ArtBistro

i met helmut newton in the 80's when he had a show here in atlanta.  got my picture taken with him, a swanky autograph on

my favorite photo of his and began a long correspondence with him. he was a naughty boy.

I knew Bob Rauschenberg.  I have been to his studio on Captiva Island...it is big and very white.  The studio was spotless and his paint brushes were massive.   Before  Bob got sick, he would come to the gallery I manage for some of the openings.  We hosted his and Darryl Pottorf''s "Art for Life" exhibit at the gallery in 2004.  He was funny, witty and nice.  Through him I have met Sharon Stone, Lily Thomlin, Lauren Hutton, Don Gummer and the great Meryl Streep. 

 When I lived in NY, I met a few celebrities on the street and all were nice, but the ONLY one who made me mumble and need to speak up and made me nervous was when I met John Waters (of Pink Flamingos fame).  I was very excited to meet him.  He used to eat at the same diner I did on Sunday mornings and I talked with him when he was finished and outside the restaurant.  He was extremely nice and patient and we had a very nice but brief chat.  I sent him some of my cartoons and he sent me back a great postcard with an image of two drag queens huffing glue out of a paper bag from one of his movies... I still have it tacked up.

Sidney Poitier,  Joan Baez,  Elizabeth Montgomery

 Let's see

I've met Huey Lewis, Jay Leno, I shook hands with Gerald Ford when I was a kid. I met 80's Olympic Hockey Goalie Jim Craig- what a jerk!

I had a few minutes to photograph Fiona Apple. I had dinner with Holland Taylor and Laura Linney while working on the set of the Truman Show shooting with Interview Magazine. I photographed a member of Nine Inch Nails- I did not meet Trent but I did see his Porsche- that was a fun day.

Earle  Brown was  interesting- he was the retarded guy in Something About Mary and is still looking for his baseball- hung out with him at his office in Burbank. 

I photographed Bart Starr and tried on his Super Bowl I ring. I spent several days with Michael Jordan. I met Don Knotts 

I shot Alan Toussaint, Little Jimmy King (Albert King's grandson) 

I spent a day at Scotty Moore's house in Nashville photographing him for a personal project.

Mr. Moore was the original guitarist for Elvis. Scotty was great and the stories he told were tremendous. He was very gracious and cordial.

I talked a little with Ed Asner as he was purchasing a shirt at the GAP in Los Angeles. 

I met Bill Cosby before I knew much about him. He was dressed in a paramedic outfit ( for a movie ), and started asking me a bunch of questions. I didn't recognize him. When I got back to the office, everyone asked me if I had met Bill Cosby. They said he was visiting a friend and was shooting on a movie, where he was  a paramedic with Rachel Welch? I said, yeah I think I ran into him. Duh, I didn't know who he was. ~1974

Got an autographed photo of Gary Puckett...Had the opportunity to hang out backstage with Charles Neville of the Neville brothers for a while...He was wicked cool... Met Penn and Teller on a few occasions in Las Vegas...My wife got to play a version of Peter and the Wolf, brilliantly adapted and narrated by Teller...(She also played on tour with Andre Bocelli, played for Jean Pierre Rampal, went to school with Harry Connick Jr and alot of the Marsalis's down in New Orleans) She also met  Stephen Wright (who liked one of my jokes).

Raymond Burr

James Garner

Robert Blake

Godfey Cambridge

Louie Prima

Herb Albert

Mellisa Gilbert

Henry Fonda

Bill Cosby

Alfred Hitchcock

all in L.A. 1973-1976

gekko says ...

partied backstage after the show with ac/dc & ufo at the tower theater. you know those guys thought ortlieb's beer was just wonderful???

I also met acdc, I was standing outside a hotel and they came up to me and asked directions, the whole lot of them and their crew, they were looking for a resturaunt, chatted about 20 minutes with them, very nice guys.

i danced with ICE-T on his tour bus during the first loolopalooza tour.  we are friends with another band who played and it was a supreme surreal experience.  he is very short.  oh yea - i was 6 months pregnant and wearing thigh high vinyl stiletto boots. 

i would've loved to meet Andy Warhol!

I've met Jenna Bush (Presidents daughter) privately because of my work with UNICEF, Shaq the monster basketball player, the 2 girls from the Hills-a stupid reality show on mtv. I see a lot of celebrities, especially at Whole Foods out here in Beverly Hills. The guy Zach De La Rocha or however he spells it from Rage Against The Machine is a regular at starbucks around where i live. Some band members here and there, Bret Michaels and CC Deville of Poison...

But Andy Warhol takes the cake!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I shared a brownie with Billy Dee Williams. I gave him the bigger half and he gave me that "it works everytime" smile.

simpson

   Pat Boone the singer when we both were much younger and at a golf promo. 

  Yep! he had his white bucks on and looked super, but shorter than I imagined.

  We both dived for the last deviled egg.

 True gentleman that he was I got the egg ,as later more came out from the kitchen.

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Bill Clinton.  Hillary Clinton.  Alex Haley.  Dottie Rambo.  Hal Ketchum.  Kim Catrell.  Robin Byrd.  Carol Burnett's daughter Erin (not really a famous person, oh well).  Ralph Stanley.