"The Colonel" (KFC). He was being wheeled thru OHare looking half-dead.
Zza Zza Gabor. Again at OHare, saw a small crowd gathering, wandered over, got her autograph. She got pissed at me for not having a pen handy.
Stevie Wonder, at LA airport. Surrounded by two bodyguards. Serene, doing that head wagging thing of his.
Kris Kristofferson, pumping gas in Malibu right next to me. Told him I'd last seen him in Madison Wisc about 15 years before that (at a concert, during his hard-core drinking days, he was drinking straight from the bottle onstage, was still a good concert). He replied "those were the bad old days", I replied "for some of us". Am still a fan of his, the guy was a Rhodes Scholar, ferchristsake.
Joe Theismann. Early am at a casino outside Seattle, I'm playin BlackJack. Joe was playin craps at a table all by himself, looking somewhat forlorn. I walked over and told him I just wanted to be able to tell my grandkids that I shook his hand. He smiled, we shook, and I left him a little happier than before we met.
The female lead in Wings, don't know her name, again playin blackjack in Lake Tahoe.
Same casino, Rony Seikaly (basketball star), I walked over and asked him if he was Vlade Divac, lol
Former governor of Wisc, Pat Lucey ( I think that was his name, not sure). Believe it or not, right across from us in a Pizza Hut. I bought him a beer.
Freddy (DownTown) Brown (basketball), at a nightclub outside Indianapolis, he was with a couple other players, he was rude as hell, James Edwards was nice.
The Six-Million Dollar man (forget his name), same place.
Jane Goodall (after a graduate seminar in Madison Wisc). Embarrased my girlfriend (anthropology major) by telling Jane that my gf was too shy to walk up by herself. Jane turned out the lights during the seminar and did some amazing chimp sound imitations.