My Cage "Classics" 10/12/2009

Larry Niven I guess, if you mean met long enough to have a real conversation. I was at SDCC, one of the early ones, and Larry and I got trapped in a hotel corridor for like half an hour while fans mobbed Jack Kirby at the other end. Years later, at a different convention, I sat down beside Larry at one of the lunch tables and asked him if he remembered meeting me and he did. :)

J.E. Melton

Probably Ken Burns. Ran into him in Telluride and this was just after he released The Dust Bowl and finding out I was from Kansas he wanted to know if I'd seen it and what I thought. Ran into him again a year later and I made a comment about how I kept meeting up with him and he snottily replied; Well, I live here so that's no big deal. I chalked it up to he was having a bad day.

Steven Sutton

long ago and far away... I'd say Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth. She played bass and sang many of the their songs. It was '84 or '85. This was the original 9:30 Club @ 930 F St. in Washington DC. Years later the club relocated and is still going. Sonic Youth was at the 9:30 Club a few times. .. I met Kim, chatted and had a few beers and did my one and only stage "dive" (it wasn't very far. lol

Robert ALAN Bryan

Oh God, this would be a great opportunity for me to show off, since I used to write for an animation website and interviewed some heavy hitters for them, not to mention producing a couple of celebrity-hosted events when I was working for the Sci-Fi Channel (before it became SyFy)...okay, how about sitting in the front row of a press conference about 10 feet away from George Lucas promoting Strange Magic, a real stinkeroo of an animated feature he exec-produced? (Does sitting directly behind Spike Lee at a preview screening of a Disney movie count as meeting him?)

JoeStrike

I think the most famous person ever to learn my name was Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. I'm not sure how my mom got her to visit, but my writing in childhood piqued her interest.

Stephen Gilberg

I was riding a bus in Manhattan, reading The Great Gatsby for my Great Books class @ NYU. Tony Randall was across from me, saw my book and recited the first paragraph. I mentioned that I’d just seen him in the Alfred Hitchcock hour. He laughed, said that that had been very long ago, and signed my copy of The Great Gatsby. 🥰

There have been a few, because my work for a local TV station allowed me to attend the ABC Network's Fall Preview event in LA, at which stars of new series were paraded around. This was late 60's/early 70's. I was most honored to meet Henry Fonda, and had the best conversation with Michael Constantine. In another setting, Alex Trebek, but the story is too long for this setting.

Richard Estel

I guess Melinda French Gates. She worked with my wife. And then Bill and their kids. They are pretty famous here in Seattle.

Kenneth Glaldden

Isaac Asimov. I was ”Private Willis” in a New Jersey amateur production of “Iolanthe” that my wife directed, and we were asked to repeat it in concert form for the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Society, of which he was a long-standing member.

John W. Kennedy