Famous people I have met, known, or stood within 20 feet of:<\/p>\n
Dean Dittman<\/a>, a good friend of my mother’s. I’m sure there’s more but I can’t think of them at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Famous people I have met, known, or stood within 20 feet of: Dean Dittman, a good friend of my mother’s. Sam Donaldson, got his autograph at the Republican National Convention in 1988 Ronald Reagan, sat on the floor about 10 feet from his podium at the RNC George Bush, ditto Anne Richards, came and shook […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSam Donaldson, got his autograph at the Republican National Convention in 1988
\nRonald Reagan, sat on the floor about 10 feet from his podium at the RNC
\nGeorge Bush, ditto
\nAnne Richards, came and shook my hand at a party in Laredo, also the aforementioned restaurant incident
\nSting, was in an elevator with him in New York City
\nRichard Simmons, busted me coming out of a cookie store in O’Hare Airport… (of all the luck, sheesh<\/i>)
\nJimmie Walker, stayed on my floor at a hotel in Las Vegas and we were stranded waiting to go to our rooms when the fire alarm went off
\nDouglas Adams, at a booksigning in Austin
\nDon Henley, ditto
\nAlton Brown, ditto
\nCarl Anderson<\/a>, backstage at the Jesus Christ Superstar reunion show in San Antonio (he told me I was impeccably dressed *melt*)
\nDan Ackroyd, passed by him on a sidewalk in Reno
\nSleepy Floyd, (from the SA Spurs) frequented the same bar
\nBob Stupak, passed him in the hall in a Las Vegas casino
\nJerry Tarkanian, (former UNLV baskeball coach, looked like Uncle Fester and always bit towels) ran into him at the Las Vegas airport
\nBruce Campbell, got a response to an email I sent him
\nTed Nugent, ditto<\/p>\n