Brushes with Fame

Submissions Tagged 'Conan_O\'Brien'

In the 1990s, I worked at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. It's the building everyone sees when the famous Christmas tree is lit each year. The building is also the home of NBC and the television show _Saturday Night Live._

At that time, I would see many famous people pass through the lobby or hopping into an elevator. They included the likes of Dick Clark, Dustin Hoffman, Conan O'Brien, the _SNL_ cast, and many others. Sometimes, celebrities and tourists would take the elevator up to the then-famous Rainbow Room at the top of the building for Read more

by In2It in Brushes with Fame  07.03.10

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It's not that I care one way or the other about Conan O'Brien, personally. Conan is a guy like a lot of other guys" He's got two eyes, a nose, a mouth, a dick, and assorted other parts. As much as I wish everyone well--in the most impersonal sense, in the sense of "Merry Christmas, everyone!"--I wish Conan well.

But maybe it's the bursting-at-the-seams idolatry, the frenzy of Facebook profiles changed into Conan or Coco and the Save Coco and the Save Conan and the cries and the whimpers and the spectacle of his sweeping tour--that is more to Read more

by Johanna1960 in Brushes with Fame  05.15.10

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