When I was really little (elementary school), I played Star Wars with James Earl Jones with my little brother. My dad was at a business thing so we were in some "fancy" hotel (ha) and had to be real quiet. They had us sitting at a nearby table by ourselves and we had little Star Wars figurines to play with to keep us quiet while the adults had a dinner. A "BIG black man" (how I remembered/described) him came over, super nice, and asked if we liked Star Wars. We said we LOVED it, it was our MOST favorite, and we discussed it with him. He listened to us a bit, and then he said "You know, I was the voice for Darth Vadar. We just looked at him thinking "really?" but didn't answer....then my brother handed him a toy and I said "You can play with us if you want". We all 3 looked over and my mom nodded and waved her hand, so he sat at the table and played with us. That was neat. A few years later in Return of the Jedi when Darth Vadar's mask was removed, we were devestated for Vadar to be a white guy----were we tricked? And then a couple years later, I found out James Earl Jones was indeed the VOICE for Vadar, and our happy memory was restored. :P
As a high school kid, I had SO MUCH FUN with Sinbad behind us at Mardi Gras. He WAS funny, and had us all in stitches while we watched Endymion. He wasn't putting on a show, just had comments for every dang thing (including me thinking someone was stealing my beads from Little Richard and me elbowing him in the gut hard, only to find out it was my dad making sure I had them....oops!) Over the years hanging out in New Orleans I met Anne Rice at a blood drive (she came in a horse drawn carriage in a casket and was lowered out, brought to us, she got out of the casket all dramatically, it was awesome. When you gave blood, you got an autographed rat from her.) Also in New Orleans: John Goodman (he was kind of a staple, back then disgusting sloppy drunk though, always in the gutters, and the police told him he had to stop or get an apartment there so he could get home easier), Lenny Kravitz (I tried to buy him a drink but he laughed and bought us all drinks instead), Trent Reznor, Wally Lamb (LOVE him), Weird Al, John Travolta, and other random people that you see but don't talk to. I was real excited to see Bernie Mac at Deanies one night but my friend was a waitress there and said they'd been instructed that noone (not even the staff) was "allowed" to talk to him. Kind of offended, but I guess I can understand that. Sort of. We played soccer with 2 guys from Def Leppard in 1993-1994, met Joe Perry from Aerosmith, members of The Offspring, and a few bands where we got autographs and stuff but didn't really talk (L7, the Breeders, Ugly Kid Joe, Green Day, Eve's Plum, etc). Later, Delirious. In 2006 I saw Chuck Lidell who was the current light heavyweight champ for UFC and totally on fire, with his wife-----at Babies R Us. (*giggle....he wasn't very amped about being there, so I think he was happy to take a break and say hello). I think that's about it.
