Have you ever wondered what it would be like to meet someone famous? (No, this isn't supposed to be some name-dropping celebrity-chasing blog-post.) I've scarcely met anyone of note. Or maybe I have, and completely failed to notice. In fact, that's reasonably likely; since I'm not very aware of fame or fortune; it's one of the many facets of my own bizarre naivete. Indeed, most of the people I think of as famous or noteworthy are:
1) Dead,
b) Famous for inventing or discovering something - NOT appearing on telly.
But there was this one time...
We had just been watching Spiderman 3 (I think) at the cinema in Cardiff. The film had just ended and we were walking out of the auditorium into the lobby area. It was reasonably late, and there weren't too many people around except for an old guy mopping the shiny floor. So he looks up at us and winks, saying "Great fim, huh?" as though he was personally proud of it. We agreed, of course and moments later it struck us... "Was that Stan Lee?" we asked each other. Of course, it couldn't be. Why would he be mopping a floor in Cardiff? But it DID look like him. And it was a situation just like the little cameos he has in all those superhero films.
Of course, it's not nearly as funny as seeing Dylan Moran in a second hand bookshop; but it was spooky. And what's more, we'll never really know; but we all remember it just the same way.
1) Dead,
b) Famous for inventing or discovering something - NOT appearing on telly.
But there was this one time...
We had just been watching Spiderman 3 (I think) at the cinema in Cardiff. The film had just ended and we were walking out of the auditorium into the lobby area. It was reasonably late, and there weren't too many people around except for an old guy mopping the shiny floor. So he looks up at us and winks, saying "Great fim, huh?" as though he was personally proud of it. We agreed, of course and moments later it struck us... "Was that Stan Lee?" we asked each other. Of course, it couldn't be. Why would he be mopping a floor in Cardiff? But it DID look like him. And it was a situation just like the little cameos he has in all those superhero films.
Of course, it's not nearly as funny as seeing Dylan Moran in a second hand bookshop; but it was spooky. And what's more, we'll never really know; but we all remember it just the same way.
I'd love to see Stan Lee do a real-life cameo! That would be something special :)
ReplyDeleteI've never met a famous person, although I was once hit on by an actor from Heroes. Through Twitter, actually.
Glad you've started this thing up!
It was a strange event. We'll never *really* know whether it was him...
ReplyDeleteBTW: It was Nick Morris who saw Dylan Moran in a Cardiff bookshop. http://twitter.com/asiandon (We're related actually - Nick & I that is; not Dylan.)
Strangely, I had another occurrence today. Sitting in Atlantic Coffee on St.Mary Street, we were watching Spiderman go into the new costume/fancy-dress shop opposite (apparently it was their first day open today) and then an older guy goes past on a mobility scooter - it looked just like Stan Lee! AGAIN!
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