When Meeting Celebrities Goes Amazingly... Or Disastrously

Montgomery 6 month s ago

I've met and hung out with a lot of celebrities through the years. But the weirdest was in Autumn of '92 in Amherst, MA when I was in my early 20's. I've only been awake for about 15 minutes one morning and I had to go to work, which was at a bike shop about 200 yards from my house in the center of Amherst. I was walking still bleary-eyed from sleep through the alley I always use, when I look up and a long Kraft's Services table and no body around except for Nicole Kidman in a chair eating an apple. I looked at her with my eyes squinted because I couldn't really believe what I was looking at, and she looked back at me with the same look. I walked past her as we're still staring at each other and then I ended up walking onto the set next to the director in a chair. Bill Pullman and Alec Baldwin are sitting at a small table outside of Bonducci's Cafe about 10 feet from me. All of a sudden this large woman with headphones comes up and says, "Are you in this scene?" I'm like, "Umm...no." She say's, "Do you wanna?" I'm like, "Okay." She stuffs her hand in her coat and hands me a wad of bills. "I need you to just walk past those actors like a regular pedestrian when the Director says 'action'." I did the scene three times, and she said "Thank you, that's all."

They ended up not using the scene. But it was an unexpected fun little adventure. When I later counted the wad of bills, it was $376.00.

By the way...The movie was called, "Malice."

"A couple of years ago, my sister and I were hanging out at the hotel pool in Sevilla. There was no one in the water, so we jump in and frolic. We both spot Bruce Springsteen lounging poolside. We don't really know what to do, so we just keep playing around, doing stupid things like handstands in the water. A few minutes later, he gets in the pool, applauds our handstands, and asks if we're dancers. We giggle and he keeps chatting with us, mostly about his kids (who are around our same ages). He asks where I'm going to college in the fall (UChicago) and he asks what date I start. Turns out he's playing a show in Chicago the DAY BEFORE my orientation week. He gives us his assistant's e-mail address and offers up front-row tickets to his show for our entire family.Thrilled, we continue to talk (maybe 20 minutes or so), get a quick picture with him, and he's off.Our parents FREAKED when we told them about our day at the pool. And, needless to say, we went to the concert -- which was awesome.Love that man."

When Meeting Celebrities Goes Amazingly... Or Disastrously

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Montgomery 6 month s ago