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Just crappy enough to be believeable

My sister just reminded me of this story. One summer when she was in high school and I was home from college, we heard a rumor that a certain TV star had moved to Pennsylvania and was working out at the gym in our hometown late at night because it was the only 24 hour gym around. All summer, we made a habit of driving past that gym on our way home from Perkins and bowling (not much to do after 10pm in Scranton, PA) and look in the windows to see if we could see him to prove the rumors true.On the very last night of summer break, we drove past the gym at about 1:30, 2am and there he was. In the window. Lifting weights. In all his slightly balding, pot bellied glory.Balki Bartokomous.Whenever I tell that story, you almost can't NOT believe it. He's not SO crappy of a star that no one cares (like a local news anchor at the grocery store) but not so big that no one believes it (like seeing Brad Pitt working out at a gym in Clarks Summit, PA).So what encounters have you had that fall right in the middle - not to stupid no one would care, but not so out there no one would ever believe you?
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  • BALKI!! awesome!wait, is that Knox, IL? I always passed signs near Peoria that talked about Ronald Regan going to Knox College.umm...we were at dinner at a restaurant in Chicago known for drawing a celebrity crowd, yet the only ones I've ever seen were the band System of a Down. Nobody else in the restaurant seemed to know who they were, but FI and I are fans, so we noticed. We're using one of their songs for our cake cutting. =)I've met Tim Reynolds twice. I walked around outside with him while he and my friend (she's friends with him) smoked pot. DMB fans seem to be more excited about that then most other people.
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  • I taught Kerry McNally, who at the time was a "show host" on HSN and later was a "show host" on ShopNBC, and who now is the traffic guy on the morning TV news in Minneapolis.
  • My mom's company owned a condo in New York and she and my dad would stay there every few months to see a show. One time, she called me, all excited and said "We just saw Detective Munch (from Law & Order - we're both huge fans) standing on the curb and HE WAS WEARING SPATS!"Loved it.
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  • Eureka College. Its fancy.  They have a creepy statue and everything.
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  • After a wedding in cleveland a bunch of the BP was African American so they wanted to go to this fancy AA club in the old-school warehouse party district (I can't remember what is was called). I saw Janet Jackson there.
  • When I was 16 I worked in one of those photo shops where you dress in period costumes and take sepia toned photos.  Michael Jackson and his sister came in one day and I took his photo in a confederate general's outfit.  It was 1979, before Thriller, when he was famous from the Jackson 5 but not freaky and weird yet (no papparazzi either).  They were both very polite and soft-spoken.  I still have the original photo he autographed.
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  • I loved perfect strangers! I can still hear Balky saying co-sin Larry.  ha.My parents knew a lot of famous/semi famous people when I was growing up.  Not so much famous in the States but in the countries we lived in.  I have hung out in a few palaces in my life. There is some crazy money/decor in Europe and the middle east.I guess calling someone auntie (figuratively)so and so when everyone else calls them Princess could be an example.
  • I saw David Hasselhoff in Paris last year, he was checking out the street artist work in Montmartre next to a cafe where I was having wine. I got a picture of his back:[img]<a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3004/2695032944_8fbe3e3449.jpg" rel='nofollow'>http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3004/2695032944_8fbe3e3449.jpg</a>[/img]
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  • lpstl, I love the posture. It's all the way 'hoff. 
  • My town has a random lot of D listers.  The guy who invented Scott's Miracle grow (the family all drive cars with variations of "ScottsMG" etc), one of the guys who invented Arizona iced tea, Fred Wilpon, Carlos Beltran, Len Berman.  Marv Albert used to, and so did most of the '86 Mets back in the day.  Robert Deniro used to eat dinner at a restaurant in town, and used it to film the rehearsal dinner scene in Meet the Parents.
  • AC- last year I was eating dinner at Prime Rib on K St and Helen Thomas was celebrating her 9 millionth birthday at the next table over. I love DC!
  • Patrick Swayzes plane had crashed in Arizona a while back and he came and stayed at my dads hotel in Prescott, AZ for a day or two.
  • OOh! and does anyone remember the show Street Smarts?  The host is a host on yahoo entertainment news now, Frank Nicitari, was in Boston a week I was filming the show.  I really really wanted to be on it but I got too many of the answers right.   I LOVE him and hung out with him for about 20 minutes in the nearby Starbucks when the show was taking a break.
  • Confession: I kind of think The Hoff is sexy in this video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsFF8
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  • Eureka! That's the one! (ba-da-da-duh!)We'd pass by there on the way to clinicals in college.I have seen various local celebs at the hospital I work at--I had a local news anchor as a patient, a bulls player, a cubs player, and the big bouncer dude from The Jerry Springer Show.
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  • The FI and I were at Serendipity 3 in Manhattan- we had waited for a table for about an hour and a half when someone pushed through the line and demanded a table. He looked familiar, but I couldn't really place him. The host was really friendly and immediately gave him a table. When he returned to his post, the other host asked who it was and the first host said, "I have no effing clue... I think he was one some TV show..." After the FI and I IMDBed it, it turned out it was Richard Kind from Spin City. Way to be pushy and entitled when you're a D-list celeb.
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  • Jane:  Me too, and the video is just funny.
  • TJ, my dance teacher/troupe leader met the hoff on America's Got Talent! She was on season 1[url]<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3qGRP37DaA" rel='nofollow'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3qGRP37DaA</a>[/url]
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  • Paul Newman co-owned a racing team in IndyCars.  When I was a little kid I met him and shook his hand and stuff at a race track over race weekend.   I had no idea who he was.  Now it's kind cool.Additionally, I've met various race car drivers...Scott Dixon, Mario/Michael Andretti, Danica Patrick, etc.But that's pretty common if you hang around the track during qualifying.
  • Confession: I kind of think The Hoff is sexy in this video:TJ, that shiit is a trainwreck. I can't look away!
  • Oh goodness.  I have many celebs encounters. I sold a Christmas Tree to Brian from the BSB in 2000ish and got his autograph and gave it to my sister for Christmas. I went to school with Mandy Moore and we were in the same Confirmation Class at Church. Drew Seely (sp?) from HSM went to my high school. My high school has produced MANY pro athletes: Chris DiMarco, Jason Varitek... Rob Thomas went to my high school, and we former playmate (2006) went to my high school. I've also run into probably ALL of the BSB or guys from NSync downtown.
  • My DH met Beyonce in Nevis a few years ago, before I even knew him.  By met, I mean he said "Hey, what's up?" at a bar, but still.
  • My dad came home while I was watching The Hoff video. Now he's walking around singing "I'm hooked on the bourbon."God. It's like he doesn't even know that you shouldn't hassle the hoff.
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  • Oh, and my BIL went to high school with Joel Penton.  They actually used to be pretty good friends.
  • When I was working in Boston, Ed Lauter came into my office looking to find a good breakfast place.  I think he was taking the train or the bus up to Maine.I've met Tom Brady twice...first time was at Gillette Stadium for a radio contest; second time was at a bar in Boston.  He's very nice, but extremely quiet.  Doesn't say much at all.  He is flat-out GORGEOUS in person though.Met Ben & Casey Affleck on New Year's Eve 1999 (going into 2000) at the Sheraton Back Bay in Boston.Met Steven Tyler (of Aerosmith) when Aerosmith had a meeting with a company that was in the building where I worked.Met Michael Rappaport while at Planet Hollywood in NYC with one of my friends.
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  • I was living in Rome when they were filming Angels and Demons and I saw Tom Hanks a few times.
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  • During the late 80's and 90's a celebrity golf tournament was held in my neighborhood every summer. Our house got designated as a rain shelter, so one day I came home and Dean Smith was sitting in my garage hanging out with my mom.They filmed Dawson's Creek at my college. I saw Katie Holmes in the mall a lot.
  • My FI was in a bathroom line with Justice Scalia of the Supreme Court.  He tried to tell Scalia that he could cut him in line, but he wouldn't.  Instead he grumbled about how boring the video montage was (it was at some political dinner thing).  He didn't realize the video FEATURED HIM.  Scalia does wash his hands, which is nice to know.
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  • Oh, and also I got to be Dan Savage's personal chauffeur for two days.  It was awesome.  He is really, really, really nice.  He gave me marriage and sex advice and we did a couple shots together.  Good times.
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  • my cousin's wedding was at the four seasons in toronto, during the reception i had to run up to my room for something with my uncle and we got onto the elevator with Bill Cosby. i told him a joke (the kind that a 9 year old would tell) and he laughed an honest laugh.  it felt awesome. for the rest of the night i was telling all the other guests that i made mr huxtable laugh :)
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