Celebrity Sightings and Encounters

[spinsterliz]

Not my own, but my brother delivered a pizza to Michael Moriarity, late of "Law and Order" and many bad movies. He lived in a dump, was wearing a bathrobe, and muttered "God bless you," to my brother, then shuffled back into his rathole apartment.

But my brother said he tipped well.

[MrsOldManBalls]

Isn't he a raging alcoholic? (MM, not your brother)


ETA: Wasn't he staying in Vancouver at some point? I recall a news story about him getting his ass kicked for some reason.

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He's also a raving nutjob. I can't remember url, and I'm too lazy to look it up (plus I have to go to the doctor's soon), but his website is full of conspiracy theories and how liberals are ruining our country, and how the man is trying to keep him down.

I also think he was arrested for smacking his wife around.

Sam Waterston is MUCH better, anyways.

[mansonlamps]

Not to get too far off track here, but early in his career, Michael Moriarity starred in a pretty good film with Robert DeNiro called Bang the Drum Slowly. I saw some documentary that said they decided to give Moriarity top billing because he was better looking and, therefore, much more likely to have a promising career. Heh.

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My sister-in-law went to college with Taye Diggs. She said they used to call him "ParTaye."

[lyrasilver]

Not my sighting, but my sister's, and it's from quite a few years ago, but whatever. My sister and mother were in a supermarket a couple of towns over from our house when my sister ran into Lindsay Lohan who was with some friends. This was a little while after the Parent Trap remake she did, so her level of fame was nowhere near what it is now. My sister gave her a double-take, as in, "Is that the girl from that movie?" and Lindsay gave her a really nasty glare. As she and her friends passed by, one of the friends turned around and gave my sister the finger. I also went to high school with a girl who said Lindsay had been extremely snotty when she met her.

I don't know if she still lives on Long Island, but she grew up in Merrick and went to my old dance school (but not at the same time as I did).

ETA: Whee! Committed Snark! I don't think I ever went past five posts at the other place. I feel so comfortable around you guys that I can't shut up.

[Deleted]

I have met and talked to (mostly thru my actor buddy Spike):

Hal Holbrook
Daniel J. Travanti
Judd Hirsch
Werner Klemperer
Susan Strasberg
The guy who played Lt. Hollow-upchuck-something on Major Dad
Medical Examiner Rodgers from Law & Order (well, she's Mrs. Spike)

The Duchess had a close encounter with Jeff Goldblum at a bookstore in NYC a few years ago.

ETA: Shoot, I should include Wing & Sars since they are much discussed here. There was a summit 5 or 6 years ago, from the old Mediarama boards, that I went to in Chicago, about 14 of us. Wing & Sars were very smart, very funny, very snarky and a whole lot of fun to be around. Dwanollah wasn't there, though...one of the great disappointments of my life.

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A couple of years ago I nearly caused Alan Rickman to have a very nasty accident.

It was my Dad's birthday and I was on my way to his flat in south west London. I was late for the party and was all flustered because I hadn't got him a card so I stopped and bought one at a stationary shop. As I rushed out I tipped my open wallet over and all my coins went flying all over the pavement. I bent over to pick them up and the person behind me tripped over me and also went flying.

Yep, it was Alan. I was so stunned I couldn't even apologise and just remained crouched on the pavement staring at him with my mouth open in a retarded kind of way. He hovered over me for a couple of seconds and moved swiftly away (and who could blame him).

Funny thing was he was walking the exact same route as I was, so for the next ten or fifteen minutes it must have seemed as if I was following him, and he kept looking nervously back over his shoulder at the crazed, mute idiot girl who nearly killed him. Hee!

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Sam Rockwell visted my son's high school class last week. He was super nice, spent a long time talking and answered questions. He also posed for pictures.

[woopdedoo]

I just thought of another one. A few years ago, eeehhh, maybe seven or eight? I saw the middle daughter from Full House in a record store in Mission Viejo. She was, I hate to say, extremely fug. Also, extremely snotty. She was with a bunch of other tweeny boppers and she was defintely the queen bee, her minions were running to and for for her. I hope she grew out of that phase. She was just a kid, after all.