Famous people that come from where you live.
Famous people that come from where you live.
The Grovers Corners Yenta
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/3/04
#1Famous people that come from where you live.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 6:02pm
I live in Hartford, CT and we have produced the following: Sophie Tucker, Louie Nye, Totie Fields, Gayle King, Norman Lear.
"Friends are the people you chose as family."....Me.
Updated On: 12/27/06 at 06:02 PM
Fabrizio2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/20/06
#2re: Famous peoplethat come from where you live.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 6:04pm
Alabama:
Courtney Cox
Channing Tatum (and proud of it...)
Ruben Studdard
Bo Bice
Taylor Hicks
That's all I can think of right now.
#2re: Famous peoplethat come from where you live.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 6:04pmDetroit: Pretty much all of Motown people, Kid Rock, Eminem, Madonna, Jeff Daniels, Tim Allen, Selma Blair, Sutton Foster
"You know, with the right volume, Patti LuPone can make a car bounce, too...."
-Wonderwaiter
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#3re: Famous peoplethat come from where you live.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 6:06pmFrom my hometown in Mississippi: Parker Posey and Brett Farve.
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#4re: Famous peoplethat come from where you live.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 6:06pmI'm from Brooklyn. There have been a few.......
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
Fabrizio2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/20/06
#5re: Famous peoplethat come from where you live.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 6:07pmFor some reason I thought Sutton Foster was from Georgia.
#6re: Famous peoplethat come from where you live.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 6:08pmI believe she was born there, but she was raised in Troy, Mi. Which is about 45 minutes from me.
"You know, with the right volume, Patti LuPone can make a car bounce, too...."
-Wonderwaiter
#7re: Famous peoplethat come from where you live.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 6:12pmFrom Tennessee: too many to mention. From my hometown: Wilma Rudolph. Just bought a house there: Nicole & Keith.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
#8re: Famous peoplethat come from where you live.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 6:19pmWichita, KS: Jeff Probst, Kirstie Alley, Barry Sanders, Don Johnson (raised here)
"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
#9re: Famous peoplethat come from where you live.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 6:35pmNJ - too many people
BroadwayBoobs: I'll give all of you who weren't there a hint of who took the pictures ...it rhymes with shameless
SOMMS: I knew it was Tink!
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#10re: Famous peoplethat come from where you live.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 6:48pm
Pearl Bailey
Patsy Cline
Warren Beatty
Sandra Bullock
Joseph Cotton
Shirley MacLaine
George C. Scott
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
many, many, many, others
Some second stringers:
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
James Monroe
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
Woodrow Wilson
Booker T. Washington
George Rogers Clark
Patrick Henry
Henry "Lighthorse Harry" Lee
Richard Henry Lee
George Mason
Pocahontas
(none of these could act their way out of a paper bag - so they really don't count)
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#11re: Famous peoplethat come from where you live.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 7:43pm
From my tiny hometown:
Kristian Alfonso (Hope, Days of Our Lives)
Jim Craig (1980 USA Olympic hockey team goalie)
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#12re: Famous peoplethat come from where you live.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 7:44pm
From my hometown:
President Dwight D Eisenhower (He was born in Denison, TX, but was raised in Abilene, KS)
(I thought Sam Rayburn was from Bonham, TX, but looking at Wiki, it says he was from Bonham, TX. He was born in Tennessee. I'm not sure how that works.)
From Texas:
Mary Martin
Charlie Christian (Jazz player, born in Bonham)
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#13re: Famous peoplethat come from where you live.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 7:44pm
Ray Romano
There are others but I can only think of him now
Poster Emeritus
#14re: Famous peoplethat come from where you live.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 8:07pm
Matt LeBlanc
The two young guys on "The Office"
The blond lady from Law and Order: Criminal Intent
(I forget all their names, but there must be somthing in the water here that makes people go into popular TV shows)
~And let us try, before we die, to make some sense of life~
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#15re: Famous peoplethat come from where you live.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 9:05pm
Julia Roberts
Sutton and Hunter Foster (the Georgia part)
I believe there are quite a few rappers from here too
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#16re: Famous peoplethat come from where you live.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 9:12pm
Andrea McArdle
Hugh Panaro (who also went to my high school)
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#17re: Famous peoplethat come from where you live.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 9:14pmSpeilberg grew up in AZ!
JudasIscariot
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/05
#18re: Famous peoplethat come from where you live.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 9:26pm
Heck yeah, John Wilkes Booth and Edwin Booth were both born and raised in Bel Air, MD. Their house is still standing.
It's a fun place to live.
Updated On: 12/27/06 at 09:26 PM
#19re: Famous peoplethat come from where you live.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 9:34pm
More than I can name are from New Jersey originally. Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Douglas, Danny DeVito, Paul Simon, Queen Latifah, Nathan Lane...just to name a few. 
I don't know if anyone really that famous is originally from my hometown, but several celebrities own homes in my town and the surrounding areas.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#20re: Famous peoplethat come from where you live.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 9:36pmTom Cruise, Richard Gere, and L. Frank Baum.
#21re: Famous peoplethat come from where you live.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 9:36pmWest Virginia University star running back Steve Slaton is from my hometown of Levittown, PA. So are two of the guys in the band the Starting Line. That's about all...
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#22re: Famous peoplethat come from where you live.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 9:38pm
velveeta "cheese" was first made in my town.
It use to be called cheese cock
#23re: Famous peoplethat come from where you live.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 9:40pmColumbus, Georgia: Ma Rainey, Carson McCullers, Nunnally Johnson, and the AFLAC duck.
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#24re: Famous peoplethat come from where you live.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 9:41pm
All i can think of from Virginia Beach
Mark Ruffalo
The band MAE that everyone will soon know about!!! They sold over 150k albums on an indie label and are now on capitol records.
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