I have met numerous Celebs in my life and have been collecting autographs for a long long time.
List of Celebs I have met... Julie Cialini - 1995 Playboy Playmate of the Year Kelly Odell - Pron Star Jennifer Worthington - Pron Star Mario Andretti - Indy Car Michael Andretti - Indy Car Marco Andretti - Indy Car Nigel Mansell - Indy Car Paul Tracy - Indy Car Danica Patrick - Indy Car Marty Roth - Indy Car Gene Simmons - Rock Band KISS CC Devill - Rock Band Poison Doro Pesch - Rock Band Warlock Chad Brock - Country Singer Trisha Yearwood - Country Singer Anna Kournikova - Tennis Chris Evert - Tennis Luke & Murphy Jensen - Tennis Jim Courrier - Tennis John McEnroe - Tennis Yana Novatna - Tennis Frederique Van Der Wal - Super Model John Lovitz - Actor Tom Cruz - Actor Alan Thicke - Actor Jennifer Lopez - Actress Andre Davis - Football Byron Leftwich - Football Albert Bell - Baseball Omar Vizquel - Baseball Kenny Lofton - Baseball Jose Mesa - Baseball Mike Hargrove - Baseball Hal Naragon - Baseball Richie Sexson - Baseball Jim Thome - Baseball Larry Bird - Basketball Chip Foose - Car Designer TV Show Overhaulin Larry Wilcox - TV Show CHiPs Tom Pelphrey - TV Soap Star Guiding Light/Actor Nicole Forester - TV Soap Star Guiding Light/Actress Marcy Rylan - TV Soap Star Guiding Light/Actress Stephanie Gatschet - TV Soap Star Guiding Light/Actress Caitlin Van Zandt - TV Soap Star Guiding Light/Actress
There are more and I will update the list as I think of them. I got "In Person" Autographs from all the above listed.
I have heard a lot of people talk about the term "Star Struck". I could never understand how anyone could be "Star Struck". Then 1 day I went and met Anna Kournikova... My knees got week and I stood there in awe. I then knew the feeling of "Star Struck". Anna is the only Celeb I have met who has had this kind of effect on me. It's a super weird feeling to be "Star Struck".
I've met a few 'famous' people, and only got 'dumbstruck' when I turned the corner and almost bumped into a bloody Mel Gibson. (They were filming "Ransom" and I wandered on the set by accident. ) I was kinda tired, and was just kinda wandering around, and then I looked up, and BLAM-O. There's Mel standing there. With some blood on his forehead, lookin' a bit 'worried'. Turns out, I had turned down the street right when the 'extras' were walking. Once I realized it, I played along, and ended up walking up and down with them a buncha times.
Had a nice conversation with Jerry O'Connell at a Yankee Game once. He seems like a nice guy. We talked Baseball and "new york stuff". VERY 'normal' conversation...just two fans chatting over a beer. Got his autograph for my wife.
Got Tim Robbin's autograph at a Mets game. Just a quick convo with him, he was a bit freaked out because he tried to go incognito, and people spotted him, and were kinda freakin' him out a bit. (he had his son with him, and I think THAT's what was freakin' him a little...
I met some sports people, and a few models (Dang, they were THINNER then you'd think) nothing too fantasic to report there...
Met a few political people, and the guy who wrote the "Smurfs" theme.
la laaa la la la laaa....laaa la la la laaaa.... (Heh, now you have that dang song stuck in yer head!)
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topher_time Member
Posts: 3231 From: Bailey's Harbor, for now. Registered: Sep 2005
I've met and hung out with thousands of high profile musicians, from Yanni, to slash, to Lars Ulrich (shudder) and cant leave out MManson and his naked self! Even spent the night at ICPs crib that used to be not far from here.
Far as signed things I've never been a hey sign this type (you become a better friend if you don't) But when I do I make sure they all sign it with a To Draggin or Eric, to make it personally mine.
I have a bunch of rare dealer posters of old hair metal drummers Signed About 40 drum heads signed 5 Cymbals Hand full of picks (even a Dime Bag CFH pick) bunch of passes signed
And my pride and joy is over 400 stage used (as in I was there at the show) drumsticks from all shapes and forms of drummers, and 90 percent of them are signed!
I only have 2 large shadow boxes of my top 100 and the really rare ones are locked away. It would take me forever to type out all I have but just think of the top bands from the last 15 yrs and I prob have their stick! Primarily rock though.
I also have over 2500 concert tickets, some dating back to 81 (I was born in 76) Lately though I just walk right into concerts so the last 5 yrs is lacking shows I go to. Good ol times. concerts are almost getting boring to me. Its a second home.
Two books signed by Frank Borman when I worked for Eastern Air Lines (20 years), and a few photos that I shot while at EAL. One booked signed by Paul Tibbets. (Enola Gay pilot) A "T" shirt signed by Darrell Gwynn at a Pontiac car show.
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Shad0wguy Member
Posts: 867 From: Long Island, NY Registered: Aug 2006
I have thousands of autographs. Most are random insert type stuff from trading cards. I have nearly 100 "in person" autographs. I have a whole bedroom dedicated to my collection of autographs and collectibles.
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WhiteDevil88 Member
Posts: 8518 From: Coastal California Registered: Mar 2007
I have Chuck Berry's autograph, and I sold Bill Romonowski a hot dog on Skyline Boulevard in San Mateo. I had no idea who he was, even after he told me his name, just that he told me that he was on the 49ers. He aint that big, but he tipped well.
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DtheC Member
Posts: 3395 From: Newton Iowa, USA Registered: Sep 2005
I have only met really fairly lame famous people... -snip- Mickey Mouse umm yeah thats all I can think of I know there are some sports people in there
Was this before or after the Teamsters organised the Union? I'd heard he used to have very good penmanship, and it just got a little sloppy since then?
------------------ Ol' Paint, 88 Base coupe auto. Turning white on top, like owner. Leaks a little, like owner. Doesn't smoke....... OK, we're trying to quit.
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blackrams Member
Posts: 31842 From: Hattiesburg, MS, USA Registered: Feb 2003
Originally posted by JimmyS: I have met numerous Celebs in my life and have been collecting autographs for a long long time.
I have heard a lot of people talk about the term "Star Struck". I could never understand how anyone could be "Star Struck". Then 1 day I went and met Anna Kournikova... My knees got week and I stood there in awe. I then knew the feeling of "Star Struck". Anna is the only Celeb I have met who has had this kind of effect on me. It's a super weird feeling to be "Star Struck".
Based on the photos I've seen of that young lady, I'd have to suggest you weren't "Star Struck", that was a natural "male" reaction to a beautiful woman and, it wasn't your knees you were losing control of.
I busted that myth a long time ago. Don't believe me? I got pics to prove it but they are not suitable for this forum!
Yeah but busting this myth with your sister doesn't count!
(J O K I N G!)
Don't hit me with a ten foot pole!
(I don't even KNOW if you have a sister, if you do, I'm sure she's a very nice young lady that wouldn't do naughty things with her brother in a Fiero...) I'm sorry, I haven't had any bacon for weeks, BD is starting to effect me...taking its toll on my sanity...
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mrfiero Member
Posts: 8996 From: Colorful Colorado Registered: Mar 99
I have Chuck Berry's autograph, and I sold Bill Romonowski a hot dog on Skyline Boulevard in San Mateo. I had no idea who he was, even after he told me his name, just that he told me that he was on the 49ers. He aint that big, but he tipped well.
Heh.....Romonowski also played for the Broncos. He thinks he was a better player than he really was, although he was better than average. Now he thinks he's a better actor than he really is!
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Shad0wguy Member
Posts: 867 From: Long Island, NY Registered: Aug 2006
It's weird, he actually signs his name as FieroRumor.. hmmm....
ooo! Keep that thing safe - It'll be worth something someday!* * Probably not...Sorry man, that's a fake. I paid someone five bucks to write "FieroRumor" a bunch of times...
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Patrick's Dad Member
Posts: 5154 From: Weymouth MA USA Registered: Feb 2000
I was working at a hotel in downtown Detroit close enough to the main venue but far enough away to be secluded. I shared an elevator ride with Tommy Lee. Ask me when you see me what his code name was...
Another job, driving tour busses, I drove the 2002 Motorsports Hall of Fame inductees (the live ones...). I got Richard Childress and Mike Hilton to sign a Dale Jr. licence plate. I have many that signed the program guide.
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Toddster Member
Posts: 20871 From: Roswell, Georgia Registered: May 2001
Mostly I only collect autographed first editions (some photos, but not many)
Dashiell Hammett JRR Tolkien Ayn Rand Thomas Wolfe Ernest Hemingway James Joyce Henry Miller Richard Condon Ian Fleming Jack Kerouac Jack London Willa Cather Margaret Mitchell Ralph Ellison William Golding Lawrence Durrell Ray Bradbury Walker Percy John Steinbeck Harper Lee And more
Steve Vai signing my Jem 7VWH (his line of Ibanez guitars)) in Boulder
Gary Numan (Boulder again) signing my Les Paul, which is the same color as the one he plays, and a picture I had blown up of him and me when I met him in Dallas.
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SonataInFSharp Member
Posts: 882 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Aug 2003
My wife had me "Star Struck" using that definition, and she isn't even famous!
I have had a few people ask ME for MY autograph back in the day when I did stuff locally/regionally. I thought it was weird; who cared about ME like that? It almost felt like a breech of privacy. Thankfully, it was long enough ago that when I Google myself, I don't exist.
I have cousins that were in rock bands that were extremely popular in their very specific genres (I couldn't stand their music and my own friends never heard of them anyway), and they were best buddies with other bands that reached a more general audience. At a wedding of another cousin, there were very famous musicians there and at my own wedding guests were bugging my cousins for autographs.
In college, we had enough money to have very famous classical musicians come to campus and I was always the person to drive them around town and to their hotels if they didn't want limos, I had one-on-one lessons with them, and ate with them. In fact, my own professor of several years was famous enough that he moved out of a big city and into a small town because he couldn't take it anymore and he became an academic. He said the last straw was when he had to hire someone to go shopping for him because it became an impossible task with everyone bothering him. Locally, people know who he is and leave him alone, but the news still tries to do specials on him and he hates it.
Personally, I don't give a crap who is who or where and when or who I met. I don't typically idolize people. They all get up in the morning, get dressed, and eat breakfast just like we do. I have a job to do and so do they.
I used to get really excited about "local celebrities" when I was younger until I saw one at Target and realized, again, that they are just like you and me. In fact, I work in an environment where a national semi-celebrity works and I see this person every day and I don't give one ka-hoot.
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blackrams Member
Posts: 31842 From: Hattiesburg, MS, USA Registered: Feb 2003
All when they were on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I went to the back of the Bengals stadium where their bus was. I was the only one to recognize Derrick Brooks. I almost had Warren Sapp's but someone made him mad and he went to the bus.
I also have Al Jourgensen's guitar pick from his last concert in Louisville. He is in the band Ministry. That was so cool!
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Patrick's Dad Member
Posts: 5154 From: Weymouth MA USA Registered: Feb 2000
My sister got Tom Arnold's autograph when she was 3, my mom saw him in McDonalds wearing shades and a hat. She got my sister to go up and get his autograph in her coloring book lol :P
I got one letter in the mail and two pictures from Paris Hilton,signed (aside from the fact, that there are some Paris Hilton Haters,she's a very Nice Lady).
) I was kinda tired, and was just kinda wandering around, and then I looked up, and BLAM-O. There's Mel standing there. With some blood on his forehead, lookin' a bit 'worried'. Turns out, I had turned down the street right when the 'extras' were walking. Once I realized it, I played along, and ended up walking up and down with them a buncha times. 
Don't believe me? I got pics to prove it but they are not suitable for this forum!
