Has anyone recognized actors anywhere but a show? — Page 4

"Oh wait, how could I forget? Kyle Mooney was nothing. I was in the men's room line at the Cort before King Lear and Matt Damon came down the stairs. He saw the line and grinned and said, "Guess everybody knows it's long, right?"

He turned around and left. I wondered if maybe he got to go backstage and use one of the cast restrooms. :) "

Bathrooms backstage are very much in demand at intermission, so I'm guessing no :)

I have worked in Times Square for decades. If I told you all of the celebrity sightings I've had, I'd run us into the next page. One of my favorites was Bill Irwin. We literally ran into each other as we stepped out into the street at the same time to avoid after show crowds. I probably would haven fallen if he hadn't had steadied me.

JPeterman said: "My brother CLAIMs that Mira Sorvino flirted with him on the subway .... TWICE.

And Anthony Michael Hall complimented the regal beauty of my brother’s dog on the front steps of the American Museum of National History. I can vouch for that one, I was there."

There may be some truth to what your brother stated. Cause she kind of flirted with me years ago in LA, during the afterparty for From Dusk To Dawn. Might just be her personality. She really was sweet.

Updated On: 11/1/19 at 03:58 PM

yankeefan7 said: ""There may be some truth to what your brother stated. Cause she kind of flirted with me years ago in LA, during the afterparty for From Dusk To Dawn. Might just be her personality. She really was sweet."

Just curious how she kind of flirted -lol."

Laughing and smiling at everything I said. Then again.....it could have been a side effect from the red food coloring (for blood) that was in the beer. Who knows?

Brian D'arcy James works out at my gym, and then, on my way home, I held the door for Sutton Foster and her daughter. What a Shrek filled day.

I've seen Christian Bole at Glasshouse Tavern a ton.

"Why is it that even sophisticated New York theatergoers get a kick out of meeting Broadway stars? Many of us are highly educated professionals successful in our fields. No one stage doors us when we leave work.

As Gaveston says, there is a rule about approaching celebrities but even those who follow the rule must be feeling the temptation or there wouldn't have to be a rule.

There must be something unique to the show biz experience. The actors play characters that engage our emotions and make us care about them, and we transfer the emotion feelings created in us by the character to the actor that plays the character? And we do often follow the lives of the actors as reported in the news. But the news wouldn't carry so many stories and interviews on the stars unless there was a demand for them, and there is certainly a demand.

Is a puzzlement."

I think it is human nature to get a kick out of seeing somebody famous especially if it is from something you enjoy like Broadway theater. Obviously, I am a huge NY Yankee fan and many years ago I was on the same plane from Las Vegas to NY as Joe DiMaggio. I did not bother him but it still was kind of cool for me to see a living legend.

I think it is human nature to get a kick out of seeing somebody famous especially if it is from something you enjoy like Broadway theater.

Good, observation, Yankee Fan. Probably it is not necessarily that they are entertainers, it is just that they are famous perhaps.

I went with my father to an Old Timers' Day at Yankee Stadium in the mid-60s, and Joe hit a clean home run down the left field line into the seats. More on topic, my uncle was one of the best amateur golfers on Long Island in the 70s and belonged to the same private golf club as Whitey Ford. One weekend my uncle organized a foursome that included Ford and my father, and i was invited to tag along. Ford went out of his way to come over to talk to me and a friend while walking a fairway. I was so intimidated that I could barely get out a word.

So perhaps it is more the fame than the occupation.