Saw Cuba Gooding Jr.!!!!

Hey, was about downtown Toronto this afternoon at an off-site meeting, forgot Toronto International Film Festival was going on, and walked right past Cuba Gooding Jr.!!

Weird, you recognize the person, so you think it's a buddy or colleague, then you realize it's not, I had nodded, smiled and said, "Hey", and then laughed and said, "Sorry, I recognize you but you're not one of my buddies...sorry!", or some star struck response...he laughed, nodded and I kept walking.

Took a pic of him from across the street....cool!

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Perfectly CDN low key response buddy.
Afaik, a lot of the stars like our less than star struck reactions up here. We acknowledge them and all, just less fanfare and screaming..
Loved Cuba in Jerry Maguire, btw.
:chapeau

Cool reaction.

Seeing a star like that is a lot like running into a friend in a wildly unexpected place. While stationed on Oahu, I ran into a buddy from high school. We both stopped dead in our tracks with a "are you who I think you are?" look.

In the early 80's, I saw the wrestler Ric Flair in an airport. He was in character, but still approachable. It was awesome.

I wonder how many times someone has walked up to Gooding and yelled" Show me the money"?

I almost walked into a Hall of Fame baseball player because I was looking at his wife. I won't name names.

I once encountered Spiro Agnew at the airport when I went to pick up my father.

He was a real gentleman.

:)

The first time that I saw Cary Elwes and Morgan Freeman I had no idea who they were. It did dawn on me sometime later though.

Met Jim Tombe, at a boat dealership I worked at.
That's one big man, I tell ya.

Met Ted Williams when I was a kid.
He was larger than life.

Pete <:-}

I Had a beer with Bob and Doug McKenzie, in character, in a van off young street many years ago.
Stubby warm Labbat 50, mmmmmm

I thought the McKenzies drank Elsinore.;)