My little bro, Nate, has a way of landing on his feet, and meeting interesting people. Last year, he got to be an extra on the West Wing, because he was lifguarding on the Navy base where they were filming an episode.
He and a buddy went over there to watch after their shift was over and ended up talking to Martin Sheen and Martin Sheen's grandson, Emilio Estevez's kid, who was about the same age. Anyway they gave Nate and his buddy a personal tour of Sheen's trailer, invited them to the catered cast lunch (they pigged out on awesome gourmet) and told them they could be extras in one of the scenes where they needed a lot of uniformed naval personell. (Sheen was giving as speech to a crowd of Navy people in the episode.) That was last year.
This year he's taking flying lessons. He got his single engine license at their local municipal airport, but my Dad heard about a really good flight school down in Los Angeles that had a lot of sucess especially with their accelerated weekend programs. So Nate has gone down there for the last three or four months, getting his multi-engine license and now his instrument rating.
So he got down there early a couple weeks ago and was waiting in the lounge. There was a guy who was lying on some chairs, who sat up and started talking to Nate. It was Harry! Nate was surprised, but they talked until they had to go to their respective classes. Harry was getting his instrument rating too, but was in a class sequence a week behind Nate. Nate was taking his written test that week.
The following weekend, Nate went down to get some flight time, and I think do his actual instrument in-flight testing. His instructor, just happened to be the owner of the flight school. After the flight time (Nate passed the test) the instructor said, hey what are you doing after this? Nate said, nothing, probably just driving home and going surfing.
The instructor said, "Well in that case, how'd you like to go to lunch with
So Nate did. Aparrently he actually goes by Harrison, but laughed when Nate called him Harry. They mostly talked flight stuff. Nate had a salad, Harrison had chicken teryaki, and I'm not sure what the instructor had!
Like I said, the boy has a way of landing on his feet.
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I also thought it was Harry Knowles :-) I would not think it would be a nightmare. Well...at least, I think the guy and aint-it-cool-news are very funny. :-)
But Harrisson Ford is also nice :-)
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I met someone famous named Robert once. But I can't remember his last name. (Not Redford). He was on "Hart to Hart". They were shooting the pilot of "Lime Street" or something of that nature in the mysterious estate across the street from us.
But it must have been someone else's energy attracting him. I have the "dead professor" vibe.
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See, my first thought was Harry Potter, too! Wow that would be too cool! But then my second guess was Prince Harry of England. I figured your brother was over in England for something or other. <laughs> I never would have thought of Harrison Ford! That is neato!
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I guessed Harrison Ford as soon as you said "flight school" because he was here in Wichita just a few months ago looking at private planes, and talking about flight lessons -- it was such a big deal to have a "star" in town, that it made the daily paper. Only because he went to N&J's Cafe (Lebanonese food) to have lunch and they all recognized him and called the paper...
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Wow, that's so cool. As hard as I'd have tried, I don't think I could have stuck to the topic of "flight stuff".
The biggest celebrity encounter I've ever had... when I was on my mission in Portland, I actually ran into Jimmy "The Superfly" Snuka. In case any of you here are culturally illiterate, he was a famous pro wrestler about 20 years ago, and he was also responsible for getting his nephew, The Rock, into the business. Anyway, he was an inactive member of the Mormon church (I think we were the only missionaries that ever found him), and we had dinner with him one night. You can't tell in the picture because his arms are around us, but he was still absolutely huge. I've never felt so physically threatened by a man coming on his 60s in all of my life.
quote:I guessed Harrison Ford as soon as you said "flight school" because he was here in Wichita just a few months ago looking at private planes, and talking about flight lessons -- it was such a big deal to have a "star" in town, that it made the daily paper. Only because he went to N&J's Cafe (Lebanonese food) to have lunch and they all recognized him and called the paper...
Umm...flight school... Lebanese food...
I think the Justice Department needs to lock this guy away for our own protection!
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Wow, Annie. I love Huey Lewis. I have his first couple albums on vinyl.
Speaking of vinyl, my only other celebrity encounter happened 3 years to the day before I met The Superfly. I snuck backstage a couple hours before a Dixie Dregs concert in Ft. Collins, CO and met Steve Morse. I'm not sure if anyone here will know who that is, but if you do know, you're automatically on my groovy list. One of the highlights of my life. He was really cool. He autographed my vinyl copy of Unsung Heroes and called a couple members of the band from onstage to come out and sign it too. I was completely speechless... literally. Like the cliche, I had thought of all these smooth things to say, and my mouth stopped functioning when I met him. I'm such an idiot.
An even better story happened to a friend of mine. I knew her from high school, where she was best known for being bat-s**t crazy. I ran into her a couple years later and she'd been wandering around Europe as a vagrant. One of the stories she told me involved the time that she'd been sleeping in the bathtub of a cocaine dealer in Germany. After a week or two, he said she'd have to leave, but that she could probably stay with Bobby, one of his best customers. So he walked her over to Bobby's house, knocked on the door, and it was answered by... Bobby McFerrin. So she slept on his couch for a week or two. She said he was freaked out on cocaine the whole time. It's a second hand story from a looney, so take it for what it's worth, but I'd never known her to lie, so I was inclined to believe her.
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LOL My sister has been in lust with him(edit to clarify: Harrison Ford) for, like, 20 years. No, longer. Anyway, that's extremely cool.
Ron has been in first class flights with David Duchovny, M.C. Hammer (and his posse;) ) and Jerry Springer. He also got to meet Yo Yo Ma, which was the coolest one for him.
Sounds like your brother must be very likeable. He must exude 'like me' phermones or something.
THAT'S Superfly Snuka? Cool. Ron used to do some of his characteristic wrestling moves on me. LOL That's cool.
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Huey Lewis lives, at least part of the year now, in Stevensville, Montana, a town of 2,000. When he first moved to town he came to the school office to register his kids. The secretary didn't recognize him and thought he was applying for the janitorial job. He was so offended he walked out and sent his kids to school in the next town.
I also saw Sean Connery once at the Louvre. But he was acting like he didn't want to be bothered and we knew the girls we were with would definitely bother him, so we pretended like we didn't notice. We told them all later of course, which made us very unpopular.
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Ugh... this summer I got to work on two movies, I worked with John Corbett, Amy Smart, Sean Asten, Asten's Mom, Ashley Johnson, and Gregory Smith... I also got to work as a production assistant on both of them and made a nice chunk of cash- But i'd take it all back if I got to go out to eat with Harrison Ford...
-Jack Montague
(Oh, and Nate wasn't kidding in the least- the foods that they make for cast and crew on set is usually delicious, I had steak and lobster one night, with a side of pumpkin and lemon pies, with strawberries to dip in my whipping cream.. and I was getting paid? I'd gladly have paid just to have been there...)
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While I would prefer lunch with Eliza Dushku I sure would not complain about meeting Harison Ford. Lol, just seeming my mother's reaction would be priceless.
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