Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, and Jimmy Stewart all have one thing that Ariana Grande never had and never will: class. If anything, Ariana Grande is basically a lite version of Miley Cyrus: blatantly overtly sexual to intentionally tarnish the previous squeaky clean image she once had at a time when little girls all over the world still looked up to her as a positive role model because she was Hannah Montana. It’s sad to think so many of these former Disney and Nickelodeon girls ended up going down such a route; I understand one such former Nick girl works in the p0rn industry now.
Anyway, some of the people I’ve met over the years of attending cons include: cast members from SESAME STREET, including Alan Muraoka, Roscoe Orman (Gordon), Emilio Delgado (Luis), Bob McGrath, and Caroll Spinney (Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch); Steve Whitmire (former Muppet Performer of Kermit the Frog and Ernie), Marty Grabstein (voice of Courage the Cowardly Dog); and Jamie Farr (M*A*S*H’s Klinger). I’m really looking forward to possibly meeting Kevin Clash (former Muppet Performer of Elmo), Bill Barretta (Muppet Performer of Pepe the Prawn, Bobo the Bear, Rowlf the Dog, and Dr. Teeth), Paul Williams (who practically wrote the 70s in song), and Jon Lovitz at this year’s con . . . assuming I can afford it this year.
Celebrities I’ve met (for more than a ‘Hi, how are you’". The “Fonz” Henry Winkler (nicest person on Earth), Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh, Duke and Dream Team basketball player Christian Laettner, Mickey Mantle, Mr. Big bassist Billy Sheehan and 10,000 Maniacs singer Natalie Merchant.
My daughter is 30 and she knows Gary Grant, Jimmy Stewart and Katherine Hepburn. Their movies are on TV all the time. The effort to make the kids these days sound ignorant is just painful.
Sadly, that level of ignorance is rampant. I recently talked to someone in her late 20s who is a history teacher in an elementary school, and she said she had NO idea who John F. Kennedy was. And it has nothing to do with when you were born. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Queen Victoria and Bert Williams were all before my time, but I know who they are. And it’s not like Archie Leach, Kate Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart were obscure, either. Obviously we’ve still got our work cut out for us……
Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart had two things that Ariana Grande, never did or will have class and dignity… Two sets of values for class.
Based on the age Nancy is supposed to currently be, they probably shouldn’t have used stars from Nancy’s grandparents’ day. They should have used stars who GenXers or the last of the boomers would have been excited to meet.
A word about James “Jimmy” Stewart: he was not only an Oscar winning actor, but also a decorated combat veteran in WW2. He retired from the USAF as a brigadier general in 1968. He even flew B-52’s.
I was curious to see if it would have been possible for Nancy — now in her mid-40s (?), so born around 1979 — to have met these older movie stars. Stewart died in 1997, Hepburn in 2003 and Grant in 1989. So it’s possible, but she would have been a child to have encountered Grant in his last years, a teen to meet Stewart and in her young 20s for Hepburn. Possible, but still off-seeming…I agree with the comment that Nancy would have been more likely to have met and been impressed by younger stars popular with her age group.
My father was a plumber in southern California in the sixties (back when Hollywood was in Hollywood and not in Vancouver) so he got to work for movie stars all the time. The one he used to like to tell people about most was Jay Silverheels.
And, ALL of those that Nancy mentioned, would be thoroughly disgusted with the uninspired filth and trash that Hollywood turns out today to placate the brain-dead.
“She’s probably just jealous that we saw Ariana and she didn’t!” I dunno about that, Luann. With Ariana’s preference for married men, I think Nancy’s more than fine NOT crossing paths with her. Either way, Frank is a high quality man that wouldn’t be swayed.
Also, it’s too bad to see Luann and Bernice come off like hardcore Ariana fans. Her fans defend Ariana singing a song about how proud she is about being a homewrecker and it’s so obnoxious. Imagine being the wife of the sleazebag guy (the mother to his child) and having this nasty two-faced woman sing about how cool she thinks she is after running off with your husband?
Sorry for the tangent, these two need to idolize better people than Ariana Grande.
I have two stories about meeting a famous actor and a singer. If I tell it to anyone under the age of around 70, all I get is a blank stare.
Vincent Price once came into the store where I worked, walked right up to me and asked me a question. Not expecting to see him, I did not recognise him. Too bad, as he was the very actor I wanted to meet. And looking to be recognised was exactly the thing he liked to do.
The other performer was Bill Kenny of the Inkspots, who became a personal friend.
My job put me in contact with several well-known people through the years. Probably most famous would be Bill Clinton whom I met a couple of times (enough to spend several minute chatting with each time). Most enjoyable, probably was sitting next to John Lewis at a luncheon. He was absolutely delightful and made me feel as important as any of the big name folks.
I’ve met Colin Baker, the Sixth Doctor. I even have a picture with him & Nicola Bryant, his co-star (Peri). He signed a picture of the event. The original was my eldest daughter’s Christmas present. I have now a scanned copy. I met more Doctor Who actors that weekend.
I met Bo Sox slugger David Ortiz once. A Spanish instructor at my community college whom I am good friends with grew up in the DR with him. My buddy Ruben ad Ortiz shared an apartment with several other Dominicans while my friend Ruben was acting as a translator for some of the DR players in the BoSox minor league camp in Fort Myers back in the ’90s while teaching Spanish as an adjunct at what was then Edison Community College (now Florida SouthWestern State College). I became friends with him a few years later when we both got tenure at our community college on the Suncoast. We went down to City of Palms Park for spring training in about 2007 for a game and Ruben got us on field passes and I had a cool meet and greet with his old friend David Ortiz. Got a couple of photographs and an autographed baseball from Big Papi. As a Rays fan I did not have any Red Sox gear for him to sign.
I also met Bobby Bowden while buying groceries with my sister in Tallahassee circa 1987, he was buying some Publix rotisserie chicken and some sides from the deli. He asked if we were FSU students, which we said we were and then asked our majors. Coach Bowden told us to enjoy our college days but study hard, He then wished us luck with our classes as he paid for his bird and went out to the parking lot. True fact: Bobby Bowden kept a listed number in the Southern Bell phone book from the ’70s until they quit publishing those things. He lived in a nice but not opulent neighborhood in Tallahassee, about a half mile from the Publix where I met him. A very humble but friendly man. The gentleman simply emitted a positive and friendly aura.
My parents used to play cards with Dorothy Lamour when I was a child. She lived in a home built by my in-laws, a nice home, not an ostentatious mansion. I sat on Arthur Godfrey’s lap on his boat at Great Oaks Yacht Club. Both in Maryland and because my parents belonged to the Baltimore Yacht Club. Younger people look at me as if I’m speaking about Cleopatra and Julius Caesar.
Harry Belafonte, Ricardo Montalban (wonderfully gracious gentleman), Joe DeSantis, Jimmy Westerfield, William Shatner, Henry Winkler, Walt Disney, Wally Boag (the Clown Prince of Disneyland). A dear friend of mine once had milk and cookies with Katharine Hepburn, what a story that was.
Because of my job, I’ve met a lot of celebrities. Some are nice, some are dopes. Surprisingly, one of the nicest people I ever met was Joan Jett back in the late 70s I think. I hope she’s still the same.
And here is a problem with comic strips. They have adult characters who due to a sliding time scale would have been in the Seventies or Eighties and yet they are being written by people born in the Forties and Fifties and acting as if it’s still the Nineties.
This comic is based on fact. I was talking to a 30’s-something friend about how some men just get more and more better looking with age, and when I mentioned Cary Grant, she said “who is Cary Grant”? This was a stab in my 75-year-old heart.
I grew up in Denver, Colorado, so not many celebs, except for a visit in Los Angeles we saw Deforest Kelly. In college at UNC (Greeley, CO) I met Arthur C. Clark and Pat Paulsen. In sports I met Dave Hill (golf) and Karl Mecklenberg (football), and Irv Brown (Baseball coach, Basketball official, and Colordo sports legend). That is, I met, and had a conversation. My father and I also attended a golf tournament and I watched Doug Sanders & Chi Chi Rodriguez. Here’s an oddity. My wife and I were in Rochester, Minnesota, having visited the Mayo Clinic, and we stopped for lunch at a restaurant there. I happened to get in a conversation with some guy and I noticed his name was Irv Brown. I chatted with him for a minute and told him about his Colorado namesake. The next day I discovered that Colorado’s Irv Brown had died, about the same hour I mention him.
Don’t worry, girls, at some point in your life you’ll mention a well known celebrity from your time to a teenager or kid and they’ll respond with “Who?”
In the great old days you “knew all” the movies, the music, the shows on television, a lot of the actors and actresses, and the news was real and legitimate and you could trust people like Walter Cronkite. Not many reporters today would dare leave their comfy desk and go into a dangerous war zone.
So because they mention someone younger than many here know of, and don’t know of people mentioned that were famous decades ago and are ALL dead, they younger characters are idiots? The ageism seems to be working backwards today.
I met Jimmy Stewart, chatting with Alfred Hitchcock, in A Local pizza place when I was five. My mother had a bit of a crush on him. I lived in the right place for that.
I’m guessing that a number of people who are trashing Ariana by elevating the virtues of stars from a different era never read Scotty Bower’s book or saw his documentary. Mind you, I don’t think the old stars were doing anything wrong, just that the folks here might be surprised. A lot of secrets were kept in Hollywood in the old days.
I met and befriended Jackie Fox, Michael’s sister. She is so sweet, she sent my daughter a Christmas card. I still kick myself that I didn’t send one back and keep in touch. Being the sister of a celebrity has to make social connections extremely difficult. Sorry Jackie
How old are these parents supposed to be?!? Because people with a 19-year-old daughter and a 23-year-old son should not be old enough to brag about Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart; those are movie stars more suited to their parents.
I had lunch with Charles Lindbergh. It was at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Of course, he was dining up on the mezzanine and I was down on the main floor with 5000 other cadets. :)
This is a surprise. Either Nancy loved to participate in events where actors met the public or in the past she went to visit Hollywood, maybe looking for celebrities to get autographs. It would be interesting to know more. Luann and Bernice should look up about the past celebrities of the past that Nancy mentioned.
Had a few soap actors, B-movie actors, performers, and sports celebs in my cab before. Some were real a$$hats, some were really nice. When the movie SHAG was being filmed in Myrtle Beach, there was a woman next door to me that was doing the wardrobe fittings. Phoebe Cates and Bridgette Fonda were there and I got to meet and chat with them, well, more like it was chat with Phoebe, Bridgette just looked bored (or maybe just really tired form shooting).
In my current employment, we have had a few stars come in and shop. KD Lang and David Ogden Stiers were two memorable ones. Very genuine people.
I met Trina Robbins, Kate Worley, Reed Waller, Michael Dorn and Johnathon Frakes all at the same convention, the very first Wonder-Con, when they were held in Oakland, CA. And others at other conventions. And my Mrs at The Edinburgh Fringe many years ago. R.I.P. Kate and Trina.
For maybe 5 seconds, I met Jimmy Stewart in 1982 — it was at fleet landing in Naples, Italy, he was headed out to the USS Eisenhower and I was coming ashore at that moment. If Nancy was 10 that year, she would have been born in 1972, making her 52 today. That’s doable. And, of course, everyone knew who Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn were, even if they were born too late to see any of their movies in the theater. We had this device called television… that showed innumerable old movies late at night and on weekends. More to the point, that was the era of the MOVIE STAR. Today, we have actors, but their stature isn’t generally all that great — probably because they all get on social media to give us their far too often ill-formed opinions. Back then, you had stars built up by the studio system and relentless public relations machines — they had managers whose jobs it was to shield the public from the actor’s true personalities, so their reputations held on for a long, long time.
Never met any 4-star celebrities, but when I think “England”, I think David Niven. Personification of America would be John Wayne. Brigitte Bardot for coffee in France.
Sorry, but there is no way that at least Bernice, if not both of them, wouldn’t know these names. Maybe they couldn’t identify them by sight, but surely they have seen some of their old movies. There is no possible way that they didn’t see It’s a Wonderful Life at christmas time.
Nancy is shining them on. It’s funny how each generation has no idea who the others’ “celebrities” are! In the first panel it’s obvious from her expression and body language Nancy has no idea who Ariana Grande is! And the girls seem to have no clue who Jimmy Stewart is either—-at least they aren’t impressed by the mention of his name.
My mom saw Tyrone Power at the train station she used to work at back in the day; also the crown prince of India, but I do not know what his name was. It was one of her favorite memories! This was back in the 50s.
1. I once saw Richard Gere… in Ulan Baatar, Mongolia. I asked him for an autograph for my daughter and he refused.
2. My friend was in line at the Starbucks where his daughter worked in La Jolla, CA. Then he noticed that the guy in front of him in line was Robin Williams. My friend gasped, then muttered, “No way!” Robin turned around and said, totally dead pan, “Way.”
Big deal. I’ve talked to Robert Plant, Ringo Starr, Gene Simmons, Neil Peart, Dave Matthews, Sheryl Crowe, Allison Krauss and John Fogarty, just to name a few!
“Celebrities” who earned that title don’t necessarily feel entitled to it or even enjoy it. Truth is they are people like everyone else, or at least the ones who do something (hopefully good) well. Met a couple, one on a plane who wanted to pet my kid’s head cause he wa so cute and the flight crew excused his behavior because of his “status”. Not a bad guy, just a bit “entitled”. My favorite was a famous actor who was also an incredibly good race car driver. On the track, including at the beer party after the racing day was over, he and his equalify famous wife were simply part of the racing familly. And just rally nice people!
I think almost everybody forgot that the comic strip was supposed to get a point across to its readers. Comic strip years are different than human years or otherwise Garfield the cat would be in the Guinness Book of World Records. But speaking of “old”, are people now an expert on Clara Bow all of a sudden?
Today’s omitted title panel: A newsboy, I’m assuming he’s shouting “EXTRA,” although the word doesn’t appear, is holding a newspaper with the “screamer” headline, “LUANN!” with Greg Evans’ byline on the “story”. The paper’s title, by the way, is “The Paper, On Paper!”.
If they don’t know Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, or Jimmy Stewart, that’s just poor parenting. I knew who all those people were when I was in high school even though they were deceased. As an aside – I am super jealous that Nancy got to meet Cary Grant!
Badly done. Assuming Luann’s folks are in their 50s (but probably younger), all these stars were in their 70s/80s – or dead – when they were Luann’s age. Also, these people belong to entertainment’s history, so it’s more likekly for Luann and Bernie to know them than – let’s say – Richard Gere, Robert Redford or Debra Winger, who were top for my generation (I am in my 50s) . And it’s quite unlikely for someone my age to have never heard of Ariana Grande, especially if you have chldren.
lvlax about 1 month ago
Considering Cary Grant died in 1986.. Just how old was Nancy supposed to be when she met him??
Forget Kristen Stewart. What if Nancy knows Patrick Stewart or Martha Stewart? ;)
J. Scarbrough about 1 month ago
Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, and Jimmy Stewart all have one thing that Ariana Grande never had and never will: class. If anything, Ariana Grande is basically a lite version of Miley Cyrus: blatantly overtly sexual to intentionally tarnish the previous squeaky clean image she once had at a time when little girls all over the world still looked up to her as a positive role model because she was Hannah Montana. It’s sad to think so many of these former Disney and Nickelodeon girls ended up going down such a route; I understand one such former Nick girl works in the p0rn industry now.
Anyway, some of the people I’ve met over the years of attending cons include: cast members from SESAME STREET, including Alan Muraoka, Roscoe Orman (Gordon), Emilio Delgado (Luis), Bob McGrath, and Caroll Spinney (Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch); Steve Whitmire (former Muppet Performer of Kermit the Frog and Ernie), Marty Grabstein (voice of Courage the Cowardly Dog); and Jamie Farr (M*A*S*H’s Klinger). I’m really looking forward to possibly meeting Kevin Clash (former Muppet Performer of Elmo), Bill Barretta (Muppet Performer of Pepe the Prawn, Bobo the Bear, Rowlf the Dog, and Dr. Teeth), Paul Williams (who practically wrote the 70s in song), and Jon Lovitz at this year’s con . . . assuming I can afford it this year.
PaulAbbott2 about 1 month ago
Celebrities I’ve met (for more than a ‘Hi, how are you’". The “Fonz” Henry Winkler (nicest person on Earth), Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh, Duke and Dream Team basketball player Christian Laettner, Mickey Mantle, Mr. Big bassist Billy Sheehan and 10,000 Maniacs singer Natalie Merchant.
Sir Ruddy Blighter, Jr. about 1 month ago
I met Barack Obama at a campaign stop in Charlotte, NC
Asharah about 1 month ago
Go watch some old movies girls. Haven’t they seen “It’s A Wonderful Life?” Or "The Philadelphia Story, that featured all three.
Linnorm about 1 month ago
Could be worse. Could be Rod Stewart.
beb01 about 1 month ago
My daughter is 30 and she knows Gary Grant, Jimmy Stewart and Katherine Hepburn. Their movies are on TV all the time. The effort to make the kids these days sound ignorant is just painful.
Mordock999 Premium Member about 1 month ago
Yo, it’s Bernice.
Stick around through next week, Bernie.
Bets and Tiffany are gonna “Guinea Pig” Luann, and you can make your trademark Snarky Remarks while they do.
And maybe if We’re very lucky, the BATUB Crew will shift to branding YOU.
And since you’ve been getting free room and board for the last five or so years at Casa DeGroot, you SHOULD have BATUB’s 500 buck fee on ya.
And as a bonus you can ask Tiff why you weren’t invited to her “Doll-O-Ween party last year. ;-)
PS: Stewart. Jimmy Stewart, Luann. Don’t tell you’ve NEVER seen “It’s a Wonderful Life!”
BlitzMcD about 1 month ago
Sadly, that level of ignorance is rampant. I recently talked to someone in her late 20s who is a history teacher in an elementary school, and she said she had NO idea who John F. Kennedy was. And it has nothing to do with when you were born. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Queen Victoria and Bert Williams were all before my time, but I know who they are. And it’s not like Archie Leach, Kate Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart were obscure, either. Obviously we’ve still got our work cut out for us……
epicatt2- about 1 month ago
Ahhhh… The manifestation of ye olde Generation Gap!
Joe1962 Premium Member about 1 month ago
Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn and Jimmy Stewart had two things that Ariana Grande, never did or will have class and dignity… Two sets of values for class.
jsellison2005 Premium Member about 1 month ago
Based on the age Nancy is supposed to currently be, they probably shouldn’t have used stars from Nancy’s grandparents’ day. They should have used stars who GenXers or the last of the boomers would have been excited to meet.
Linnorm about 1 month ago
A word about James “Jimmy” Stewart: he was not only an Oscar winning actor, but also a decorated combat veteran in WW2. He retired from the USAF as a brigadier general in 1968. He even flew B-52’s.
Argythree about 1 month ago
I guess B is not as smart as she thinks she is…
Robin Harwood about 1 month ago
Ariana Grande?
Wilkins068 about 1 month ago
Never had a hankerin to meet any movie or TV stars. They don’t do nothin for me
jea9hrkr about 1 month ago
Okay – that is actually funny! Please Please ditch Bets y.
Azul0858 about 1 month ago
I was curious to see if it would have been possible for Nancy — now in her mid-40s (?), so born around 1979 — to have met these older movie stars. Stewart died in 1997, Hepburn in 2003 and Grant in 1989. So it’s possible, but she would have been a child to have encountered Grant in his last years, a teen to meet Stewart and in her young 20s for Hepburn. Possible, but still off-seeming…I agree with the comment that Nancy would have been more likely to have met and been impressed by younger stars popular with her age group.
Enter.Name.Here about 1 month ago
I haven’t the slightest desire to see Grande. Not even a glimpse.
daDoctah1 about 1 month ago
My father was a plumber in southern California in the sixties (back when Hollywood was in Hollywood and not in Vancouver) so he got to work for movie stars all the time. The one he used to like to tell people about most was Jay Silverheels.
priyansh.jeziel about 1 month ago
And, ALL of those that Nancy mentioned, would be thoroughly disgusted with the uninspired filth and trash that Hollywood turns out today to placate the brain-dead.
4everbound2 about 1 month ago
Last name Stewart? How about evil people like Rod Stewart and Martha Stewart?
Rockabore about 1 month ago
“She’s probably just jealous that we saw Ariana and she didn’t!” I dunno about that, Luann. With Ariana’s preference for married men, I think Nancy’s more than fine NOT crossing paths with her. Either way, Frank is a high quality man that wouldn’t be swayed.
Also, it’s too bad to see Luann and Bernice come off like hardcore Ariana fans. Her fans defend Ariana singing a song about how proud she is about being a homewrecker and it’s so obnoxious. Imagine being the wife of the sleazebag guy (the mother to his child) and having this nasty two-faced woman sing about how cool she thinks she is after running off with your husband?
Sorry for the tangent, these two need to idolize better people than Ariana Grande.
blunebottle about 1 month ago
I have two stories about meeting a famous actor and a singer. If I tell it to anyone under the age of around 70, all I get is a blank stare.
Vincent Price once came into the store where I worked, walked right up to me and asked me a question. Not expecting to see him, I did not recognise him. Too bad, as he was the very actor I wanted to meet. And looking to be recognised was exactly the thing he liked to do.
The other performer was Bill Kenny of the Inkspots, who became a personal friend.
Salinasong about 1 month ago
I guess Luann forgot about the time Clay Aiken’s driver almost hit Puddles and he stopped to see if he was okay.
Sue Ellen about 1 month ago
I’m on the opposite end of the generation gap with this pop culture reference. Who is Kristen Stewart?
Julius Marold Premium Member about 1 month ago
I shook hands with Perry Como when I was a kid. Perry Como, you know, the singer? Don’t know? Oh well, I shook hands with him anyway.
Ron Dunn Premium Member about 1 month ago
I met Andre Crouch at a church function once, very nice man.
cdward about 1 month ago
My job put me in contact with several well-known people through the years. Probably most famous would be Bill Clinton whom I met a couple of times (enough to spend several minute chatting with each time). Most enjoyable, probably was sitting next to John Lewis at a luncheon. He was absolutely delightful and made me feel as important as any of the big name folks.
z.a.m about 1 month ago
She was on the set of Philadelphia Story, impressive.
cdillon85 about 1 month ago
I’ve met Colin Baker, the Sixth Doctor. I even have a picture with him & Nicola Bryant, his co-star (Peri). He signed a picture of the event. The original was my eldest daughter’s Christmas present. I have now a scanned copy. I met more Doctor Who actors that weekend.
TampaFanatic1 about 1 month ago
I met Bo Sox slugger David Ortiz once. A Spanish instructor at my community college whom I am good friends with grew up in the DR with him. My buddy Ruben ad Ortiz shared an apartment with several other Dominicans while my friend Ruben was acting as a translator for some of the DR players in the BoSox minor league camp in Fort Myers back in the ’90s while teaching Spanish as an adjunct at what was then Edison Community College (now Florida SouthWestern State College). I became friends with him a few years later when we both got tenure at our community college on the Suncoast. We went down to City of Palms Park for spring training in about 2007 for a game and Ruben got us on field passes and I had a cool meet and greet with his old friend David Ortiz. Got a couple of photographs and an autographed baseball from Big Papi. As a Rays fan I did not have any Red Sox gear for him to sign.
I also met Bobby Bowden while buying groceries with my sister in Tallahassee circa 1987, he was buying some Publix rotisserie chicken and some sides from the deli. He asked if we were FSU students, which we said we were and then asked our majors. Coach Bowden told us to enjoy our college days but study hard, He then wished us luck with our classes as he paid for his bird and went out to the parking lot. True fact: Bobby Bowden kept a listed number in the Southern Bell phone book from the ’70s until they quit publishing those things. He lived in a nice but not opulent neighborhood in Tallahassee, about a half mile from the Publix where I met him. A very humble but friendly man. The gentleman simply emitted a positive and friendly aura.
BayReader about 1 month ago
Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and Jimmy Stewart were in the film “The Philadelphia Story” released in 1940.
51 Champion about 1 month ago
My parents used to play cards with Dorothy Lamour when I was a child. She lived in a home built by my in-laws, a nice home, not an ostentatious mansion. I sat on Arthur Godfrey’s lap on his boat at Great Oaks Yacht Club. Both in Maryland and because my parents belonged to the Baltimore Yacht Club. Younger people look at me as if I’m speaking about Cleopatra and Julius Caesar.
potfarmer about 1 month ago
I once met Hedley Lamarr
Purple People Eater about 1 month ago
They’d be more likely to know Jennifer Grant, Cary’s daughter
The Old Wolf about 1 month ago
Harry Belafonte, Ricardo Montalban (wonderfully gracious gentleman), Joe DeSantis, Jimmy Westerfield, William Shatner, Henry Winkler, Walt Disney, Wally Boag (the Clown Prince of Disneyland). A dear friend of mine once had milk and cookies with Katharine Hepburn, what a story that was.
Count Olaf Premium Member about 1 month ago
Who is Ariana Grande?
herdocow about 1 month ago
So, in about 2 generations, few, if anyone, will know who Ariana Grande, Britney Spears, etc. are.
French Persons Premium Member about 1 month ago
Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn, and Jimmy Stewart…now THOSE are REAL celebrities worth meeting!
treutvid about 1 month ago
Because of my job, I’ve met a lot of celebrities. Some are nice, some are dopes. Surprisingly, one of the nicest people I ever met was Joan Jett back in the late 70s I think. I hope she’s still the same.
Ellis97 about 1 month ago
I met Coolio. Well, actually I saw him in an airport once.
Liam Astle Premium Member about 1 month ago
And here is a problem with comic strips. They have adult characters who due to a sliding time scale would have been in the Seventies or Eighties and yet they are being written by people born in the Forties and Fifties and acting as if it’s still the Nineties.
timinwsac Premium Member about 1 month ago
Ariana Grande? Isn’t she the doughnut licker that’s hates America?
jrbaskind Premium Member about 1 month ago
It’s hard to impress someone with meeting a celebrity that they never heard of.
[Unnamed Reader - bddb15] about 1 month ago
I saw Bing Crosby at a SF Giants baseball game when I was 6.
ctolson about 1 month ago
These two probably don’t even know what a rotary dial telephone is either.
mindjob about 1 month ago
Getting somebody’s autograph isn’t the same as meeting them, sorry
lemonbaskt about 1 month ago
I once served the unknown comic his appetizer
Flossie Mud Duck about 1 month ago
This comic is based on fact. I was talking to a 30’s-something friend about how some men just get more and more better looking with age, and when I mentioned Cary Grant, she said “who is Cary Grant”? This was a stab in my 75-year-old heart.
FGWaiss about 1 month ago
I grew up in Denver, Colorado, so not many celebs, except for a visit in Los Angeles we saw Deforest Kelly. In college at UNC (Greeley, CO) I met Arthur C. Clark and Pat Paulsen. In sports I met Dave Hill (golf) and Karl Mecklenberg (football), and Irv Brown (Baseball coach, Basketball official, and Colordo sports legend). That is, I met, and had a conversation. My father and I also attended a golf tournament and I watched Doug Sanders & Chi Chi Rodriguez. Here’s an oddity. My wife and I were in Rochester, Minnesota, having visited the Mayo Clinic, and we stopped for lunch at a restaurant there. I happened to get in a conversation with some guy and I noticed his name was Irv Brown. I chatted with him for a minute and told him about his Colorado namesake. The next day I discovered that Colorado’s Irv Brown had died, about the same hour I mention him.
Otis Rufus Driftwood about 1 month ago
I was going to say something about kids today. Then decided I didn’t want to shoot fish in a barrel.
sueb1863 about 1 month ago
Don’t worry, girls, at some point in your life you’ll mention a well known celebrity from your time to a teenager or kid and they’ll respond with “Who?”
I'm Sad about 1 month ago
In the great old days you “knew all” the movies, the music, the shows on television, a lot of the actors and actresses, and the news was real and legitimate and you could trust people like Walter Cronkite. Not many reporters today would dare leave their comfy desk and go into a dangerous war zone.
mfought about 1 month ago
considering that Luann was a toddler in 1986 I"d say that makes Nancy about the right age
Terminal Frost Premium Member about 1 month ago
So because they mention someone younger than many here know of, and don’t know of people mentioned that were famous decades ago and are ALL dead, they younger characters are idiots? The ageism seems to be working backwards today.
FRITH RA about 1 month ago
I met Jimmy Stewart, chatting with Alfred Hitchcock, in A Local pizza place when I was five. My mother had a bit of a crush on him. I lived in the right place for that.
kauri44 about 1 month ago
I’m guessing that a number of people who are trashing Ariana by elevating the virtues of stars from a different era never read Scotty Bower’s book or saw his documentary. Mind you, I don’t think the old stars were doing anything wrong, just that the folks here might be surprised. A lot of secrets were kept in Hollywood in the old days.
docforbin about 1 month ago
About the only celebrity I met up close was Yogi Berra. He was doing autographs at a local sporting goods store.
jrankin1959 about 1 month ago
Start watching the classic movie channels, girls!
tammyspeakslife Premium Member about 1 month ago
I met and befriended Jackie Fox, Michael’s sister. She is so sweet, she sent my daughter a Christmas card. I still kick myself that I didn’t send one back and keep in touch. Being the sister of a celebrity has to make social connections extremely difficult. Sorry Jackie
BJShipley1 about 1 month ago
How old are these parents supposed to be?!? Because people with a 19-year-old daughter and a 23-year-old son should not be old enough to brag about Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart; those are movie stars more suited to their parents.
MuddyUSA Premium Member about 1 month ago
Age and times make a difference!
mistercatworks about 1 month ago
I had lunch with Charles Lindbergh. It was at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Of course, he was dining up on the mezzanine and I was down on the main floor with 5000 other cadets. :)
Susan123 about 1 month ago
Neither one cares about the others sightings.
Aladar30 Premium Member about 1 month ago
This is a surprise. Either Nancy loved to participate in events where actors met the public or in the past she went to visit Hollywood, maybe looking for celebrities to get autographs. It would be interesting to know more. Luann and Bernice should look up about the past celebrities of the past that Nancy mentioned.
locake about 1 month ago
Bernice has watched old (slash) silent movies with Piro. She surely knows lots of old time actors.
dsatvoinde Premium Member about 1 month ago
Had a few soap actors, B-movie actors, performers, and sports celebs in my cab before. Some were real a$$hats, some were really nice. When the movie SHAG was being filmed in Myrtle Beach, there was a woman next door to me that was doing the wardrobe fittings. Phoebe Cates and Bridgette Fonda were there and I got to meet and chat with them, well, more like it was chat with Phoebe, Bridgette just looked bored (or maybe just really tired form shooting).
In my current employment, we have had a few stars come in and shop. KD Lang and David Ogden Stiers were two memorable ones. Very genuine people.
davecat about 1 month ago
I hate to say it, but … Ariana who?
Teto85 Premium Member about 1 month ago
I met Trina Robbins, Kate Worley, Reed Waller, Michael Dorn and Johnathon Frakes all at the same convention, the very first Wonder-Con, when they were held in Oakland, CA. And others at other conventions. And my Mrs at The Edinburgh Fringe many years ago. R.I.P. Kate and Trina.
Angry Indeed about 1 month ago
Our newspaper has a spot for birthdays, mainly celebrities. I usually recognize the ones over 50, the ones under, not so much.
Mise Féin about 1 month ago
Yea, a break from the branding drivel.
KenHelmick about 1 month ago
For maybe 5 seconds, I met Jimmy Stewart in 1982 — it was at fleet landing in Naples, Italy, he was headed out to the USS Eisenhower and I was coming ashore at that moment. If Nancy was 10 that year, she would have been born in 1972, making her 52 today. That’s doable. And, of course, everyone knew who Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn were, even if they were born too late to see any of their movies in the theater. We had this device called television… that showed innumerable old movies late at night and on weekends. More to the point, that was the era of the MOVIE STAR. Today, we have actors, but their stature isn’t generally all that great — probably because they all get on social media to give us their far too often ill-formed opinions. Back then, you had stars built up by the studio system and relentless public relations machines — they had managers whose jobs it was to shield the public from the actor’s true personalities, so their reputations held on for a long, long time.
GumbyDammit223 about 1 month ago
Impressive thing I just found out was that Jimmy Stewart was a Brigadier General (1 star) in what is now the USAF.
The Quiet One about 1 month ago
You’re not that old are you Nancy?
nightflight about 1 month ago
Never met any 4-star celebrities, but when I think “England”, I think David Niven. Personification of America would be John Wayne. Brigitte Bardot for coffee in France.
Laurie Stoker Premium Member about 1 month ago
Sorry, but there is no way that at least Bernice, if not both of them, wouldn’t know these names. Maybe they couldn’t identify them by sight, but surely they have seen some of their old movies. There is no possible way that they didn’t see It’s a Wonderful Life at christmas time.
eladee AKA Wally about 1 month ago
Nancy is shining them on. It’s funny how each generation has no idea who the others’ “celebrities” are! In the first panel it’s obvious from her expression and body language Nancy has no idea who Ariana Grande is! And the girls seem to have no clue who Jimmy Stewart is either—-at least they aren’t impressed by the mention of his name.
spikelovesmusic about 1 month ago
…or Jimmy Cagney?
oakie817 about 1 month ago
i interviewed Gerald Ford and Bob Graham for the Florida Jaycees…but the Jaycees are forgotten nowadays
alexius23 about 1 month ago
Ah, the transitory nature of fame…….
DaBump Premium Member about 1 month ago
Now I feel so old.
Caldonia about 1 month ago
Yeah, because younger people have never seen “It’s a wonderful life” with their families. Stoopid!
w16521 about 1 month ago
There will always be a generation gap.
HodgeElmwood about 1 month ago
My mom saw Tyrone Power at the train station she used to work at back in the day; also the crown prince of India, but I do not know what his name was. It was one of her favorite memories! This was back in the 50s.
billdaviswords about 1 month ago
1. I once saw Richard Gere… in Ulan Baatar, Mongolia. I asked him for an autograph for my daughter and he refused.
2. My friend was in line at the Starbucks where his daughter worked in La Jolla, CA. Then he noticed that the guy in front of him in line was Robin Williams. My friend gasped, then muttered, “No way!” Robin turned around and said, totally dead pan, “Way.”
tcayer about 1 month ago
Big deal. I’ve talked to Robert Plant, Ringo Starr, Gene Simmons, Neil Peart, Dave Matthews, Sheryl Crowe, Allison Krauss and John Fogarty, just to name a few!
Stregone39 about 1 month ago
So…we’re “Fact Checking” Comics instead of just enjoying them? Really?
jamie about 1 month ago
Sad…
Curiosity Premium Member about 1 month ago
“Celebrities” who earned that title don’t necessarily feel entitled to it or even enjoy it. Truth is they are people like everyone else, or at least the ones who do something (hopefully good) well. Met a couple, one on a plane who wanted to pet my kid’s head cause he wa so cute and the flight crew excused his behavior because of his “status”. Not a bad guy, just a bit “entitled”. My favorite was a famous actor who was also an incredibly good race car driver. On the track, including at the beer party after the racing day was over, he and his equalify famous wife were simply part of the racing familly. And just rally nice people!
I'm Sad about 1 month ago
I think almost everybody forgot that the comic strip was supposed to get a point across to its readers. Comic strip years are different than human years or otherwise Garfield the cat would be in the Guinness Book of World Records. But speaking of “old”, are people now an expert on Clara Bow all of a sudden?
David Huie Green LosersBlameOthers&It'sYOURfault about 1 month ago
Close enough for her purposes.
kittysquared Premium Member about 1 month ago
This strip has become mirthless.
JPuzzleWhiz about 1 month ago
Today’s omitted title panel: A newsboy, I’m assuming he’s shouting “EXTRA,” although the word doesn’t appear, is holding a newspaper with the “screamer” headline, “LUANN!” with Greg Evans’ byline on the “story”. The paper’s title, by the way, is “The Paper, On Paper!”.
Michael McKown Premium Member about 1 month ago
Cary Grant IS a made-up name.
ajh2i about 1 month ago
If they don’t know Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, or Jimmy Stewart, that’s just poor parenting. I knew who all those people were when I was in high school even though they were deceased. As an aside – I am super jealous that Nancy got to meet Cary Grant!
FrostbiteFalls about 1 month ago
Oh, come on. A lot of kids their age know something about celebrities from before their generation.
sueb1863 30 days ago
At the VERY least they’d know Jimmy Stewart.
Nobilone 25 days ago
Badly done. Assuming Luann’s folks are in their 50s (but probably younger), all these stars were in their 70s/80s – or dead – when they were Luann’s age. Also, these people belong to entertainment’s history, so it’s more likekly for Luann and Bernie to know them than – let’s say – Richard Gere, Robert Redford or Debra Winger, who were top for my generation (I am in my 50s) . And it’s quite unlikely for someone my age to have never heard of Ariana Grande, especially if you have chldren.
fourteenpeeves 25 days ago
Do you know somebody bought James Stewart’s house AS A TEAR DOWN???
What idiot wouldn’t want to live in Jimmy Stewart’s old house??