#1
Posted: 9/29/04 at 10:32pm
Don't we all like to impress others with the famous people we know? Name-drop here.
Name-drop here - stupid topic
#2
Posted: 9/29/04 at 10:34pm
I'd rather do it in the context of posts that have a subject related to the names.
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
Updated On: 9/29/04 at 10:34 PM
#3
Posted: 9/29/04 at 10:39pm
I once sold a book to Ruth Buzzi. Does that count for anything?
#4
Posted: 9/29/04 at 10:40pm
How about Tom Hanks used to work for my theatre company? That has got to count for, like, half a point or something.
#7
Posted: 9/30/04 at 1:27am
I went to high school with multi-Grammy winning opera diva Dawn Upshaw. I was "Doc" to her Maria in WEST SIDE STORY.
Also in her class (she's a year younger than me)was Kim Thayil, former lead guitarist for Soundgarten. His mom was my jr. high English teacher.
Also in her class (she's a year younger than me)was Kim Thayil, former lead guitarist for Soundgarten. His mom was my jr. high English teacher.
#8
Posted: 9/30/04 at 1:41am
A dear friend of mine when I was a kid was STEVEN STUCKER...He was the funniest, sweetest, craziest man I have ever had the pleasure to know.....He died of Aids in the late 80's.....He played the Gay man in Airplane and Airplane 2
#9
Posted: 9/30/04 at 1:48am
Why encourage it??? It's hard enough not to do it when you want to... and I don't know about anyone else, but after you do it, it feels like you've done something really dirty, even if your intentions weren't malicious.
Name dropping sucks ass. Loving a person because they're fabulous and happen to fall into a "well known" category is one thing but loving that you know a person because of "who" they are is quite another.
Name dropping sucks ass. Loving a person because they're fabulous and happen to fall into a "well known" category is one thing but loving that you know a person because of "who" they are is quite another.
"You! You are the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber! And you, well, I just plain don't like you."
~Stewart Gilligan Griffin
~Stewart Gilligan Griffin
#10
Posted: 9/30/04 at 1:49am
"Look, there's a sale at Penny's!"
"Well, I can make a brooch, or a Teradactyl"
"Auntie Em, it's a twister, it's a twister!"
"Well, I can make a brooch, or a Teradactyl"
"Auntie Em, it's a twister, it's a twister!"
#11
Posted: 9/30/04 at 1:50am
DGrant, it's too late and I'm too drunk to really have grasped that post...
"You! You are the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber! And you, well, I just plain don't like you."
~Stewart Gilligan Griffin
~Stewart Gilligan Griffin
#12
Posted: 9/30/04 at 1:54am
Daisy - they're quotes from Airplane, by the character that Steven Stucker played 
#13
Posted: 9/30/04 at 1:56am
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I TOTALLUY get it now!1
"You! You are the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber! And you, well, I just plain don't like you."
~Stewart Gilligan Griffin
~Stewart Gilligan Griffin
#15
Posted: 9/30/04 at 2:01am
Kristie - you will be happy to know that I and my family have quoted the lovely Steven for years now. I knew of his passing when it happened, and was very sad. One of many, I'm afraid. But at least we get his comic antics preserved for us to enjoy forever
#16
Posted: 9/30/04 at 2:04am
He was just like his character.....He also played the piano brilliantly!!!
#17
Posted: 9/30/04 at 2:06am
Kristie - as a fellow pianist, I'm very happy to hear that
#18
Posted: 9/30/04 at 9:58am
Hey Kristie - a friend of mine, a singer, was also good friends with Steven! I've heard only the most wonderful things about him.
Daisy, I fear for your brain cells.
Daisy, I fear for your brain cells.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#19
Posted: 9/30/04 at 10:18am
'Name dropping sucks ass. Loving a person because they're fabulous and happen to fall into a "well known" category is one thing but loving that you know a person because of "who" they are is quite another.'
DailyHilton: Thanks for that very succinct statement. If you truly DO know someone who is a 'name' or 'celeb' (I mean not just that you sell them coffee at the corner Starbucks, but you KNOW them) then if you are name dropping you are not a good friend or family member.
These are PEOPLE whose privacy and relationships should be protected and you should CARE that you are not using them for your own feelings of superiority.
DailyHilton: Thanks for that very succinct statement. If you truly DO know someone who is a 'name' or 'celeb' (I mean not just that you sell them coffee at the corner Starbucks, but you KNOW them) then if you are name dropping you are not a good friend or family member.
These are PEOPLE whose privacy and relationships should be protected and you should CARE that you are not using them for your own feelings of superiority.
"Life is a lesson in humility"
#20
Posted: 9/30/04 at 11:02am
It was a very long night (and am paying for it this morning)... actually, I'm amazed I was as coherent as I was! AMAZING!
Thank you, IAmSam. I mean we're all guilty of name dropping here and there on occasion, sometimes without even realizing what you're doing. But to consciously make a thread doing so... I think that's just asking for trouble. Esp. if you actually are friends with a person. If it's relevent to mention them in a given situation, that's one thing, but a thread devoted to bragging...?? Hmmm.
Thank you, IAmSam. I mean we're all guilty of name dropping here and there on occasion, sometimes without even realizing what you're doing. But to consciously make a thread doing so... I think that's just asking for trouble. Esp. if you actually are friends with a person. If it's relevent to mention them in a given situation, that's one thing, but a thread devoted to bragging...?? Hmmm.
"You! You are the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber! And you, well, I just plain don't like you."
~Stewart Gilligan Griffin
~Stewart Gilligan Griffin
Updated On: 9/30/04 at 11:02 AM
#21
Posted: 9/30/04 at 11:05am
Carol Channing was my Great Grandmother's wetnurse.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#22
Posted: 9/30/04 at 11:07am
Carol Channing was my great grandmother's lover.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#23
Posted: 9/30/04 at 11:08am
"The tower! The tower! Rapunzel! Rapunzel!"
#24
Posted: 9/30/04 at 11:11am
GET OUT! Carol was my great gran's shrink!
"You! You are the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber! And you, well, I just plain don't like you."
~Stewart Gilligan Griffin
~Stewart Gilligan Griffin
#25
Posted: 9/30/04 at 11:12am
She's had a busy life, that one.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
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