[Fot] Goodwood youtube

Thu Apr 30 13:19:55 MDT 2020

It’s very possibly that I too misjudged Jane Seymour.   In fact, one of my brothers has a great memory of sharing a moment with her, having words as he boarded an airplane in New York and they were both in first class.   I think the point of sharing my story was that the slightest hint of rudeness by a celebrity can breed a memorable, hurtful memory in a fan.  Such a slight from a stranger would be shrugged off and probably quickly forgotten.  With celebrities, it’s different.  

On one hand, it seems unfair to the celebrities, but it is one of the costs of being a celebrity.  Some take it in stride and learn how to make everyone feel touched.  Think of Bill Clinton here.  He’s known to work a room and make everyone feel personally acknowledged.  (I’m not speaking as a fan of the Clintons, but it is a fact about his nature that probably played a big part in his becoming a governor and POTUS.)

I worked on a commercial with Anthony Michael Hall a few years ago.  My god, he went out of his way to make each crew member feel like they were the stars.  I know he’s not a superstar, but he’s still a celebrity. He could have approached the crew with a 180 degree attitude! 

They can choose to act like spoiled children or they can recognize that many people they have never met may feel a connection to them as if they had met.  I think those that embrace this live happier lives than those that yell obscenities or punch paparazzi in the face or their cameras for the slightest effort to get a picture or that grimace and turn away when recognized in public, etc.

I met Kastner in person at a Triumphest.  My TR4A was the most beat up and unrestored  looking Triumph at the event. (I had only restored it mechanically, it had no top, no carpet, etc., and it roared with nothing but glass-packs!)  Word got to me that it was his favorite car of the day.  I’m sure he knew it would.   Another case of a celebrity that appreciates the responsibility that comes with his celebrity rather than taking it like a bitter pill.  He’s always a class act.

My beater looking TR as it appeared about that time in the 90’s....

> On Apr 30, 2020, at 10:01 AM, Tony Sheach <tony.sheach at live.co.uk> wrote:
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> I think you’ve got Jackie Stewart wrong there - that was a thank you I suspect, rather than a blow out.
> 
> He’s an absolute gentleman in my experience and is one of those guys that makes time when he has it, but every minute the man has when he is in public is scheduled and paid for, especially at events where he is representing his long standing sponsors and clients.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On 30 Apr 2020, at 17:41, J Wagner via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:
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> In 2004, my mom spent months creating several paintings for an upcoming charity art show.  Actress Jane Seymour, who is also an artist, was the celebrity anchor of the show.  Just weeks before the show, my mom passed away, in her sleep, from a heart attack.  I contacted her friends involved in the show and arranged for her art to still be put on display in the show.  I did it for my mom and I did because I wanted to see her friends that would be attending as I knew I’d likely never have an opportunity to see many of them again.  At the show, I ran into Jane Seymour.  Being a prop master in the film business, I’ve been on sets and locations with a lot of movie stars, but there’s never an opportunity to just have a conversation.  Frankly, it’s frowned upon.  Suddenly she’s right there in front of me, and i was thrilled with the opportunity have a few words with her.  I introduced myself by explaining my mom was also exhibiting in the show, but that she had just passed away, and I started to mention my connection to the film buiz, when I realized she wasn’t paying attention to a word I was saying.   She was rubber necking around me, looking at everyone but me.  She totally blew me off.  
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> Every time I see her on one of her TV commercials, I feel a little ill.   The way she put me off when I was still mourning the sudden loss of my mother just burned a hole in my psyche that I can’t shake.  When I think how all she had to do was be polite and share a sentence or two with this young man, that had just lost his mother, to bring a little sunshine back to his soul, just kills me. 
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> Many celebrities have no idea the impact they have when they’re rude.   Some do get it.  I remember Angie Dickinson, early in my career arriving on a set, no handlers, no entourage, no demands, dressed rather frumpy, just walking up to craft service and grabbing a morning snack, and greeting me (at that time a carpenter) like any other crew member, as an equal.  That small gesture made her one of my most favorite celebrities in terms of those that I had contact with.  She’s second only to Meg Ryan.  I had picked up some prop from Paramount Studios and happened to walk passed her trailer.  The door was open and we caught eyes.  And she gave me the sweetest “come hither” smile I’d ever seen from an attractive young woman yet alone a movie star.  That one smile, instead of a What-the-fuck-are-you-looking at? grimace, and she could do no wrong in my eyes for the rest of my life!  
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> Jackie Stewart apparently is one of those that just don’t get it.   Shame.
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> On Apr 30, 2020, at 8:28 AM, DAVE HOGYE via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote:
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>> A couple years ago, at the Rolex Reunion, Jackie Stewart was walking by in front of my TR3 with another person and said something like, this is a Triumph TR3, very good car, my brother had one of these.  I motioned to come closer to have a look, he waved and shook his head no and walked away.  He totally blew me off. 
>> DH
>>> On April 30, 2020 at 5:54 AM Bill Tobin via Fot <fot at autox.team.net> wrote: 
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>>> Wow. John Young Stewart: what class! Giving the rose to the girl in the wheelchair. Sir Jackie is in a class by himself.
>>> 
>>> I saw him race F1 at the Glen several times. Also drove a Lola Can Am car in '71.
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>>> The sound of a Cosworth Ford sure beats the whirl of an electric car. Darned old Luddite!
>>> 
>>> Stay safe.
>>> 
>>> Bill
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>>>> On 4/29/2020 10:57 PM, DAVE HOGYE via Fot wrote: 
>>>> Hey Gang,
>>>> Goodwood is one of my favorite youtube channels. They shared this vid recently. 5:00 minutes in something really strange happens. 
>>>> Give it a view.  Share your thoughts.   
>>>> Dave H.
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO6PdOFBN5w
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