Famous

Some blog meme I read this week asked the question, who are the most famous people you've ever met. Wow. Now that I think of it, I have met some famous people and been one degree away from others.

In no particular order:

Zero Degrees: Mutual Greeting and/or conversation

• Cornel West
• Henry Louis Gates Jr
• George C. Wolfe
• Charles Johnson
• William Kunstler
• Johnnie Cochran
• Guy Bluford
• Diahanne Carroll
• Ivan Dixon
• Stacy Peralta
• Casey Casem
• Jesse Jackson
• Tom Bradley
• Keenan Ivory Wayans
• Melvin Van Peebles
• Wynton Marsalis

Zero Degrees: Handshake, In the same conversation or polite impersonal hello

• Irving Wladawsky-Berger
• Charlie Rose
• Mark Cuban
• Christopher Hitchens
• Jimmy Carter
• Bobby Brown
• Jim Brown

One Degree: I just missed them / I shoulda been there.

• Muhammad Ali
• Maurice Greenberg

Oh this is silly.