Is Bill, or rather, former president William Jefferson Clinton. And I will get as close as I ever will to meeting him when he comes to Butler University. In conjunction with Butlers 150th Anniversary, they have brought both Bill Clinton and former president George H.W. Bush for separate speaking engagements (http://www.butler.edu/150/).
Jerry was told that he and his colleagues are guarateed two tickets to each event. Bill will be here on November 6, and George will be here March 2, 2006. Jerry said he still would like to see George just for the "event" of it and I agree. Plus, I have a new found respect for George; he has done some good things together with Bill. There are also other speakers scheduled who Jerry said he wants to see, most of them from the political realm and not as interesting to me as they would be to him. I just want to finally see Bill! But despite this feat for me, Jerry will still have one up on me since he got to shake Bill's hand once at one of his early election rally stops in Michigan.
There are only a few other living persons I really want to see in person/meet and those include Oprah, Sen. Hillary Clinton, and british historian/writer Alison Weir, whose every book I have read. Being a pop culture junkie, there are others I would love to see or meet including lots of musicians, actors, and entertainers. Meeting Johnny Depp, for example, would make my year (I am such a girl). Unfortunately, I have not had many good "star sightings". Jerry teases me because I am always looking for famous people at the airport. But hey, just two months ago, I saw Subway spokesperson, Jared Fogel, there and he promptly swerved to avoid me when I chirped loudly, "It's Jared from Subway!". Can't blame him really.
Let's see, my close encounters with famous people: When I worked at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel: Gerald Ford (passing through), Andrew Dice Clay (in the restaurant and a total jackass by the way), the Black Crowes (passing through), all 4 Baldwin Brothers (staying there for a wedding; I actually got coffee for all of them, what a day that was).
Um...in Ireland, Jerry and I saw bald, ex-MTV VJ and alternative music guru Matt Pinfield in a Dublin record store buying up cd's. We were too chicken to go up and talk to him, although we wish we had.
While working at Schulers Books in Grand Rapids, MI, I saw Red Hot Chili Pepper's singer, Anthony Keidis, wandering around in the music section. I huddled around with my other co-workers, watching him and whispering and giggling from a nearby office. What makes us act that way?
While working at Border's Books in Charlotte, NC, I saw the guy who played tortured soul "Richard" on the TV show "Caroline in the City". He was much shorter in real life.
Jerry and I also had a strange but true encounter with Death Row Record Prez and eternal parolee "Suge" Knight, but that's too weird to go into and we aren't even sure we believe it ourselves. Otherwise, I can't remember any other good sightings; I am sure Jerry will chime in with any I have forgotten. Anyone have any good famous people encounters?
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When I was a tyke, I got to be on the local Bozo show. I got a good close look at the big fella, and asked, "is your nose held on with string?" He shook he head and said, "no, is yours?"
And once I was in Washington, D.C., and a guy I was with said, "hey, isn't that Garrison Keillor?" We were in a lunch room in the Smithsonian--I don't recall which building. He walked up and got an autograph. I was too shy.
Oh! And there was this one time when I chased all over Big Rapids with a guy wearing mascara looking for the Ramones after seeing them in concert at Ferris State University. That was more like being slapped by ineptness than a brush with greatness, though. I mean really, how much chasing around can Big Rapids support? About three hours, as I recall...
What about our fabu encounter in an elevator in Chicago with a member of Paul Yong's tour bus crew???? I know we were only like 13 but, how you forget the big stuff....!!
How exciting to possibly meet the President of the United States. As a family we watched President Gerald Ford at the Cherry Festival Parade in Traverse City in 1975. At the time the Lieutenant Governor of Michigan was an acquaintance of ours. As we called out to him, President Ford looked over to us and waved, I hope it was a memorable occasion for our children. My most awesome experience was seeing Pope John Paul 11. It was downtown Detroit. Even though there were thousands of people, it was almost a tearful experience to just be in the presence of that throng of people and receive the blessing of this great man and pray the Lord's Prayer with them. I did not always agree with his views, but nevertheless, his position in the church gave me a feeling that I can't explain.
Over the years as a volunteer and part time employee of a performing arts center, I had occasion to meet several music and stage performers. It was most interesting to see them off stage. Some were extremely nice and easy to speak with, others were shy and then there were the ones that were so hateful to the employees of the center and would gush with sugar to the public later. Some even remembered me later when I met them at other venues. That was nice. It was an educational experience in taking people at their real value and learning that they are really no different from the rest of us.
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