Why I didn't fall off the Space Needle.

Leonard Bernstein yelled at me.

Make the flight or see Letterman live? (new July 2002)

I humiliated myself in an interview with Jonathan Richman.

Joan Rivers ignored me.

 How far would you go for Itzhok Perlman's G string?

Ted Rooney isn't a doctor, but he plays one on TV.

O.k., the operative word here is "brush". 

Unadorned and unembellished (really, if you were gonna make it up they'd be a tad more exciting), these are encounters I've had with some people (and places) you may have heard of.