Accidental Encounters With The Rich and Famous?

that does not count

if james e l who started this thread accidentally encounters e l james who wrote 50 shades of grey i hope he will report it here.

If Michael JAckson's ghost even encounters the throbbing phallus of eternity I hope he learns his messon

This doesn't really count, i suppose, but I met a girl tonight who is totally Claire Danes' doppelganger. She's from LA too.

I once met Claire Danes' doppelganger's doppelganger.

(at a bowling alley in Detroit, no less)

i thought gabbneb's post was going to be more claims about his heigl-lohan girl.

Gosh I have met many famous people, I forget ...
The most recent.. My sister works backstage in a theatre, I went to the stage door to give her a lift home, I walk in and there is Gillian Taylforth. She smiles a hello, and I say, "Is amanda around?" (she points left and I go).

― mark g (mark g), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 13:36 (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Funnily enough, I got told about a year later, that after I left, G asks my sister "And who was that nice young man then?"

Wait, what was Claire Danes doing in a bowling alley in Detroit?

what do people do in bowling alleys?

They Bowl, Jasper my good friend...

otm

Wait, what was Claire Danes doing in a bowling alley in Detroit?

At the time (like 1997 i think), she was involved w/ indie-folk 90s dude Ben Lee, who had a gig that night at a club in the same building. I was w/ a friend killing time b/w bands at another gig in an adjunct club, and the four of us ended up in the same seating area, conjoined b/w two bowling lanes. She was nice, but didn't say a whole lot. Ben Lee was actually pretty supercool & funny, which I guess you'd have to be to look like he does and date Claire Danes for any length of time. All of us were indeed bowling, albeit poorly.

Wait, how do you have enough time between bands at a show for a whole game of bowling?

well, it's all in the same building - and you know, that was 1997. Folks had different priorities back then. If standing in a congested line to swap yr shoes back meant that you missed the first five minutes of the Ganger gig, well, we were prepared to live with the consequences of the choice that we made to bowl. And if in choosing to bowl, you end up bowling with Claire Danes, you might not even regret missing the first ten minutes of the Ganger show. That's only like half a song for them anyway.

Hahahaha, I would say fair enough, except I never got to see Ganger, so boo you. Bad priorities.

I met up with a high school/university friend last night who I've just gotten back in touch with after a couple of decades. He reminded me of something that I have no recollection of whatsoever (but he's very clear on this, and I have no reason whatsoever to question the accuracy): that as we left a screening of Apocalypse Now at Toronto's regal (and long-gone) University Theatre in '79 or '80, we passed Wilt Chamberlain leaving an adjacent bar or hotel.