Supposedly all sorts of famous people show up in Portland and Maine, regularly, but I am always a day late and a dollar short in seeing them...but my friends do and tell me about it!
There is a mixing studio here that apparently is quite famous in the recording world. Supposedly Eric Clapton shows up about twice a year, and also Bruce Springsteen. Other musicians are spotted on a regular basis.
Folks own homes here--Kirstie Alley has been getting alot of press and also Martha Stewart (up on Mt. Desert Island). Glenn Close just married a guy with a big house on Prout's Neck so lots of pictures of her in the paper...and as summer gets underway, I'm sure she'll be hanging around.
Jeff Probst (Survivor guy) was (maybe he still is?) dating a Survivor contestant, Julie, who is from Gorham. Many, many sightings of those two, especially when the romance was first getting going and she hadn't moved to California yet. They seemed to like to hang out in the Hannaford (grocery store) in Gorham, of all romantic places.
Of course, we have the Bushes, pere et fils and their respective spouses. Babs is around a lot as the children's hospital at Maine Medical Center is named after her. Laura shows up for various ribbon cutting events. And now that Bill Clinton is so chummy with George, Sr., he shows up for regular golf dates.
Celebrities of a different sort: lots of artists, especially in the summer, but the Wyeths (Andew and son Jamie) are probably the most well known. Jamie hangs out on Monehegan Island in the summer. Nice place.
L