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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."
       
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"They Might Be Giants 1994. They played a local college and I was so excited to see them. My friend and I waited by the back door after the show to hopefully get an autograph or a hello or something from our heroes. We were the only ones there. Just two 16 year old fans not bothering anyone. John Linnell comes out of the door and we're like "Hi!" and he just completely ignores us and keeps walking. Then a few minutes later John Flansburgh comes out and we're like "Hey great show!" and he says "I don't have time for this." and kept going. We were crushed. One of the other guys from the backup band came out and was nice to us but the damage was done. I never bought any of their albums after that. EDIT : best was seeing David Sedaris on the campus of NMU just walking around. I had to say something, he's my favorite author. He was very nice and asked me a lot of questions about my life and seemed genuinely interested. It was a great moment."

"Best: I saw Owen Wilson at a U2 concert. I called out "Ka-Kaw! Ka-Kaw!" from about 50 yards away (Bottle Rocket reference...). He immediately turned around looking for who called. I pointed at him, and he give me the two-arms-extended-pointing-at-you-cause-you're-the-man move.Worst: Saw Octo-mom at Disneyland. That is all."

"A few years ago, I was working at a PF Changs. Bon Jovi came in with a few of his people and there was a huge group of middle aged women following him around the shopping district the restaurant was in(maybe 10-15 women). It was about 2:30 and he was playing a concert that night. I didn't say much other than my usual spiel, since it was company policy not to bother celebrities. After they had paid, I asked him, "So what's it like being Bon Jovi?" He replied, "F*****g awesome!" Everyone laughed and they were on there way."

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