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Posted: **Tue Jan 31, 2023 12:00 pm**

Sonic Youth wrote
In the 15 years since I first posted my list of 3 names, I can add:

Paul Giamatti

Well, that's cool. What was that like?

Posted: **Mon Jan 30, 2023 11:37 am**

In the 15 years since I first posted my list of 3 names, I can add:

Paul Giamatti

Which means either I'm not the star-struck type or I don't get out much.

Oh, I also learned I'm distantly related to James Horner, which is funny since I spent the first few years on this board dissing his work every chance I got.

Posted: **Mon Jan 30, 2023 11:10 am**

Reza wrote:Dame Wendy Hiller
Lauren Bacall
Dame Maggie Smith
Vanessa Redgrave
Melanie Griffith
Glynis Johns
Sir Rex Harrison

Have also met:
Chita Rivera
Jane Krakowski
Stewart Granger
Vincent Price
Priety Zinta
Saif Ali Khan
Karan Johar
Frances de la Tour
Michael Beck
Franco Nero
Margaret Tyzack
Robert Sean Leonard
Antonio Banderas

Posted: **Sun Nov 27, 2022 9:44 am**

Met:

Woody Allen
Peggy Cass
John Gielgud
Jerry Lewis
Sidney Poitier
Eli Wallach
Gig Young

Never met, but had dealings with:

Ralph Bellamy
Marlene Dietrich (indirectly)
Mickey Rooney
Gena Rowlands

Posted: **Sun Nov 27, 2022 12:30 am**

An interesting thread.

Posted: **Thu Nov 21, 2013 5:17 am**

In 2010 Bryan Adams was the only one I had ever meet.

Since then, I can add Paul Giamatti and Juliette Binoche (actually, it was this past Sunday in Lisbon)

Posted: **Wed Nov 20, 2013 6:46 pm**

Updated my list with a couple new additions.

Posted: **Thu Feb 25, 2010 5:36 am**

friends with Stephen Daldry, Kate Winslet, Ann Roth, Chris Menges, Brigitte Broch, Branko Lustig... also know Redmond Morris, Elton John, Natalie Portman.
And that's all, i guess..

Posted: **Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:48 am**

At last year's Oscars the Japanese guy who would win Best Foreign Picture later that night was in a snit because I was in his seat. He spoke little English but made his snit-ism known. (Looking at my ticket, the usher told me I had the secomd seat. I assumed that was 2nd from the aisle, but it turned out it was 2nd from the end.)Afterwards, on my way out, I congratulated the guy but he was still in a snit and ignored me.

Oh well, that award has already gone down as just another of Oscar's Foreign Film embarrassments.

Posted: **Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:27 am**

Apologies if I've related this story before, but two years ago when Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski were nominated in the animated short category for Madame Tutli-Putli, I had seen them at the screening of that film at Sundance the night before, and when I saw them wandering around Park City on nominations morning, I was able to recognize and congratulate them in person.

At the previous Sundance, I formally interviewed Jon Else, nominated for two best documentary Oscars including The Day After Trinity in 1981. My interview is archived here.

I'm pretty sure those are the only nominees I've knowingly met. I've met the daughter of a multiple winner, though: William Wyler's daughter Judy. She's president of the board of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, which I write educational materials for.

Posted: **Wed Feb 24, 2010 8:57 pm**

I met Jon Voight. That's about it...

Posted: **Wed Feb 24, 2010 7:43 pm**

Worked with or talked to:

Winners:
Acting:
Ernest Borgnine
Anthony Quinn
Paul Newman
Robert Duvall
Sally Field
Harold Russell

Directing
Sidney Pollack

Writing
Abby Mann

Producing
Ronald L. Schwary (met him on the set of Absence of Malice in 1981 right before the Academy Awards Show. I asked him how he thought his film (Ordinary People) would do up against Raging Bull. He said he felt pretty good about its chances.

Composing
Paul Williams

Nominees

Acting
Mariel Hemingway
Andy Garcia
Burt Reynolds
Leslie Ann Warren

Edited By Mike Kelly on 1267101489

Posted: **Wed Feb 24, 2010 5:36 pm**

Do people on your Facebook friends list count? I have a few people there like Rod Lurie, Oren Moverman, Amy Heckerling, Heather Matarazzo...some other people I'm forgetting. Tons of critics in my list (like Claudio Puig, Mike Clark, many OFCS members)...

But, they probably don't count much since they probably friend everyone.

Posted: **Wed Feb 24, 2010 4:46 pm**

Bryan Adams is the only one I can think off

Posted: **Wed Feb 24, 2010 3:50 pm**

Well i've actually chatted with

Michael Cacoyannis
Billy Crudup
Judi Dench
Jeremy Irons
Arriane Mnouchkine
Fiona Shaw
Max Von Sydow

And i've briefly spoken to (mostly outside Stage Doors or at the Venice Film Festival)

Daniel Day Lewis
Ralph Fiennes
Frances O'Connor
Emily Blunt
Helen Mirren
Maggie Smith
Vanessa Redgrave
Robert Altman
Kevin Spacey
Matthew Modine
Neve Campbell
Maximillian Schell
Terry Gilliam
Ang Lee
Heath Ledger
Jake Gyllenhaal
Matt Damon
Paul Rudd
Monica Belucci
Anthony Hopkins
Helena Bonham Carter
Tim Burton
William H. Macy
Glenn Close
Christian Slater
Laura Linney
Tom Wilkinson
Orlando Bloom
Kirsten Dunst
Isabelle Huppert
Susan Sarandon
Elijah Wood
Bjork
Donald Sutherland
George Clooney
Patricia Clarkson
David Strathairn
Jonathan Pryce
Daniel Radcliffe
Kathleen Turner
Jospeh Fiennes
Derek Jacobi
Kristin Scott Thomas
Jude Law
Ian McKellen
lan Rickman
Stephen Soderbergh
Charlotte Rambling
Russell Crowe
Renee Zellweger
Gillian Anderson
Josh Hartnett
Emily Watson
Rebecca Hall
Ethan Hawke
Brenda Blethyn
Holly Hunter
Woody Harrelson

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