Celebrities You've Exchanged Fleeting Glances With

[Martin]

Rap Computer HQ

[Turf Out]

Rap Computer HQ

i wish.

[Fido]

That rap guy Lil Jon just showed up where i work for a meeting.

I'd have paid to be there with Lil' Jon. Especially after his appearances on The Andy Milonakis Show.

[colonel panic]

In high school, our band (school band) went to Disney World to perform and on the flight back to nodak I passed Leslie Nielson sitting in first class reading a script. I was smiling at the irony of seeing him on an airplane and we had a tender moment. i assume that he knew why i was chuckling.

[Man Machine]

- Martha Plimpton.  She clearly did not want to be recognized so I moved along.

I saw Martha Plimpton 12 years ago at a grocery store in Chicago. She was in town doing a play at Steppenwolf and apparently shopped for herself.

[John Junk 2.0]

- Martha Plimpton.  She clearly did not want to be recognized so I moved along.

I saw Martha Plimpton 12 years ago at a grocery store in Chicago. She was in town doing a play at Steppenwolf and apparently shopped for herself.

She can still afford groceries?

[Sarah]

Coincidentally, Eye of God just popped into my head for no reason yesterday.  Isn't that just fascinating?  Maybe I should call the show next week to tell Tom about it.

[herbie]

In my freshman year of college (in Philadelphia of course), two friends and I skipped out on English class one afternoon to get vegan cheesesteaks near South St. We got off the subway at 5th and Market and started walking toward South Street, passing Independence National Park. A van parks right ahead of where we are walking in the street. A guy gets out onto the sidewalk right in front of us (like, a few feet away). He is dressed in all black (black leather jacket, black t-shirt, black jeans, black shoes, black sunglasses, hair slicked back) and it is....

NICHOLAS CAGE!

I said, "Hey." He said "Hi." Then he walked across the street into the park where they were filming NATIONAL TREASURE. I still haven't seen that movie...

[Fido]

Oh, I forgot about seeing James Van Der Beek and Nick Lachey, both around my neighborhood.  In case you consider that noteworthy.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Ha ha, Grote, too. And Aasiv Mandvi. But those were actual conversations and stuff. Not so fleeting!

Shit, man, I must have been on the road during this!  I am actually good friends with Aasif, though at this point I just knew him because he was in a reading of mine before he got the Daily Show gig.  He and Laurie were both at the very first preview of my Off-Broadway debut, and I was so nervous that night that I forgot his name (along with like 3 other people that I know pretty well; it was scary, like an Alzheimer's moment) and I had to ask her what his name was.  We were both in a playwrights' workshop last year (he's also a very good playwright) so I know him better now.  He's a pretty awesome guy.

Also, Adam Clayton from U2 once winked at me from the stage in Madison Square Garden, and on another occasion I got so drunk that I almost hit on Marisa Tomei at the Film Center Cafe on 9th Avenue, but I've probably told that story a dozen times.  That, and Ron Jeremy when I was 9.

[Patrick]

i was on a "private" tour of the Dia:Beacon a few years ago, and guess who else was in the group.  if you guessed Paul Newman you would have guessed right.  i wanted to tell him how much i love his Fig Newmans, but could not muster the will. 

i also meet Yoko Ono, and Ted Leo.

[namethebats]

Rollie Fingers - his son pitched for the ASU team, so you'd see him at games frequently.

[Sarah]

I was on the T (Cleveland Circle line) in 1982 when Michael Dukakis was running for governor.  He was glad-handing people like crazy.  By huddling against the door at the opposite end of the car from him, I successfully avoided an encounter.

[Jennifer]

Ha ha, Grote, too. And Aasiv Mandvi. But those were actual conversations and stuff. Not so fleeting!

Shit, man, I must have been on the road during this!  I am actually good friends with Aasif, though at this point I just knew him because he was in a reading of mine before he got the Daily Show gig.  He and Laurie were both at the very first preview of my Off-Broadway debut, and I was so nervous that night that I forgot his name (along with like 3 other people that I know pretty well; it was scary, like an Alzheimer's moment) and I had to ask her what his name was.  We were both in a playwrights' workshop last year (he's also a very good playwright) so I know him better now.  He's a pretty awesome guy.

Also, Adam Clayton from U2 once winked at me from the stage in Madison Square Garden, and on another occasion I got so drunk that I almost hit on Marisa Tomei at the Film Center Cafe on 9th Avenue, but I've probably told that story a dozen times.  That, and Ron Jeremy when I was 9.

That sounds like a good story. Or maybe not.

My last random encounter was in 1995 when John Heard (the father from Home Alone) showed up at my college's Halloween costume party.

[Susannah]

I got hugged by Janice Dickinson last week at my place of employment.