[lookout123]

ok - i hear your rant and i sympathize (is that the right word? 13 shots into a bender i'm not sure) but let's make this personal... some celebrities buy their hype, some remain down to earth. who have you mingled with and how did they interact with the folken?
me?

brooke shields - partied at the bar i was working at. extraordinarily plain in appearance. a crew of bodyguards like you couldn't imagine. BITCH to my customers. i tossed her ass out. she and the hired meat didn't take it well.

drew berrymore - once at a party. amazingly shy. nice girl. that is about it.

helen hunt - filmed Twister near where i lived. Bitch. rude condescending homely cheap bitch. i like the movies, but she expected midwesterners to kiss her royal hiney. didn't happen, she was a screamer.

david spade - nice guy. goofy. actually looked hurt when my wife called him shorty. (i felt bad for him.) i actually liked him, because he was kind of like "everyguy"

adam sandler - i really like this guy in real life even if i don't think his movies are all that great. he is a really nice, shy guy. was embarrassed when people started treating him like a star. just wanted to blend in. someone you would invite to your backyard barbecue.

tiger woods - did not want to be seen rubbing elbows with anyone "not famous" at my bar.

chris farley - used to run into him in the John Hancock building in chicago all the time (he lived there) a really genuine guy. nice. open. if there were more than 2 or 3 people present he would instantly go into some sort of goofy act though. he always had some sort of picked on little brother aura around him though. his death is probably the only time that a celebrity death really rocked me. chris was a stand up guy who never found what he was looking for and i will always be sad when i see his movies, his characters weren't that far off from the real guy.

John Candy - only met him once - but very open. friendly, but wary of people. seemed like he was afraid that you had an angle when talking to him.

i guess that is about it. and if you are wondering about the string of SNL ties, i bartended right down the street from the Yankee Clipper. It was a dive bar in Rock Island, IL. that is the place that The Blues Brothers were born. for some bizarre reason, the SNL cast hung out in the dirtiest little bar in Rock Island, IL.

anyway, those are mine - how about yours?