Yo-yo Ma
He had a first class seat on a flight I was on -- and so did his cello.

Paul Wylie
Figure skater -- I had him as a client for a while. He's thoughtful and creative and friendly.

Nick Nolte
He was buying a lift ticket at a ski area, and, I kid you not, a guy walked up to him and said with a Southern drawl, "Lo-o-oved that Prince of Tides."

Beverly Sills
I met her briefly at a fund-raiser for the arts. She was nice, but I was one of a hundred people she met that night and, I'm sure, promptly forgot.

Mitt Romney
I met him briefly at a fund-raiser for his presidential run -- he's not as tall as he looks, but he is handsome and well-spoken, even if I don't agree with him some of the time. I suggested to him that his stance against gay marriage would not work in his favor. He nodded and thanked me for sharing my thoughts.

Thomas Hoving
Executive director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Acquaintance of my father -- brilliant, charismatic, funny.