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Very cool story, Bob Hope was an absolute legend .

I sometimes catch his appearances on the old Tonight Show w/Carson on one of the retro tv channels, or on Utube.. he was so smooth and effortlessly funny.. but obviously , as we can tell from ur story, he put a lot of effort into making it look so easy.. i think all the greats are like that .

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Yes he was. He was also a favorite of my grandfather and one of my favorite memories as a kid was getting to stay up late and watch old Bob Hope movies with him. I was trying to get an autograph for him, but ended up with a good story instead. Called him as soon as I got home that night.

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ETA: I've gotten a lot over the past year. Most of the celebs and uber rich I see are normal, nice people. Mickelson and his wife scared the fricking bejesus out of me in Halloween. Jessica Biel chit chatted with me every morning at breakfast for like a week and a half - really genuine lady. Baker Mayfield is a bitch who drinks vodka water. So on and so forth.

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Say bro, what's your deal...that you're seeing Biel every morning for a week straight? I'm super jelly.

Met Chris Hanson once out of nowhere. He was a nice guy, more than willing to chat. He’s even taller in person.

Almost got into a fight with Jean Claude Van Damn.

First off, we all would have got destroyed but there was no way I wasn't going to help defend my friend.

So here it goes. On a Monday night, technically my Friday night after working the weekend shift, me and group of co-workers end up at the Gold club in Baton Rouge. Naturally, there is only a handful of people in there on a week night.

While we were in there, we look across the stage and see Van Damn and another guy, probably a body guard or driver, sitting across from us. Van Damn was in town filming Universal Solider 3 at the time, so this had to be around 2010 or so.

Anyways, no one really made a big deal about seeing him. It was pretty clear by his dark sunglasses on inside the dark club and his actions that he was trying not to be bothered that night.

We close the club down and everyone heads out the front door. One of my buddies, who was pretty hammered, decided he had to holla at Van Dam. We get outside and he says "Jean Claude, Time Cop yeah!" while kind of drunkenly laughing. Apparently Van Dam had become defensive about that role and it was pretty obvious he thought my buddy was trying to clown him.

Van Dam responds quickly with a stone cold serious face "what the frick did you just say?" At this point, we are thinking my drunk buddy is about to get us slaughtered.

Luckily, drunken buddy was sincere and followed his statement up with something along the lines that this was one of his all time favorite movies and that he was a fan of Van Dam.

Crisis averted. The lion king goes on about his way.

Got a happy birthday phone call from Tara Reid back when she was big. My buddy’s bro owned a club in Atlanta and they were partying together that night. He invited me to go, but I didn’t. :-(

Was in the Paris Ritz on the Champs de Elysee with my daughter (no pics) who was studying abroad in Madrid at the time, and my wife (no pics). We took my daughter to Paris for the weekend and splurged on the Ritz.

We made the mistake of having breakfast in the Ritz dining room, which was just a pastry and coffee, but it was the most expensive meal of my life. While seated I saw this weird couple walk in. She was Hollywood’s idea of a 1920’s mega-rich woman, with a turbine and a cape looking thing - all white. He had on business attire and looked like a wolfman with his facial hair and long hair.

They sat down and were joined later by a tall, maybe 6’ 1” guy in shitty jeans and T-shirt with a backwards baseball cap. I told my wife and daughter, “That guy looks like Leonardo DeCaprio. In fact, that IS him.” As they turned to look, a woman walked by with matching scarf and shoes in polka dot. They were so intrigued by the fashion that they completely forgot Leo.

When I returned to the US a week later I read that Leonardo had been in Paris signing a deal to finance his next movie.

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I saw Vin Diesel at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

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You told this same story about Steve Harvey.

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Played catch in my backyard with Mickey Mantle for about 20 minutes while him and my pop bullshitted and sipped a few.

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This guy wins the thread.

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Almost got into a fight with Jean Claude Van Damn.

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Should have warned him that you were a black belt in Six Sigma.

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Jesse James

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My first cousins daughter. I tell no tales.