what to do when Donald Sutherland comes up to you...
 

A bit of LA-surreal last night. The g/f and I went to dinner at a local Santa Monica seafood place. There was a wait for a table, but there were two seats at the end of the oyster bar so we sat down. Kind of an L-shaped bar, and sitting around the corner of the bar was Donald Sutherland, eating dinner with some friends. I caught him eyeing me somewhat oddly, and I wondered if I was staring or what the deal was. Next thing I know he gets up and walks over to me. Says, "I apologize if I gave you a strange look, but my friend was asking me who was going be doing the marriage ceremony for my son and I said, 'how about that guy?' I thought you were wearing a cleric collar." I was actually wearing my Sigarms turtleneck, where the logo is on the mock turtleneck. From a distance I guess it looked like a priest's collar. I laughed and said, "no problem" and then we went back to his spot at the bar and continued dinner.

I almost went over later to offer to get my Universal Life minister degree so I could help him out. :D

A priest is nothing i am likely to ever be mistaken for. Great story man.

Didn't Letterman used to run a "Brush With Greatness" segment at one time? I think those stories are fun. Best I can do is running into Garth Brooks at Academy Sports one time. Oh well. Oklahoma doesn't compare to SoCal, I guess.

I have a pic of Richard Simmons with one arm around my wife's shoulders and another around my mom's.

We were all stuck in Newark Airport together.

Talk about surreal.

Six degrees of separation. I sat down at my barbershop last year and Donald Sutherland was in the next chair over. We started talking. He was doing a one man show/autobiographical talk thingy that evening — and suggested I come along if I "was really bored". We went and ended up having beers with him. Charming man. Great raconteur.

I sat next to Joe Biden in the Senate barbershop many years ago. His plugs looked bad then too.

I would burn that!

More "brushes with hollywierd" than I care to think about.

Greatness would be meeting Col. Oliver North, Rush or Sean sometime...

Absolutely nobody famous lives in Lebanon, Oregon. I like it that way...:cool:

Dude, that's too easy. You do the Donald Sutherland invasion of the body-snatcher's thing.
That's what I would have done. Seriously.

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I've met Oliver North a few times. But below is the only Rush I've met.

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I thought he was great in "Kelly's Heros"
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Isn't that who he meant?

He meant the big blowhole on the radio.

My favorite run-in with a celeb was the time I bowled over the dude from 'Webster' in the Atlanta airport. We were both turning a corner in a hurry (he to the gate, I from) and I had a bit of a size advantage.

ya... that one that pulls fact straight out of his ass....

I hung out with Capt Lou at LAX once. He said he recognized my jersey accent and felt like chatting. He had lost a lot of weight but the rubber band was still in his beard!

I prepared dinner for Joe Biden and his wife last year just after he got elected. I did a little post on it in OT and it was immediately moved to PARF. Don't think anyone gave a whoot over there.

MY mother dated Timothy Leary...

My mother was a campaign manager for Vice President BiteMe years ago, so I met him many times.
I've also met, Al 'the about to be single lunatic' Gore (I was like 6 and he was an absolute dick), Billy Bob Clinton (Pretty nice guy... at least to me), Tom Harkin (taught me my first obscenity, 'Bull*****')
Robert Irvine from 'Dinner Impossible' on Food Network works out at my gym and I've seen Patricia Cornwell at Starbucks.

I almost flattened Martina McBride at a truck stop. Same thing that happened to Scott. Turned a corner, and there she was. Little bitty thing. Her eyes are really that awesome blue in person, and a smile that can melt a mere mortal man.