The whole store would buzz when he came in. I went over and stood there while he signed autographs. We would stand there with security maybe six feet away and look down at him. That was the section Bruce Springsteen would go to. They had a two-way mirror above the oldies section in the cassettes, and security would look over the store from there. He used to come into Tower pretty regularly. I guess I’m most impressed that you actually met Springsteen.īruce Springsteen was pretty cool. I watched for a second and then I said, “I gotta go.” I didn’t look around to see who was there, but there were probably other musicians. It’s the best I’ve ever heard.” He offered me a drink and he was obviously intoxicated. Marvin Gaye was singing the national anthem at a basketball game on TV. I delivered something to Harry Nilsson’s house. Although the Bijou is closed for now, you can still get their famous popcorn and stream movies from their virtual theater.Īltomare met Lenny Kravitz when she was working for music trade publication HITS Magazine. Betsy and her husband, Keith, own and operate the Bijou Theatre in Lincoln City. My list, however, pales next to Betsy Altomare’s. You can guess from the above whom I never actually met - I’ve always loved that he was raised in the Rogue Valley, where I also lived for a couple of years. But she let me go ahead and later thanked me for getting it right. She said she had canceled interviews over a lack of recording. She was friendly but disturbed that I wasn’t taping our conversation. Wally Lamb - just as nice as you might imagine - read from one of his novels at the Denver Woman’s Press Club, and I met Hedren when I interviewed her for a story for The Oregonian. I had lunch with Stiers as the guest of a friend who bid on the meal for a fundraiser. He was shy, friendly, and constantly in motion. I met Cocker when I interviewed him at his wife’s café in Crawford, Colo., a little town about 70 miles southeast of Grand Junction. I listed Joe Cocker, Wally Lamb, Ty Burrell, David Ogden Stiers, and Tippi Hedren. Then it’s up to your friends to guess which one that is. One recent “game” going around asks for the names of five (or sometimes 10) celebrities you’ve met, including one that’s a lie.
In these strange days, I’m game for pretty much anything that might inspire a few grins, and lately that’s coming, often as not, from Facebook, where I spend entirely too much time.
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