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Post by lisa on Sept 20, 2005 18:25:38 GMT -5
Already mentioned that I used to go to school with and worked with Guy Pearce's cousin.
Also, I taught trampolining to someone who was in Jamie Bell's (Billy Elliot) English class at Northfield school, Billingham!
This won't mean anything to those in the US but I also patted Red Rum on the nose when I was 7 ( google it maybe if you want to know who Red rum was) I'm gonna try myself now!
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Post by Laslo Hollyfeld on Sept 21, 2005 9:05:09 GMT -5
I once saw Jamie Lee Curtis as she was hastily heading into the ladies' room at the Salt Lake airport. I figured that wasn't the opportune moment to try and talk to her...
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Post by MsCali on Sept 21, 2005 13:21:35 GMT -5
People come into my shop all the time, but Mr. Cali has the lamest claim to fame. When he first moved here, he saw Roz from Night Court in Target with her friend...and her friend was caught shoplifting!
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Post by MsCali on Sept 22, 2005 12:26:20 GMT -5
Oh, I thought of a lamer claim than Mr. Cali's.
My old next door neighbor (when I was growing up in MS) was an extra on the show "In The Heat of the Night". I remember he had a line once..."911 sure is busy tonight, ain't it?"
Heh:) He was a total redneck too.
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Post by Laslo Hollyfeld on Sept 22, 2005 12:40:25 GMT -5
Okay, here's a REALLY lame one. Now, pay attention, as this gets a little tricky:
When I was twelve years old, my best friend's little brother's best friend's stepdad's ex-wife was the stunt double for Helen Slater in "Supergirl."
I'll be taking requests for autographs shortly.
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Post by lisa on Sept 22, 2005 17:18:01 GMT -5
OMG Can't believe I forgot this and no BS. My Uncle Ted was the dead brother of Michael Caine in the original Get Carter. You see him in a coffin at the start of the movie for about 0.78 of a second!
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Post by MrShade on Sept 23, 2005 10:08:52 GMT -5
I used to work at a Wal-mart photo lab here in Memphis and Jerry Lawler used to come in to get his photos done. For anyone who doesn't know who Lawler is, he is an announcer on WWE wrestling and a huge wrestling icon in the Mid-south. He was also in the Jim Carey movie Man on the Moon. He's a pretty cool guy.
I do have a funny story about his son Brian Christopher (another wrestler). He had some pictures developed that had him dunking and hanging from a basketball rim. Since he's about 5'8" tops obviously these pictures were taken on an 8' goal. He motions me to the counter and tells me to take a look at one. I look at it, and thinking he's just trying to get a "Wow, that's cool" out of me, I chuckle a little bit. Apparently he showed me the picture because there was dust on the negative and the picture had spots from this. He didn't appear to happy at me laughing at him, but fortunately for me there were no steel chairs in the vicinity.
My wife has a pretty funny lame claim to fame. She was in Nashville with her Aunt and they went to pick up her Aunt's son Rush from his ritzy private school. My wife went in to get him and got turned around so she asked a lady if she knew where his class was. The lady told her and my wife asked the woman if she knew her because she looked familiar. The lady gave her weird look and told her she didn't think so. After my wife collected Rush and got back in the car she pointed the lady out to her Aunt and asked her who that was because she looked "so familiar". It turned out to be Reba McEntire.
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Post by The Movie Mark on Sept 23, 2005 11:46:09 GMT -5
All right, time for me to chime in with my own lame claims to fame. I hate to perpetuate stereotypes regarding the South, but like Mr. Shade's claim mine are also related to wrestling.
For those of you who don't know who Kevin Lawler is, well, you're probably in the 99.99 percentile. He's Jerry Lawler's least successful son. Anyway, back when I was in 5th or 6th grade I was at my friend's house playing football.
A huge group of neighborhood kids were there, and who would eventually show up? None other than Kevin Lawler! He was a little older than the rest of us, and we all acted as if Anthony Michael Hall had just shown up to play in our little game.
Plus, being the son of a famous wrestler, he struck fear in all our hearts. Everybody was scared to tackle him, so he'd just be given the ball and run for a touchdown. I suppose we figured an attempted tackle would result in a nasty body slam or clothesline.
He didn't play for long, and I never got a chance to talk to him, but at the ripe old age of 11 I truly thought this was a brush with fame.
Keeping the wrestling connection alive, my cousin used to be a trainer at the French Riviera Spa where Sid Vicious worked out. He even played in a pick-up football game against Sid Vicious once. Sid is a big guy -close to 7'0" and 300 lbs, so it really did make sense to just give him the ball and dare people to tackle him.
My cousin decided in his own mind that he could be the one who'd tackle Sid (there's no shortage of self-confidence in the family). So as Sid barrelled forward, my cousin stepped right in front of him, braced himself, and got ready to impress everybody with a monstrous, fearless tackle. Sid knocked him down, walked right over him, and ran for a touchdown.
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Post by Rhiannon on Sept 28, 2005 11:27:53 GMT -5
Hm... since this is about lame claims to fame, I won't use the story about that time that I kissed Wayne Brady  When I was working at a concert pavillion, I checked Bob Dylan's ticket. Why he was coming in through the front, I have no clue. OK, so I was actually working with the guy that checked his ticket, so I didn't get to check it myself, so that makes it even lamer. But if we are looking for not-lame claims to fame, we would be talking about my college roomate getting hit on by Joshua Jackson. |
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Post by MsCali on Sept 28, 2005 12:49:08 GMT -5
Hm...since we are now talking about being hit on by lame people...
I was hit on by James Marsters (Spike from Buffy & Angel). He's sooooooooo lame (I hung out with his fans and went to a lot of his shows - he thinks he's a musician - and really got to see just how lame he is). He also hits on every brunette under 30 in sight (did I mention that he's in his 40s? He's lame AND icky!)
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Post by Rhiannon on Sept 28, 2005 13:28:36 GMT -5
Ms. Cali, that's hilarious, cause I just finished reading through this thread: www.exisle.net/mb/index.php?showtopic=31701&view=findpost&p=703336 on another site where people are all excited about that guy. (You'll find, though, that my excitement was only for Mr. Sex himself, Gale Harold. Though I should rush back and reccomend Josh Brolin as well) It's kinda funny moving between this board and a sci-fi fans board. This board keeps me grounded  |
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Post by MsCali on Sept 28, 2005 17:00:33 GMT -5
I just saw Maya Rudolph (yes, from SNL) standing outside the sandwich shop where I was picking up lunch. She was in my way. Oh, and very pregnant!
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Post by The Movie Mark on Sept 30, 2005 16:27:22 GMT -5
Ms. Cali will soon have a REAL claim to fame that I will be quite jealous of. She's promised me a full report of the event though.
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Post by MsCali on Sept 30, 2005 19:27:41 GMT -5
That's right! It won't be lame at all...hopefully it will be quite UNlame. I will post all about it after it happens though (next week), so as not to jinx myself. Heh:)
In the meantime, I am full of lame claims to fame (I live in LA afterall).
Drew Barrymore's roommate comes into my shop pretty often.
Hmm...how 'bout another...
One of only 4 or 5 people to know about the Ashton/Demi wedding ahead of time is a regular here (and good friends with the owner). Of course, she was good and kept the secret. How dare she!!! (She was telling us about it yesterday though).
Hmmm...I'm sure there's more (I have 35 minutes until closing and I'm bored)...
Jason Behr (Max from Roswell and the male lead in that one horror movie with Buffy last year...um...JB reviewed it, but I'm too lazy to go look it up) once gave me a Krispy Kreme donut.
Um...
My friend Rheeeeeeeeeeeeeee once kissed Wayne Brady, and I initiated it!
Here's one JB will love...yesterday I found out that my boss knows Josh Brolin (not well...not like she's friends with him and they ever talk or anything). They used to live in the same apartment building, and he used to flirt with her after her daughter was born. When she was moving, he came over to look at their apartment because it was bigger than his.
Heh...I'm really bored today. When you live in LA, it's always easy to find lame claims - you always know someone who knows someone who did the hair & makeup for someone....
Okay, I should go find out about an apparent second fire that started in the hills behind my house...all I need is to wake up at 5:30 am tomorrow to fire trucks going by. One morning of that is enough!
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Post by dunks on Dec 29, 2005 18:53:51 GMT -5
I saw Maria (from one of the Apprentice's) outside of Michael's (she's a Va Beach native) a few months ago.
Me: Hey, Christine, that's Maria from the Apprentice.
Christine: Oh, yeah. I dare you to say something.
Me (in my super-cool subtle way): Hey Maria.
Maria: "..."
(she gets into her kick-ass, sleek, black jaguar)
Me: Witch.
Christine: Yeah. So, Taco Bell?
Me: Yeah. Maybe she didn't hear me.
Christine: "..."
Sad? Maybe. Lame? Hell to the yes!
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