Famous people from YOUR hometown !

[PB ENT.]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 7:34pm

Updated On: 8/10/04 at 07:34 PM

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 7:39pm

North Easton, MA. Home of Jim Craig (famous for being the goalie draped in the American Flag after the US Olympic hockey team won the gold in 1980). I graduated with his brother. Kristian Alfonso - Hope on Days of Our Lives. I graduated with her sister.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 7:50pm

CT People (PS...some of these people may or may not live in CT...you know how celebs move to LA or NYC), and I don't think there is anyone from my hometown:

Harvey Fierstein (I think), Meg Ryan, Christy Romano, Katherine Hepburn, Michael Bolton, Kathy Lee Gifford, Sheryl Lee Ralph

Does anyone remember that Reese's Peanut Butter cup commercial, and the kid's name in it was Charlie? He was at a breakfast table, and sort of played dominos with the packages of Peanut Butter cups. Anyways, that kid went to my school and I think he graduated.

Updated On: 8/5/04 at 07:50 PM

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 7:57pm

No famous actors lived in Great Neck excapt Charlie Chaplin. And Scott Fitzgerald who wrote The Great Gatsby lived here.

[Zola Q. LaPlaya]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 7:59pm

I'm from NYC. Everyone's from here -- after the age of 21.

[Broadwaybaby614]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 8:00pm

Um...that Billy Gillman kid is from a town 20 minutes away from me...

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 8:01pm

The only person from my town that's actually gotten big is the girl who played young Nala on Broadway in TLK (I don't know here name, but I know she lives in my town). And also, Mara Hobel(who happens to be my director of my theatre group), who was in movies such as Mommie Dearest, Personal Velocity, Broadway Damage, Claire Makes it Big, and did Moose Murders on Broadway.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 8:07pm

Oh, I forgot. A girl in School of Rock (she was one of the singers and had braided pigtails) was from my hometown, but she goes to a school in Hamden, CT. My dad went to school with her dad, but I don't know how much, if at all, they actually knew each other.

[OhSoWicked]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 8:14pm

::GAG::

JLO.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 8:31pm

I'm surprised there was room for you and everyone else in your town with that big a** of hers getting in the way.

Ugh...I can't believe she married Marc Anthony 4 days after he divorced. I didn't even know they were seeing each other. She is a serial-marriage woman.

[OhSoWicked]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 8:35pm

LOL and dont be fooled...its not the ghetto. Jenny from 'the block' is NOT south bronx! ha

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 9:06pm

Three of my friends went to teh same school as Harrison Chad.

Posted: 8/5/04 at 9:20pm

I got you all beat! Ron Jeremy hails from Queens, NY! Now I'm quite proud.

Here are more that came up as from Queens:

50 Cent
Anthrax
Run-D.M.C.
Mario Cuomo
Fran Drescher
Richard Feynman
Art Garfunkel
Carl Icahn
Jam Master Jay
Ron Jeremy
LL Cool J
Cyndi Lauper
Lucy Liu
John McEnroe
Ethel Merman
Nas
Bernadette Peters
Joey Ramone
George Tenet
Al Roker
Martin Scorcese
Ray Romano
Jon Favreau (added this one myself. I remembered in Swingers, he wore a "Queens College" t-shirt, and I just checked on internet to make sure. How can they have Al Roker, but not Jon Favreau mentioned?)

[POLisPOL]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 9:22pm

I can't believe it! Ron Jeremy and Ethel merman on the same post!!!! wow!
lol

[zepka102]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 9:22pm

christine baranski, rick james, chad michael murray, the goo goo dolls... trying to think of more...

what's great is that the lead singer of the goo goo dolls has the same beginning letters of the last name as me... which isn't common at all... rze... so when i'm famous, that's 2 hometown people with similar last names! (i know, pointless to bring up but still cool!)

Posted: 8/5/04 at 9:23pm

PB, John Gotti came from Bronx, NY.

[ckeaton]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 9:44pm

Zepka, don't forget...
Michael Bennett
Wolf Blitzer
John Wayne Bobbitt
David Boreanaz
Jeffrey Jones
Jesse L. Martin
Brian McKnight
David Shire
Tim Russert
Mark Russell
Harvey and Bob Weinstein
Ani Difranco
Wendie Malick
Nancy Marchand
A.R. Gurney

Were also born in Buffalo, NY

[PB ENT.]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 9:44pm

Yikes! I'd better hide...or there's an imposter in my town. Thanks! mea culpa!

[zepka102]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 9:48pm

wow... i knew some of those people but they completely slipped my mind!! tim russert, ani difranco, wendi malick... shoulda known those!!


wait.. john wayne bobbitt? really...?


ckeaton, you from the area too that you know all of those people?!

[ckeaton]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 9:51pm

I was born in Buffalo too...
Then after college I took the big jump to Rochester.

[beacon1]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 9:53pm

LOL Pol. That is a great observation! Ethel and Ron...
now THAT is a pair to consider. :o)

[Broadwaygirl4life]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 9:56pm

hmm... tommy hilfiger is a graduate of the high school I go to.

[zepka102]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 9:58pm

haha what a huge jump... a whole hour :P

only been in rochester twice (including this past weekend), but not in the city... just suburbs... but sinc eyou brought up rochester, isn't tom cruise from there? or is it syracuse...?

[POLisPOL]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 9:59pm

yes! Imagine that! a movie with Ron Jeremy singing and Ethel Merman... uuuuh... forget about it.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/5/04 at 10:12pm

...actually, I came from a somewhat 'infamous' hometown...so will limit my list to those I acutally KNEW (and who appear in the same pages as my high school yearbook...)

Matt Lauer (one year older; his best friend and I are still good friends)

Steve Young (two years younger; he was the star football player on our HS team....)

'Savage' Steve Holland (same age as me; I appeared, briefly, in his movie "One Crazy Summer")

Christy Fitchner (one year younger. I hated her. Was glad she lost on the last "Who Wants to Marry My Father")...LOL!

ok, that's enough...