Curb is the older one I think, but yeah kerb is acceptable and I guess it's only used in the UK. I tend to alternate between the two, keeps things interesting.
Random celebrity encounters?
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I was going to make fun of it but then I thought, "Maybe I'd better look this to make sure I won't be making a complete ass of myself." Lo and behold, there it was! 
I think the name was Prostaff. Something generic like that.
I got an impromptu art history lesson from Tony Randall when we were both visiting the Columbia Museum of Art - he knew stuff about their collection that even the curator didn't know...
I spoke with Cliff Robertson as he was getting a shoeshine in Charleston - just to say hello and thanks for your work.
I spoke with Cliff Robertson as he was getting a shoeshine in Charleston - just to say hello and thanks for your work.
A number of years ago I was taking a TV production class as an elective in college. We did the class at the local PBS affiliate station, WSRE, which was on campus. Anyway, one night while sitting in the lobby waiting for the teacher a man walks out heading toward the exit. I instantly recognized him as former congressman and current MSNBC tv host Joe Scarborough. He saw me looking at him and gave me one of those hello nods. It wasn't really a surprise to see him there though, as I knew he shoots Morning Joe from that studio when he's in Pensacola.
And not exactly random, but unexpected: While at a local Mardi Gras parade several years ago I saw Dawn Wells (Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island) up on one of the floats. After a Google search just now I found out she was the Grand Marshal for the parade that year.
And not exactly random, but unexpected: While at a local Mardi Gras parade several years ago I saw Dawn Wells (Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island) up on one of the floats. After a Google search just now I found out she was the Grand Marshal for the parade that year.
Ah. I was curious because my great uncle owns a company called CSC that my dad and uncle work for. They get to do fun stuff like the Superbowl and Olympics.
/jealous
Oh, I forgot about Sly Stallone!
They were filming "Demolition Man" where I worked--the Taco Bell scene--and there was a lot of cast and crew all over the area Hubby and I had to walk through to get to our building. One afternoon, the bodyguards were all, "Clear the way for Mr. Stallone." He didn't seem very tall as he passed by.
The next morning on our way in, there was a crowd looking at the scene just shot. I got my way to the front of the crowd and watched the screen--then realized I was standing behind Stallone and able to see over his shoulder. REALLY surprising as I'm only 5' 1"!! Guess he's about 5' 9" or so.
Some co-workers said they came early on the filming days to eat the cast/crew food. They said it was free and tasted way better than the cafeteria.
They were filming "Demolition Man" where I worked--the Taco Bell scene--and there was a lot of cast and crew all over the area Hubby and I had to walk through to get to our building. One afternoon, the bodyguards were all, "Clear the way for Mr. Stallone." He didn't seem very tall as he passed by.
The next morning on our way in, there was a crowd looking at the scene just shot. I got my way to the front of the crowd and watched the screen--then realized I was standing behind Stallone and able to see over his shoulder. REALLY surprising as I'm only 5' 1"!! Guess he's about 5' 9" or so.
Some co-workers said they came early on the filming days to eat the cast/crew food. They said it was free and tasted way better than the cafeteria.
I don't doubt it. Steel and concrete probably taste horrible.
You just reminded me of another - I was on a flight back to Toronto. I think I was coming back from the 2000 Worldcon in Chicago, and sitting next to a guy who said that he was on his way to a golf tournament in Toronto. I don't follow golf, though I do know the major players' names. His luggage arrived before mine did, so I took a surreptitious look at the tag on his golf bag - it was Rory Sabbatini.
I'd never heard of him, so I asked a friend who does follow golf, and he said that Sabbatini was something of an up-and-comer. He seems to have done okay - he had three top-10 finishes last year.
I had met (and talked with) Mikhail Baryshnikov on a few occasions while I was a teenager living in San Diego, so I was surprise/excited to run across him in downtown Minneapolis shortly after I had moved to the Twin Cities. Unfortunately I don't think he recognized/remembered me... but he tried to act like he knew who I was. I made up an excuse that I was late for something and rushed off.
I think that is about the most random encounter I've ever had.
I think that is about the most random encounter I've ever had.
I started a verbal revolt against Jason Hervey (Kevin's older brother Wayne on 'The Wonder Years') at Knott's Berry Farm when on a busy summer day after my friends and I had been standing in line for over an hour he was allowed to cut in front of everyone and get in the Montezooma's Revenge roller coaster alone with his two friends. I felt like Kevin getting left behind while Wayne kept pulling the station wagon forward when he came to pick him up. He still got to cut (which is at least understandable, because 'TWY' was a big hit at the time and he would have been swamped with autograph seekers if he had to wait), but they compromised and let the next 20 or so people in line get on the ride with him too.
In other 80's TV sibling encounters, Tina Yothers (Jennifer Keaton from 'Family Ties') sat down at the counter next to me and my cousin at a Bob's Big Boy restaurant in Garden Grove, California while we were having lunch and talked to us while she was waiting for her order to arrive.
I've met other celebrities, but those were the two most "random" encounters of the bunch, and stuck with me because they were two actors roughly my age who were on hugely popular shows I watched at the time doing completely mundane things.
In other 80's TV sibling encounters, Tina Yothers (Jennifer Keaton from 'Family Ties') sat down at the counter next to me and my cousin at a Bob's Big Boy restaurant in Garden Grove, California while we were having lunch and talked to us while she was waiting for her order to arrive.
I've met other celebrities, but those were the two most "random" encounters of the bunch, and stuck with me because they were two actors roughly my age who were on hugely popular shows I watched at the time doing completely mundane things.
When I was in my late teens, probably '87 or '88, I was browsing in a record store and there was a guy looking at the CD bins right close to me. I said "Oh, am I in your way?" and started to move away. He put his hand on my shoulder in a kindly way to stop me and said "You're fine, you're fine" and reached past me and grabbed what he was looking for. Then I saw it was Sydney Pollack the movie director.
--Justin
--Justin
-Back in my waitering days I once served Tom Green. He is one weird dude.
-While visiting the Vancouver aquarium I walked pass Matt Frewer.
-While having lunch on a patio in Ottawa with my Dad I saw Jay Ingram (host of Daily Planet on Canada's Discovery channel) walk by and cross the street. I turned to my dad and said "Hey, that's Jay Ingram" and a woman who had been walking behind him heard me and said "yes it is". Turns out she was with him and when she caught up with him she must have told him that I recognized him because he turned and waved to me.
-While visiting the Vancouver aquarium I walked pass Matt Frewer.
-While having lunch on a patio in Ottawa with my Dad I saw Jay Ingram (host of Daily Planet on Canada's Discovery channel) walk by and cross the street. I turned to my dad and said "Hey, that's Jay Ingram" and a woman who had been walking behind him heard me and said "yes it is". Turns out she was with him and when she caught up with him she must have told him that I recognized him because he turned and waved to me.
Ha!
The manager of the cafeteria was known to have picked up and sold cookies dropped on the floor. The food wasn’t very good.
Oh, and we saw Brian Setzer (of the Brian Setzer Orchestra and Stray Cats) at LAX around midnight. He was easy to spot because he was waaaaay taller than the rest of the passengers. Some flight from Asia where even I was taller than most of the passengers. He turned when he heard me say, “Isn’t that Brian Setzer,” but kept walking and we didn’t bother him.
There was a weird one while I was in hiding from the online world. I was at a play a cuple of months ago and chatting away to a few people, then out of nowhere I'm turned around and introduced to Simon Callow.
The casualness of it all was the strange part for me - especially as it involved him being told I had projects in the works.
The casualness of it all was the strange part for me - especially as it involved him being told I had projects in the works.
You sure CDs were commonly sold at that point? I seem to remember them as more of an early 90's thing. Not sniping--just curious.
CD players and discs were first sold publicly in the US in March, 1983. The first album to sell a million copies on CD was 'Brothers in Arms' by Dire Straights in 1985, so it had already caught on fairly well by the mid-80s.
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