April 1998, London:
-Richard Craft, Lynn Bejamin (They represents many great film composers)

-Basil Poledouris (Just before the John Barry concert, got a picture and an autograpf on Hunt For red Oct, and Wind)

March 1999 London:
-Jerry Goldsmith (In the morning, I went to the rehersals in Barbican Hall)

-Robert Townson from Varese (I met him in the evening, just after the concert)

July 1999, London:
-Carl Davis
-Georges Fenton
-Richard Attenborough (Director, got his autograph)

October 2000, Ghent (Belgium)

-Patrick Doyle
-Regis Wagner (director)
-Michael York (actor)
-Lisa Gerrard
-Elliott Goldenthal
-Dirk Brosse (Belgian film composer)
-John Powell

There was a seminar about film music the day after the Hans Zimmer concert. A lunch was included, and I was sitting at the same table as Patrick Doyle, Lisa Gerard and Michael York. It was the GREATEST meal inmy life!

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Originally posted by Christian Madsen:
-Robert Townson from Varese (I met him in the evening, just after the concert)

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Oh, I met him too. Only at the Edinburgh concert, just before it.

A friend of mine almost ran over Dudley Moore while working as a despatch rider in London

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Originally posted by Greg Bryant:

But, alas, I've never met my dream celebrity, Pia Zadora...

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I met Shane Black, he wrote Lethal Weapon- told me some secrets after seeing my box set of Lethal Weapon movies on DVD- signed my copy of the first one. He wrote "Thanks for the tour, Stay Happy!"

I was working at a film and video company and the Dallas Screenwriters Association had a meeting with a guest appearance by Shane who came to talk about The Long Kiss Goodnight, the script he got 4 million for, the highest ever paid at the time.

I tried not to act like a total geek, but I got to ask him what the most fun he had writing a script was- he said "the Last Boy Scout". After seeing the movie again recently, I can understand why.

He's not a profane and trash-talking like his scripts or the films resultant- he was well-spopken and hyper intelligent about films.

He also mentioned he had Epstien-Barr and Chronic Fatigue syndrome which has kept him out of the loop with Hollywood, but he gets called to rewrite films a lot- in fact he mentioned he got called to do a draft of one of the Batman films, which he flatly refused.

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Originally posted by Timmer:
Anyone else almost killed or been killed by a celeb?

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Yes, I die laughing everytime I rewatch the Oscar acceptance speeches of James Horner and Hans Zimmer.

ANYONE ELSE..? "BEEN KILLED BY A CELEB..?"
Oh, I couldbrllrrlll.#€65(/&%--lkahdueselku..=)81"!!#€%&/--thegGgghostggGeEOrge--?=)(/&%€%(/&34€#&%kqalosdeuäöoamÖÖÖH-- I wass. kKiled::-abybaby BY ceRealceLebrit--:/&%(098 gGeorGe

(George was apparently killed by a Celebrity and is here to tell about it; I locked him into the cupboard).

I myself haven't been killed by a Celeb, but I have a funny "accident" experience to share with you.

Some eight or nine years ago I literally bumped into one of the most popular Finnish pop artists, Kirka, in the middle of winter, on a very slippery, ice-covered street, while walking peacefully. Luckily nothing happened (- I could have broken an arm or a leg, or worse, my neck -) and I didn't even bother to ask him an autograph. The funny thing is that during the same spring I bumped into him the SECOND time - almost as literally as the first time - in a totally different part of the city, but again on a slippery street. The latter incident made me realize that both times he had been the one who had really BUMPED INTO ME - both times he seemed to be in a big hurry. The both times he apologized sincerely, and maybe he was quite surprised because I didn't make a scene of it - I didn't ask the autograph even on the second time... and since those times I've always watched my step more closely when walking in the city - you can never know who may you bump into the next time...

Sorry.

Kirk Douglas
Burt Lancaster
Charlton Heston
Tony Curtis
Janet Leigh
Tom Hanks
Steven Spielberg
Vincent Sherman
Sir David Lean
George Stevens, jr.
Sidney Lumet
Merv Griffin
Patrick Stewart
Brent Spiner
Wil Wheaton
William Shatner
Leonard Nimoy
George Takei
James Doohan
Walter Koenig
Gene Roddenberry
Arthur C. Clarke
Isaac Asimov
Hal Clement
Harlan Ellison
Joseph Stefano
Lloyd Bridges
Beau Bridges
Jack Lemmon
Brian Keith
Ron Perlman
Richard Dysart
Harry Hamlin
Jimmy Smits
Blair Underwood
Camryn Mannheim
Paul Sorvino
Charles Durning
Jack Cassidy
Dean Cain
John Spencer
Miklos Rozsa
Elmer Bernstein
Jerry Goldsmith
David Raksin
Basil Poledouris
Leonard Rosenmann
Ann Robinson (not the "Weakest Link" gal, but the co-star of WAR OF THE WORLDS)
Hank Worden ("Mose Harper" in THE SEARCHERS)
Anne Jeffreys (1950s "Topper" TV series)
Margaret O'Brien
Evelyn Keyes
Keir Dullea
Gary Lockwood
Jeanne Moreau
Richard Zanuck
Franklin Schaffner
Roddy McDowall
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
William Stromberg (one of the only two people on this list who's a personal friend)
John Morgan (the other friend)
Joe Dante
Brian Keith
Ron Perlman
Jack Palance
Bill Moyers
Liv Ullmann
Viveca Lindfors

[Message edited by perfpitch on 02-24-2002]