MEME! Who've you shaken hands with?

[ahedonia]

Celebrities you've glimpsed at the supermarket, sat three seats away from, seen talking on a cell phone...these are fun, but really, What noteworthy people have you shaken hands with? (Or hugged, or tongue-kissed... you listening, pukajenList five such people, unless you have more, then jump to the next multiple of five (10, 15, etc., which is a rule I

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Does that include arm grabbing...

[fidgetcub]

or does it have to be palm to palm shaking? Cause if so you forgot Orlando Jones.

(sigh why do I remember this stuff?)

Re: Does that include arm grabbing...

[ahedonia]

Arm-grabbing counts, because that's what Shelley Winteres did to get on the list.

Actually, for O-Jo (hee!) it was spirited, affectionate, totally compulsive arm slapping. I was spending a lot of time alone with the TV in those days--I saw him so often that the 7-Up guy actually felt like a friend. Kind of like the cute man in the commercial who "tapped" on the TV screen and said he understood me, because he used to have insomnia too.

I wish I could meet him again and tell him I'm actually normal. (I wish I could reliably tell myself that I was actually normal.)

[jesshelga]

"Bob" Patrick? That's so crazy! I would never have pegged him as a "Bob!"

[ahedonia]

I don't know why he pegged himself as a "Bob." I've never heard him say anything like it since, or heard anyone else call him that. "Bob" is the name of the assistant manager at Walgreens, or the guy who helps you with your second mortgage.

[coolbyrne]

Yeah, I remember asking him once which he preferred, 'cause Richie refers to him as "Rob" on the album notes, Kim Manners (I think it was him) called him "Bob", and his acting credits are always "Robert". He told me he preferred to be called "Robert".

... and you know he's SO going on my list, too! :p

[ropo]

I touched Mel Gibson's ass once. That must count for something.

[ahedonia]

I touched Mel Gibson's ass once.
Was it in that bar in Malibu? (If so, you probably belong to a large group who can make that claim.)

That must count for something.
Hon, back in the day it would have counted for everything.

[ropo]

It was most definitely NOT at that bar in Malibu. It was in ... Morton's, I think, and he was holding an Oscar in each hand from Braveheart and there his ass was, just ripe for grabbing, and it was so crowded I knew I wouldn't be caught, and there ya go. I kinda just palmed it. I didn't pinch or anything. Nice ass.

My list includes, lemme see,
* Irene Bedard
* Felix Silla (aka Cousin Itt on the Addams Family and Twiki the robot from Buck Rogers)
* Leonard Maltin
* Martin Landau (who also signed my Space: 1999 lunchboxes)
* Mark Steines (host of "Entertainment Tonight")
* David Duchovny, if grabbing his arm to help him up some stairs counts
* ^^ Same for Patricia Arquette (and her then-hubby Nicolas Cage GROWLED at me!)
* Joan Baez
* John Stamos
* Gillian Anderson

... and that's ten. And a half, if Nicolas' growl counts.

[ahedonia]

Oo! Look at you, hanging out at Morton's on Oscar night! :D That's a great moment to have seen him in person, and an even greater moment to have grabbed his ass. ;) You got moxie, missy.

[e_ticket]

HA! Cool, I"ll have to try this later :)

[morgantree]

Man, what a list! I am so lame, I can't even do the meme. But I did once spend a couple of hours with Jane Goodall, AND she blessed my son in utero with an actual laying on of hands! But that's my one celeb event.

[ahedonia]

Dood, Jane Goodall is an AWESOME handshake moment! I was thinking about how all most of us list are actors, but you've listed somebody of massive substance! ::is not worthy!:: ;)