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I met Billy Dean and John Michael Montgomery backstage at concerts while I was in high school (and in a really really bad country music phase). Monk (Tony Shalob) waved to me at LAX while I was in Cali for the Rose Bowl. We were eating b'fast at this cafe and he was wandering around in the small terminal. He stopped in front of our table, looked at us, realized that we realized who he was, waved, then got in line at Starbucks. It was cool.
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There we go, Barb and Jules!!
That's so cool!!!
Anyone else??
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I went to a performing arts high school and am a theatre person so I know a fair number of "famous" people. One of our big success stories is Paige Davis, the host of Trading Spaces. I haven't met her in person, but we have emailed. Sara Gettelfinger just finished up a run starring in the Broadway play "Nine" with the dude from Full House. We've had 2 Miss America contestants in the past four years, although I'm not sure that's worth bragging about. The other day Tommy Lee Jones was eating at the same restaurant that my husband's company Christmas party was at and his co-worker interrupted his dinner. I met Marsha Norman, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Oh, Nicole Sherzinger who I was in a couple of plays with was in that band "Eden's Crush" that got their start through the WB show "Pop Stars" (Again, not really something to brag about). She was a very nice girl.
That's all I can think of right now... I mostly know pseudo-famous people. Famous in the theatre world. 
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Bite your tongue!! Country music is not bad. Actually the other night I was going through some pictures and I had pictures in the album of Billy Dean.
I met the 90's group Right Said Fred. The only song they were ever famous for was I'm Too Sexy. They were actually really nice. I also met Ivan and Nikita Koloff. They used to be famous wrestlers. I met all of these people at my parent's old restaurant. Ivan was a regular. He came to the county fair one year and I ran into him when I was with some friends and he acutally said "Hi Joy." I thought everyone I was with would die.
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Re: ARGH!!!!
#37728 - 01/15/04 01:53 PM
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Was Wilt Chamberlin in The Harlem Globtrotters??
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I went to a performing arts high school and am a theatre person so I know a fair number of "famous" people.
Where did you go to school??? My one dream is to go to a performing arts school after I graduate. I've already been in choir forever, and I just finished up with a theater class at school. I'm goin to take another, but it doesn't start until second semester of next year. We were just talking about acting school today in class, but they were all in New York and I can't remember the names of them ( I wish I could!). How did you like it? What were your schedules like?
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I went to the Youth Performing Arts School in Louisville, Kentucky. It's been awhile, so my feelings are colored by a fair bit of nostalgia. Let's see, it was attached to a magnet high school with a math/science magnet, a communications major etc. so everyone at my school had a major. I had seven periods a day (they've gone to block scheduling), two hours of theatre classes, one hour of playwrighting/directing, and usually one hour of some elective relevant to my major (dance class instead of gym, for example). The seventh period was extra, most people didn't have one, and I had to take foreign language classes at night at UofL on my own dime (I couldn't fit them in and they were a graduation requirement). Other than that I had normal high school classes. A lot of my teachers were crazy (that will continue on if you study the arts. ), but it was great being in classes with people who really loved what they were doing, and doing shows all of the time. Mostly I just remember being SO BUSY. It seemed like we were always in rehearsal, a lot of times late at night. During the New Works Festival I'd be involved in three-four shows at a time. We were also very cliche, in that we were angsty drama geeks who smoked. I don't recommend you do that. I did give me a focus that a lot of high school kids didn't have, and surely helped a great deal when I was auditioning/applying for colleges. The down side was that there are only so many days in a row you want to rehearse Trojan Women scenes in class before you need to start screaming.
You live in Indiana right? Have you checked out Butler? That's where I did my undergraduate degree. They have awesome theatre and vocal departments, and great access to study abroad. They're doing a lot of very cool, very interesting shows there. Let me know if you want more info.
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The down side was that there are only so many days in a row you want to rehearse Trojan Women scenes in class before you need to start screaming.
You live in Indiana right? Have you checked out Butler? That's where I did my undergraduate degree. They have awesome theatre and vocal departments, and great access to study abroad. They're doing a lot of very cool, very interesting shows there. Let me know if you want more info.
Believe me, I know about the Trojan women scenes. We did sooooo many of those in class. And actually,I have an info packet on Butler from our college fair that we had in September. I haven't looked into it much, but now that you told me about it, I'll definitley look at it some more. I loved my theater class because it's the one class of the day where it's ok to be stupid and not actually LOOK stupid while you're doing it lol. We had our last class today, and we had private sessions with the teacher on what we could work on, what she liked about us, etc. She told me that I could work on moving around the stage more, but that I did well this semester and should definitley audition for the next play, which I was going to do anyway (she's one of the heads fo casting so maybe she's trying to tell me something?  ). So what are you up to now?
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I'd like to meet Julia Roberts, Kevin Costner, Garth Brooks, John Denver, Celine Dion, Amy Grant, Vince Gill........
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I've no idea why I'm posting this, as it will probably mean NOTHING to any of you on the other side of the ocean, but..
my parents (and me) are originally from Liverpool, England and they grew up there in the 50s/60s/early 70s until we moved away. So they were around in that great old era that produced loads of famous people and music from out of Liverpool.
My mum's cousin (who she saw a lot of and was quite close to) was the original drummer with 'Jerry and the Pacemakers' (ever heard the Liverpool anthem 'You'll never walk alone') and ...
my dad's cousin was Leonard Rossiter (my paternal grandmother's maiden name was Rossiter and Leonard was a few years older than my dad, but they knew each other when my dad was a kid) - very famous actor over here - starred in 'Rising Damp' and, well see the link if you're even remotely interested!!!...
http://www.what-a-character.com/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=982797971
Unfortunately, those talented musical/acting genes totally missed me! lol
Shellsbells
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