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Feb 21, 2014 - 11:58 AM
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Timmer
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I've met quite a lot but I'll keep it to those I've chatted with...
Composers John Barry, John Williams, Michael Nyman, Basil Poledouris ( Kev McGann, this was after the JB concert at the RAH in 98  ), Jerry Goldsmith, Andre Previn, Ron Goodwin, Stanley Black and Ennio Morricone ( through an interpreter )
Other films types... Arnold Scwarzenegger ( he'd just finished filming Conan The Barbarian and was still sporting long hair ), Daniel Day Lewis, Gabriel Byrne, Stewart Grainger, Greta Scatchi, Caroline Monro, Madeline Smith, Ingrid Pitt, Ed Bishop, George Lazenby, Tom Baker, David Soul.
With the exceptions of Stanley Black and George Lazenby, all of the above were good encounters.
If I listed pop and rock musicians it would be a very long list, mostly due to the fact I've worked the back stages of Glastonbury Festival for nearly two decades.
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I've told you all of this before! So don't read on if you remember my previous rabbits!
Rolf Harris - Met him in a lift (elevator) at Green Park tube station. Unmistakable poncho. He signed my tube ticket and did Scottish accents for us. Then he walked off making wobbleboard musical effects.
John Hurt - Was standing beside him in a bar in London. He was so pished he didn't recognise me.
Derek Wadsworth - Was playing jazz in The Red Lion pub (can you see a pattern?) in Ealing. Didn't even know it was him until they announced him as "Derek Wadsworth" and I asked him if he was the real one. Lovely man, very shy.
Oliver Reed - I lived across the road from him for a while in Guernsey. He got banned from the bars while I was there (do you see a pattern?), but before he got banned I held the door open for him so he could come in. He gave a charming "thank you" and a bit of a theatrical bow. Later that night he was in his little black underpants in the garden trying to climb through the hedge, and bellowing "FUCKING DOGS! You've RUINED my entire life"!
Kate Beckinsale's mum - Saw her knickers. Lovely woman.
Sheena Easton's cat - I worked with a man whose cat had her (cat's) kittens.
The Queen - I stood on the pavement as the car went by, energetically waving to her so that she HAD to wave back, thus changing the entire future like in A Sound of Thunder. Oops!
By the way, I don't think people who have actually WORKED in showbiz should be allowed to post. Unfair advantage.
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Feb 26, 2014 - 1:28 PM
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Thor
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I met & partied with a whole bunch of Norwegian celebrities back in the mid 2000s when I was somewhat of a celeb myself, but not so much anymore. I doubt any of you have heard of them, anyway. Well, maybe his Majesty, the King of Norway, the royal family and the prime minister who I met during the king's 70th birthday (the king greeted me and urged me to score more goals!).
Internationally, I've met several film composers and even had the opportunity to interview some of them. Names here include James Horner, Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard, Elliot Goldenthal, Angelo Badalamenti, Alberto Iglesias, David Julyan, Pino Donaggio, David Newman, Richard Sherman, Graeme Revell, Bruce Broughton, Marco Beltrami and several others.
I've also had a long interview with director Joe Dante and the famous cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond.
And I've hung out backstage with legendary footballer Paul 'Gazza' Gascoigne, who looked worse for wear.
Those were some off the top of my head.
Some of my wishes & dreams: Steven Spielberg, John Williams, Danny Elfman, Tim Burton, David Lynch, Jack Nicholson, Anthony Hopkins, Jeff Goldblum, Gary Oldman.
Curiously not that many of the 'big' Hollywood actors.
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Feb 26, 2014 - 3:51 PM
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Gary S.
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Ernie Harwell (The late great Detroit Tiger play by play announcer), Gordie Howe (Perhaps the greatest player to ever play hockey) the late, great Marvin Gaye (at a charity golf tournament put on by the late great Alex Karras.
Andrew Robinson (The Scorpio Killer in Dirty Harry better known these days as Garak on Deep Space Nine) Stephen Furst (Flounder from Animal House, Dr. Elliott Axelrod on St. Elsewhere, Vir Cotto on Babylon 5) June Lockhart (of Lassie, Petticoat Junction and Lost in Space) her daughter Anne Lockhart from the original Battlestar Galactica, Dirk Benedict from Battlestar Galactica and The A Team, Bernie Koppel from Love Boat and Get Smart, John DeLancie (Q from 3 different Star Trek Series) Marina Sirtis from ST:TNG, Donny Most from Happy Days, Laurette Spang from Battlestar Galactica. James Doohan everyone's favorite Enterprise engineer. (Sometimes taking my kid sister, who ain't exactly a kid anymore, to the Motor City Comic convention is worth it as she travels with her service dog. Dogs are celebrity magnets.  )
Others that come to mind Mickey Rooney at least twice, Elaine Joyce (Broadway's Sugar and a semi regular on Match Game, now Mrs. Neil Simon), Chloris Leachman, Linda Kay Henning (Petticoat Junction and of course her dad was the producer of Beverley Hillbillies, Green Acres and Petticoat Junction) Vincent Price, Hal Linden, Pia Zadore, Dolores Gray, Elizabeth Allen, Earl Wrightson, and Joel Grey.
I may remember more later.
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