I started this page as several celebrities that I met over the years were passing. So I collected the best photos and recalled the memories of also meeting them upfront seeing how they really are and how they treated their fans and admirers.
Page down!! The sequence is in the most recent who have passed except for the Golden Girls who I grouped together
PAGE DOWN for: Celeste Holm, Robin Gibb, Ernest Borgnine, Mike Wallace, Robert Hegyes (Juan Epstein of Welcome Back Kotter), Peter Falk, Leslie Nielsen, Gary Coleman, Patrick Swayze, Bea Arthur & Rue Mclanahan, George Carlin
MORE PICS AND VIDEOS
I knew Marie was battling brain cancer over 10 ys and I saw her twice in NYC at The Beacon. These photos are from 2012. I was as hurt and devastated losing Marie as I was when we lost Prince suddenly. Oddly when I was Sweden where she is from
So saddened hearing about Eddie Money's cancer and health. Didn't know we would have lost him so soon after the announcement. I got see him in 2010 at BB Kings in New York City and he was awesome and his only daughter performed with him
So saddened hearing about Eddie Money's cancer and health. Didn't know we would have lost him so soon after the announcement. I got see him in 2010 at BB Kings in New York City and he was awesome and his only daughter performed with him
My recording of my favorite song of Eddie:
Peggy Lipton from THE MOD SQUAD who I also had a crush on just passed May 2019. Photo taken in 2005 in NYC at her book signing for
BREATHING OUT at B&N
Jerry Maren (2nd left) last surviving Munchkin just passed June 2018. Photo taken in 2009 in NYC at a special screening of Wizard of Oz
After Davy Jones of The Monkees passed away in 2012 they had a Monkee's reunion (Mickey Dolenz & Peter Tork) with David along with Davy's daughters when I saw him.
Always my favorite James Bond - got to meet him twice!!!
Always my Princess Leia
I saw Florence at the Tony Awards in NYC in 2012
I met Gene Wilder in NYC back in 2010 with his wife Karen Boyer Wilder talking and signing his new book in hardcover What Is This Thing Called Love?
What I didn't realize until I left Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Center was this was
facing the fountain that he and Zero Mostel were at when the fountain went on
He was amazing in Willy Wonka, Young Frankenstein, The Producers, Blazing Saddles and Blue Streak are my favorites
Saw Abe at a Tony Awards celebration around 2012 at Radio City Music Hall in NYC. This was before he and Betty White appeared in that commercial.
Saw Alan back in 2009 at a Harry Potter premiere in NYC at The Ziegfeld
I met her with husband Jerry Stiller together at
Museum of Moving Image in Astoria, Queens going over their lives and career together.
I also loved her in the movie Fame (1980).....RIP
These are from March 10, 2011 along with a video from the event.
Met him several times at the 92nd St Y. He was an amazing photographer also!!
I also enjoyed him in the Mission Impossible series, a few episodes even had Shattner with him......RIP
These are from March 2007
Years ago I met Joan at an off-Broadway play. She was so funny, energetic and
made time for her fans unlike many others. RIP Joan.....
Back in April 2005 I saw Robin Williams in NYC at a premiere of HOUSE OF D by David Duchovny which also included Tea Leoni (now his ex-wife)
I would later meet him in the theater and even shaked is hand, as my ex-girlfriend asked for his autograph. The unimaginable happened. He signed it sideways across two pages and then she asked actually asked him to sign it again so he did the same thing underneath the signature he already signed!!!
I remember seeing him on Happy Days which evolved into Mork and Mindy. My favorite movies of him were: Goodwill Hunting, Mrs. Doubtfire, Patch Adams, Old Dogs
Margaret Pellegrini, One of the Last Wizard of Oz Munchkins, Dies at 89
Back in 2009 I attended a special and FREE viewing of The Wizard of Oz. And the surviving Munchkins were there along with Lorna Luft.
Ron Palillo played class clown Arnold Horschack among the show's "Sweathogs." I was lucky to meet him on two different occasions
This is the sign from the opening credits of Welcome Back Kotter which is
visible at Brooklyn Municipal Building - 210 Joralemon Street
At the restored Loew's Theater in Jersey City, NJ USA she appeared for a special screening of ALL ABOUT EVE with who we thought was her son or grandson, but was her Hubby !!!
She is a real cougar - the man on her right is her Hubby !!!!!!!
She is a real cougar - the man on her right is her Hubby !!!!!!!
She is a real cougar - the man on her right is her Hubby !!!!!!!
She is a real cougar - the man on her right is her Hubby !!!!!!!
He was so friendly, open, cheerful and full of energy. I was so lucky to meet him not once, but twice!
Taken at a Chiller Theatre convention in New Jersey.
These were taken at a book signing in NYC - I got him to write in the book that he "didn't kill Sinatra"
Taken at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony in NYC back in 2010
Special thanks to Maria N. for these photos from the same event
Taken at the Bombay Dreams Broadway Premiere back in 2004
Gary Coleman RIP.
I met him a few years ago at a convention.
He had the special gift of making us laugh, it's really sad what happened
to him and his co-stars Dana & Todd over the years.
I was so fortunate to meet Patrick and his wife back in 2006 in New York City. My favorite movies are TOO WONG FO, and of course DIRTY DANCING. He is the most memorable, kindest, down to earth Actor I ever met. Even shy to some degree, the girls went crazy over him and I was saddened to hear about his Cancer at such a young age.
Keep dancing up in Heaven Patrick!!!
Bea I remember back on Archie Bunker and Maude. I was amazed how tall she is and the mouth on her!! Whew....She had me cracking up with her stories and jokes when I saw her perform on Broadway
This was taken at her entering a Broadway Premiere, I think it was Bombay Dreams. She looked ravishing and gorgeous at her age. I loved her on Golden Girls with her sexyness and being the first "real cougar" on TV
Gregory Hines was co-hosting the Tony Awards at Radio City with Bernadette Peters.
They even came out onto the street dancing and shaked my hands along with others!!!
Meeting George Carlin was wild and crazy He arrived late at a Border's in NYC and was cursing at the traffic and at the same time breaking the ice for everyone waiting for him. He signed anything that he worked on, told us stories and posed with anyone.
