"Celebrity" sightings at CP

Josh, I've got one better. I saw myself in a mirror once in the bathrooms!

I'll be back around July 4th everyone. Get in line now for autographs. ;)
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Andrew Sharkey said:
Lebron James was there last year. A co-worker working at Magnum told me a story of him not recognizing Lebron and dumping his photo because he gave the shocker (CP employees have to dump inappropriate on-ride photos). When he found out that it was in fact Lebron, he had to radio the supervisors and/or managers to come and recover the photo in order to keep Lebron peppy.

I wonder if Magnum was the only ride he could fit on? If I'm not mistaken, LB is 6'8 so that would probably mean that he could not fit on at least MF and TTD. Does anybody know?

bholcomb said:
Josh, I've got one better. I saw myself in a mirror once in the bathrooms!

I'll be back around July 4th everyone. Get in line now for autographs. ;)

Remember that time I saw you when I was on SkyHawk and you were in line. Yeah, that was pretty sweet.

I saw Skyward on Friday night! Twice!

I've only seen the CP regulars - T&T and Dick Kinzel.

Coastern3rd said:
^^Well he is from Ohio, and that would be pretty sweet.

Umm, no he isn't...unless they moved Mercer, PA into Ohio at some point and I missed the memo.

Michael Trent Reznor was born in Mercer, Pennsylvania to Michael J. Reznor and Nancy Clark. Reznor was called by his middle name to avoid confusion with his father. After his parents divorced, he and his sister, Tera (born in 1970), lived with their maternal grandparents in Mercer

I only know this 'cause a good friend of mine graduated high school with him in Mercer.

Sorry, should of worded that a little different. Nine Inch Nails was born out of Ohio.. Not Trent.

So you sort of missed the memo.

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When I went to the park yesterday, 6/25, I saw Montel and he kept going on TTD like ten times in a row in the front seat!!! :)

Kid Rock was seen frequently in 1999 I think. Within a couple of weeks of each other, he was in front of me queuing for Iron Dragon, then at the next table in the Breakers Friday's.

This post did come up a few months ago.

Over the years of working at the park (1 at the Breakers front desk), I have encountered Heather Locklear, Brad Pitt, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Drew Carey, Marilyn Manson, Trent Reznor, LeBron James, Leonardo DiCaprio, Clint Black and Lisa Hartman Black, Montel Williams, etc.

More often than not, they wear some type of hat or glasses to somewhat "disguise" themselves. However both Drew Carey and Marilyn Manson were incredibly down to earth and talkative, not to mention left HUGE tips to the wait staff.

I saw Drew Carey a few months later at Pleasure Island at Walt Disney World and had a good 20 minute chat with him about Cleveland, Cedar Point, Route 2, etc. He was just as he is portrayed on TV...an "average Joe Schmo".

Celebrities are always staying at Hotel Breakers under assumed names and the fan clubs always seem to find out and then either call the hotel incessantly or sit in the lobby for hours hoping for a glance. This was always the case when I worked at a large hotel in Toledo as well. Stars were in town for concerts, speeches, conventions, etc...and unless its publicized well...you never know who you may see!!

^^ Jeff, did you hit him?

I have an honest, personal reason that makes me want to smack the crap out of Kid Rock. It's not just because he makes crappy music.

Is it because he touts himself as being from Detroit, when he's actually from Romeo?

For those unfamiliar with the Romeo, its so far away that you cannot get much farther removed from Detroit while remaining in the area known as Metro Detroit.

Hahaha.. I forgot he did that too.

When he was on Jimmy Kimmel for the Superbowl show, he held up a stainless steel Made in Detroit logo. I was the one that had drawn it up in CAD, An engineer made some changes and our Water Jet op cut it out and he told Jimmy, on national TV, he made it in his garage. He told Jesse James the same thing about a Grill we made for him.

I did not expect him to say ""oh, well Rob Gasper at Complete drew it up...." etc but to tell people seriously that he made it himself....

Yeah, I would love to hit him.

That's sad. You should build him a Made in Detroit baseball bat out of billet aluminum...

You can see where I'm going with this.

That's a lot of hate for Kid Rock. Hell, I respect the guy for just doing his thing and not playing the celebrity card.

I respect him for that. But aside from more than likely getting kicked off, how would you feel if I told everyone I was responsible for pointbuzz.com?

I know, it took all of 15 minutes for me to draw up and convert to .DXF for the water jet. Not a big deal, but at least he could say he paid for it to be done or that his best freind is vice prez of a shop that has capabilities to make that sort of thing for his store.

If you do ever go into his store, it's pretty tight. My old department made the hangers as well.

Dude, you're talking about stuff that no one else cares about. I have no idea what you're talking about.

Speak for yourself.

Just the fact that I only recognize about half of the names in these 'celebrity lists' proves how out of touch I am with popular culture I think.

Is the Montel everyone keeps reffering to Montel Williams? As in bald talk show host? *** Edited 6/26/2006 7:37:11 PM UTC by Coastern3rd***