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Posted: 2/7/2024 3:56:21 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: William Zabka  William is awesome. He would say hello every night when my elderly parents would walk around their Burbank neighborhood and see him. They had no idea who he was other than “that nice boy Billy”. Class act. |
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Posted: 2/7/2024 4:12:56 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Keanu Reeves. End of thread. Yep. I’ve met the dude and he is cool as fuck. But it’s been over 20 years. Also did a buncha shots with Jason Momoa at the last Slayer gig in 2020. Dude is a big boy, loves metal, can drink like a fish, is very personable and also cool as fuck. |
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Posted: 2/7/2024 4:13:24 PM EST
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Steve McQueen. I think "The Thomas Crown Affair" pretty much paralleled his real life.
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Posted: 2/7/2024 4:38:22 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I think you mean “knew” how to party. He is dead Jim. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Tom Sizemore knows how to party. I think you mean “knew” how to party. He is dead Jim. I honestly did not know that. I just thought that he stopped getting casted after the DV stuff. |
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Posted: 2/7/2024 5:32:39 PM EST
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I think Gary Cooper was probably pretty cool.
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Posted: 2/7/2024 5:33:27 PM EST
[#6]
Kurt Russell
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Posted: 2/7/2024 6:37:26 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Keanu Reeves. End of thread. |
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Posted: 2/7/2024 6:44:18 PM EST
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Chris Pratt , met him on set , filming the tomorrow war. It was scene where we’re all at attention while the female commander was giving us her speech. Pratt was behind me , I asked him for a fist bump and he gave me one
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Posted: 2/7/2024 6:58:49 PM EST
[#9]
Gen. Jimmy Stewart.
Here after flying an Arc Light mission in VN:  Attached FileAnd here with his privately-owned P-51.  Attached FileI believe the song "American Bad Ass" should have been dedicated to him. |
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Posted: 2/7/2024 7:20:34 PM EST
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would have loved to hang out with Ernest Bourgnine (sp).
Also, Tom Hardy. Seems cool, real MMA fighter, too. |
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Posted: 2/7/2024 7:39:24 PM EST
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Plenty already mentioned, so I will add James Colburn and Oliver Reid and Charlie Sheen
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Posted: 2/7/2024 7:47:44 PM EST
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Kurt Russell has always been one of my favorites.
Hearing him say things like this just makes him even cooler.  Kurt Russell on Gun Control and No Fly list. Tells Blogger "You're Out of Your Mind" |
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Posted: 2/7/2024 7:50:17 PM EST
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I think Paul Newman was pretty cool.
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Posted: 2/7/2024 7:53:22 PM EST
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I’ll catch flak for this but every time I met Alec Baldwin he was very gracious and cool.
The first time i met him I worked in a mall selling A/V. We had Pearl Harbor playing on a 65” rear projector and it was fairly busy. I noticed a guy watching it and asked him if he needed any help and it was him. He spent time telling us how the movie was made, the connection he felt with the WWII vets making it, etc. nothing like the asshole you hear about. |
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Posted: 2/7/2024 7:58:34 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: McQueen, Dempsey, and Newman are the ones if you want drivers. Michael Fassbender as well |
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Posted: 2/7/2024 8:01:31 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'll go with Steve McQueen as well. From everything I have read that would be my vote, I also heard that he was invited to the party at the Tate/Polanski residence and had he gone likely would have been killed as well. |
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Posted: 2/7/2024 8:03:16 PM EST
[#17]
Bill Paxton
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Posted: 2/7/2024 8:03:19 PM EST
[#18]
Jimmy Stewart?
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Posted: 2/7/2024 8:05:39 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No Audie Murphy? Adulterer. |
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Posted: 2/7/2024 8:07:03 PM EST
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Bill Clinton?
It would definitely be a party. |
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Posted: 2/7/2024 8:11:31 PM EST
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The only one I ever really had a conversation with was Aaron Lewis
so that's my only reference  It was about a coy dog / coyote he shot bow hunting He asked me is this a wolf because I have killed plenty of coyotes but I have never seen one this big . It was in the bed of his truck....pretty cool guy to talk to |
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Posted: 2/7/2024 8:11:41 PM EST
[#22]
Donald Trump
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Posted: 2/7/2024 8:17:11 PM EST
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Donald Trump  Never had the the chance Missed him a couple of times when I visited some of his jobsites I can tell you this , the guys there told me no one ever knew when he would show up. They would just see him walking around the site bullshitting with everyone . Another thing they told me was sometimes he would pull in when the food trucks were there and when the workers would go on lunch the food trucks guys would say it's all paid for guys. He would hand the owners a fist full of cash and buy lunch for 200 or so workers there . |
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Posted: 2/7/2024 8:21:46 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Bill Paxton Good choice. |
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Posted: 2/7/2024 8:26:11 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: For all of you that pick Steve McQueen, I don't recommend you read his biography @dale007 do tell |
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Posted: 2/7/2024 8:27:10 PM EST
[#26]
Lee Marvin
Charles Bronson Steve McQueen |
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Posted: 2/7/2024 8:30:32 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: William Zabka ^^ this  |
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Posted: 2/7/2024 8:31:27 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I think Paul Newman was pretty cool. I met him a handful of times before he passed. My best memory of him was when we were both at Lime Rock for a test day and my mom was there, as she hadn't seen me on track in a while. I stopped by PN's rig in the paddock and made some racing small talk with him, telling him I sat in one of his cars (I think it was his C Prod 260) that was on display at Bob Sharp Motors when I was a kid as my parents were buying a car for mom from the dealer. He was nothing but gracious to mom and me. And another thing - even into his 70s, he was FAST while piloting a GT1 of some flavor with no livery. |
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Posted: 2/7/2024 9:05:54 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Maybe you could mention a couple specifics you're referring to? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: For all of you that pick Steve McQueen, I don't recommend you read his biography Womanizer, beat both of his wives, and was quite the drug abuser. |
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Posted: 2/7/2024 9:08:57 PM EST
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Posted: 2/7/2024 9:09:23 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Gary Sinise. The man is a man's man.  This! |
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Posted: 2/7/2024 9:09:36 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Tom Sizemore knows how to party. Knew how to party |
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Posted: 2/7/2024 9:15:39 PM EST
[#33]
I want to throw Sterling Hayden in the bunch.
Did lots of cool stuff, both in civilian and military life, banged beautiful women, and had a great IDGAF attitude. |
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Posted: 2/7/2024 9:19:11 PM EST
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Elvis All the others led really cool lives. But Elvis was the king. If Elvis wanted a new car everybody at the house that day went down to the dealership and got a new car got a new car. If Elvis decided to go to the beach everybody at the house went to airport and flew to wherever Elvis wanted to go. He did what ever he wanted, whenever he wanted. But he took everybody else with him as well and insured they had just as good a time. that is few notches higher than just doing it yourself. Coolest there ever was. |
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Posted: 2/8/2024 12:51:59 AM EST
[#35]
Huh. I was thinking John Belushi would have been fun to party with.
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Posted: 2/8/2024 1:17:00 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Steve McQueen. But James Garner did some pretty cool off road racing, too. ...and got two Purple Hearts. |
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Posted: 2/8/2024 1:17:10 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I’ll catch flak for this but every time I met Alec Baldwin he was very gracious and cool. The first time i met him I worked in a mall selling A/V. We had Pearl Harbor playing on a 65” rear projector and it was fairly busy. I noticed a guy watching it and asked him if he needed any help and it was him. He spent time telling us how the movie was made, the connection he felt with the WWII vets making it, etc. nothing like the asshole you hear about. He also got into a good argument with some Pali protesters in NY recently. So perhaps he’s more nuanced than most of us believe. |
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Posted: 2/8/2024 1:19:35 AM EST
[#38]
Audie Murphy
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Posted: 2/8/2024 1:20:59 AM EST
[#39]
The actor from "Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure"
Races sport bikes, drives a Porsche 993, can actually use a firearm, humble |
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Posted: 2/8/2024 1:31:39 AM EST
[#40]
Clint Eastwood.
I used to work as a golf professional at one of the Pebble Beach resort courses. He would come by in the evenings every week or so, long before he bought the company. Always gracious, polite and humble. Used to give him some grapes or granola, and turn him loose to play a few holes. Nice guy that enjoyed just talking to someone who treated him as a normal person. Not a company rule, but we never acknowledged celebrities as anything but regular guests, I think they appreciated that. |
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Posted: 2/8/2024 1:36:39 AM EST
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While I shall withhold my official nomination…. for David Lee Roth.. since I don’t really know shit about him otherwise, but he was an avid rock climber.
Whenever VH would play a show in Vegas, he’d roll up to the Red Rocks trailhead in a limo and hang out and climb with the rest of the dirtbags. On the Living in Paradise music video he’s shown on top of Yosemite’s Lost Arrow Spire as well as on El Cap and the NW face of Half Dome.  |
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Posted: 2/8/2024 6:41:18 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Gen. Jimmy Stewart. Here after flying an Arc Light mission in VN: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/6163/Nam-Jimmy-960_640_jpg-3121533.JPG And here with his privately-owned P-51. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/6163/Jimmy-Stewart-Thunderbird_jpg-3121534.JPG I believe the song "American Bad Ass" should have been dedicated to him. His Mustang was at Oshkosh last year.
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Posted: 2/8/2024 11:06:06 AM EST
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Donald Trump Our EAA Chapter had one of Trump's former pilots come do a talk for us. He said that every time they would be out of town during a holiday, Trump would fly in all of their families so that they could celebrate the holiday together. |
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