Have you ever encountered a celebrity who was really nice?

[Padraig18]

We have--- John Malkovich. He's a very nice person with a very strange sense of humor.

:)

[SharonRB]

1. Ty Pennington and the whole Extreme Makeover Home Edition cast

They did a house near me last summer and they were all great.

[loudestchick]

6. So, is Ty...light in his loafers? My friend Bradley swears he is.

[SharonRB]

92. No, I'm pretty sure he's not, but Michael definitely is

I'm sure you knew that, though.

[loudestchick]

93. Clearly!

[Lavender Brown]

95. That's nice to hear

They are so nice on the show that it would suck to hear that we were actually big insincere jerks in real life.

[Dookus]

2. Yes, a few

I met Peri Gilpin from Frasier once, and she was a doll. We shared a cigarette and had a good time. I also once had to pick up Sinbad at the airport and drive him to a private gig. He couldn't have been nicer and more down-to-earth.

At trade shows, I've met Gregory Hines and Herbie Hancock and both were quite nice. I was chatting with Hancock and answering his questions and didn't even recognize him until he gave me his card.

Some are less than nice, though. Eartha Kitt was SCARY!! :scared:

[bbernardini]

3. The following list of celebrities are really nice:

Tony Maimone
John S. Hall
Jack Black
Kyle Gass
Geoff Downes
Mike Keneally
All four Zappa kids
Prairie Prince
Dale Bozzio
Dogbowl
Kramer

[latebloomer]

12. I must be really out of it

I hardly recognize any of those names-- except for Jack Black and the Zappa kids-- but didn't know there were four.

Must just be I'm old.

Is that the "Kramer" from Seinfeld?

[bbernardini]

37. Here's more specific details of who they are, plus a few more I forgot:

Tony Maimone - member of Pere Ubu, also recorded and toured with They Might Be Giants
John S. Hall - member of King Missile
Jack Black - you know
Kyle Gass - the other half of Tenacious D, along with Jack Black
Geoff Downes - half of The Buggles, also a member of Yes and Asia; co-wrote "Video Killed The Radio Star"
Mike Keneally - former Frank Zappa stunt guitarist
All four Zappa kids - yes, there's four: Dweezil, Ahmet, Moon Unit and Diva
Prairie Prince - drummer for The Tubes, Jefferson Starship, Todd Rundgren, and countless others
Dale Bozzio - lead vocalist of Missing Persons ("Words", "Destination Unknown"); also former wife of Zappa drummer Terry Bozzio
Dogbowl - singer/songwriter
Kramer - singer/songwriter/former owner of Shimmy-Disc Records

The ones I forgot:

Steve Vai
Meat Loaf
Christopher Cross
Rick Wakeman

[Lautremont]

30. I'm guessing that since you have John S. Hall in there,

it's the Kramer from Bongwater.

[Lautremont]

4. Peter Jackson is a very nice man. (nt)

[saltpoint]

5. Hi, Padraig. I've heard that about Malkovich, too. Hee --

-- seems like a genuinely eccentric but very pleasant guy.

Gordon Lightfoot did a series of small favors to assist me in a project in the 1980s, including permission to use copyrighted material. He made personal notes available to me from the Toronto office and made sure I had all kinds of stuff that nobody else had.

He went WAY out of his way and sent me and the kids signed photos.

Blew us away.

[Padraig18]

19. He just sat down next to us at the bar.

It was homecoming weekend at EIU (he's an alum) and the bar was packed, needless to say. He just took the only available seat and waited like everyone else to get his order taken. I didn't actually recognize him (Tony did), and initially he seemed rather hesitatnt to admit who he was. Once we got past the introductions, we all just shot the shit like you do with strangers at bars.

:)

[saltpoint]

25. Very cool.

Isn't it great when that happens?

[Padraig18]

26. Yes, it was.

:)

[graywarrior]

7. Willie Nelson

[Wcross]

11. Did ya smoke some weed with Willie?

I bet ya won't do THAT again!

[graywarrior]

18. I promoted a concert with Willie back in the 70's

Won't share any info about what we did or did not smoke together

[Wcross]

31. You have heard the song "I'll never smoke weed with willie....

..again"

The good thing is, Willie won't rat you out either. He smoked with one president but it is a mystery as to who it was. I say Ford. Why else would he fall down so much, Huh?

[graywarrior]

104. It's Bill.

[HeyManThatsCool]

52. I know someone who has worked with Willie

he says he is an awesome guy.



and yes. they did.............

[graywarrior]

105. He IS one of the best people I've met in the business

[Wcross]

8. Mario Anndretti seemed nice when I met him.

He was touring our plant (he is a spokesman for our company). He was much smaller than I imagined and dispite his reputation, he seemed nice.

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

9. "Sweetness" in every regard... Walter Payton

I worked in the same building with him for about 2 years. A gentle and kind man. We used to bet on the Bears/Packers games - it was the mid 90's, so I always won.

[Spider Jerusalem]

10. Morgan Freeman...

I was at a bar/restaurant he owns in Mississippi, and he came in, and went around to every table and shook hands and spoke a few words before settling in for dinner and a few drinks. Probably the nicest celebrity I've encountered.

[Wcross]

14. COOL, Morgan Freeman is one of my fav's! n/t

[sybylla]

13. Jimmy Carter

About 16 years ago we were at the Renaissance Faire in SW Wisconsin and President Carter just showed up in shorts and a t-shirt with about 4 secret service people. He was very nice to everyone who greeted him. Such a gentleman, even though he wasn't allowed to enjoy his time there with much peace. I can never think of that man without smiling.

[loudestchick]

15. Dolly Parton. She's amazingly small, but a genuine sweetie.

[HeeBGBz]

16. Josh Groban

Nice guy, good voice and good sense of humor.

[NewJeffCT]

56. I've asked twice on here now - who is Josh Groban

I've never heard of the guy.

[HeeBGBz]

61. He's a singer/musician.

Josh Groban

[NewJeffCT]

64. country? pop? something else?

I've never heard one of his songs to my knowledge.

[elperromagico]

69. I would call it quasi-classical pop.

[tanyev]

70. I think the term they use is Classical crossover.

He sings pop songs, often in foreign languages, with a trained voice that is almost operatic, but not as annoying. Some similarities to Andrea Bocelli recordings. I really like it, but it's probably not for everyone.

Some of the tributes to the crew of the Columbia featured his song "You Lift Me Up."

[HeeBGBz]

72. Classically influenced pop to light rock

He puts on a fun concert. Good backup band.

[gollygee]

17. A friend of mine me Ewan McGregor

was in a pub in the UK when Ewan McGregor came in and sat very close to him. He said he was very very nice and if my friend had been a woman he would have come onto him. LOL

Ewan McGregor *swoon*

[tridim]

20. Claire Danes was nice when I met her

Michael Moore was nice.. Dean was nice. There are also lots of nice musicians that I've met.. Too many to list.

[CubsFan1982]

21. I can't believe I forgot to mention this guy:

Believe it or not, Ben Affleck. I was in Boston for the DNC and a bunch of College Dems and I were at this party, and he was one of the featured guests. Talked to us for a few minutes, couldn't be a nicer guy.

It's strange, because my best friend ran into him once in New York and said he was a complete jerk. Maybe he was just having a bad day.

[HeyManThatsCool]

53. Maybe your friend encountered him during the time

he was drinking alot
that would explain it

[drumwolf]

22. Irvine Welsh, the guy who wrote "Trainspotting"

I saw him at a book reading in Berkeley a couple of years back. Very friendly, mellow guy.

[devilgrrl]

23. Yes.

John Waters
the late Gene Siskel
Rachel Blanchard
Garry Marshall
Danny Masterson
Michael Moore

[Technowitch]

24. Yes: Roger Daltrey

Very sweet guy, too.

[TN al]

27. Trace Adkins...

...He seemed to have absolutely no expectation that he should be treated any differently than anyone else; at a busch series race named for him no less.

[hollywood926]

28. Olivia Newton-John is nice, so is Tom Hanks and...

Leo DiCaprio, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brian Grazer and Jane Seymour, even though she's a repuke.

The only celeb I've met who was not so nice was Steven Seagal, who tripped me with his foot and didn't even apologize. What a cock.

A side note, speaking of repukes - a few years ago, I was in the pet store in Malibu and this little fat girl was holding a puppy by its ears and I immediately yelled "NO! STOP THAT!" and I heard a booming voice behind me say, "LET HIM GO!" It was Ahhhnold. I was mortified, but relieved that he agreed that his daughter was doing a bad thing. I was just surprised that she was so overweight, being the daughter of such an icon for physical fitness!

[EFerrari]

29. The bigger the celebrity, the nicer they seem to be, with the odd

exception. Harry Belafonte was a sweetheart. Smokey Robinson was nicer after his show. My hubby met Belushi and hung out for a day with him & some other guys. They all fell in love with the guy.

I met Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz a few years ago; we sat out the Iran-Contra hearings together in Berkeley. She was as down to earth as you can be and charming.

Who is that guy who play BJ on M.A.S.H.? We met him in a tiny library in Santa Monica -- encouraging handicapped kids to perform. Mike Farrell? No lights, no press, just kids and parents getting lotsa love.

Put it another way: Doug's been in the celebrity busyness for a long time, I've been with him for ten years. The ratio of sweet people to uglies has been about 50 to 1. (Knock on formica.)

[NashVegas]

44. It's a Confidence Thing

I've met a bunch of rock music industry celebs and, in general, the more secure someone is in their talent (not their fame so much), the less they have to prove.

What's funny are the people who have what I call 'paid assholes.' A companion who will enforce the celeb's boundaries so the celeb can concentrate on just being nice.

[EFerrari]

50. Ouch!

That may well be a description of me. lmao

My bud/husband is somewhat autistic. So that means, he's great on stage and has off stage fright because he always pisses people off. At one point, I helped him learn how to smile at waitstaff.

He's the most unassuming person in the world but didn't have the gears. Lots of performers have this wacky mash of being great on stage and sort of unbelievably clueless off, so people think that they are just snobs or worse. The truth is, they have talent where most people have social gestures and kindness.

(If you say I said this, I will deny like Clinton )

:silly:

[NashVegas]

62. Don't Sweat It

Some people wouldn't have them if they didn't feel they needed them.

People in the entertainment business get over flat if they can't/don't learn to protect their boundaries. "You must do this for me." Well, no, not really. Some people take it personally and get pissed off when they hear a 'no,' some don't.

[EFerrari]

63. Sure. What I've seen is a little different, though.

Plenty of folk who just feel entitled, make noise but are in the minority. (Can the spell check give me "narcissist"?) But the real talent (that's not the category) the majority of people who have real talent and who seem to piss people off seem to have prenatally traded it for social skill. It's like a blank place in the brain.

Sweat it? Never do. I've zero tolerance for @ssholes ("were you born an @sshole/ or did you work at it your whole life?") and I've learned to distinguish between the real ones and the souls who just really don't know how to be with people without a mic in their hand or a spot on their face. All my doubt went straight out the window when I understood how much my guy and many of our prof friends were just floundering for a clue because they had no idea how to give back, to be with people off stage.

I always liked Doug's coinage, "off-stage fright". It's a pretty accurate description.

/typos from hell

[smirkymonkey]

108. True, it's always the B-listers and "has beens" that are the biggest

a-holes.

Most of the celebs I have met have been pretty nice. I live in Manhattan and many of them are just kind of neighborhood fixtures, so they are in their element here. Nobody really makes too much of a fuss over them.

[Reverend_Smitty]

32. My mom met Tom Poston once...

He's been on a million TV shows, and game shows. My mom was bar tending at this fancy hotel in Florida and he came into the bar with his wife. They were there for a couple of hours and she told me that he was the nicest guy, told a lot of dirty jokes and was a great tipper!

[LoZoccolo]

33. Ron Jeremy

I told him he was in the first movie of the genre in which he specializes that I had seen, and he reccomended another in the same genre (same series, actually!). Plus he let me and my friend get our picture taken with him, and autographed a DVD.

[AlienGirl]

36. Johnny Keyes (Behind the Green Door) is a nice guy

He's a regular at my store, always says hi and tells me about his son, who is a Globetrotter.

Tucker

[ChoralScholar]

34. Ran into Reba McIntyre (sp?) at a Little Rock department store

very very friendly person...

[AlienGirl]

35. Robert Hays (of Airplane fame) and his parents, and son

Nice, solid people.

Tucker

[Speck Tater]

38. I can't remember her name...

She was the lady who played the nun "The Penguin" in Blues Brothers. What a sweet little old lady she was when I met her about 15 years ago.

[koneko]

39. James Spader, Sam Waterston & David Duchovny

all have homes very close to my mom near Cape Cod.

I met James several times in the early 90s while working in a local retail shop. He is an attentive & loving father. As we chatted about Italian food, I found the courage to ask him why he always plays freaks, jerks & perverts, as he seems so normal. He explained that he feels everyone has the propensity towards bad behavior, and that as an actor, he has the chance to 'become' bad, which allows him to be the best person he can be in real life. He has a great sense of humour, and is VERY humble.

My brother, who is big into sailing, has met Sam on MANY occasions, since they both have boats in my mom's town. I met him once, and when I told him my full name (my last name is very unique), he asked if I was related to Jim (my bro), and said that he's never met a nicer person. Everyone in town that he's been introduced to, he remembers by name.

I met David & Tea Leoni at a local pub over brunch one Sunday. Tea was busy with the kids, but David was very friendly. And, for those women who love Mulder, David is MUCH hotter in person, with a smile that'd melt icebergs.

[Lisa]

46. re: David Duchovny

I didn't meet him but my co-worker Amy did. Actually she bumped into him (literally) in a movie theatre -- he and his soon-to-be wife were holidaying on Vancouver Island, back when he was still working on the X-Files in BC. He was very nice to her even though she spilled popcorn on him. That was several years ago and she still blushes when she remembers the incident!

As for me -- I talked to Michael Moore when he was on book tour, before the release of "Bowling for Columbine" (so, when he was just famous, as opposed to really famous). He was exhausted but still took the time to chat. There's a sense of calm and good humour about him that was quite refreshing.

[PartyPooper]

40. Debbie Reynolds is very nice.

I met her several years ago.

:-)

[immoderate]

41. Penn Jillette, Bonnie Raitt, Joe Cocker, Rick Nelson

Those are the nicest celbrities I can think of. Penn paid for my dinner. Bonnie and Rick posed for pictures. Joe was the friendliest guy I ever met.

--IMM

[JimmyJazz]

42. Joe Strummer, Paul Simonon, Mick Jones and Terry Chimes

were just absolute sweethearts - especially Paul - for as drop dead gorgeous as he was, Dayum, he was a sweetie, too :loveya:

[mark414]

76. ohhhhh damn

lucky you

[JimmyJazz]

77. I sent you something.

[mark414]

81. ahhhhhh

so jealous

get back to your meeting i all of a sudden don't like you anymore

[u4ic]

43. Some very nice ones my SO or I met:

Dame Peggy Ashcroft
Fred Penner (a kid's entertainer here in Canada)
Ted Lange (Isaac the bartender from the Love Boat)
Norman Jewison
Edward Albee
the late, great Pierre Berton

[ok_cpu]

45. Colin Greenwood and Thom Yorke

of Radiohead were very cool. Colin sat and talked to a bunch of us after a show until someone from the crew made him leave.

David Bowie is also nice.

[xmas74]

47. Dave Matthews was extremely nice to us

as was Billy Joe Armstrong.
I met Al Molinaro (Al from Happy Days), he was wonderful and sang Happy Birthday to my aunt.
I have met some politicians-some nice, some so so.
Donald Trump sucks! He has bad skin close up and was a complete jerk.

[RetroLounge]

48. Hmmm, not met too many Celebs

I met Joan Cusack in about 1990. My ex-wife graduated from Evanston High School in the Chicago 'burbs as did Joan, and at their 10 year reunion, she pointed out Joan standing by herself at the bar. I walked up to get a drink and said Hi, and made some comment about feeling out of place as I didn't know anybody, but I guessed she was even more uncomfortable. She said all these people she hardly knew or didn't remember were suddenly her best friend and it was weird.

We talked for about 10 minutes about high school (I went to school a few burbs over from Evanston) and about the Chicago Area, etc.

She was very nice and down to earth...

RL

[KitchenWitch]

49. Tony Oliva

Former baseball player with the Minnesota Twins from the 60s and 70s. I was working at a golf course (I was the beer cart driver) when the Twins community fund sponsored a golf tournament. Tony O was one of the players in this tournament. It was about 40 degrees out and kind of drippy (it gets like that in Minnesota around late September) and no one was drinking anything. Tony O asked me if I would go get him some coffee. I got him and the rest of the foursome a cuppa joe and he tipped me quite generously. He asked me how sales were, and I told him they were slow (nobody wants beer when the weather is like that). He was so sweet.

[stpalm]

51. Michael Richards

Kramer, from Seinfeld. He is actually a Hebriac scholar (!) and comes to a bookstore in my town because of it's selection. After a play in London that he was in, I waited by the stage door and my family talked to him. When another actor walked out, everyone was paying attention to him, but he pointed out the other actor leaving and had everyone applaud her. Nice guy!

[Kahuna]

54. Mia Farrow was the nicest. I told her how beautiful she was and she

said to me, "you're beautiful too." I thought that was so sweet of her.

[gardenista]

55. Bonnie Raitt. May her dad rest in peace, and may she have comfort

knowing that they both have touched our hearts with their enormous talents.

[Padraig18]

57. He was really nice, wasn't he?

It was really cool how he didn't seem to think he was entitled to any sort of special 'celebrity' treatment, and I also remember him being nice to the bartender.

:D

[Kathy in Cambridge]

58. He lives in Cambridge, MA now-he keeps a low profile

I heard he was nice also.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

59. Simon LeBon

I gave him a camera lesson once when he came into my shop.
Also Daniel Roebuck (Matlock, many movie and tv roles) also came into my shop. We talked for an hour and he bought me a godzilla toy. Without a doubt, the sweetest (both him and his wife).
Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls.
Graham Nash and Rickie Lee Jones.

[Padraig18]

60. Howard Dean was really nice, too.

He adressed a state labor convention last year, and I got to meet him at the reception later. He seemed very 'down to earth' and was quite personable.

:)

[Rabrrrrrr]

65. Philip Glass, Mike Keneally, Bishop Tutu, Sigourney Weaver

[welshTerrier2]

66. George Segal

in 1972, I met George Segal in Freeport, NY ... he was asking people to sign a petition to help George McGovern ...

i talked to him about his appearances on the Tonight Show, his banjo playing, and the McGovern campaign ...

he was extremely personable and a real solid leftie ...

[PennyK]

67. Bette Midler!

I went to a party her charity was holding, and I was there with a group of well, groupies! She couldn't have been nicer...I left early, but I found out she asked the gang all sorts of questions. She hadn't toured in a while, and wanted to know what her younger fans were like (gay, artistic, troubled - big surprise!). And on another occasion, she autographed something for my daughter and was very nice with her.
I also met Janis Ian after a concert...she waits as long as needed to say hi to everyone who wants to...she was quite patient while my daughter was screwing around with the camera.

[pres2032]

68. the two guys in my sig

Mario and Michael Andretti

[flamingyouth]

71. Julia Child.

A really wonderful person. :)

[BlackVelvetElvis]

83. I remember your post about her when she died.

I envy you, how marvelous!

[mark414]

73. does Russ Feingold count as a celebrity?

i was in the same bar as him as he was celebrating a victory in a debate during his last campaign...talked to him for about 20 minutes about all sorts of things...politics, school, milwaukee

he kept asking me all these questions and i ended up doing most of the talking

[tinfoilinfor2005]

74. Reggie Jackson

Years ago went to a baseball game in Detroit. He was playing the outfield and my two little girls and another kid (two white and one black) were standing at the fence talking to him between innings. Kind of a dull game, not many people attending, but Reggie was so into talking these kids, answering questions, laughing, kidding around. I observed from the bleachers, and he seemed to enjoy their questions and the interaction so much. Never forgot it.

[Mr Bojangles]

75. I just worked a Sci-Fi/Comic Book/Toy Convention last month...

With quite a few celebrity guests.

Guest list here

Everyone was cool and down to earth. It was a really great time.

I'd have to say that Jeremy Bulloch (Boba Fett in the original Star Wars), Cindy Morgan (Lora/Yori in Tron and the voice of MA3A in Tron 2.0), Kenny Miller (Attack of the Puppet People, and I was a Teenage Werewolf, among others) and Paul Blake (Greedo in SW) are some of the nicest people I've had a chance to work with/for (celebrity or otherwise).

[faithfulcitizen]

78. John Cougar Mellencamp-very nice!

[Corgigal]

79. Bruce Springsteen

On his way out from one of his concerts, he stopped his SUV and rolled down his window to chat with my little red haired 14 year old daughter. She told him how good he sounded and he said thank you darling. He chatted with her for a few minutes and held up all the performers but he's the boss so of course he can. Told her he would like to meet up with her again.

Very nice man who didn't have to do that.

[regnaD kciN]

80. Not all that nice...

Malkovich did call for journalist Robert Fisk to be killed (for reporting on IDF mistreatment of Palestinians in the occupied territories).

[maveric]

82. Merlin Olsen, David Steinberg, Frank Gifford, Woody Hayes.

All of which I met as a room service waiter in Miami 1977-78.

I was surprised that the firey OSU football coach, Hayes, was such a nice man and a tee-totler.

[tabasco]

84. Gene Rayburn.

Otis Sistrunk.

My mom met Chuck Norris and he was nice but she doesn't like him anymore because he's a big repug.

I met GHW Bush and he was a bit of an ass.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

85. Also Senator Bob Graham

came to the Keys on his last day of official work in the Senate. We were wrapping Christmas presents for local kids without families and he helped with the wrapping. Even though it was a political type of thing, once he was done and the reporters were gone, he came back to the wrapping room with the rest of us and ate stale sandwiches and drank warm sodas and just talked and joked with us. He just came off as a really decent caring type of guy.

[khashka]

86. A Few

Jennifer Tilly is a sweetheart. Morgan Freeman is a true gentleman. Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Susie Bright,Joe Haldeman.

Probably the nicest "famous" person I ever met was John Preston, the writer and pornographer. I never met him in person but we wrote letters to each other, he sent me first editions of all his books, and encouraged me in my writing. A truly marvelous man. His death just destroyed me. I lost a friend, a mentor, and in many ways a father. I still miss him.

Khash.

[driver8]

87. Slash from Guns n' Roses

One of the nicest people I have ever met.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

88. Most mystery writers are really nice

The only one who wasn't was Ruth Rendell.

I used to live near a mystery bookstore, and I met Anne Perry, Aaron Elkins, Barbara Neely, J.A. Jance, Earl Emerson, James Lee Burke, and Sara Paretsky--all very approachable.

Since moving back to Minneapolis, I've met both William Kent Krueger and Erin Hart, both of whom were very pleasant and talkative.

Among the nice classical musicians I met while volunteering at a classical music station were guitarist Christopher Parkening, pianist John Nakamatsu, conductors Murray Sidlin and James DePreist, Baroque violinist Monica Huggett, and choreographer Trey McIntire.

[proud2BlibKansan]

89. Paul Newman

I didn't meet him but my friend did. He was here to film a movie and ate at the restaurant where she worked every night that he was here. She said he was incredibly nice.

[baron j]

90. Ned Beatty.

Very sweet. And Peter Murphy from Bauhaus. Very sweet, also.

[LosinIt]

91. The guys from Queensryche - the 80s band

My cousin went to school with them in Bellevue, WA and worked first as their drum tech (I never knew that drums had to be tuned) and then was their stage manager when they were the top act. They were great down to earth guys.

My ex and I went to Buffalo to see them when they were opening up for Metallica. We were in the dressing room with them backstage after they were done and one of the guys (sorry can't remember his name) came in and said, "you know we've been traveling with these guys for about six months and I think I can almost understand the words now!" I almost spit my beer all over him.

A few years later my friend and I went to see them in Rochester when I was about 8-1/2 months pregnant. We got there early to have a chance to talk to my cousin. He had told us to tell the guys at the sound board when we got there. So I waddle up there and the guy says, Sure follow me. He took us back stage while all of these hardcore fans who were there early were looking at us like who the hell is this pregnant chick who gets to go backstage? We still laugh about that one.

[johnnie]

94. Paul Butterfield

I went backstage to tell him what a great show he did and he invited me in. He pointed to the cooler with the beer and said "have a seat".
We talked blues, Woodstock, Mike Bloomfield and more. He was a great guy, but sadly died a few months later.
Eric Burdon was great and even Alan Price was pretty nice to me.
Steve Jones was fairly nice, and didn't act like a Sex Pistol..lol. Although he was a bit older when I met him.

[fishwax]

96. Michael Moore and Howard Dean

were both very friendly when I met them. Quentin Griffin (denver broncos running back) is extremely nice, polite and friendly.

[Lavender Brown]

97. Gov. Mario Cuomo

He was really nice when I met him and wrote a note to my parents who like him but couldn't be there (at his book signing).

[WI_DEM]

98. Sonny Bono was nice

We took a vacation many years ago to California, and were taking the sites in Hollywood and surrounding area when we saw Sonny's restaurant, Bono's. We missed lunch and it was well before they would begin to serve dinner when we came to the door. This was being explained to us when Sonny came up and said, "Do you want lunch?" we said, "yes" and he said, "follow me" and led us to a table and handed us menus and was very friendly. He came over a couple of times and asked us how we enjoyed the food and answered silly questions from us. I was impressed.

[mandyky]

99. Sonny & Cher (yeah I'm dating myself)

They were at our state fair in NY. The crowd got rowdy and started pushing towards the stage. There were kids in the crowd. Sonny stopped
mid song and did a "step back". I know he was a GOPer, but that was a nice thing!

[DontBlameMe]

100. Black Sabbath.

My family met them on a flight from Munich to London in 1970, before they were really famous. I was only 18 months old, so of course I don't remember, but my mother says they spent half of the flight talking to my 4 year old brother. Gave him an autographed poster and everything.

Also, my grandmother met Jimi Hendrix in London. Bumped into him getting out of a cab. Said he was extremely polite, apologized profusely.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

101. Oddly enough, Simon Cowell

I worked on some portions of American Idol II in the actual room where the auditions were taking place.

Paula was horribly nasty, Randy was quite rude, and Simon was simply fantastic -- exactly the opposite of the persona that they project on the show itself.

At the end of the first day, Simon came over and personally thanked my co-worker and I for doing a great job (fetching Cokes, snacks, etc. and maintaining the table/chairs/etc.). He also bummed me a cigarette once. He's quite nice in real life.

[AngryAmish]

102. Rush limbaugh

I kid, I kid...

[livetohike]

103. Christopher Plummer

I gave a private museum tour to him several years ago. He's a really nice guy and we were on tour for over two hours.

[Telly Savalas]

106. Joshua Redman

Perhaps only a celebrity among people really into jazz, but he was a phenomenally friendly guy.

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

107. john barrymore

seemed really nice when he fell all over me at the bar. I mean literally fell over me. Not that he was hot for me, I don't think he could see me. Just when he fell on me he was very apologetic about it.

[meganmonkey]

109. Allen Ginsberg, Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, John Fishman

My high school english teacher knew Ginsberg, I got to meet him after a poetry reading. He was really nice but I was very young and intimidated.

The other 3 are only celebrities to Phish fans, I guess.. I went to a lot of Phish shows in the early-mid 90's. We used to hang out between the venue and the tour bus after the shows to try to meet the band. I only talked to Trey and Fishman briefly but I had a really nice chat with Page one night. I never got to meet Mike but he saw me peeing behing a dumpster once, which was kinda intimate :P

[Bertha Venation]

110. Penny Marshall.

Gave me an autograph on the back of one of my checks and asked, "What am I endawsin' heah?" Was very kind.