Namedroppin’… it’s so trivial yet so intriguing…

Joey Buttafucco – was on our flight to Kauai for our honeymoon. We put him in the “so evil he’ll never die” category. This was a good thing since we were about to get on a 6 hour flight over the ocean. (Thanks to nonlineargirl for reminding me about this category!)

Dennis Quaid – bumped into him, literally, at the Buffalo Club after a long night of eating and drinking with coworkers. He’s short. But took the bump in stride, smiled and kept going.

Dennis Franz – saw him at a film premier and the afterparty in Westwood. He and wife were so nice, normal and genuine. So I was mortified when a friend (male) walked up and announced to everyone within a 10 foot radius – “I just pissed next to Dennis Franz.” Yeah… and he’s standing right behind you now.

Bjorn Borg – at Mojo, hanging out, tossing a few back.

Elton John, Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Rosie Perez, all sitting within two rows of me & LADaddy at a film premier. Can you guess which film?

Jay Leno – at a car show in Burbank, cruisin’ with the top down on one of his gazillion vintage cars. Very nice - he’s always ‘on’… but I guess that’s why they chose him for the show, huh?!

Bill Maher – at a friend’s party on Mulholland. He was looking for someone else’s party but after hiking up the driveway decided to stay for a while. Nice. We know he just needed some people to gush over him for an hour to feed that ego a bit Ha.

Jeff Goldblum – this is actually LADaddy’s first star sighting after we moved to LA. The man is like 8 feet tall – we ran into him at Baja Fresh in Toluca Lake – long before there was one on every corner and in every mall.

Teri Hatcher – at Sherman Oaks Fashion Square ‘97 or ’98 – the woman needed to eat then and she still does. She was wearing shorts – her thighs are as big as my biceps.

Robbie from the Goo Goo Dolls – at Sherman Oaks Fashion Square. I dorked out on this one and started to wave… like I knew him. He smiled politely.

Travis from the Foo Fighters – also at Sherman Oaks Fashion Square – shoppin’ with his woman. That’s a good guy for ya.

Lenny Kravitz – attending a show at The Whisky. The man oozes sexuality. I love him. He spoke to my friend – told her he liked her turquoise necklace. (of course, what ELSE would he say?!)

Chris Robinson from The Black Crowes – MY FIRST EVER conversation with a celebrity so I’m going to gush a bit here. Picture it, early 90’s, I’m interning at a downtown office tower in Columbus, Ohio and am on a lunch break with friends. We’re walking past the entrance to a hotel and there he stands in all his maroon-velour-trousered, tie-dye-crocheted-sweater-ness with, like, 4 bodyguards – this was just as Shake Your Money Maker was rocketing to the top of the charts and their concerts were selling out in minutes (as the one in Columbus had). I was severely depressed that I wasn’t able to get a ticket so you can imagine my reaction when there HE was standing right in front of me. I could feel my face flushing and my knees weakening. I grab my friends arms and utter…oh my god, that’s_______ and my mind went completely blank. My dork friends didn’t recognize him and thought he was either “a welfare case” or “one of Jeff’s friends” (Jeff being my stoner -neighbor). I’m staring at him, still flushed, walking by close enough to touch him if I wanted to and he smirks at me in that ‘yeah, you know I’m a rock star and I know you want me’ kind of way and smiles and says “Hi” with a longish sort of southern slowness to it. I think I smiled or maybe replied with a HI of my own but I’m not sure. We get about 5 feet past them and THEN my friends realize who he is. We all turn in our tracks and poof! They’re gone. Ah…

OK…there’s no topping that story right now - so stay tuned for more namedroppin’