Celebrities You've Exchanged Fleeting Glances With

[John Junk 2.0]

Hey Everybody!!  Who was famous that you looked at and may or may not have looked back at you!?  I got two!

Saw Fabio (FABIO!!) standing outside of UCB L.A. last night.  I think he saw me too!

I saw John Stamos outside of a fancy hotel one time.  He looked like he had recently gotten punched in the face!  He seemed to be explaining it to a friend.  He is thinner and less "built" than you might think.  He totally looked at me for a second!  Woo hoo!!

[Omar]

Roger Osborne.

[dave from knoxville]

Paul Simon, with Edie Brickell, at Tad's Steakhouse in San Francisco, January '91. I did not know they were an "item", I just assumed famous people hang out together. There were 3 enormously large bodyguards, more or less discretely seated at 3 corners of the dining room. The guy I was travelling with (for a math conference) kept saying he wanted to approach Simon and tell him how much better he was when he was with Garfinkel. I was ultimately spared me that humiliation, but it might have been to see him get rolled up in a rug and dumped into the bay by the security crew. Brickell had her back to us, but Simon was looking all around the place, all the time, and caught me looking a couple of times. My understanding later was that Simon was shooting the video for "Proof" the next day with Steve Martin and Chevy Chase, and they took advantage of crowds of war protesters (we had bombed Iraq to "defend" Kuwait a couple of days earlier) for some fake parade shots.

[jbissell]

I almost ran into Doug Benson and Brian Posehn coming around the corner before a Comedians of Comedy show last year. They looked very alert.

I was pretty sure Dan Higgs from Lungfish sucked out my soul when he looked me in the eyes during one of his solo shows but he was really nice when I shook his hand afterwards, so maybe not.

Also when I was 12, Little Richard waved at me (or at least the group of people I was standing with) from his limo.

[Turf Out]

I almost ran into Doug Benson and Brian Posehn coming around the corner before a Comedians of Comedy show last year. They looked very alert.

I was pretty sure Dan Higgs from Lungfish sucked out my soul when he looked me in the eyes during one of his solo shows but he was really nice when I shook his hand afterwards, so maybe not.

Also when I was 12, Little Richard waved at me (or at least the group of people I was standing with) from his limo.

i saw dan higgs a few years ago sitting on a bench before a lungfish show and i felt the same way you did when i made eye contact with him.

[Omar]

Also:



Kevin Willis. 

[Chris L]

Shot Stephen Malkmus kind of a frowny look from halfway across the room at the last Sleater-Kinney show and he caught it. 

[cutout]

When I was 9, my mom took me to see David Copperfield at the civic center. Afterward he was giving autographs and I persuaded my mom to wait with me for two solid hours in a line that snaked around the building.

When our turn finally came, I looked up realized that Copperfield was sitting in a chair that was, no shit, about 15 feet off the ground. One of his assistants grabbed the paper from my hand, jumped up and handed it off to Copperfield, who signed it in a flourish, then passed it back to his assistant. The whole transaction was 2 seconds long at most.

I looked at the paper in my hands: he'd written a single cursive 'D'. When I looked back up at him with my little 9 year old's disgust, he looked down at me, cold, emotionless, with one giant eyebrow slightly cocked as if to say, "You dare question my autograph?". We looked at each other for a couple seconds and I was then shuffled through by security.






So to answer your question, no I've never exchanged glances with any celebrities.

[KickTheBobo]

I used to pass Harmony Korine all the time on my way to work. This was when I was wearing pretty much the same outfit everyday: black chuck taylors, brown cords, white t-shirt, and a blue hoodie. He would shoot me this look like I was biting his style, when I was thinking that he was biting MY style.

It wasn't until I saw the movie version of SubUrBia and saw Giovanni Ribisi dressed in the exact same outfit and having the same attitude as I did at the time, that I realized what a cliche I was.

I just caught Novaselic's glance the other day while sitting on a stoop in downtown nyc. dude is TALL.

[yesno]

It wasn't until I saw the movie version of SubUrBia and saw Giovanni Ribisi dressed in the exact same outfit and having the same attitude as I did at the time, that I realized what a cliche I was.

I try to dress all original like.  Blue dress shirt with an embroidered corporate logo, khaki pants, bluetooth earbud.

[Sarah]

This is one of my father's stories:  When he was a graduate student at Ohio State, he  and a crony mate spied James Thurber through the window.  They promptly flung it open and applauded him as his companion slowly led him past the building (he was completely blind by then).

[Fido]

Michael Musto. Pretty sure he was checking me out on the street in SoHo.

(I'm not really worth checking out.)

And I was thinking, Michael Musto!! I love reading his columns!! But I really didn't want my enthusiasm to register on my face in any way whatsoever. An amusing moment.

[erika]

[Bryan]

Uma Thurman, at the Whitney. I stared at her, trying to place her, then moved on quickly once I realized she was a genuine A-list sleb. She seemed bemused - or at least not hostile.

[Martin]

I have this weird tendency to look for, and get, fleeting glances and knowing nods from famous DJs - at clubs and at concerts. Some strange impulse to acknowledge them, and to tell them, hey, I know what's up. Very silly. Can't help it though.

In an empty 30 Rock hallway, Fred Armisen and I stared at each other for more than a couple of seconds. He was probably between SNL rehearsals. He looked at me quizzically.

Also I was once brought up on stage by Prince Paul. But that was more of a close encounter.