In the early 1990’s while at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for Michael Moorer vs Evander Holyfield fight I met Jack Nicholsen and 2 thugs in an elevator. I was really surprised how small he is….He can’t be much more than 5′6″ or 5′7″.

johnh, hey, I was going to mention Peter Fonda, my first celeb meeting when I was a young teen in Des Moines, Iowa. So ask him if he remembers, me haha!

The story abot Izak Hayes on Chain of Rocks bridge is the best.

I met the singer Paul Simon in someone’s home and talked with him for a few minutes. But, I had to make a large contribution to a political campaign in order to do that.

One time I was buying bagels on Olive and saw a beautiful BMW 750 with Nebraska plates that said “HOF 81″. I look up and here comes my childhood idol Bob Gibson carrying some dry cleaning. I had grown up on Gibson. I had his baseball cards, I had listened to every pitch of his no-hitter against the Pirates in 1971 and seen him pitch many games at Busch. Now it was just me and Bob Gibson. Then, with all the courage I could muster I looked at him and said?….”nice car” to which he responded with a nod “thanks”. Then he was gone.

Several years ago, my daughter attended Washington University, and I read in the newspaper that Michael Keaton’s (the famous actor who played Batman..along with many other roles)son was also attending Wash U…Every year, I would ask my daughter if she ever saw “Batman’s” son on campus…to which she would reply..”How would I know? I don’t know what he looks like.” To which I would respond…”Well if you see the “Batmobile” in the parking lot, then the kid who gets out, would most likely be Batman’s son…at which point she would always roll her eyes and shake her head…4 years go by, and she never saw Batman, or his son.
She graduated and immediately afterwards, I took photos of her and as we walked back to the parking lot, I realized that I had forgotten my camera, and I had to run all of the way back to get it..as I returned, I saw a man proudly taking pics of his son and I offered to take a pic of them together..as he turned around and handed me his camera…yep! it WAS Michael Keaton and his son! and I took a photo of them with their arms around each other…with his “bat-camera”!! What a grin I had on my face!!

BORING

I was walking around my school yard during a Special Olympics event my sophomore year and a guy walked up to me and said “do you know who I am”. I studied him a bit and said “Brett”. He said “close”. Then I said “Hull” and he said right. It was the Brett Hull of the Blues and I wasn’t a hockey fan. We hugged and I wished I had brought out a piece of paper for him to sign. Another time I ran into Lou Brock as his son went to Parkway West.

My wife and I were in New Oleans in 1986 and were watching a film with Richard Gere being filmed. He kept coming out of the side door of this building because he was flubbing his lines. We were on the street side of some parked cars when Mr. Gere came out into the street upset with himself for flubbing his lines for the 3rd or 4th time and he walked around the car, muttering to himself. We were just 2 car widths, the width of the street between the cars away from him. My wife was dissapointed cause she is taller than Richard Gere (she is 5′7″)