I gave Bob Hope a golf lesson in 1986 when I was an assistant golf professional at Palm Beach CC in Florida. He was doing a Red Cross Benefit at the Breakers Hotel and wanted to hit some balls and putt away from the hotel- He came over to our club, hoping for a little privacy. He was really nice and could still play pretty well , I believe he was in his 80's. He hit one really bad shot and looked up at me and said.... "well"? I paused for a second and said..."you looked like Clint Eastwood on that one." He started laughing and said.."that's a good one." As we got done hitting balls members at the club started asking Mr. Hope all these questions about meeting him various places, in various years-similar to a presidential press conference. As we drove to the putting green he said " that goes on just about every day." A great experience.
I did have a short chat with GINGER BAKER a couple of years ago on face book....I put on his page how I loved the song he wrote "What a Bring Down" and he sent me a private message telling me what the words were about in one of the verses...