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Andrew Bangs
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From: Kerrville, Texas, United States
Registered: Sep 2008
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posted 10-01-2008 01:48 AM
quote: Sally Ann Burgess if either Johnny Depp or George Clooney come and pay a visit here, I take no responsibility for my actions...
Down Girl!!!
mind I grew up in Hollywood CA. so most of my sightings were not in the theatre but on the Street. I did attend Hollywood High and Brandy (Moesha) was actually in my class till her senior year when she left to become a recording star. We performed in Antigone together. I have run across Jeff Bridges, Hayden Christensen, Kevin Kline, Bob Goldthwait, Michael Jackson (no I was not a little boy), John Travolta, Carol Burnett, and a few others that escape me right now. Frankly I always saw them as just regular old people like the rest of us. Nothing to amazing Just regular Jo's
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Cameron Glendinning
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posted 10-01-2008 06:48 AM
Well many years ago in London at 5.30am I met and shook hands with Brad Pitt in the foyer at the Electric Cinema. I was projecting a James Bond all night movie marathon at the time, he turned up to watch Octopussy after a night @ the ministry of sound.
Chow Yung Fat was filmed by MTV in the Scala's projection room (complete with me doing changeovers in the background) during the closing weekend of the old Kings Cross institution. It closed with a bang! A John Woo Festival! What freaked me out was that he greeted me the next day by my first name.
For me it was a case of he's constantly on the screen, he does not speak english, boy does he knows how to use a gun, he is standing next to the projector, he knows my name, weird.
Spinal Tap at the now gone Valhalla Cinema in Sydney. I met them (well almost all of them, aparently the drummer had recently died) they gave me their album "Smell the Glove" and then I operated a spotlight for them.
When I worked at the Sydneys Planet Hollywood I did meet plenty of Home and Away actors and the ocassional Billy Zane etc. I remember Lachlin Murdoch and body guards came up to the projection room to thank us for the screening of Independance day.
Also Dennis Hopper at the Valhalla, Keanu Reeves @ the Chauvel.
Another true highlight for me was meeting and chatting to French Actress Romane Bohringer.
I have met plenty more celebrities when I worked for a tv station and in film production but thats pretty much the high lights of my in cinema celebrity sightings.
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Tim Reed
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From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 10-01-2008 11:46 AM
Scott, that tops everyone's list, in my book!
Lessee.. front of the camera ones that come to mind... I've schmoozed with Tab Hunter, Adam Roarke, Jose Ferrer, Miguel Ferrer, Juanita Moore, George Clooney (back when he was just Rosemary's nephew)... and I was Phyllis George's favorite projectionist, back when she was first-lady of KY. I always ran her shows whenever she went to the movies or had special screenings. She never failed to chat me up.
Although, I have been more awestruck by meetings and friendships made with film editors, cinematographers, and others behind the camera.
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