Boooooooogus!
Background: my father is friends with a certain Mr F. Ford Coppola, and occasionally stays with him at his place in New Mexico if he's passing through. This took place many years ago, but I can still remember it.

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Emperor Snr: Hello Empressette, I am back from my work in the mighty US of A, and I have brought you a present!
Empressette: Yaaaaay! *thinks: a mylittlepony? A barbie? Some marshmallow in a jar?!?!?!*
Emperor Snr: *gives me a picture of some bearded guy talking to an ugly dead-looking alien with SHARP POINTY TEETH. And some bugger's written all over it.* (It took me a while to realise that this was a signed photo of Mr F. Ford Coppola talking to a Mr. G Oldman on the set of "Dracula").
Empressette: yaaaaay? Erm, thanks Papa! How was your trip to Mexico?
Emperor Snr: Nice, thank you. I had a terrible 3 days driving though. Mr. F Ford Coppola had a young friend staying with him when I was there, who asked if he could grab a lift with me on the way to Mexico.
Empressette: Who?
Emperor Snr: *ignoring me* 3 days I had to spend with him in that car, 3 days with the most idiotic man on earth! He says he was an actor, but I reckon he was just plain retarded.
Empressette: Why? And who was he?
Emperor Snr: He kept banging on about how aliens populated the earth and flew in their mystical pyramid-shaped spaceships around the earth, forming colonies in Egypt, Mexico, South America, Cambodia etc. The boy hadn't a bloody clue. God he was dull as shit. I don't understand how the hell anyone decided that making him the lead actor in a film was a good idea!
Empressette: WHO WAS HE?
Emperor Snr: Oh, just some pillock I've never heard of. Stupid name, too. Kee-aaah-oh Steves or something.
Empressette: *...*

Yup, my father had spent quality time with Keanu Reeves, just after Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure came out in the UK. I dragged him to see the film, where he said "yup, that's the chap. He's not too bad at playing a gormless twerp, is he? I suppose it comes naturally".
The worst thing: he thought about getting me his autograph, on the offchance that he was an actor I might have heard of, but decided not to on the grounds that I wouldn't want the autograph of an alien-loving pillock. Thanks, Papa.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 13:46, 2 replies)

NICOLLLLEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 14:00, closed)

So it looks like you get the "coolest person you nearly know" prize...
:)
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 15 Oct 2009, 14:25, closed)