YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Look who I just saw at the supermarket.
Look at him, just picking out tomato sauce and shit. Like a person.
That’s right. This is my new BFF, Horatio Caine.
Just before we took this picture, he said, “Daddy came prepared.” He reached into his pocket and gave me a couple of pre-autographed picture cards and this.
I plan to wear it at my wedding.
April 26, 2010 at 6:36 pm
Did he lurch about and bob his head?
April 26, 2010 at 6:36 pm
Well, I guess he..
*removes sunglasses*
Was feeling a little awesome-saucy.
[cue music]
April 26, 2010 at 6:37 pm
FAAAAAANTASTIC. Dude actually has a sense of humour! I am now re-assessing my opinion…
April 26, 2010 at 6:39 pm
That is indeed awesome!
All I ever see at my grocery store is Phil Woodman… the guy who owns Woodman’s… which is totally not cool or awesome.
April 26, 2010 at 6:41 pm
I’m not sure which bother me more, that he referred to himself as “daddy” or that he carries self promoting swag around in his pocket.
August 19, 2011 at 6:01 am
I think “daddy” is were I got an ick feeling. A little self-promotion for a actor OK; but DADDY?
April 26, 2010 at 6:43 pm
I hope you people are taking this seriously. I haven’t been this excited since I saw Mr. T buying grapes.
By the way, Horatio had about 12 quarts of milk in his cart. I think he might bathe in it.
August 19, 2011 at 6:03 am
I pity the grape that doesn’t stay on the stem and tires to roll out of the cart (mine alwaws are escaping – bet his don’t
)
April 26, 2010 at 6:44 pm
helen, this is serious! horatio kane?! this is awesome!!!!
April 26, 2010 at 6:47 pm
Are you gonna have a “talking like this” contest…while crouching and taking off your sunglasses? It’s a great way to choose pasta sauce!
Cool, I love celebrity sightings. I only spot Canadian music artists at my local breakfast spots.
April 26, 2010 at 6:47 pm
I once saw Fabio at the Ralph’s on Ventura and Winnetka. Now that was exciting! Sadly he wasn’t buying I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter.
April 26, 2010 at 6:48 pm
#6 Helen Killer: I’m not a fan of his, but when I had a very short conversation with Hunter S Thompson on the subway the first week I moved to nyc I peed myself a little. So, I understand
April 26, 2010 at 6:49 pm
I think that is totally cool!
April 26, 2010 at 6:49 pm
For just a minute there, from the back, I thought it was Jack Bauer. But I came to my senses and remembered he wasn’t Jack when he looked like that.
April 26, 2010 at 6:50 pm
I’d have ambushed him also, and probably would have gushed like an 11 year old.
April 26, 2010 at 6:50 pm
#6 Helen Killer: Oh and I used to bathe in milk once a week… but umm.. that ended after a I figured out I have a serious allergy to Monistat.
April 26, 2010 at 6:50 pm
Oh, Helen, I’m totally taking this serious. I’m extremely jealous! I would have acted like a complete idiot and possibly said some embarrassing things. He would have run away from me.
Heck, I got excited to get an email from a certain famous author who is consistently called by the wrong name and whose website name is misspelled at events.
[gee, was that too puzzling?]
April 26, 2010 at 6:55 pm
This is awesome
The best i get here in dayton is dave chappelle.
April 26, 2010 at 6:55 pm
Bwa hahaha, someone is milking it….I saw Clarence Williams 111, aka Luc Hayes from the ‘Mod Squad’, he was touching fruit at T.J.s, but he didn’t want to be noticed.
April 26, 2010 at 6:57 pm
As I was scrolling down, I thought the last picture was showing that he gave you the ring… I was like damn he’s a nice guy!
April 26, 2010 at 6:58 pm
How annoying is it to have grocery carts running over tile with grout?
I bet he was stalking YOU… he was really looking at the macaroni, but had to move down to tomato sauce to keep you in his line of vision.
April 26, 2010 at 6:58 pm
He looks totally relaxed and normal–for a celeb.
You wouldn’t see our local “celebs” (Jobs, Ellison) getting all friendly and shit.
April 26, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Helen, is David Caruso your A1 most favorite celebrity?
April 26, 2010 at 7:02 pm
hmmmm…I must really be out of the loop. I was thinking, “wow, William H Macy looks rough in person”
April 26, 2010 at 7:05 pm
**”Cleanup in Deli, cleanup in Deli”**
“Oh, God. I hope it wasn’t…”
“…fowl play.”
YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAH!
April 26, 2010 at 7:06 pm
He picks a tomato sauce like he is looking at a crime scene X)
It’s cool you met him!!!!!!!!!!
April 26, 2010 at 7:06 pm
I think we have the same ring, Helen. Emerald cut with trillion cut on the side?
April 26, 2010 at 7:06 pm
oh, balls, it removed my bracketed text. total failure, you only got half of my post.
April 26, 2010 at 7:07 pm
I keep hoping for Robert Duvall, but he is a bit southwest of here. I once ate in a restaurant crawling with Secret Service. Think Cheney was eating in the bar.
April 26, 2010 at 7:07 pm
I guess he doesn’t know how scumbaggy you are.
April 26, 2010 at 7:08 pm
@ #21, pretty close. I get the most excited when I see the kitschy celebs. If I saw someone really respectable, I’d probably be nonplussed.
Although, if I ever saw Wendell Pierce, I’d probably shriek.
April 26, 2010 at 7:10 pm
LOL! Awesome. I hope you managed to work your successful publishing career into the conversation. Never let an opportunity to network pass you by!
Also, that bracelet is missing the “WW” and the “D?”
April 26, 2010 at 7:11 pm
@Helen: I saw Lavar Burton at UCLA and got him to take a picture with a Barbie. The absurdity of the whole situation made me love him. I get what you’re saying.
April 26, 2010 at 7:11 pm
One time I saw one of the judges of New Zealands Next Top Model walking around in the city. yeah… that’s all I got.
April 26, 2010 at 7:11 pm
#22 LOL! William H. Macy! LOLOL!!!
April 26, 2010 at 7:12 pm
Of course I know who David Caruso is, just never watched NYPD Blue (that’s the show, right?)…I am laughing my ass off that he gave you a bracelet.
That is so fucking whimsicle, I can’t stand it
Didn’t you also celeb stalk Linda Lavin at Gelson’s?
April 26, 2010 at 7:12 pm
BTW, my best celebrity encounter: I wiped a fingerful of sweat off of Andre the Giant. He was still alive at the time. Which was helpful.
April 26, 2010 at 7:14 pm
My sister once touched Kevin Bacon’s ass at an appliance store in CT when we were youngsters…does that count?
April 26, 2010 at 7:15 pm
Raz he’s also on one of the CSI shows. Pantsmonkey, giant sweat rubbing tops my Lavar Burton encounter.
April 26, 2010 at 7:17 pm
Holy shit! That’s awesome.
April 26, 2010 at 7:18 pm
One time, I saw Tina Yothers at Zipperheads in Philly. It was about 22 years ago. I haven’t been the same since.
April 26, 2010 at 7:20 pm
Suda, @#31, I gave Lavar Burton a few racquetball lessons a million years ago in Marina Del Rey, & truly he was one of the warmest & coolest people I’ve ever met.
He has done wonderful work for children over the years.
April 26, 2010 at 7:21 pm
HK, it’s easy to see by your expression in the picture how excited you were
I’ve had a very bad day but this helped end it on a bright note so thank you for sharing it. God’s honest truth. And that’s about as serious as I’ll ever be on here.
April 26, 2010 at 7:21 pm
I finally thought of my most absurd celeb sighting, William Hung at my local bowling alley. I didn’t want to encourage him, even his friends seemed to be ignoring him.
April 26, 2010 at 7:22 pm
@10 leftfoot
holy shit i would have completely lost it if i had gotten to speak to the great dr. himself.
April 26, 2010 at 7:24 pm
#40 DucksNew: Hang in there, whatever’s goin’ on.
April 26, 2010 at 7:26 pm
So, I have to ask… exactly how many times did you walk past the pasta aisle nonchalantly trying to see if it was really him?
April 26, 2010 at 7:28 pm
#42 beluga : I had seen him at a reading 2 nights previous (this is over about a dozen ago, mind you) and had finally worked up the courage to gush-n-cry, but he left before it was my turn, so there was no way I could pass up those 3 minutes before his stop – or his excuse to get away from me. hehe
April 26, 2010 at 7:28 pm
@ #45, Oh like 6 times. I was sweating. I motioned for John to look and he walked down the aisle and looked at me like, “Who?” So I took my sunglasses off and he got it.
I finally approached him by the dairy case and I said, “I don’t want to disturb you, but I’m losing my shit over seeing you in person.”
April 26, 2010 at 7:29 pm
If I weren’t so lazy I’d hang out at Gelson’s to stalk you Helen.
April 26, 2010 at 7:30 pm
#47 Helen: I’m going to try that line on my husband and see what he does.
April 26, 2010 at 7:34 pm
crap, i meant to hit thumbs up, pantsmonkey!
sorry i fatfingered that button…
April 26, 2010 at 7:35 pm
LOL! ‘sokay. I’m used to it.
April 26, 2010 at 7:40 pm
LOL. Celebrities aren’t REAL! …You guys crack me up.
April 26, 2010 at 7:47 pm
The one time I ran into him here in Florida, he and his much too young looking girlfriend/wife were touring the house at the Ringling Museum. They got the private tour of it so the rest of us had to stand out in the rain. Then if you asked for a picture or autograph, he just handed out the cards of himself he carries everywhere. He was not nice that day.
April 26, 2010 at 7:49 pm
Well I can’t believe no one’s asked this! Did you tell him about your little handmade windup toy of him? And if not, are you going to carry around a photo of it so if you ever see it again you can be like
“look at this crazy shit! This is so much better than a dumb t-shirt!”
ok, now that I say it, it sounds a little creepy, but that would be my first reaction.
April 26, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Oh, and my one celeb story to add to the heap:
I once pushed Woody Harrelson out of the way to get breakfast.
I was hungry, he was in my way, and I didn’t realize the little bald man was the Woodster. This was at the Cup and Saucer in Portland, OR. He was there filming a documentary about how much he loves to smoke pot or something.
Good times.
April 26, 2010 at 7:58 pm
OK, which one of you is LawnGoose over on the forums? Whoever you are, you are a fucking genius.
April 26, 2010 at 8:04 pm
I met the New Kids on the Block…parents! I was working at Penney’s in the 80′s and they had this event to drum up business. I think the 12 year olds starting lining up at dawn, with flowers and cards, to meet their (in their dreams!) inlaws to be.
April 26, 2010 at 8:04 pm
“LawnGoose says:
Tashina, I am new etsy seller from originally Soviet Russia (later Soviets fell but is history lesson, no?). Boyfriend of mine helped me to set up shop, as his speeching much more better than me. Please to forgive if English not good yet.
This Regretsky makes me to think of famous hockey player with yellow hair. Is not is his page of ownership, please tell me.
Also, in your shop you sell item:
(link)
Please tell me is okay to sell fecal bead. Is not fecal made of…
April 26, 2010 at 8:05 pm
LawnGoose. Absofeckinglutely brilliant. If you’re not reading the Regretsy threads on the Etsy Business Forum you’re missing out.
April 26, 2010 at 8:15 pm
I don’t have any random celebrity encounters – all my meetings were at concerts and book signings and such. I’ve met AC/DC, Bruce Campbell, Eric Idle from Monty Python, cast members of Star Trek: Voyager, some anime voice-over actors, and comedian Jim Breuer. I did sell a PlayStation 2 to Nancy Kerrigan, but everyone in Eastern MA has met Nancy Kerrigan at least once. I’d love to have a random run-in w/a celeb somewhere out of the blue.
April 26, 2010 at 8:16 pm
OMG, it’s a live sized Born Again doll!
April 26, 2010 at 8:26 pm
@ 59String Theory: You have Nany Kerrigan, but WE have Tonya harding- and she’s a white trash speedfreak who occasionally appears on the news for calling police about people who aren’t actually there.
So maybe you don’t have random celeb encounters, but at least the ones you have met are have more class than our local “legends”:
Courtney Love, Tonya Harding, Daniel Baldwin (the useless one), Everclear (the forgettable band)… Chuck Palanhuk being the notable exception
April 26, 2010 at 8:38 pm
I love meeting celebrities. When I moved to NYC in my early teens I found out Robin Williams used the same video store as us and I went there like every day to try and see him. Then I started seeing them everywhere and it was like Oh hey, wassup Sarah J? Getting a cafe latte? Yeah me too, ya know, that’s how we do.
I am always shocked by how SHORT most TV and movie actors are. Like pocket sized.
Except Gary Shandling, he was quite tall! Ran into him in Central Park…
April 26, 2010 at 8:39 pm
My friend and I made his friend Bruno Kirby (Jess from When harry met sally and other billy crystal side kick roles) take the picture of us and then later after we had left them we realized what we had done…probably didn’t do much for Bruno’s ego.
April 26, 2010 at 8:42 pm
#62: “I am always shocked by how SHORT most TV and movie actors are. Like pocket sized.”
I saw Seth Green at the Santa Monica Pier once. He was girly sized. I think I could have taken him in a brawl.
April 26, 2010 at 8:42 pm
#58 pantsmonkey : whoever is hearttohearts over there is a great rep for regretsy.
April 26, 2010 at 8:44 pm
iunifera, I met Cynthia Rowley’s mom and dad at a book party for A Girl’s Guide to the Good Life (best book party I have EVER been to, BTW), and they were so fun! I was totally in love with her family! I wanted them to adopt me so badly.
April 26, 2010 at 8:45 pm
Honest to Horatio, there was actual Regretsy performance art going on over on the Etsy forums this evening. I hope it continues because whoever it is is very, very good.
April 26, 2010 at 8:47 pm
The sunglasses make it priceless!!
April 26, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Very cool
..a little weird about the bracelet though
April 26, 2010 at 9:03 pm
“I finally approached him by the dairy case and I said…”
That would’ve been appropriate to use your Janice voice.
April 26, 2010 at 9:16 pm
english > italian > french > english didn’t work as good as I hoped. pooh.
April 26, 2010 at 9:18 pm
You are living every Regretsian’s fantasy.
April 26, 2010 at 9:24 pm
I’ll never forget the night Helen Killer bummed a cigarette off me during a break from calling Bingo at a gay bar. I should have snuck the butt out of the gutter. Because without the DNA from the filter, nobody will ever believe me.
April 26, 2010 at 9:30 pm
@ #73 Especially since I haven’t had a cigarette in 5 years. But I remember that smoke.
April 26, 2010 at 9:43 pm
Girl, are you blushing?
April 26, 2010 at 9:54 pm
I am a whore for any celebrity. I don’t care if I even like them or whatever movie/tv show they’ve been in. My favorite encounters are David Landers aka Squiggy and Tom Lenk who played Andrew on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
April 26, 2010 at 9:55 pm
And I forgot to say that I was totally excited about those two. I love Squiggy and Andrew!
April 26, 2010 at 10:21 pm
#67 pantsmonkey: someone in one of the regresty forums referred to her vagina as a “lady flower” and someone else got their undies in a bunch when someone asked if their avatar was a vagina:
“Of course you meant to offend me, comparing the holy vagina to a mere tomato. I mean really, what else could you have meant by such a comparison? ”
Get over yourselves ladies.
April 26, 2010 at 10:24 pm
Patty, I totally still have the email I got from Ann/Helen/April. I was pretty excited. Okay, I still am.
April 26, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Wait, you saw Mr. T. buying grapes. That’s insane! Hilary Duff waved at me one time. It was at a concert. I was not there (in the 8th row on the floor) by choice.
April 26, 2010 at 10:30 pm
I’ve been on an elevator with a drunk Robin Leach, and I nearly ran into Robin Williams while walking… Since things happen in three’s I suppose I’ll spill a drink on Robin Wright or Robin Tunney.
April 26, 2010 at 10:41 pm
My only celeb spotting was taking a flight from SFO, and seeing Sean Penn, sitting alone in a nearly vacant terminal. We just let him be.
April 27, 2010 at 12:09 am
@Helen, I have to say that I think you having a celebrity sighting has been more exciting for me than having my own. The excitement has definitely lasted longer.
April 27, 2010 at 12:13 am
I was checking out at Whole Foods about two weeks ago, when Carrot-Top walked up to the checkout behind me. He was very nice to people who spoke to him, asked for pictures, etc. He was frightening up close, but very nice. He smiled politely at me, and I tried not to recoil in fear, but he was nice!
April 27, 2010 at 12:15 am
Oh my god snarkeygirl, I think you may have survived my worst nightmare. Was that in Los Angeles? If so, would you be kind enough to tell me which WF so I can never ever go there??!
April 27, 2010 at 2:34 am
*swoons*
April 27, 2010 at 2:50 am
I’ve met a couple celebrities, but it was at an event and not random. Travis Tritt, Jeff Foxworthy, and Kenny Chesney (before his tractor was sexy). We lived in Savannah, GA and I was friends with a DJ. I don’t listen to country music anymore.
I was far more excited to meet a local talk radio host whose show I was a regular caller of- I approached him in a parking lot. I was giddy when he remembered me by name a few months later and posed for a picture with me.
April 27, 2010 at 3:05 am
but was he ever on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse?
*say something witty and take off your sun glasses
April 27, 2010 at 3:50 am
I have nothing more to say except that I am sick with jealousy. Mostly for the self-reference as ‘Daddy’, I literally would have creamed myself!
#30 Pantsmonkey: yes, W.W.H.D indeed?
April 27, 2010 at 3:52 am
What the hell were you doing in Miami? Must be photo fuckery.
April 27, 2010 at 4:28 am
omg WIN! I’m so jealous. I spend wayyyy too many hours crushing on Horatio on weekdays when I should be working…..my love for him is wrong. In fact I just did a shoot with a model yesterday for a local ad and she was wearing mirrored glasses, had to tell her she was reminding me of Horatio! I’m seriously so jealous.
I guess my meeting Vanilla Ice can’t top this.
April 27, 2010 at 4:56 am
OK, I don’t even like Caruso, but YOU are SO excited in that pic, that I’m excited for you.
And, distracted by the HUGE effing rock on your finger. There, now you made me go all caps-locky.
April 27, 2010 at 5:18 am
I got high fived by Huey Lewis once, at a concert. But hubby drove Paul Newman in a limo once, then met Richard Dean Anderson (McGyver) at the hotel he worked and and Jean Claude van Damme – in a bar, in Pittsburgh, of all places. van Damme definitely could’ve fit in his pocket.
April 27, 2010 at 5:35 am
At first, I thought it was my brother. I’d be excited to see him in Calif. too. Then I thought it was Bruce Cockburn who looks exactly like my brother. But then I wondered if people out there know who Bruce Cockburn is, would you get excited if you saw him?
April 27, 2010 at 6:03 am
ok. I can’t stand it. i want that damn “twitter” bird. the stuffed one you’re using as an icon. I need it. It needs to live with me.
April 27, 2010 at 6:19 am
Neat! The only celebrity (and I use that term extremely loosely) I ever see at my grocery store is Jon Gosselin.
April 27, 2010 at 6:24 am
OMG!! Just like #22, I thought is was William H. Macy! I still think it is William H. Macy. Who is Horatio Caine anyway? No TV no knowledge.
Are you going to auction of one of the photos?
April 27, 2010 at 6:34 am
YES! Auction that bad boy off. The tomato one. Pop Art style.
April 27, 2010 at 8:47 am
And a long, long time ago Michael Sarrazin saved me from a life of ruin. Anybody remember him?
April 27, 2010 at 8:49 am
Helen, your pic with your finger half covering the lens says it all. You’re all a-flutter, girl!!
April 27, 2010 at 9:02 am
#92 spandy: I know who he is, and yes, I would probably pee myself a little if I ever met him.
Patrick Monahan (lead singer of Train) is from my hometown. I spent two summers working at a nature center where he’d go for runs during the hottest part of the day. I’d have a bunch of 6 year olds out for a hike and this sweaty rock star would go running by.
Drew Barrymore waved to me and my friends, and Allen Covert (in most of Adam Sandler’s films) bought us ice cream the same day.
April 27, 2010 at 9:10 am
I’m practically peeing myself laughing. This is beyond awesome.
The only celebrity I went crazy to meet was (author) Neil Gaiman when he came to my city for Writer’s Fest and upon meeting him my boyfriend asked if I needed a drool bucket. It was pretty embarrassing… but then he signed like 9 of my books.
I wonder if Horatio knows about that reborn doll from ages ago… If it had a pull tab it would say “Daddy came prepared…”
April 27, 2010 at 9:15 am
He should have been asking for your autograph!
April 27, 2010 at 9:15 am
#15 Patty, Me too. When I got emails from HK I immediately bragged to my best friend.
April 27, 2010 at 10:53 am
but….but…. he’s LOOKING INTO THE CAMERA! WTF?
April 27, 2010 at 10:55 am
#95 fame4crap: David Caruso. Horaitio Kane is a character he plays (badly) on a really horrible show called CSI Miami.
April 27, 2010 at 11:34 am
I’ve seen Danny Pintauro and the WAMU guy at LAX (not together) and met Drew Carey, Ryan Stiles and the cast of Who’s Line at the Luxor in Vegas. Hubby and I were sitting in a piano bar and Ryan walked in. I said, that guy lookes like Ryan Stiles. Hubby said, eh, a little. Then Greg Proops walked in, and I said we’re not leaving until Drew Carey gets here and then in he walked. They were all very nice and took pics with us.
April 27, 2010 at 12:42 pm
How incredible that he carries cards and bracelets.
He’s the only character that can wear a suit, a black suit at that, in Miami in September and not have one freakin’ drop of sweat anywhere.
April 27, 2010 at 1:10 pm
I met “Uncle Phil” from Fresh Prince of Bel Air when I worked at Tower Records. Tracy Chapman used to come in all the time, too. She’d fill a hand basket full of cds, dvds, mags, etc & drop like $1000 in one visit. I also slow danced in a Kmart with Bubba Paris (football player) one surreal evening. I heart celebrities who do normal people stuff & don’t get full of themselves.
April 27, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Helen, enjoy the hell out of it. I once spoke with Paul Newman (RIP) on the phone. I guarantee you’ll be knocked flat off your feet by my silken eloquence during that conversation:
ME: Good evening, Far West Farms
PN: Hello, this is Paul Newman. Is Lissy there?
ME: Yes she is, hold on, I’ll get her for you.
April 27, 2010 at 3:51 pm
That’s so cool, I’m so glad he was nice, too.
I live in NJ, I have no cool celebrity stories.
April 27, 2010 at 5:55 pm
WOW. Killer- going on 4 years here. Might I say that you are the luckiest bitch I know. Did you shake so bad you git your finger in the pic. That is a SUPERB shot of his ass- thank you for that. I have always had a trhing for older and sexy men. NO. I don’t have daddy issues. Older men are just sexy
April 27, 2010 at 7:18 pm
bahahahahahaha ROFL @ #1
far out Killer you’re a royal crack up.
And Drew Barrymore, holy crap did you end up speaking to her at all?
omg i love her!!
April 27, 2010 at 8:27 pm
#114 Feel Free: were you referring to my comment? Or the more recent post by HK? Anyway, I was touring the Sony Pictures Studio lot (every other studio required that visitors stay on a bus at all times, but you could actually walk around and possibly interact with the stars, like we did) and she was taking a break from filming the opening sequence of Charlie’s Angels 2 a few sound stages down from where we were. We couldn’t do more than just wave back.
April 27, 2010 at 11:53 pm
OMG i sold him a couple of pounds of coffee at spinelli’s in sf in the early 90s. he was in full black bike leathers, standing imposingly in the doorway while his wife or girlfriend or pa did the ordering & buying. he waived when i acknowledged that i knew who he was, and he kept a respectful distance. as i recall she went with my recommendation, so i trust he enjoyed the coffee.
April 28, 2010 at 12:10 am
No Suda, it was in Las Vegas! You are safe, as far as I can tell! LA should be Carrot-Top-free!
April 28, 2010 at 12:12 am
Hey Fluffysue, doesn’t Kevin Smith live in NJ? or ummm, err, John Bon Jovi?
April 28, 2010 at 11:50 am
And he wears those sunglasses in real life and to go buy groceries! My only celeb encounter – I squirted Chubby Checker with a garden hose. Hey, I was 3 yrs. old – back off! And I now live where Annette Funicello grew up.
August 19, 2011 at 6:06 am
I liked that too. Only he doesn’t have two pair like in his cartoon.
April 28, 2010 at 10:14 pm
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March 23, 2011 at 2:25 am
I love celeb sighting stories! Besides being fun and cool, they just seem so wonderfully random.
I once (back in the late 70′s, geez!) sold Al Pacino a pack of cigarettes. Then, during the filming of Fandango, I met Kevin Costner before he was famous and he held our newborn daughter whom I was carrying around in a Snugli. My husband was working as a techie, so I was hanging around. Our ’69 Barracuda is in the film, too. Oh, yeah, and Lou Diamond Phillips was in my college drama class! I didn’t know that until years later when another friend from the class told me. I never noticed the guy.
August 18, 2011 at 10:23 pm
ha! I ran into Robert Downey Jr at the airport once. I was SO sad that my camera was packed in my suitcase.
He of course, looked high as a damn kite with the skankiest prostitute I’ve ever seen beside him. But he was genuinely friendly and nice. And it took all I had not to hump his leg.
August 18, 2011 at 10:36 pm
You know when you think something, and you think it’s right, but it turns out you were wrong all along? Well I always thought that guy was Ron Howard. Just went and googled and things, and it’s OK, I’ve got it sorted. That’s David Caruso, who plays Horatio Caine. Ron Howard someone else altogether. Phew!
As an aside, I live in Australia, where there are fewer people, thus much fewer celebrities to see. And when you do it’s like ‘Oh theres that guy, he was in that show for a bit. What was his name?’ and no one remembers or cares. So seeing David Caruso, buying pasta sauce, I think I may have shit myself.
August 19, 2011 at 5:01 am
I see we are living on broken promises and…Horatio bracelets. Well done. Well done.
August 19, 2011 at 5:04 am
Possibly the only chance to take a picture with Horatio Caine!
*covers most of face*
August 19, 2011 at 6:37 am
December 24, 2011 at 6:46 pm
Way cool Helen
)
In the early 80s, I worked in a record store and this guy came in and we got talking. The Stones were playing in the area and he said he was staying in a house in Woodstock NY that was near one that the Stones were renting, all the parties & madness etc. He ended up hanging out for over an hour, and I thought ‘what a really nice guy!’ and he was cute too lol.
Anyway, after work I was home and the news was on, and all of a sudden, there was the guy I was talking to that afternoon. It was Geraldo Rivera, and I had no idea who he was at the time, because I didn’t watch TV LOL. Obviously, he’s changed a bit since then, but it was cool anyhow.
I also know a guy who installed cable for Dan Ackroyd and William Hurt, 2 of my favorite guys. He said that while Dan Ackroyd was amazingly friendly and cool, Wm Hurt was a total douche. That burst the bubble for me lol