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Post by ForeverWaltons on Aug 6, 2014 2:05:42 GMT -5
I went to basketball camp at David Lipscomb College (Nashville, Tn.) in the summer of 1983. They had Kyle Macy there. He had played for the University of Kentucky and was playing for the Phoenix Suns. He took the time to talk to each of us individually and gave us each an autograph (I still have mine). He was really nice to all of us girls.
In the fall of 1984, I was attending the Art Institute of Atlanta. Mary Ann (one of my roommates) and I went to the Lenox Square Mall to meet Jim Palmer (pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles). He was endorsing Jockey underwear. We were each given a free pair of women's underwear. Mary Ann and I had Jim autograph them for us. I also had a mini poster of him just wearing his jockey underwear and he autographed it for me too. I still have the mini poster, but needless to say, the underwear finally had to go in the garbage a looong time ago. He not only was a joy to meet but he was nice on the eyes too.
Be forewarned, these are magazine ads/pictures of Jim Palmer endorsing Jockey underwear:
www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1455&bih=705&q=jim+palmer+jockey+underwear=img
The mini poster that I have of him, is like the one on the second row, 3rd from left (red underwear).
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Post by Uncle Coaster on Aug 6, 2014 9:27:48 GMT -5
So, do you really want to hear another story ?? Yes, please. I've never had a bad run in with a celebrity, but most of my meetings have been during planned signings and so forth, so I'd expect they'd be "on their best behavior" so to speak during such events. The only off chance meeting I had with celebrities was on an airplane when I was about 8 years old. Pro wrestlers The Moondogs (Rex and Spot) along with Jerry Valiant got on the plane. I wanted to go meet them but was too scared. My brother wanted to and had a bit more courage so I snuck behind him as he went back to their seats to ask for an autograph. They were extremely nice and chatted with us for a few minutes. The Moondogs played wildmen characters who never really spoke English, etc. This was in the early 1980s so wrestlers still weren't as "we're entertainers" as they are today. After we chatted and were going to leave, Spot stopped us and said, "Please don't tell anyone we were nice". Tee hee. The overall nicest celebrity I ever met happens to be my personal favorite...Tony Orlando. I had seen him in concert (I've seen him over a dozen times) and waited in line for an autograph afterwards. I had been going through some emotionally tough times and told him that his show was the first time I had smiled and laughed in a few weeks. He grabbed my shoulder, gave me some encouraging words about how to handle negativity that I use to this day, gave me a kiss on the cheek and then took a picture with me. The picture didn't turn out, but the memory is enough to last. Apparently, he has a history of sharing encouraging words with people that they remember, including Questlove of The Roots and Will Forte, formerly of Saturday Night Live, before either became terribly famous.
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Post by JeriJet on Aug 6, 2014 10:00:14 GMT -5
Wonderful that you met Tony Orlando.... I've heard that he is a very sincere, giving person -- and this comes across whenever he's interviewed on tv.... he's not one of the phoneys !
Just thought -- I wonder if he's written any books.... have to check
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Post by JeriJet on Aug 8, 2014 17:23:12 GMT -5
I had a very nice conversation with Phillip Seymour Hoffman in a NYC restaurant. He was very low-keyed and very intelligent. I was devastated when I heard of his death early this year.
Cool.
Do you live in the greater metropolitan area ? -- I've spent over 70 years here !!
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Post by JeriJet on Aug 8, 2014 17:56:06 GMT -5
I am in Cambridge, Mass now. But - I lived in Manhattan for many years and my grandmother lived in The Bronx.
I grew up in Mineola, Nassau County, but moved to Manhattan right after college -- 1964, Four Park Avenue, after a very brief time at 71 Thompson Street, Little Italy.... (of course, spent a lot of time in the city during my childhood, hence felt very comfortable settling there) .... finally moved to upper Westchester in 1978.
Sorry I forgot for the moment that you are in Cambridge.... after all my "chat" about Rockport, Salem, etc.... (somzheimers disease!)
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Post by JeriJet on Aug 8, 2014 18:16:20 GMT -5
Wow. I lived on Sullivan Street for a while and did all of my food shopping on Prince and West Broadway. I can't even wrap my head around how much that neighborhood has appreciated. I had my very first apartment on Sullivan Street. How long ago were you there?
While at college in Poughkeepsie, I spent many weekends in Manhattan, eventually beginning a relationship with a man who lived at 71 Thompson, so stayed there quite a bit.... and then moved in with him in 1964 while apt-searching for my own place.... FYI, Four Park usually confuses people because it is at 34th -- Park Ave South heads downtown from there.
I loved all the time I spent in the Village during those early years.... I guess it was the early 80's that is started changing so much.... so, perhaps you missed the true Bohemian nature of it when I was first there.... it was something else !!
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Post by JeriJet on Aug 8, 2014 18:18:12 GMT -5
Remembering the Sullivan Street Playhouse -- The Fantastiks !!
(right?)
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Post by nedandres on Aug 8, 2014 23:18:32 GMT -5
Loved seeing "The Fantasticks" at the Sullivan Street Playhouse. Such a neat intimate experience. I had played Hucklebee in college, and it was nice to see the show live. Good memories.
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Post by JeriJet on Aug 9, 2014 6:58:22 GMT -5
Loved seeing "The Fantasticks" at the Sullivan Street Playhouse. Such a neat intimate experience. I had played Hucklebee in college, and it was nice to see the show live. Good memories.
We chatted about this once before -- and we discovered that I must have seen Will Geer in the play.... wish I had a good memory of that !! ...
Going to The Fantastiks was an inexpensive and popular thing to do with visiting friends/relatives.... heavens knows how many times I did that !!!
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Post by patriciaanne on Aug 9, 2014 7:31:58 GMT -5
I am in Cambridge, Mass now. But - I lived in Manhattan for many years and my grandmother lived in The Bronx. Welcome, Ariel! I'm originally from the Bronx (although was always an avowed country girl who wanted to live on a farm more than anything). Where in the Bronx did your grandmother live?
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Post by patriciaanne on Aug 9, 2014 7:59:01 GMT -5
Marble Hill, right before Manhattan (the Hudson River was actually re-routed there, presumably, to accommodate the railroad that snaked along it.) I went to school in Riverdale, and also had two 100+-year-old spinster aunts who lived on Arthur Avenue. My mother lived for a time before she died on Moshulu Parkway. I haven't been back there for about 20 years, but I'll bet the The Bronx in undergoing profound changes, as the rest of NYC has. I don't have any surviving relatives in The Bronx, so I haven't been back, but I should take a field trip there to see how it has changed. 20 years ago it was pretty much the same as I had remembered it. I remember, however, how completely run-down the Grand Concourse had become. It had always been a little dicey, but wonder if it has further decayed, or if it is undergoing a revival. I know exactly where that is. I had a friend who lived around there. In fact, I still have friends who live there. My grandmother lived at the northern end of the Grand Concourse. As I said, I was never a city person. I was grateful as a child that at least we had some trees and landscaping around where we lived. Riverdale was and is beautiful (although I haven't been there in a long time). I had friends there growing up and loved going for walks through Fieldston on a summer night. That was pure heaven for me. (I was always a cheap date--LOL) These days I much prefer living in the country. Speaking of which....I need to stop chatting on here and go out and feed the horses!
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Post by JeriJet on Aug 9, 2014 8:48:59 GMT -5
Didn't The Fantasticks enjoy the longest run of any Broadway or off-Broadway play? It was there forever - something like 40 years. 42 years... closed in 2002... but reopened in 2006 at the newly-named Jerry Ohrbach Theatre (Staples Theater Center at 50th and Bway -- finally made Broadway !!)
It is actually the longest-running, most widely-produced musical in the history of the world !! ... I love that they named a theater after Ohrbach soon after his death in 2004 -- he was the original "El Gallo" ... many don't know that he was a highly successful "song-and-dance" man from 1955 to the 1980's when he finally moved to the movies and tv.... Although born in The Bronx, his family had moved to Illinois prior to Ohrbach's graduation from high school.... he attended college for a couple of years (the Univ. and also Northwestern) before quitting and moving to Manhattan to attend The Actors Studio....
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Post by sdw on Aug 9, 2014 18:36:37 GMT -5
I like the song Try To Remember from The Fantisticks.I saw it at The Barter theatre in Abingdon Va. a few years ago.
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Post by patriciaanne on Aug 9, 2014 19:03:15 GMT -5
I know exactly where that is. I had a friend who lived around there. In fact, I still have friends who live there. My grandmother lived at the northern end of the Grand Concourse. As I said, I was never a city person. I was grateful as a child that at least we had some trees and landscaping around where we lived. Riverdale was and is beautiful (although I haven't been there in a long time). I had friends there growing up and loved going for walks through Fieldston on a summer night. That was pure heaven for me. (I was always a cheap date--LOL) These days I much prefer living in the country. Speaking of which....I need to stop chatting on here and go out and feed the horses! I went to school in Fieldston for a couple of years. It was ten minutes and a world away from Marble Hill. I remember how a private police squad was hired to patrol Fieldston. It is a very wealthy enclave that not many people know about. (I got a scholarship to a school there. I didn't live there. I did live near the Yonkers border for a while. I remember taking the number 20 bus to my grandmother's house.) yes, my boyfriend and I would try to elude the private police squad when we wanted to sit at this pretty little pond at night. But you were supposed to live there. Many times we got away with it. I loved walking through there at night. As I've said before, I really wasn't a city person. For a couple of hours, we could walk around and pretend we were somewhere else.
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Post by nedandres on Aug 10, 2014 11:19:15 GMT -5
Hi Jeri, you saw Geer in "110 in the Shade" which we chatted because I had seen the revival with Audra McDonald. To my knowledge he never appeared in "The Fantasticks," although many other famous people did.
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