Have Any Famous Friends on Facebook?

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Part of the fun of having all those faux-friendships on Facebook is that you can constantly tell people stuff like, "My friend Rihanna said..."

Naturally, you don't add that you've never actually met the woman!

So here's my query: Do you have any famous FB friends, and did you go after them or did they stalk you?

And I'm not just talking about the fan pages, I mean the actual person!

I'm proud to say I'm extremely close pals -- practically siblings -- with Joe Dallesandro, Bruce Vilanch, Carol Channing, Pat Cleveland, Renee Taylor, Judith Regan, Denny Dillon, Butch Patrick, and Scott Thompson, so nyah.

In fact, we're all having a party in my house tonight.

Well, in my computer in my house.

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HOLLY WOODLAWN
HOLLY WOODLAWN

OH! MICHAEL MUSTO! YOU DON'T CONSIDER ME A CLOSE FRIEND ANYMORE? IF IT WASN'T FOR NELSON NELSON SULLIVAN, WE WOULDN'T EVEN BE FRIENDS? HAVE YOU NO PRIORITIES?

LOVE YOU SORTA-MADLY,

SHE WHO MUST BE OBEYED

JDelf
JDelf

Your cyber mansion is quite nice, I like what you've done with the place.

Neosoul
Neosoul

Matthew Galloway, author. Nick Adams, actor. and Harvey F., until they dump me for not being actual friends.

rad
rad

micheal gira (swans), jad fair, and all my musician friends who are "famous" on the DIY circuit.

Melinda9
Melinda9

My mother was a big Bway musical fan, so some of my earliest memories are of Carol Channing's distinctive voice in Gentleman Prefer Blonds and archie and mehitabel. In my admittedly strange universe, she's a bigger star than Brad Pitt. Her wikipedia page has some interesting factoids and a beautiful Carl van Vechten portrait.

Maria (Hot) in Cleveland
Maria (Hot) in Cleveland

Yes, and they're good ones! You, Holly Woodlawn, Paul Zone (photographer, singer-The Fast), David Thomas (singer-Pere Ubu) and Eric Davidson (singer-New Bomb Turks; author-"We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut 1988-2001").

Movielover
Movielover

Is Carol doing a Swifty Lazar or a Martha Raye impression in that pic?

Kilroyrogers
Kilroyrogers

Yep- Check out my pals- amazing folks! Ginger Baker, a personal hero...Pat Cleveland, Judith Regan, Joe Dallesandro, Mamie Van Doren, Angie Bowie...Jayne County, about fifty more. Some I just contacted, others are lifelong pals, or I met some through my star pals.It's all good: you just have to get in before the 5,000 limit!

Musto
Musto

Yes, Susan Anton and Sally Kirkland are mega. And love you too, Judith. Love all of you, for christ's sake!!

MarcBerglass
MarcBerglass

MICHAEL!! You are my favorite and only Famous Friend.

did you forget about Susan Anton and Sally Kirkland?? Coolest Celebrity FB Friends EVAH!!

Judith Regan
Judith Regan

I love you Michael and any friend of yours is a friend of mine. xoxo

Phillip McKrevis
Phillip McKrevis

latenitebump will you be my most famous facebook friend?

Polly Peaches
Polly Peaches

IT'S LIKE SHITTING WHERE YOU SLEEP, YOU JUST DON'T DO IT MICHAEL. ( OR ATLEAST NOT INTENTIONAL ) BUT TO NAME A FEW OF MY CLOSE FRIENDS ON FACEBOOK WELL THE LIST IS VAST BUT I AM FRIENDS WITH LIL'KIM, BIG KIM, LIZA MANELLI, BARBRA STRIESAND, MONICA LEWNKSY, DOLLY PARTON, GEORGE BUSH, DORTHY ZPORNAK, BLANCHE DEVEROE, MARYLIN MONROE, AL CAPONE, CHER, MADONNA, LADY GAGA, PRINCESS DIANA, DIANA ROSS, STEVEN SPIELBERG, MICHAEL JACKSON, ANNA NICOLE SMITH, COOKIE MONSTER & SNOOKIE TO NAME A FEW, SO PUT THAT IN YOUR DIARY !.

NORMADESMOND
NORMADESMOND

helen lawson. i shit myself when i type the name.

(oh, michael musto too).

Barb
Barb

Really? I wonder how Jesus feels about her song being used in "Priscilla."

Wannacmedisco
Wannacmedisco

I'm friends with CeCe Peniston...but I had to set her on "ignore" because all of her 5,000 daily updates are about Jesus.

Melinda9
Melinda9

I think you have some great facebook friends - I love Scott Thompson (also Kids in the Hall and the brilliant Brain Candy).

Jeremy
Jeremy

I'm friends with Geri Reischl, Jan from The Brady Bunch Variety Hour. I defy anyone to top that.

Musto
Musto

A dead celebrity friend still counts.

Lisa Cougar Bacall
Lisa Cougar Bacall

I have Michael Musto, Paris Hilton and Chord Overstreet from Glee. Michael do you count ? LOL...................

Kwnyc
Kwnyc

Well, there's YOU of course, and Marian Seldes, Manute Bol (even though he's dead, no one has taken down his FB profile), Edward Albee. FB repeatedly suggested I "friend" Clive Owen, but I tried to and he never responded (sigh).

latenitebump
latenitebump

i´ll give you points for PAT CLEVELAND! STAR!

Troofire
Troofire

Michael Musto is on my FB friends' list. He stalked me. I added him just to shut him up.

Begora
Begora

Well, Carol Channing is a Broadway legend.

Scott Thompson is in Kids in the Hall.

Denny Dillon was in SNL. Renee Taylor was the mother on The Nanny.

Joe Dallesandro was a Warhol star of films like "Trash" and "Heat."

Judith Regan is a book mogul with a radio show.

Butch Patrick was on The Munsters.

Paul
Paul

Define Famous.

Midge
Midge

Pat Cleveland is my favorite supermodel turned poetess!!

Rex
Rex

That's a pretty skanky bunch of friends, I'd say.

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