If you didn’t see yesterday’s post, go back before you read today’s.
NO ONE got the correct answer.
One day about twenty years ago at about 5:30 in the afternoon I went to Bob’s Big on Van Nuys Blvd. and there at the counter, eating a Big Boy all by himself was Muhammad Ali. I was going to take a table but chose to sit at the counter a seat away. We exchanged smiles. I was still too much in awe to speak to the champ.
A musical I was involved with was being workshopped in New York. Stephen Sondheim came to watch it. He sat right next to my daughter, Annie.
When we filmed the “Heeeere’s Cliffy” episode of CHEERS at THE TONIGHT SHOW, we did it immediately following an actual TONIGHT SHOW taping. During the show I sat in the green room and had a lovely 20 minute conversation with Elizabeth Taylor. She was great fun, by the way.
O.J. Simpson had finished a game of tennis at the Beverly Hills Hotel and stumbled upon an outdoor wedding. So he stood in the back and watched the wedding. It was mine. No gift from him though.
In doing research for an ABC pilot, I was able to join the White House Press Corps for several days and was in the Rose Garden with President Jimmy Carter. Years later when I was broadcasting for the San Diego Padres I met him at Fulton County Stadium before a Braves game. He would sit way down by the Braves’ dugout on the aisle and kids would come down to get his autograph. He was approachable and lovely.
I was picking up my daughter from a Bar Mitzvah reception at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills and bumped into Robert Duvall. Him I talked to.
In 1980 I had an office at MGM and snuck onto the soundstage where Billy Wilder was directing his last film, BUDDY BUDDY. I got to meet him and spend 15 minutes with him while they were setting up a shot. Talk about an unbelievable thrill.
Before she became a huge star, Taylor Swift sang before a game at Dodger Stadium. I then met her in the Press Lounge during lunch. She could not have been nicer. I was super impressed with her talent and drive. She worked very hard to get where she is.
I met Prince Charles on the set of MASH and asked him what advice he would have for young people thinking of going into his profession? His people were aghast but he found it funny. Oprah is welcome to interview me.
So that leaves out… Julia Roberts. Never met her. But I’d like to.
from By Ken Levine
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