entertainer.

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    2. Oops. I forgot to mention Michael Moore of “Me and Roger” and “Bowling for Columbine” fame. But he was in a hurry and didn’t have time to talk.
      (Just saying, but I have also had my name on the front page of a newspaper three times, once with picture, and on page 3 a few times too! Not always for good reasons, lol.)

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      2. 1) You’ll laugh. My father dropped myself and my little brother off in downtown Winnipeg to watch the Christmas parade. I was about 9 and he was about 4. Only, we never saw the parade because it took a wrong turn somewhere. But there we were, sitting on a busy street corner, too scared to move because my father said, “Don’t move till I get back!” and we weren’t going nowhere. Then along comes a guy with a camera, and asks if we were there to watch the parade? I said yes. So he hiked myself and my brother on top of a phone booth (they used to be everywhere) and he told us to point out into the street as if a parade was going by, with big smiles on our faces and wonder in our eyes. He snapped a bunch of pictures, then hauled us off the phone booth, got our names, and went away. Next day we were front page in the Winnipeg Free Press “watching” a parade that never came, but it looked like we were. (If I knew then what I know now, I had picture proof of child abuse and child absndonment, we sat on that corner for over three hours without food or water until our father picked us up again. But this was normal for him, and I had no idea we were being abused or abandoned.)
        2) i was a hippie selling underground newspapers on a street in New Westminster, BC. Five feet away was a Sally Ann guy with a Christmas Pot collecting donations for the needy. I was selling more newspapers than he was collecting donations. He asked if I would watch his pot while he did something. I said sure. He comes back a few minutes later with a big smile on his face. I don’t think anything of it till a police cruiser pulls up, and confiscates my newspapers and arrests me for selling underground newspapers. I broke some kind of hawking without a licence law. Next day the headline in the Vanciuver Sun reads “Stealing from the Poor,” and a picture of a cop car and the guy with the Salvation Army pot. You couldn’t see me. I guess I was already in the back of the cruiser. According to the story the cops said I was under arrest, but really they just drove me to the outskirts of the Queen City and told me to never come back! They kept the newspapers.
        3) When the next copy of the Geogia Strait came out, the picture from the Sun was on the front page, but with a different headline, i don’t remember it exactly, but “Bully Pigs Harass Georgia Strait Employee. Steal Newspapers!”
        Then a story about how rotten the cops were, and how stupid the laws were.
        So, three time on Page 1. The page 3 stories are for another time, if ever…

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      4. Colourful is one word for it. Another one is adventurous. Until I turned 60 I was not a stay home kind of guy. I have lived on both coasts, and many places in-between. When you move a lot, you have to learn to meet new people and get along with everyone. And even when I a in one place, i always go to new places in that city or town. That wss how I met Jeff Healey, who I had no idea he was a big rock star at first. He was jyst a guy in a bar having a beer, who wondered why I was at a bar drinking cokes. We talked forcan hour before someone asked him when he was going on tour again. That started a whole new conversation. When I learned he sang one of my davourite songs, Angel Eyes, he sang it for me right there in the bar. Another really nice guy. Who knew? Not me.

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  5. Lately? Guy Fieri, he was doing an episode of Triple D in El Paso. We were on our way to see a baseball game with the local minor league team and walked right past him. My son is the one who noticed him. But when I was 11, the movie Fandango with Kevin Costner was being filmed in Texas and the ending was shot in my hometown. I had lunch with him, Judd Nelson and Sam Robards, I mean not knowing who they were of course, lol.

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      1. The film crew was shooting near my moms office building and my dad was doing security at night on the weekends. Since he was technically part of the crew he had access to the catering trucks. I went with my dad to go get something to eat and I sat down at an empty picnic table and Kevin Costner and Judd Nelson sat down right next to me. I blogged about this about two years ago, lol.

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  6. Far too many to put here – from casual conversations to being a guest in their homes…but they weren’t ‘unusual’ places – just, ya know, living life – in line at a deli, at the next (very close) table in a restaurant, hanging at the same club, being in the same place at the same time EVERY week, at my workplace (publishing, real estate, retail).

    ANd when you live in NYC just passing celebs walking down the street is SOP and DOESN’T count.

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  8. I met Amy Adams once and gave her a copy of my novel. She was so impressed, she insisted we start making out right then and there. So, we slipped into a deserted closet, hands began roaming…

    …and then I woke up. DAMMIT.

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  9. It was 1994, and I was getting my car washed at the Carrollwood Car Wash on North Dale Mabry Hwy in Tampa. It was a Monday. It was one of those that you can sit on a long bench and watch through glass as your vehicle goes through the mechanical wash. Anyway, I was sitting there making sure the machines did their thing when all the car washing guys looked my direction through the glass and seemed riveted on one thing: the person next to me. So I looked, and sitting right next to me watching her vehicle was Nicole Kidman. So we chatted for awhile about car washes and the traffic for about 10 minutes until the cars were done. Turns out she and Tom had a house up the road in an exclusive neighborhood called Cheval.

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      1. Taller than expected, and without all the make-up and glitter, she is much MUCH more beautiful, but more importantly, she just sat there like anyone else and chatted me up. I did not treat her like I was paparazzi star struck, and she treated me like she had known me in high school.

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  10. I hate to be a name dropper … but what the hey …
    *Jack Nicholson
    *Peter Fonda
    *Dennis Hopper
    *Angelica Houston
    *Bob Dylan
    *Harper Lee (To Kill A Mockingbird)
    *Truman Capote
    … I hung with glitterati for a few years in the 60’s and 70’s …

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  11. Not ‘met’ but I was walking up Queen Street Mall in Brisbane eating my lunch as Nick Cave and Warren Ellis (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) came towards me. I’m a fan of his music and could only stare increasingly wide eyed with a mouth full of food. Not really exciting, but another time I was out one night with a dickhead of a date walking toward a club and saw Ian Thorpe (Olympic Swimmer) – I said “Thorpeeeeee” and the dickhead said “he’s a poof” in earshot. I replied “So what? At least he’s not a bigot”. (This was before he came out.) Not really as noteworthy as any of the above people.

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  12. We were extras for a day on the movie set of A Prairie Home Companion movie, which was filmed in St. Paul (we were audience members, but our scenes didn’t make the cut), so we came within spitting distance of Woody Harrelson, Maya Rudolph, Meryl Streep (interacted with the audience and was very friendly, as was everyone except . . .), Lindsay Lohan (not!). When walking to lunch that day, we talked with John C. Reilly and the husband chatted with Kevin Kline.

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  13. Robert DeNiro in Manhattan. I was the hostess at a Rockefeller Center Restaurant. He said, “Say hi to the hostess” He was with a tall blonde, leggy and I gave him a big smile. He was a good tipper.

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