Celebrities You've Exchanged Fleeting Glances With

[emma]

Anne Murray!
That's cool, right?

[Rainer]

Jason Grote and Yesno

[TL]

Count Violence and I got stuck in the Toronto airport during a snow storm last March along with Ray Davies.
I walked past him by the baggage claim, where we were both pretty much the last people waiting, looked him in the eye and shook my head saying, as I walked past, "Even the Great Ray Davies, huh?  It's a damned shame."
He chuckled and gave me one of those bemused, "I know, right??" looks.
I felt both proud and like a dummy for not breaking down and forcing a CD on him.

[yesno]

rainer and I exchanged deep, soulful gazes, not merely glances.

Ick, sorry.

[buffcoat]

I got to chit-chat for a little while with Doug Benson and Jon Benjamin (on separate unrelated occasions) at the Bumbershoot festival here in Seattle a few years back. Other heroes of comedy that I said "you're awesome" to as I was passing by (but didn't speak to directly) were David Cross, Dana Gould and Aziz Ansari. For a comedy fan living out here where comedy dares not tread, it was like a dream with all the best cameos I could imagine.

To be clear, I didn't go seeking these people like some stalker comedy fan, but literally just bumped into them among the crowds. It was Madness.

Well, they invented ska.

[samir]

And Aasiv Mandvi.

Sure it wasn't me, Laurie?

[Rainer]

rainer and I exchanged deep, soulful gazes, not merely glances. Ick, sorry.

Don't be.  And thanks for the JPEG.

[masterofsparks]

Count Violence and I got stuck in the Toronto airport during a snow storm last March along with Ray Davies.
I walked past him by the baggage claim, where we were both pretty much the last people waiting, looked him in the eye and shook my head saying, as I walked past, "Even the Great Ray Davies, huh?  It's a damned shame."
He chuckled and gave me one of those bemused, "I know, right??" looks.
I felt both proud and like a dummy for not breaking down and forcing a CD on him.

I had a very similar experience except it was Luis Guzman and I didn't say anything.

[WavyGravy]

I lingered around while Kim Gordon and Chloe Sevinininigne talked after the Sonic Youth show two weeks ago.  First Kim, then Chloe glanced at me, like I was trouble.

[Jixby Phillips]

DAN QUAYLE ANYONE???

[Denim Gremlin]

I once parked behind a big balck suv in hollywood. out steps Method Man then he turns and looks in my window at me as if to say "if you even touch my car I will murder you"

needless to say i was thrilled

[emma]

You guys, I hate my phone so much. It cut out before i got the chance to have PFT not laugh at lame things I would have said!

The end of my story was that she (family friend) was like "Oh my god, you're Han Solo" and then she forgot she was holding a wine glass, and then she dropped it and splashed wine all over his shoes. And then backed away, apologizing profusely, as he stared.

[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.

Whenever I hear Spike call into the show, I always immediately think he looks like a fatter, shorter version of Michael Musto.

You might be right about the likeness, if not the ethnicity.

I forgot about the time I was having breakfast with my dad at the University Club in DC.  My dad coolly remarked, "oh, there's Dan Quayle."  And there he was, at the table right next to us.  Neither of us was impressed.

I guess I've exchanged glances with a lot of politicians and politicos in DC, including Jesse Jackson, Bob Dole, New Gingrich (boarding the same flight at National Airport), and Barney Frank, who in a weird way reminds me of Michael Musto.  I went to the same gym as George Stephanopoulos and Andrew Sullivan, both of whom I saw pretty regularly. Somehow, these don't seem like real celebrities to me, but on the other hand, I did get pretty jaded about living in DC.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

fourth of july weekend i was back in memphis and when i walked out of the airport to catch a ride, one of the good charlotte dopes looked me in the eye, clipped my shoulder...and didnt apologize.

[chrisfoll577]

He's been discussed on another thread, but this happened with Tim Harrington at the Pitchfork festival.  I was sitting in the grass eating lunch with my girlfriend at the time and he was walking with a camera crew jabbering away.  When our eyes met I honestly froze up like a deer in headlights knowing that this man could very well do anything.  When I was a kid, I was terrified of clowns... now I'm just afraid of insane unpredictable indie rock front men.