When I was 18 (many, many years ago!), I was skiing with my girlfriends at Heavenly Valley in South Tahoe, and a celebrity ski tournament was taking place on the Nevada side of the mountain. I ended up sharing a chair with Clint Eastwood (silently — I was absolutely freaked) all the way to the top. As we emptied out of the chair, I wobbled and he grabbed my upper arm to steady me, then let me go. Since then, I’ve met and shared the air with many celebrities due to my work, but that was absolutely the ride of my life.

George Steinbrenner. Not at all the jerk people paint him to be. I’d go so far as to say he’s even alittle shy.

I met Bob Barker. If you can call it meet. I went to the Price is Right, he was on stage and I was in the audience.

Good Evening All! I had the great pleasure of meeting Laura Nyro behind a dinner theatre on her tourbus on my birthday. The year was 1988 and Laura had just come back from a long hiatus and the occassion was the beginning of a comeback tour in Massuchussetts. I drove in from Toronto for the event as she was and will always be my idol. She autographed some memorabilia for me. Laura was very gracious, generous and very kind-hearted~just like her music is. I will never forget that birthday!

My boyfriend & I met Senator Richard Luger at the press club in Indianapolis in 1976 or so. As we all shook hands, he looked at us intently, leaned in & said, “You make an attractive couple.” I remember his passing comment felt like sort of an insult—like he figured that commenting on our looks was the best way to impress people like us. It could have been just the women’s lib attitude I had at the time.

I attended a party in Pasadena CA given by scientist friends who worked with NASA at the Jet Propulsion Lab. Prominent in his own way, Al Hibbs introduced me to some of the guests and then drifted away. I found myself in a group of scientist types all listening to one guy. He had a pronounced Jersey accent and was odd looking, but they were all hanging on his every word. I don’t remember what he was talking about, but there was something about him that, I knew, was very special. Later I asked a friend who he was. She said, “Oh, that’s Richard Feinman, Nobel Loriate and all-round super-genius scientist. He’s quite a strange man. I’m told he plays the drums in his basement in order to think. His wife isn’t at all amused.” Sure enough, near the end of the party, this oddly charismatic guy had what was left of the guests sitting down all around him on the floor playing some kind of game he’d just invented. While my husband (now ex) was under the piano with his wife. Interesting party.

…and that’s Laureate… After reading all the comments on this subject (boy, whoever asked that sure hit a BIG nerve with us all. A lot of names I’ve never read on here before, coming out of the ether. Big following, Wow!), anyhow… I started to remember some of the celebs I’ve come across. Michael Landon winked at me as I stopped the car in front of Universal while I was taking my son, the actor, in to another reading. I saw Frank Sinatra at the Palace many years ago. Couldn’t see too much, as we were in the extremely raked rows in the peanut gallery. I boarded a plane in California going up to San Francisco and actually ‘chose’ the seat right next to Lloyd Bridges. He was quite chatty and wanted to see the books I publish that I had in my case. Very charming man. Coming home, I saw Charleton Heston arriving at LAX. He seemed to be very thin. When Bobby Kennedy was stumping in Los Angeles, I went over to the Hollywood Bowl to see him driving in in a convertible. He was standing up waving at the crowd. That was the time he was killed in the hotel in LA. When I lived down in Bisbee AZ, I was just going into the local health food store, and just coming out was William Shatner. I said, “Hi, Bill.” He looked at me thinking he ought to know me, but said, “Hi.” As I was coming out of the store, he was sitting in the shade just outside of the door. He looked puffy and red faced. I stopped and said,”You shooting something down here?” He told me what it was, and we chatted for a few minutes about this and that. So then I said, “Well, I’m off.” and I strutted away swinging my hips in my tight jeans and cowboy boots and black hat. I felt pretty spiffy.

I have met many famous people in my business but one who stands out was Sen. Ted Kennedy in 1965 in Washington Senate the day the Civil Rights Bill was passed. Spoke to him afterwards in chambers when he said, “My brother would have been so proud.” Please excuse me, I have to catch a plane for Hyannisport>” That was the plane that crashed and he broke his back and Senator Birch Baye(sp) & wife were aboard with him. Harriette Smith, Los Angeles, CA.

I met Jane Fonda at the Sundance Film festival when the vigina monologue’s were up for an award. She was very warm and charming

The most famous people I have ever met are Nelson Mandela at an underpass under the freeway being taken to his car by a security team to go to his next speaking event. I was with my boss, who was a high ranking political figure Bishop TUTU, Oprah Winfrey, Maya Angelou at a prominant Church Sidney Poitier shooting a film in which my car had a bit part. HRH Prince Philip for whom I arranged a luncheon at the Bel Air Hotel HRH Prince Andrew, for whom I arranged a luncheon at Ritz Carlton Actor Steve McQueen coming out of the old Gucci’s of Rodeo Drive British Actor Peter Finch, out walking on the flats in Beverly Hills and driving by I saw him and stopped to say hello, he was very kind and stop to speak to me. Johnny Mathis at the old Gourmet Chalet in Hollywood off Sunset in the 70’s, he helped me carry my groceries to the car, because I had a new baby. Mel Brooks, lost and looking for David Carradine’s house on Kirkwood Drive in Laurel Canyon, I let him come in and use my phone in the early 70’s Hillary Clinton at a political fundraiser in Northern California Toni Morrison at a reception in a private home Oprah Winfred and Danny Glover at a Fundraiser showing of Beloved. Actor Mel Ferrer at a cocktail party after the showing of perhaps his last film in the late 60’s Gypsy Rose Lee, she had a morning television show in SF and I modeled clothing on one of the shows in the late 60’s. Aaron Spelling attended a fundraiser bash for my boss in the 80’s and I was in charge of making sure his party had everything they needed Actor James Caan, dropped by my little boutique on Charleville in Beverly Hills, it was just around the corner from the William Morris Agency and he bought a basket of perfumed soaps, oils and essences for someone.