Someone You Know's Claim To Fame- Page 2

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/21/06 at 10:09pm

Bettyboy, you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't.

[justagirl2]

Posted: 8/21/06 at 10:14pm

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Updated On: 5/23/14 at 10:14 PM

[smashingasian]

Posted: 8/21/06 at 10:27pm

My theatre teacher is close friends with Garth Kravitz.

My friend's grandpa is Philip Bosco.

[ikmbway]

Posted: 8/21/06 at 10:27pm

My friend went to acting camp with a girl who played Nala on Broadway. Not her claim to fame but that's where this thread is going.

My friend's grandpa invented shake n bake.

Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen's kids go to this day camp near my house.

[MyNameInLights]

Posted: 8/21/06 at 10:29pm

My grandmother was in a play with Robert Redford in high school.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/21/06 at 10:29pm

my friend is co-creator of THE DAILY SHOW.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/21/06 at 10:36pm

One day you guys will be able to say you knew me when.

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 8/21/06 at 10:51pm

My mother and Woody Alan went to Midwood High School in Brooklyn. He was about three years behind her.

Updated On: 8/21/06 at 10:51 PM

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 8/21/06 at 10:56pm

My father's Spanish teacher in high school was comdian Sam Levenson. My father could never speak Spanish but knew many jokes.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/21/06 at 10:57pm

Who's Woddy alan?

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 8/21/06 at 10:59pm

It has been corrected Stage Manager. It's late and I am tired.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 8/21/06 at 11:01pm

"My next-door neighbor worked on Bill Clinton's campaign, and he hit on her."

Why am I not surprised?

Updated On: 8/21/06 at 11:01 PM

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 8/21/06 at 11:04pm

My voice was on TV for a Nickelodeon Halloween contest when I won.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 8/21/06 at 11:06pm

Yenta, I'd hate to disturb a sleeping giant, but do you mean "Woody Allen"?

[dramaparoxysm23]

Posted: 8/22/06 at 4:57am

According to my friend, her cousin (I don't know her name, unfortunately, so she could've been BSing me) was Miss Saigon in a Broadway tour.

My grandpa was good friends in high school with the guy who played the original Joker in the Batman TV series.

My mom's cousin's cousin was Grisabella in Cats at some point...

[ZONEACE]

Posted: 8/22/06 at 5:05am

I've been in the National Enquirer

[EmieMarie]

Posted: 8/22/06 at 6:00am

ok,
MY Grandpa played trumpet w/ Louis Armstrong once
My cousin went to school w/ Brendan Frasier
My Other cousin (My mom's one of 13, I have about 40 cousind and 10 2nd cousins on her side alone. Where I live, you're famous for just being an O'HAra) Played football for notre dame and apperantly caught a hail mary and did an amazing play that was in all the news papers.... I don't watch football so...yeah.
My best friend's related to Tony Shaloub

[peach]

Posted: 8/22/06 at 10:13am

I served tea to Jackie O.

[madbrian]

Posted: 8/22/06 at 10:21am

My own claim to fame: I can be heard on a Barbra Streisand CD. I attended opening night of her comeback tour (the first one, in 1994, I think) at Madison Sqaure Garden. During break between songs when she was chatting with the audience, I shouted out 'You're like buttah' (a la Mike Meyers/Linda Richman). Barbra immeidately replied that she was getting a little verklemft, gave us a topic (the Prince of Tides was about neither princes nor tides), and told us to discuss. The banter was asknowledged in several reviews the next day, and was included in the live CD.

[circusliz]

Posted: 8/22/06 at 3:33pm

for 2 years I was a camp counselor for Rumer and Scout Willis, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's kids

In high school my dad was good friends with a girl named Elizabeth, who would go on to marry Paul Michael Glaser of "Starsky & Hutch" fame, and who would later become known as the face of AIDS in Hollywood (www.pedaids.org)

[WhoPaintedTheKitten2]

Posted: 8/22/06 at 3:44pm

One of my friends used to be on Degrassi: The Next Generation

Another one of my friends is a distant relative of Madonna. She even sent them a nice Christmas card once.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 1:20am

"One of my friends used to be on Degrassi: The Next Generation "

Who did they play, may I ask?

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 1:35am

My aunt is Bill Nye the Science Guy's dance teacher
My Dad went to school with John Lovitz
My dad was on Truth or Consequences with Bob Barker

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 9:19am

My dad's photos have appeared regularly in Life Magazine (in the '60s). He was a cameraman on The Patty Duke Show, plus he freelanced a lot for Candid Camera (in the early days). He can also be seen as an actor in two films. My mom did two Broadway plays, several Off-Broadway plays and live TV in the '50s, and a feature film with Anne Francis. Plus she was a regular on a radio soap opera for four years. More recently, she was in a York Peppermint Patty national commercial in the '90s that ran for three years. My grandfather (on my dad's side) was a top executive VP at Warner Bros., and was with the company from the beginning, until he retired in 1955.

My mom's mother had her own catering company in Los Angeles back in late '20s, and baked the birthday cakes for Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Tom Mix, Gloria Swanson and Clara Bow. She sold the business and her "name" and left it all, only a few years later. Her husband (my grandfather) was a civil engineer and worked on several projects with Harry Truman. His best friend interviewed Adolph Hitler one-on-one at the start of WWII.

My great grandfather (on Mom's side) was the last relative to be born on our family's plantation in Oxford Mississippi, known as Rowan Oaks... which is now famous because it was the home of William Faulkner, who bought the place after my family sold it off. I also have a relative who signed the Declaration of Independance (yay!), and one that rode with Jesse James (boo!).

My own (singing) voice was heard on 38 jingles for Fox television in the early '90s. I also wrote the jingles. My name can be seen in the "credits" sections of dozens of DVD releases, from The Right Stuff to the Harry Potter movies to Star Wars: Episode III.

EDIT: Oooh, I love the costume one Yenta... so I throw a couple in myself: When I was in Camelot, the knights in our show wore the original Broadway costumes. They were REALLY old. When I did "Sugar Babies" I wore a man's suit in one number from the original Broadway production of My Fair Lady (also pretty old).

Updated On: 8/24/06 at 09:19 AM

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 9:23am

"My aunt is Bill Nye the Science Guy's dance teacher."

Bill Nye dances? Ha. I find that ammusing.