Topic: know or met anyone famous??

[aoi tsuki]

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Wow Aoi, where do you work? I wanna get a job there too

i used to work at a Gamestop in Dearborn, Michigan. Dearborn is right next door to Detroit, and so a lot of celebrities are in and out of the area. The mall where Gamestop is is the closest to Detroit, so i assume they come there from downtown Detroit, where a lot of events are held. Also, celebs like Tim Allen and Eminem are Michigan natives, so it's not completely odd to see them there.

Before working at Gamestop i worked at a Best Buy, but there weren't near as many famous (and near famous) people there as in the mall.

As bitter as irony is though, i don't really care to meet any of these "famous" people. i'd rather meet Tetsuya Mizaguchi, Shigeru Miyamoto, or Yuji Naka. Or members of this forum, Rick Powers, Louie the Cat, etc. There's really very few people in the mainstream US media that i care to meet.

[Joshums]

I feel honoured and priviliged to have met Billy Berghammer and Rick Powers on two separate occasions.  They were both nice and interesting people.  Most of the other PGC staff were agreeable as well.  A+++++ WOULD MEET AGAIN!

[oohhboy]

Billy is nuts you know that right? I mean I like Nintendo and all. But he scared me.

[Michael_82]

I've met the manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates 1979 World Series team Chuck Tanner.  Hes from, and still resides, in my town.

[Bloodworth]

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Originally posted by: oohhboy
Billy is nuts you know that right? I mean I like Nintendo and all. But he scared me.

Billy's not all that nuts in comparison.  IMO: Billy < TYP < Ty < Our contest entrants  

[ruby_onix]

I saw Sergio Aragones (artist and co-writer of Groo) at a small comic convention here in Vancouver a couple years ago. He drew me a 3-second sketch of "lil-Groo" which I gave to my sister. The guy's amazing. He really can draw almost anything in a matter of seconds, and apparently gives these personalized sketches to any and every fan he meets. I also bumped into him a bit later in the lineup for the hot dog vendor. I was amazed to learn that he eats hot dogs. I don't know why that amazed me, but it did.

I got an autograph from Michael Shanks (Daniel Jackson on Stargate SG-1) when they were filming across the street from my house.

I saw Kristin Kreuk (Lana Lang from Smallville) at the same place (it's very popular) signing some autographs, but I didn't stop for one because I was on a form of autopilot and walked right past her. I figure if I wasn't on autopilot I would've forgotten to breath or someting equally embarrassing. I have to get her autograph next time!

Nicole deBoer (Ezri Dax of Star Trek DS9) was presumably filming The Dead Zone in that same spot, but I didn't know anything about The Dead Zone at the time, and didn't go see what they were up to.

[BrianSLA]

I live in LA so I've seen so many I've forgotten. I used to work in Brentwood so I saw tons of stars / celebs. Among the top of my head are I once sneaked into a theater as a teenager & saw & got Tom Selleck's autograph ( they let him in early so he could sit down & his son & wife could sit around him to hide him ).  Once in the Virgin Megastore in Holywood I was the only non-celeb in the laserdisc section ( about 10 years ago )... it was the Hughes Brothers ( the directors of Menance 2 Society, Dead Presidents & From Hell ) and Carey Elwes ( The hero from The Princess Bride ) and me. I was once in the same movie theater as Quentin Tarrantino & Micheal Moore ( Guns & Columbine ). Supposedly I was right in back of Jack Nicholson in a line at a newstand but I didn't look up until he left & the cashier said so. I've seen Arnold Schwarzenneger at the True Lies premiere. I worked in a gourmet market in Brentwood in which movie stars & tv stars came in every single day. Once I saw Janeane Garrofallo in the Virigin Megastore and she must have noticed I noticed her because she kinda stalked me a bit.

BUT the coolest memory is Scott Glen ( played FBI director in Silence of the Lambs, firefighter in Backdraft, etc.). I saw him in Westwood while waiting in a long movie line.... I saw him walking toward me, I couldn't remember his name but I knew it and as he passed I remembered and whispered to my friend ' hey thats Scott Glen ' in a small whisper.... he was like 12 feet away and he turns slightly around and gave me a smile and kept walking. He was cool.  

[Marcus Arillius]

I'm kind of related to "Uncle Jesse" from full house, ya know John Stamos.  My cousin married his nephew.  We met him at the wedding.  He was nice.   Well, he doesn't really count as a celebrity, because, well, its full house.  I don't even know why I told you this.  I'm ashamed.

[oohhboy]

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Originally posted by: Bloodworth


Billy's not all that nuts in comparison.  IMO: Billy < TYP < Ty < Our contest entrants

But you must admit at the end of the day Billy and probalily everybody else working for PGC is more nuts than your contest entrants. I mean you run the site everyday. You guys are tha pinicale of Nintendoism(Term used loosely). PGC goes through financial, food, server, navigation, langauge, Xbox/PS2/Nintendo fanboys, plain old fanboys, celebs and other unimaginable problems so I can turn on the computer and say "Hey Louie the cat wrote something". But out of you guys he must be the most nuts.

[ruby_onix]

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Originally posted by: Marcus Arillius
I'm kind of related to "Uncle Jesse" from full house, ya know John Stamos.  My cousin married his nephew.  We met him at the wedding.  He was nice.   Well, he doesn't really count as a celebrity, because, well, its full house.  I don't even know why I told you this.  I'm ashamed.

Dude, it's because you're saying it wrong.

You're related to Rebecca Romaijn-Stamos.

[Bloodworth]

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Originally posted by: oohhboy

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Originally posted by: Bloodworth


Billy's not all that nuts in comparison.  IMO: Billy < TYP < Ty < Our contest entrants

But you must admit at the end of the day Billy and probalily everybody else working for PGC is more nuts than your contest entrants. I mean you run the site everyday. You guys are tha pinicale of Nintendoism(Term used loosely). PGC goes through financial, food, server, navigation, langauge, Xbox/PS2/Nintendo fanboys, plain old fanboys, celebs and other unimaginable problems so I can turn on the computer and say "Hey Louie the cat wrote something". But out of you guys he must be the most nuts.

I stand by my previous assesment.  Trust me many of the contestants are far more obsessive about this stuff than many of us. You'll see soon enough.