- Jean Beliveau
- Ed Broadbent (prompting Chris to exclaim to me "I love you!")
- Kim Campbell
- Joe Clark (a regular shopper at the bookstore where I worked)
- Northrop Frye
- Herb Gray
- Paul Gross (many years ago during summer stock theatre)
- Rick Mercer
- Ovide Mercredi
- Mila Mulroney (also at the bookstore but an altogether different type of shopping encounter!)
- Rex Murphy
- Pierre Pettigrew
- Joe Schlesinger (another regular at the bookstore)
- René Simard (he kissed my cheek & my mother forced me to wash it after four days)
- Evan Solomon
- George Stroumboulopoulos
- Pierre Trudeau
- Michael Wilson (by telephone - but that's another story!)
* Readers will notice a preponderance of political and public broadcaster personalities - that's what you get for living in the nation's capital!.
5 comments:
How long did you wait to wash your cheek after Herb Gray kissed you? Hee!!
Cheeky monkey - he's a very sweet man! He was/is married to the Exec Dir of the NGO where I worked in Ottawa and dropped by the office from time to time. (Never did kiss my cheek.)
Neither did Michael Wilson after I told him to bugger off on the telephone and then hung up on him. I thought it was a friend of ours who was renowned for pulling pranks. It wasn't. Mr. Wilson was remarkably pleasant when he called back a second time asking to speak with my roommate who worked for him at the time.
Canadian Brushes with Schmarminess..
I was in a skate-a-thon when I was 8 and Jean Beliveau came and skated with us. When I was 16 I sat behind then hunky ctv anchorman Keith Morrison on a flight to California. And I sold pottery to Graham Green and Rex Smith (the ex-teen heart throb who I know you probably had a poster of in your room, Sandra!).
J, you and I have all had Jean Beliveau encounters! Alas no Rex Smith posters. My room was wall-papered with pictures of Leif Garrett and Parker Stevenson - cut me some slack it was the 70's!!
Jean Béliveau made sitting in the middle seat on the plane worthwhile, and was a class act despite the screaming infants around us. As regards Michael Wilson, I'm confident he forgave you. Of course, more recently Juanita and I had our George Clooney and Matt Damon encounter.
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