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Celebrities freak out at Apple store employees over new iPods

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bishoptl

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Milk Money did suck. Balls.
Apple has four retail stores in the Los Angeles area, which give the sales associates ample opportunity to rub elbows with Hollywood celebrities. It isn't always pleasant. Out of respect for the celebrities' privacy, Apple forbids the stores' sales associates from talking to the press. But that hasn't stopped several staffers from sharing their celebrity anecdotes with Wired News -- stories that reveal Tinseltown's good, bad and ugly.

First, the ugly.

Melanie Griffith threw a tantrum when she was unable to buy a pink iPod mini early last year, according to the sales associate who tried to serve her. The associate, who asked to remain anonymous, said Griffith came right up to him and "pretty much demanded" a pink iPod mini. The mini was in short supply, and the associate told her there were none in stock.

"She then proceeded to get pissed off at me personally because we didn't have any in stock," the associate said. "She said we have a special stock of iPods for people like her.... I hadn't seen any celebrities there up until then, so at first I was like, 'Oh wow, cool, Melanie Griffith.' But then she opened her mouth and used me as a doormat, and I was like, 'What the fuck is this shit? Milk Money sucked.'"

Another sales associate said he got a tongue lashing from LeVar Burton, presenter of Reading Rainbow and a member of the Star Trek crew. The associate, who also asked to remain anonymous, said he made the mistake of asking Burton for some ID when the actor was making a big credit card purchase. The associate said he recognized Burton, but wanted to reassure him he was doing a thorough job of checking credentials.

Burton "began shouting at me to ask anyone in the store who he was, all the while telling me that he left his ID in the car and he didn't want to have to go get it," the associate said. "I finally caved in, only because I could see a vein pulsating in his forehead and I didn't want to be the one responsible for causing the blind dude from Star Trek to have a stroke."

Representatives for Griffith and Burton did not return calls asking for comment.
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:lol :lol
 
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android

Theoretical Magician
Damn Levar take a chill pill. The first thing I thought of was Wayne Brady on the Chappelle Show.
 
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MIMIC

Banned
'What the fuck is this shit? Milk Money sucked.'"
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I finally caved in, only because I could see a vein pulsating in his forehead and I didn't want to be the one responsible for causing the blind dude from Star Trek to have a stroke."
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:lol :lol
 
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Chipopo

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LeVar Burton
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!!!!!!!!

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alejob

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Some are weird. Val Kilmer, star of The Doors, "looked like he was still in the role of Jim Morrison -- high, spaced out, wandering around the Grove," one of the associates said.
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That dude is weird, seems like he is always high or something but I guess thats the way he is.
 
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Matrix

LeBron loves his girlfriend. There is no other woman in the world he’d rather have. The problem is, Dwyane’s not a woman.
"What the fuck is this shit? Milk Money sucked"

:lol



"Kiefer Sutherland "thanks you like 40 times when you're helping him," said another. "

Jack Bauer does indeed rock.
 
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Minotauro

Finds Purchase on Dog Nutz
Another sales associate said he got a tongue lashing from LeVar Burton, presenter of Reading Rainbow and a member of the Star Trek crew. The associate, who also asked to remain anonymous, said he made the mistake of asking Burton for some ID when the actor was making a big credit card purchase. The associate said he recognized Burton, but wanted to reassure him he was doing a thorough job of checking credentials.
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Isn't this the exact plot from a Mastercard commercial or something?
 
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etiolate

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Fred Durst, the Limp Bizkit frontman, always demands a discount, said one of the salesmen. His record company has a special 5 percent discount at the store, and Durst demands it for every purchase, including for a $20 iPod cable -- a saving of $1.
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:lol What a douche.

Robin Williams took his picture on every computer with a camera attached and left the portraits open on the desktops. "That was truly great," said one of the anonymous associates.
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:lol Man that might creep me out. Walk into an Apple store and hear the faint chanting of nanu nanu.
 
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dskillzhtown

keep your strippers out of my American football
Levar going big-time on someone?

If you were any kind of star you could just call Steve Jobs and have one sent to you.

Actually asking for a discount doesn't sound that bad.
 
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whytemyke

Honorary Canadian.
alejob said:
That dude is weird, seems like he is always high or something but I guess thats the way he is.
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Hey man, you ever see Tombstone? His portrayal of Doc Holliday was one of the coolest movie characters I've ever seen. Right up there with Brad Pitt's character in Snatch.

Kilmer can walk around as fuckin' nuts as he wants. He's earned it in my book.... as long as he's not wearing the bat suit.
 
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WasabiKing

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Thanks Bish, for getting me fired at work!

Similiar story, but not as good. When I worked the door at a club many years ago, a Golden State Warrior came up and asked if he was on the VIP list. I checked, and he was not, so I broke the news to him and asked him to wait in line. He got all fussy and said those magic words, "Do you know who I am?" Now, I got that from everyone every week, so of course, I turn to the line and say "Does ANYONE know who he is?" Infuriated, he told me who he was, and how much he was making, which then made reply with his stat sheet from the night before against, you guessed it, Michael Jeffrey Jordan. Needless to say, he got shut down, and he never really earned his contract. Anyway, he just got pissed and left.
 
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Archaix

Drunky McMurder
Director Kevin Smith is also a regular, but tends to head for the Genius Bar because his wife's PowerBook is on the blink. "He rarely has anything to say, but always looks pissed off when he is forced to wait at the bar just like everyone else," said the associate.
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Maybe he's pissed off because he's had to bring the Powerbook in for service enough times to be seen as a regular for it :D
 
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Property of Jumpship

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Gary Allen, the leading expert on Apple's retail stores who runs ifoAppleStore, said celebrities are a daily fixture in Apple's stores because of all the shiny toys.

"(They are) attracted by the style of Apple's products and their high-tech features, and they have the money to buy the very best technology," Allen said. "Baseball players in particular seem to like visiting the stores, looking for music or games to help keep them occupied through a season that includes long road trips."
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This just in: Stars like shiny things.

So does my dog, so there you go.
 
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Teddman

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Kiefer Sutherland "thanks you like 40 times when you're helping him," said another. (In the first season of Fox's 24, Sutherland and the other good guys used Macs, while the villains used PCs.)
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Wow, he's a nice guy? Rumored to be a terror on the 24 set.
 
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Semjaza Azazel

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I read this a few days ago. theninthotline.com linked to it since it mentions Trent Reznor. The thing about Robin Williams was pretty cool.
 
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