Filed under: Cult of Mac, Odds and ends
Mac-wielding celebrities
ifoAppleStore is pointing to a
great Flickr find today: A (blurry) snapshot of John
Stewart bringing his iMac into the SoHo Genius Bar for service (how he managed to get an appointment there I'll
never know). The picture reminded me of these shots of John Krasinski
from NBC's The Office checking out an iPod in an unidentified New York Apple Store. Since we don't venture out of our secret TUAW offices in the gymnasium of the abandoned parochial school with any great regularity, we don't get to see many Mac-toting celebs in the wild. So, we're posing the question to you: Have you ever made such a sighting?
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JohnZ said 7:17PM on 2-13-2006
My brother and I saw Steven Tyler in the Apple Store on Michigan Avenue in Chicago once purchasing a Power Mac G5.
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Mag said 8:04PM on 2-13-2006
Jon Stewart.
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Charles R Hamilton said 8:14PM on 2-13-2006
I could never quite get the whole "cult of celebrity" thing. Sure, I would be excited to see...say Uma Thurman toting a Mac, but not because she is an actress. Seeing Jon Stewart or Rush Limbaugh either one with a Mac...not so much.
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MUTE MATT said 8:16PM on 2-13-2006
I saw Brent Berry from the San Antonio Spurs in the La Cantera Store in San Antonio talking to someone about his iPod.
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lonewolf said 8:42PM on 2-13-2006
So an iPod = a Mac now?
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Errs said 8:55PM on 2-13-2006
James Arnold Taylor, voice of Tidus in Final Fantasy X and Obi Wan Kenobi in Star Wars (everything) with his G4 iBook.
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Ben Gold said 8:56PM on 2-13-2006
I saw Jon Stewart (there is no h in his name) do stand up and he was talking about how a while ago he had to bring an old G4 to an apple store.
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Christopher Boffoli said 9:00PM on 2-13-2006
I saw character actor and film producer Bob Ballaban bringing his Powerbook into Tekserve on 23rd Street in NYC.
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Jeet said 9:04PM on 2-13-2006
Almost all heros in Indian movies use a mac (mostly powerbook or ibook (for female lead) onscreen. :-) It is probably one of the most used props in indian cinema.
Regarding iPod, I recently read an article that almost everyone (including Sachin) in Indian cricket team has an iPod (and cricket is 'HUGE' in India).
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Gary Rogers said 9:48PM on 2-13-2006
I remember Hank Rollins (46 today, DAMN!) in one of those 'What's on your PowerBook' Magazine adds back when the Black Beauty was king (queen?)
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daniel said 10:03PM on 2-13-2006
robin williams in the soho store.
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Justin Larsen said 10:13PM on 2-13-2006
Ive seen Paris Hilton (yuk!) quite a few times here in LA. I'm suprized she even knows how to use the thing. I'm guessing she just likes to have the white headphones in her ears as more of a status symbol then anything.
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Mac Diva said 10:29PM on 2-13-2006
My funniest sighting was back in the "Northern Exposure" days. The actor who played the deejay was in The Mac Store (now The Computer Store) in Seattle. A group of guys took me aside and asked me if he was REALLY hotter than they were.
For the record, the place where I've encountered the highest number of celebrities is Aspen. Just hang out there and they will stumble all over you, Dave.
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Mac Diva said 10:34PM on 2-13-2006
Oops! Now The Mac Store.
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Ethan said 10:46PM on 2-13-2006
Michael Stipe owns a 12" Powerbook.
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Jason said 11:02PM on 2-13-2006
Mia Hamm and Nomah "Thanks, Beautiful" Garciaparra, Ian Mackaye of Fugazi, a tie-dyed Dr. Patch Adams (the real one, if he counts as a celebrity), all at the Clarendon, VA store.
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matt said 11:03PM on 2-13-2006
mac powell from Third Day uses a 15in PowerBook habitually :)
so do claudio sanchez from Coheed and Cambria and record producer mike birnbaum (most notably produced Coheed's newest record)
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Derek said 12:03AM on 2-14-2006
Rollins is a long-time Mac user. Interesting that Jason saw Ian MacKaye weilding a Mac, too. He and Rollins are childhood friends, I wonder if one turned the other on to Macs.
Rollins is a total hero of mine. I got an autographed photo from him when he spoke on my campus (Ohio State) exactly one year ago today (his birthday). I gave him a hardbound copy of "The Fountainhead" as a present and he was psyched about it.
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jerome said 12:12AM on 2-14-2006
This won't mean much to you US people, but Stephen Fry, one of the UK's greatest writers/broadcasters/filmmakers is a total mac advocate much like the great Douglas Adams was. He is the detective in "Gosford Park" and directed "Bright Young Things", and is a long time collaborator of Hugh laurie, now in "House" (he was with him at the Emmys). He was on a show called "Room 101" where celebrities put things that they hate. He is the only person yet to turn the show around and created a "Room Fluffy" for things that were good, and he put Jonathan Ives and the macintosh in as examples of greatness. Recently he sported his 15" PB on a show researching his very interesting genealogy. Since Douglas died, he's the no.2 mac advocate in the UK, after me.
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Phred said 12:54AM on 2-14-2006
I saw Dave Chapelle back in 2003 in the Apple Store in Columbus Ohio buying a mac tower. it was pretty cool.
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