ARCHIVE: AA Celebrity Sightings and Related - 2000-2012
Oct 8, 2007, 1:28 pm
#1516
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: DFW; Allen, TX
Programs: AA EXP/2MM, SPG Lifetime Platinum, Marriott PLT, National Exec Elite
Posts: 1,083
Oct 8, 2007, 4:50 pm
#1517
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Austin, Texas
Posts: 1
Dick Clark
Wife and I sat behind Dick Clark and an unidentified older woman in '92 enroute to Miami for our honeymoon cruise. Nice guy. But I will say that he looked waaaaaaay older in person than on the tube. Sat next to a few Texas politicians from AUS-DFW. That is all.
Oct 8, 2007, 4:56 pm
#1518
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: SNA
Programs: Bonvoy LTTE/AMB, AmEx Plat, National EE, WN A-List, CLEAR+, Covid-19
Posts: 4,967
I um, ... relieved myself ... in the stall next to him in the bathroom at Geoffrey's in Malibu a couple of years back. He looked old-as-dirt then, too, and of course is much shorter than he appears on TV (everybody is, which was a big surprise once moving to "Hollywood").
Oct 13, 2007, 8:02 pm
#1519
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: San Antonio, TX
Programs: AA EXP; 1 Million; HH Gold; HGVC
Posts: 153
Sept 12, about 5:00 a.m. Jesse Jackson held elevator for me on 9th floor of ORD Hilton as i was headed downstairs to catch a 6:15 AA flight to San Salvador.
Oct 14, 2007, 1:34 am
#1520
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: May 2004
Location: DFW/DAL
Programs: AA Lifetime PLT, AS MVPG, HH Diamond, NCL Platinum Plus, MSC Diamond
Posts: 21,422
And you waited 15 years to make make this your first post to Flyertalk?
Oct 14, 2007, 11:37 pm
#1521
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: SJC
Programs: AA EXP; WN CP; Hilton Diamond; Hertz PC; Marriott Plat; PC Plat
Posts: 127
Oct 15, 2007, 11:00 am
#1522
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: ORD
Programs: AA PLT .8MM
Posts: 29
10/14, spotted Jeff Goldblum AA889 ORD-LAX in F.
Oct 19, 2007, 6:51 am
#1523
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Dallas
Programs: AA Exec Plat, *Wood Plat, MR Plat, Hertz Pres Cir
Posts: 7
just got off the plane - Emmit Smith 10/18, OAK to DFW, 1474. Sat right behind him in F.
Oct 19, 2007, 7:27 am
#1524
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Cote d'Ivoire
Programs: OW Emerald - HH Diamond
Posts: 3,418
Nice Lessert! For me, Nancy Kerrigan at LGA on Wednesday.
Oct 19, 2007, 2:33 pm
#1525
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Chicagoland, IL, USA
Programs: WN CP, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 14,192
Oct 19, 2007, 5:13 pm
#1526
Moderator: American AAdvantage
Join Date: May 2000
Location: NorCal - SMF area
Programs: AA LT Plat; HH LT Diamond, Maître-plongeur des Muccis
Posts: 62,948
Tuesday Oct 16, DFW Terminal D, descending from the Skylink, Rigoberta Menchú, or a darned good doppelganger.
Oct 19, 2007, 5:28 pm
#1527
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: ORD
Programs: AA; Marriott; SPG; HH
Posts: 3,473
Johnny Thunder
On a mileage run from ORD-LAX, he was on my flight. Since he was way before my time, I did not know who he was but found out during boarding. He was seated in 5E, I believe, and a couple boarded but had different seats in FC - the wife was in 4F and the hubby in 6F. After they had seated, the guy in 6F offered to switch seats so they could be together. Since people were still boarding, Johnny told the wife it would be easier if she waited until boarding was complete before she switched seats.
As she waited, she started chatting to him about his destination and it turns out he was heading to Hawaii on a cruise ship. She was the excitable, talkative sort and asked more questions. That was when she found out he was a musician on the cruise ship. She asked if he ever did anything professional and he mentioned he was a member of The Drifters and she got all giddy. Yap, Yap, Yap.
He was a charming man, charming enough for a 75 yr old. Charming enough that when boarding was complete and her husband told her to come back and sit next to him, she said she did not want to and wanted to keep talking to Johnny.
As she waited, she started chatting to him about his destination and it turns out he was heading to Hawaii on a cruise ship. She was the excitable, talkative sort and asked more questions. That was when she found out he was a musician on the cruise ship. She asked if he ever did anything professional and he mentioned he was a member of The Drifters and she got all giddy. Yap, Yap, Yap.
He was a charming man, charming enough for a 75 yr old. Charming enough that when boarding was complete and her husband told her to come back and sit next to him, she said she did not want to and wanted to keep talking to Johnny.
Oct 20, 2007, 8:52 am
#1528
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: MA
Programs: USA Silver; AA Plat; Marriott Silver; SPG Gold
Posts: 19
I've also seen Lenny Clarke (Rescue Me) on a Delta flight and chatted with Derek Sanderson (for Boston Bruin) at a US Air counter earlier this year.
~ryan
Oct 20, 2007, 12:42 pm
#1529
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: GSO
Programs: AA-PLT/Lifetime
Posts: 1,187
I had to Google the name to find out she was a Nobel Peace Prize winner with an incredible background. I suspect there's an interesting story behind the reason you could recognize her.
Oct 20, 2007, 1:27 pm
#1530
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: SAN and before that...EWR....AA EXP (3MM)..HH LIFETIME DIAMOND..AVIS PREFERRED PLUS
Posts: 678
Over the years I've seen in the airport/on my flight/ at the hotel:
Michael Jordan and Wizards' teammates- Houston at the Westin Galleria
Steve Martin
Sylvester Stallone
Dick Enberg
Dennis Connor
Tony Gwynn
Dennis Green (once with family, once alone)
Flava Flave (big clock around neck)
Paula Abdul
Little Richard
Richard Simmons
Al Sharpton
Mike Wallace
These are the people that I remember off the top of my head....
Michael Jordan and Wizards' teammates- Houston at the Westin Galleria
Steve Martin
Sylvester Stallone
Dick Enberg
Dennis Connor
Tony Gwynn
Dennis Green (once with family, once alone)
Flava Flave (big clock around neck)
Paula Abdul
Little Richard
Richard Simmons
Al Sharpton
Mike Wallace
These are the people that I remember off the top of my head....
Last edited by IMStill4Travel; Oct 20, 2007 at 3:04 pm