Bold Face Names

I've lived in New York City for about 7 years. For no particular reason, here's a partial list of the celebrities I've seen and where I saw them, without any cool stories surrounding them. In none of these instances have I attempted to speak to or otherwise bother these people. They live here for a reason, I figure.

I'd be curious to see whom any of you have seen. I know my brother blows this list away with two actual, somewhat organic interractions he's had with Mohammed Ali and Harrison Ford.

• Donald Sutherland (MASH, Animal House) seen at a movie theater downtown
• David Cross ("Mr. Show," "Arrested Development") walking down Jones Street, near my old apartment
• Sen. Chuck Schumer asking my friends if there were an empty seat next to us during a Friday night showing of Sideways; also riding a bike (with a helmet) on the West Side greenway
• Glenn Close (Fatal Attraction, Dangerous Liassons) walking on Bleecker Street
• Former Mayer Ed Koch sharing an elevator in his the building of his law office
• NY Ranger Mark Messier shortly after he was traded to Vancouver and immediately after peeing next to Perl at Prohibitions on the Upper West Side
• Chris Robinson (The Black Crowes, husband of Kate Hudson) walking on Varrick Street; also eating with his brother Chris at an outdoor cafe on 7th Avenue
• Jackie Mason (Borscht Belt comic and Broadway star, Caddyshack II, "Chicken Soup") briefly sitting next to my family on the Upper East Side for a Mother's Day brunch before leaving for another restaurant
• John Lithgow (Shrek, "Third Rock from the Sun") walking into a sushi restaurant on 9th Avenue
• Al Franken ("Saturday Night Live," author of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them) waiting for a 6-train that never came on a rainy day at the 33rd Street stop near the Air America studio
• Alan Cumming ("Caberet" off Broadway, X-2) taking his dog to the Washington Park dog run
• Famke Janssen (X-2, GoldenEye) walking her dog on 7th Avenue
• Rick Okasek (The Cars, husband of Paulina Porizkova) walking on 6th Avenue and then three years later walking on 4th Avenue
• Lou Reed (Velvet Underground), Steve Martin (The Jerk, LA Story), Salman Rushdie (The Satanic Verses, Midnight's Children) and John Cleese (Monty Python) in the audience of Ricky Jay's one-man off-broadway show "On the Stem."
• Michael Showalter (Wet, Hot American Summer, "The State") riding the L train
• Ron Howard (Splash, Apollo 13) buying popcorn at the Cineplex Odeon on 86th and 3rd
• Christina Ricci (The Addams Family, Prozac Nation) walking into Sushi Samba on 6th Avenue in the Village
• Mayor Michael Bloomberg campaigning outside my Christopher Street subway stop in the summer of 2001
• Claudia Schiffer walking into a screening at the Tribeca Film Festival
• Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Wargames) parking his scooter in a lot on the final night of his first run with "The Producers" on Broadway
• Joel Siegel ("Good Morning America") watching a press screening of Hustle and Flow on Broadway
• Natasha Lyone (American Pie, Detroit Rock City) eating dinner at the Blue Water Grill on Union Square
• Willem Dafoe (Platoon, Spider-Man) walking down Hudson Street