The Stanley Cup
CONGRATULATIONS to the Boston Bruins for their victory over the Canucks in the 2011 Stanley Cup Playoff.
As a tribute, we are reblogging this post from 2oo8 about the time Rhodester won the Stanley Cup.
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At times, I’ve been accused of name dropping on this blog.
To that I say, I don’t! I just lay them down gently. Then it’s up to you to step through the minefield of celebrity and fame and if you trip over one or two in the process, well, who’s fault is that? Can I help it that I used to schmooze with the rich and famous?
I’m wondering though, if it counts as name dropping if you talk about a famous pile of metal rather than a person.
You see, yesterday I was asking James at MEN WITH PENS how to give a first-person narrative with strong anchor phrases and keywords, but somehow got onto the subject of Hollywood. That happens with me a lot, and that’s when I get accused of name-dropping.
James hasn’t accused me of it though, yet, but he should because I couldn’t help showing him up. I always do that and it’s a bad, BAD habit. If you saw Steven Spielberg in a mall, I hung out with him on the set of an Oscar nominated film. If you saw Muhammed Ali fight way back when, I spent half the day with him on a security detail. If you spotted Gwyneth Paltrow in Sardi’s during your trip to LA, I once tried to kill her.
It never ends.
What happened yesterday is that I’d just mentioned something about some celebrity – I can’t remember WHO, because there are just SO MANY – and James wrote back the following..
I do have an autograph of Denis Hamel on my fridge .. he’s a famous hockey player. Like, you’re supposed to know who he is. Comes from my town. Famous. I’m telling you. Denis. Yes?
Well, like I could leave THAT alone! I could do better, so I replied..
A few years back I was booked as an extra on an HBO show called “Arli$$“, about a sports agent (or reporter, or something.. I’d never watched it.)
We shot some scenes on a sound stage and then broke for lunch – another sound stage that wasn’t being used for the show had been set up as a cafeteria, and I grabbed a tray of food and took a seat at an empty table. I didn’t know anyone there, and didn’t really want to fraternize with the crew.
As I was eating, some guy came in with this big-ass trophy, and everyone cheered. He asked, “Where do I put it?” One of the crew guys pointed to my table and told him to set it there, so he did. Then everyone just HAD to come over and flock around it for a nice close-up view and, since it had been set down about three feet away from me, I was suddenly surrounded by crew people, pushing and shoving for a closer view of it.
So, I had lunch with the most prestigious award in hockey and one of the most important awards in the world of sports, THE STANLEY CUP. The REAL one, not a prop, because they do that sort of thing with it.
I later found out that it makes “appearances” all over the place, just like a celebrity. It was on loan to be used in that particular episode of the show – I forgot to mention the armed guard who stayed within view of it the whole time.
So, yeah.. speaking of HOCKEY. Sorry, I’ve never heard of Denis Hamel.
So now you see how annoying I can be. But I’m still wondering if it counts when it’s a big-ass metal cup instead of a person.
I should phone up Spielberg and ask him.
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