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Who Have You Run Into On Your Travels?

by Brett Atkinson (RSS feed) on Aug 25th 2007 at 5:55PM

Everyone reckons it's a small world. Six degrees of separation and all that. To prove it, I want to find out from readers what famous faces they've chanced upon in their travels. Here's my list.

Actress Jane Fonda on a racing bike stopped at traffic lights in Toronto.
Singer George Michael at a Wimpy burger bar in London.
Actor Mandy Patinkin in the Air New Zealand lounge at LAX.
Actor Matt Dillon at a screening of Scorcese's Last Temptation of Christ in New York.
Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti at the City Lights bookshop in San Francisco.

Thanks to scott92007 on Flickr for the pic of the world's best bookshop.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Carl Aug 25th 2007 6:44PM

Ben Affleck while having dinner at the Double Musky Inn, Girdwood, Alaska.

Jamie Rhein Aug 25th 2007 7:03PM

Neat topic!
Here's my list:
George Bush Sr., Warsaw, Poland (He was going by in his motorcade. I could just see him waving.)
Queen Elizabeth outside a movie theater in London. She was there for an opening. I was walking by and stopped to watch her come out.
Michael J. Fox when he was filming Bright Lights Big City in Manhattan. I turned the corner somewhere between 5th Avenue and Broadway and saw the film crew set up. I waited for him to come out of his trailer.
Princess Anne when she was eating in the same restaurant I was eating at in The Gambia. I just saw the back of her head since she was in another room.
Actress Diane Keaton at a movie theater in West Hollywood.
Actor Wally Shawn outside a friend's apartment in NYC.
Magician David Copperfield at Narita Airport in Japan. (Actually, I didn't see him. My husband did. I was getting something to eat and he disappeared before I came back.)
Michael Jackson when he was at the Broadway production of Oliver. He walked right by me.

Nick Hawkins Aug 25th 2007 9:16PM

I sat next to the rapper, DMX, on a flight back from Paris. Let me tell you - that was more fun than the trip itself.

mark Aug 25th 2007 10:08PM

ronald reagan at the springfield, mo airport (1988)
bush sr at the el paso, tx airport (1988)
sen strom thurmond at his office in washington (1995)
chuck norris at sms university springfield, mo (1988)
nicholas cage filming a scene for "wild at heart" at an el paso, tx gas station (1989) (scene was supposed to be in la)
sherman helmsley at cd universe, cielo vista mall, el paso, tx
ellan degeneres by a west hollywood sidewalk (1985)
ted kennedy on the west wing sidewalk (1978)