celebrity encounters

[red]

Gus Van Sant came to my house for lunch.

details please.

[lamb.]

I saw Usher in Berkeley. Weird as hell.

[sean_]

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Edited April 20, 2015 by sean_

[Mattjay]

details please.

He lives in Portland, the film community is pretty small, I'm a fellow filmmaker.

He also was interviewed by my dad for a magazine.

[mrip]

I saw Jonah Hill at supreme. They fat guy from superbad.

He looked around for few min, said whats up to the employees and bounced.

[datasupa]

once sat next to robert crandall

[Kurtz]

I accidentally spilled Dan Fouts's beer.

[hawkeye]

Used to work at a hotel in Providence so I saw a few:

James Earl Jones

Joey McIntire (wearing CAPRIS!!!, he's really fucking short too)

a bunch of the cast of Brotherhood stayed there for a while.

Oh, I opened the door for Jerry Seinfeld once, then watched him act out a story in the lobby with his friend.

Once I saw this car fly in and I walked down to see what the guy wanted, and this like 7 foot tall black dude who couldnt have weighed more than 150 gets out and says "hey, I'm Oil Can Boyd" that was fucking cool, pack of Newports on the dash too, he was going to a meeting about buying a minor league team, and I think he even pitched in the minors after that.

Got drunk in January at my boss' going away party, got on the V train across from David Cross, when I got off, I leaned over and slurred something about how it sucked that Arrested Development was canceled, and he cautiously shook my hand and nodded.

[symplex]

Met Ellen Page (Shadowcat in X3) at a Juno sneak peek here in Berkeley last night.

[Guest thehoj]

Met Warren Oakes (Drummer from Against me) in Minneapolis a couple weekends ago.. Super nice guy. I was a bit loopy you could say, so I made a fool of myself and got a pic with ol' neckbeard himself.

Not so proud of this next one.. I met Ryan Malcolm (first Canadian Idol winner) in a radio station I work for.. He seemed like a tool.. Didn't really talk to him though, so that might not be the case.

[Guest thesnow]

Used to work at a hotel in Providence so I saw a few:

Oh, I opened the door for Jerry Seinfeld once, then watched him act out a story in the lobby with his friend.

Details plz

[NESK]

Took Eddie Griffins picture with some sufu krew, he was a total shithead.

Rachel McAdams was at the restaurant I work at two nights ago, I didn't know she was in the next booth while I was counting my money, and I was having a loud conversation about STD tests and corny white women with a friend.

Apparently she was horrified.

That's what you get for coming in at five minutes to close and expecting service.

eddie was at my work everyday for a month straight from mid oct to mid nov. dude is a cornball but one night he was telling people a story about suge knight and i called him out on it. when i told him i didnt beleive him he pulled out his cell and called suge then handed me the phone. i got his voicemail but it was by far my best celeb story. i wanted to as his voicemail if he killed pac but i pus'd out and gave the phone back to eddie when it beeped.

rachel used to come into a restaurant i worked at pretty frequently. once she came in alone and she had died her hair black so i didnt reconize her. i hit on her for a while and she flirted back a bit. when she was eating desert the chef came out and told me who she was. i felt like a complete tool for flirting with her after that. maybe she was being nice to me because i obviosuly had no idea who she was. when she was unlocking her bike after some girl at another table asked to buy her credit card slip off me cause she was too shy to ask for an autograph. she woulda payed nicely but i had to keep it for my cashout.

[Halifamous]

Sufu North: We do dumb things in front of the same celebrities.

[billy dee williams]

i saw a black dude in a yellow lamborghini a couple of months ago, he kinda looked like r kelly. had big black versace shades on. he let me take pics of his ride, funny thing was he was getting gas at some no-name station.

[NESK]

i have thousands of eddie griffin stories. including getting cok blocked by him when working some hottie who was dining alone. dude jumped on the baby grand and started improvsin a song about the girl and totally eclipsed my game. his song sucked and the girl was so annoyed she asked for her cheque and left. then once he started smoking a cigarette in the middle of the dinign room and i had to escort him otside and tell him if he didnt want to act like a big boy hed have to find another place to be obnoxious at and not tip the servers. his exact words were "cory, im trippin". now he chills at one. good riddance. he also told me in 84 he served crazy legs in a b boy battle and that eddie murphy vowed to never do standup again acter seeing griffins act because he could never compare. basically, dude is an egomaniac and compulsive liar. but it was enjoyable to hear him give major traders stock advice and economics lessons while rolling joints on the bar.

[sean_]

i love yr eddie griffin stories, hes the other dude i saw with vince carter at sassafraz many years back that i couldnt remember the name of

that suge story is nuts

[NESK]

he talks about vince carted ad nauseum and tries to call him everynight. its funny cause hell be bragging about all the stars he knows and when he calls them all publicly and dramatic about it, noone ever aswers. its awesome.

[suremanok]

I accidentally spilled Dan Fouts's beer.

What happened next?

[Serge]

Aaron Eckhart is a major douchebag. They're filming some chick flick near by my work* called Traveling with him and Jennifer Aniston in it. I saw Aniston and said that I liked her in Friends and then she was like thank you and then I went up to Aaron Eckhart to say congrats in being in the new Batman movie. Anyways, the guy was just like "no.." and walked away. Whatever, this movie is gonna suck ass anyways. His fault for insulting Serge.

[isoform]

two weeks ago or something i literally almost ran into Jeremy Davies (CQ, Rescue Dawn, Ravenous) coz he cut me off walking i flipped him the bird before i realized who he was...ended up going into the same store and then before i left he wandered around the shit i was looking at--as in we reached for the same thing at the same time...ehh. it was remarkable because he had really nice skin for any guy or girl i've seen recently and is as jittery or spaced (in the <5 mins i saw him) as he comes off in a lot of his movies.

...hah and had a drink with Sung Kang (better luck tomorrow, tokyo drift). it was awkward. dude is really quiet, but nice...

[mouko]

My greatest celeb story was when I was still studyig at parsons in New York. After class my friend and I went outside to the front of the building where there are benches and saw a girl in a dope military jacket smoking.

We walked up to her and started asking about her jacket and proceeded to touch/examine it and talk for a good 10 mins. She told us she got it at urban outfitters and it was her secret. I thought she looked familiar and then all of a sudden an assistant came by to get her to continue filming. That's when I realized I just rubbed up (ok almost) against Michelle Williams.

Also:

- David Bowie/Wifey/Kids live in my neighborhood, passed by them once.

- Ran into John Mayer near Supreme.

- Passed by Cate Blanchette a while back

- Ran into Kate Bosworth and her family in Soho and her and her mom said my shoes were nice (I was wearing the gold diors)

- sat next to Rosario Dawson having lunch at Spring Street Natural

- And that tatted up mexican dude in all those tarintino movies eating at a joint near my place (Noho star)

[ipp]

resurrecting the thread..

-Ben Bailey (cash cab) & his little daughter

-Bart Oates (NFL-Giants & 49ers)

[NESK]

served vince cassel and sophie merceau last week.

[headcoat]

I've met tons of celebrities from Uma Thurman to THREE of the Baldwin brothers (on separate occasions!), but the absolute best encounter was meeting Lawrence Taylor at a bbq.

long live LT

[julzkind]

method man in the hylan plaza in staten island...was walking out of toys r us, cart FILLED with toys for his son.

was a pretty nice guy.

[emilo]

I saw Henrik Vibskov at a club in copenhagen at little while back. I would've talked to him being a fan and all, but I heard he's a real snobby prick, so didn't.

[ThugLife]

Back during the time of the Laker's 3 Peat, Shaq became an actual police officer. My friend's dad is in charge of a Police uniform company and since Shaq is a giant he needed a custom made police outfit. So like 930 at night we drove down to this uniform headquarters filled with everything from riot gear to fire fighting equipment.

In walks Shaq with his bodygaurd (who had to be half the size of Shaq) and he is talking to my friend's dad. So my friend and I grab some nightsticks, handcuffs and riot masks and sneak up to him and yell "YOU'RE UNDER ARREST!" So Shaq picks me like a toy doll and places me up against this metal detector and says "No, you're under arrest!" Then puts me down and shakes my hand. I was like 12 at the time and stood at mid thigh.

Thats my celeb story.

[capa]

Saw John Mayer on Macdougal while I was high getting a falafel. I just stared and said "hey john" and he said "hey man" and walked on with his entourage.

Was standing in front of my dorm and Josh Hartnett walked past all mysterious.

Walked past Julian Casablancas from the Strokes on two different occasions, and also Albert Hammond Jr. near Union Square.

Met Danny Masterson at a show then saw him DJ at a club in Brooklyn.

Also saw a girl who might've been Mena Suvari at another show.

[jeepster]

robin williams @ odin. Joey/Icarus/Fookums/Dunaj were present. Hilarity ensued.

[nickthechibi]

Vanessa Hudgens waved to me... After like 5 minutes of yelling to her at the state fair <3