13.
Years ago, I’m with some friends at this shitty bar in New Orleans. A friend of a friend is playing an acoustic show, and we’re the only ones in the bar. Out of nowhere, this giant crowd comes into the bar, and out of nowhere, Nic Cage emerges. Where we’re sitting, between us and the stage, is a dance floor. He falls to his knees, and starts doing this weird dance thing. It looked like the pic of Hendrix when he lit the guitar on fire. He does this for a very short amount of time, then he hops up, goes ” Woooohooo” and saunters out the bar, quickly followed by all of his followers. It was fucking surreal.
14.
I met Bill Clinton when he was doing book signing for My Life. I told him he was the sexiest president we’ve ever had and he shook my hand twice. My friend did not get a second handshake.
15.
I met Alan Rickman as he was going into the stage door of the theater for the broadway show Seminar. He was walking past me and I quickly blurted out, “I think you’re awesome!” He stopped, turned slowly towards me, extended a hand to shake mine, raised one eyebrow, and said,
“Likewise.”
It was awesome.
16.
my friend John was playing golf with Arnold Schwarzenegger (my friend is Arnold’s lawyer’s son). Arnold was about to tee off. Arnold lines up for his drive and says, “So… John, when was your first blow job?” My friend nervously replies, “uh… seventeen” to which Arnold grins, winds up for his shot, and ask, “how did it taste?” He then took a massive cut at the ball only to shank it to the right.
17.
Not technically me, but got into a cab and the driver immediately started telling me his last fare had been Ralph Fiennes. Apparently RF noticed the pictures of his son on the dash and driver admitted his son was a massive fan of Harry Potter, so Ralph offers to give him a call. So the guy calls his son and says ‘I’ve got someone very special here who wants to talk to you’, Ralph takes the phone and goes straight in, full Voldemort voice, with ‘So I hear you think you’re a strong enough wizard to defeat me??’ Apparently for the next few minutes all the cabby can hear is lots of tough talk and then a lot of shouting ‘expelliarmus!’ ‘you’ll never defeat me!’ and then a very convincing death gargle. Ralph passes the phone back, signs a bit of paper which the cabby showed us ‘To George, The greatest wizard I have ever duelled’ and then tips very well :D pretty fucking cool I thought… Not a lot of kids get to duel Voldemort over the phone…
