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I consider R2-D2 my friend.

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Sax

09:05 / 22.09.04

Do you have any famous friends?

List them here.

I consider Kenny Baker, who played R2-D2 and other small parts, may friend.

Who do you consider your friend?

pointless and uncalled for

09:07 / 22.09.04

Amazing conincidence, I consider Danny Baker to be my friend and he's about the same size as R2D2.

Char Aina

09:17 / 22.09.04

well, in reality i know loads of famous people.
most of them are actually too famous to mention on an internet machine for fear of my being kidnapped and ransomed to them like in that film, ransom.

not that i know mel gibson. of course not.

that would be silly.

i am also going out with a realy famous person, but i dont want to mention her name because she is married and i dont want her to get in trouble with guy ritchie.

Haus of Mystery

09:34 / 22.09.04

I'm very good friends with William Daniels (the voice of K.I.T.T.).

I'm also pretty close to Scott Bakula, TV's Dr Sam Beckett from Quantum Leap.

I'd like to know Dirk Benedict, but I'd be a liar if I said I did.

pointless and uncalled for

09:45 / 22.09.04

You really should get to know him, he's a very nice man.

The Puck

10:30 / 22.09.04

i consider David Hasslehoff a close personal freind, weve never met and i doubt weather his even aware of my existance but all the same i consider him one of my closest freinds.

8===>Q: alyn

11:09 / 22.09.04

Aw, Sax, I'm so disappointed. I thought you were talking about the actual robot. Being friends with some actor is not such a big deal. I have "friend feelings" for PJ Harvey, Dan Savage, and Michael J. Fox, though I've never met them. Conversely, I wouldn't call Matthew Lillard a friend, exactly, but he's in the kitchen making me a Western omelette right now.

Hey, you know the kid who plays with the lighter in the Stargate movie? The one with the dreads? "Nooooooooooo!" Yeah, that guy. He's my best friend from high school. He also says, "Nooooooooo!" in a movie called Rooftops that you probably haven't heard of.

Sax

11:14 / 22.09.04

Some other famous people who I consider friends (by which I mean I have either drunk alcohol with them, been to their house or spoke to them more than once):

Alan Titchmarsh
Richard Ashcroft
Ian McCartney
Bryan Talbot

ONLY NICE THINGS

11:20 / 22.09.04

MacGuyver. Not MacGuyver the Barbeloid, but Richard Dean Anderson. I admit that I first met him through Stargate fandom, and specifically the "I Gouald You I was Hardcore" drinking sessions in the evenings, but I think that over time our increasingly frequent communications could be said to represent a friendship. I certainly consider it to be so...

8===>Q: alyn

11:20 / 22.09.04

Rooftops:

T, as most of his friends, lives in a self-constructed 'house', built on top of an old building in the city. Their one passion is 'combat'. Combat is a dance/streetfight during which the contestants try to push each other out of the arena, while not allowed to actually touch each other. When drugdealers move into the neighbourhood and kill T's best friend he embarks on a mission to eradicate the drug-presence in the neigbourhood. His friends are reluctant to help though, knowing what happened to T's friend when he crossed them.

Say what you want, but a house that constructs itself is really goddam cool. T's best friend is named "Squeak" and is played by none other than Alexis Cruz, my brother from another mother. Now that I've pointed him out to you, you'll see him everywhere.

8===>Q: alyn

11:21 / 22.09.04

Alex was on that show, Haus!!!!!

distractile

11:49 / 22.09.04

I certainly consider R2-D2 to be my friend, but that bastard Baker always shows up when we arrange to go for a beer.

William Sack

11:50 / 22.09.04

Funny you should mention this, Sax, but I consider C3-PO my enemy. I was at a do once, talking to someone when C3-PO walked up and cut across me mid-sentence to speak to the person I was talking to. He then looked at the cigarette I was smoking and said pointedly to this person, "Shall we go somewhere less smoky ?" and then walked off with them. Of course, my esprit de l'escalier has me saying "You can translate several million different forms of communication can't you? Well translate this (throws drink in his face) you shiny motherfucker." In actual fact I just stood there like a lemon, gulping my drink and dragging hard on my fag to hide my embarrassment.

pointless and uncalled for

12:21 / 22.09.04

Again with the lemons.

ONLY NICE THINGS

12:49 / 22.09.04

So, it was a martial arts movie in which the hero's martial art actually involves not touching the bad guys at all, but rather inducing them to fall off things?

Rock.

Ariadne

12:51 / 22.09.04

I don't think I know anyone famous at all. Except Sax The Novelist and that's stretching the word 'know'.
Just as well, probably, given how I came over all wobbly when Alastair Grey signed my book and turned my name into a doodle.
Oh, actually, I do know a few famous people in NZ but no-one in the outside world knows them. I'm (or I was, it's been a while) good mates with Russell Brown! See, told you. And with Carroll du Chateau and Gina Matchitt.
I'll have to start celeb stalking in the UK so I can name drop.

Ariadne

12:52 / 22.09.04

oops. He spells it Alasdair Gray. I'm tired. ok?

Loomis

13:32 / 22.09.04

Although I consider none of them my friends, I can report that in the course of my work today I posted letters to people named James Joyce, Patrick Duffy and Jonathan Ross. They must love their parents.

Sekhmet

13:38 / 22.09.04

My husband works with the guy who played the kid in Dazed and Confused. Does that count?

grant

14:10 / 22.09.04

I'm famous.

touch me.

Alex's Grandma

14:21 / 22.09.04

If I meet Matthew Perry ( Chandler from Friends ) again, I dare say he'll remember me. It was not a dignified incident.

Tryphena Absent

14:31 / 22.09.04

If I ever meet Alison Moyet than I'm sure she'll be my friend.

Haus of Mystery

14:32 / 22.09.04

I once spent a wild night with Don Johnson and Sheena Easton, or Donno and Sheenie as I like to call them.

I don't think I'll ever be able to remember all the 80's.

ibis the being

14:36 / 22.09.04

well, the girl who played the little girl in the Ewok movie is best friends with my friend, and I did spend a couple days drinking with her a few years ago.

Haus of Mystery

14:48 / 22.09.04

Well that's clearly bullshit. Really, if you haven't got anything to add, then stay away.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

15:05 / 22.09.04

As a child, I was babysat by David Yip, first to die in Temple of Doom. He got aced in a carwash in View To A Kill, and also died in both Quatermass (the TV series) and Doctor Who.

Oh, and he was "The Chinese Detective". Which itself died fairly quickly.

Role models, eh?

8===>Q: alyn

16:04 / 22.09.04

How could I forget! Annie Sprinkle used to hang out with me when my father had an art opening (he owned a gallery).

Chiropteran

16:28 / 22.09.04

I've slept on Johnny Indovina's (of Human Drama fame) floor, twice. And I got to play violin with him, also twice. We haven't spoken in a couple years (after I flaked out on a tour), but we got on pretty well at the time. That's also when I met Lisa Feuer, flautist for Black Tape for a Blue Girl and wife of Sam Rosenthal, founder of BTfaBG and Projekt Records - we're still in very occasional email contact.

I also know a lot of people who ought to be famous, but aren't (I think I'm really speaking for all of us here, yes?).

~L

8===>Q: alyn

16:29 / 22.09.04

I've never heard of those people. They aren't famous.

ONLY NICE THINGS

16:33 / 22.09.04

David Yip, first to die in Temple of Doom

And lead singer of the Jesus Lizard?

ROCK!

Oh, hang on. Yow. Bugger.

lentil

16:00 / 23.09.04

Well, I've been to Tony Hart's house, and he showed me some of the original sketches for Morph.

I've been onstage with Keith Harris and Orville. But not Cuddles. He's not my friend.

My last ex but one is a designer who will be famous very soon, I'll post her name when I've seen her work in a broadsheet supplement three weeks running.

Benny the Ball

16:45 / 23.09.04

Actors are a fickle lot, one minute you're their best mate, the next you're that guy from that thing from a few years ago. I've had dinner a few times with Martin Crewes (he was in resident evil and dream team, ha ha) I have had a birthday cake given to me by Dot Cotton and Margot from the good life, and a very good friend of mine is the man hung upside down in his underpants with an orange in his mouth being hit by golf balls in lock stock and two smoking barrells. Dawn French lent me some of Lenny Henry's comics once.

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

17:58 / 23.09.04

Uncle Owen once yelled at me when I tried to get him to sign a picture of his burned and mutilated corpse. That's all I got, really.

Haus of Mystery

18:23 / 23.09.04

'Well, I've been to Tony Hart's house, and he showed me some of the original sketches for Morph' - lentil

THE WINNER!
(Sorry U.S. Barbeloids you're just going to have to take my word for it)

Mike Modular

19:52 / 23.09.04

Um, I know Porkins from Star Wars, Rosamund Pike, Richard Coyle and that James Lance, off the telly. Also, Lee Ross who was in Press Gang. I say 'hello' to Richard Wilson often enough and an ex-girlfriend has been in a few Mike Leigh films.

Well, I work in theatre, so there's always famous folk around. But none of them are, like, best mates or anything.

I did once go to Tim Booth's house, and he made me a cup of tea, but admittedly that's not as good as seeing some Morph etchings...

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