re: a-hole celebrities and here are the rules:

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Antonin Scalia (RIP)

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I would love to have met that man.

I've had conversations with a strangely diverse group of people and have never had a bad experience.

Phil Mickelson: I did not like Phil before talking with him, but he sold me that day. I was at a practice round early one morning at the TPC at Sawgrass. Phil was playing a practice round and I was just walking around watching a few holes. It was just me and Phil at this particular spot. He had just hit a tee shot and was walking off the tee box. He started up a conversation with me and we talked until he finished the hole. I have been a Phil fan ever since.

Jay Leno: Nice guy. Gave me a can of Cajun Cola from a 6-pack that he had been given as a gift from the venue he had just worked.

Antonin Scalia: Very intelligent guy. We talked about our common Sicilian heritage.

Joey Fatone: super-nice guy. Very laid-back and funny. He was surprised that Louisiana had so many Italian-Americans.

Bobby Valentine (MLB player and manager): Met him at the restaurant he owned in Arlington, Texas. Sat at our table for a while just talking with us. Gave us a round of free drinks.

David Toms: I know DT fairly well. Very nice guy and obsessive LSU fan.

Chris Dimarco (former PGA golf pro): funny guy and a jokester.

Evander Holyfield: probably the closest to an a-hole, but I think he was just not in the mood for chitchat the day I met him. He was training for an exhibition match.

Ernie Ladd: met him a few times and a great guy. However, first time I met him I was about 12 years old at the Shreveport Airport restaurant. He was in-character/kayfabe, and started yelling at the cook that he didn't put enough vegetables in his soup.

I personally knew Ernie. Really was a nice guy. Even in his normal talking voice sometimes it sounded like he was yelling. He could talk real loud.

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Served Naomi Judd a lot, before she passed away. Seriously a good human being. Didn’t really want anyone to fawn all over her, just wanted to be treated like everyone else.

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RIP.

I loved the Judds.

This is sad. The only semi famous person I met was the gay guy from Mad Men in the airport.

I didn't even know his name so I left him alone.

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Ernie Ladd: met him a few times and a great guy. However, first time I met him I was about 12 years old at the Shreveport Airport restaurant. He was in-character/kayfabe, and started yelling at the cook that he didn't put enough vegetables in his soup.

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I read a story somewhere or other where some high school guys decided they were going to be the Ernie Ladd Fan Club and showed up to cheer at one of his marches. The rest of the crowd was getting seriously agitated at them, so Ernie invited them back to the locker room and hung out with them until everybody cleared out.

Sister owned an upscale store on Royale St. pre Katrina & she would routinely get celebrities shopping there. She called me one evening & told me that Goldie Hawn & Kurt Russel had made an appointment to shop at a set time in the morning. This was when Goldie was past her prime but still looking good, in photo ops anyway. Wife was a huge Russell fan as well so we went early & just shot the breeze with my sister till they both walked in. Store empty, it was early. Let them do their thing, just watching, no intentions beyond that. As they walked by on the way out, got a good look at Goldie & she looked like a skank on lower St. Charles Ave. Skank BAD. Russell, looking great, was a bit behind her & as she stumbled a bit, he looked at us, laffed, and said" too much coke last nite". Big huge friendly smile.

John Cusack in NOLA, total a-hole to one of my best buddies at a hotel. Friend worked at the hotel.

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I was drunk and young, and I admitted that we were both douches

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Oh, how magnanimous. No, YOU were the douche.

I have a friend from New York who has a story about how Alec Baldwin and Adam Levine were both hitting on her and both aware she was under age at the time (this was about 18 years ago).