Celebrity sightings

[brief_therapy]

Every time I visit Stockholm I see at least one famous person. That's maybe not so unusual in the capitol city of a country as small as Sweden, but it thrills me every time nonetheless.

One time I saw World's Strongest Man Magnus Samuelsson whom I had recently followed on the Swedish version of Dancing with the Stars (and one of the many famous

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[suchanadorer]

Duck doesn't do "visor", so its not something I've had a lot exposure to, but my SFI teacher played us Cecilia Lind and I just loved it. My choir is doing a bunch of Taube songs this spring and I'm toying with the idea of going along just to see what it is I've been missing.

Most of my Swedish celebrity sightings have been non-Swedish. Two members of the band Dream Theater in Gamla stan in Stockholm, Bruce Springsteen (to be fair, we waited outside the hotel before his concert). Swedish celebrities: Leif Pagrotsky and Peter Jidhe. Whooo.

[no1grizzly]

:) considering his need to be seen, I think it's more of an achievement NOT to have seen Pagrotsky.
(If one is unsure of ones English (or American rather) and do not want to be ridiculed for ones spelling of words such as colour and computor etc, and uses spell check, suggested alternatives for Pagrotsky are:
Grotesque, Protozoic, Picaresque)

[zapac]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Olof Palme buried in the same cementary you visited?

As for spotting live famous persons, it isn't so hard as TV, Internet and newspapers generate new "celebrities" every day. Back in the old days you would speak about 15 minutes of fame, but today it is enough with 30 seconds to be dubbed a celebrity. In particular if you are involved in some dubious activities and the papers write about you in an anonymized fashion, just about anyone will be mentioned as a famous person. Once the name is disclosed, which often happens at underground forums, almost nobody is familiar with the drug smoking or tax cheating "celebrity".

I've grown to admiring people for what they do, not whom they are. It means as long as e.g. Paul McCartney or Meryl Streep is out grocery shopping, I'd pretty much ignore them unless they try to push themselves ahead of me. Once on stage or in a movie, I might admire their performances.