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Celebrities who are terrible musicians, but have been professionally recorded anyway (with an example of their “art”):

  1. Leonard Nimoy (The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins)
  2. Lee Marvin (I Was Born Under a Wand’rin Star)
  3. Patty Duke (Songs from Valley of The Dolls and Other Selections_
  4. William Shatner (The Transformed Man)
  5. Burt Reynolds (At Long Last Love/Best Little Whorehouse in Texas)
  6. Jack Webb (Try a Little Tenderness)
  7. Telly Savalas (If)
  8. Joe Pesci- (Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Songs of Love)
  9. Joey Lawrence - Nothing My Love Can’t Fix
  10. Lucille Ball (Mame)
  11. Sylvester Stallone (Paradise Alley)
  12. Richard Harris (MacArthur Park)
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Celebrities who are terrible musicians, but have been professionally recorded anyway (with an example of their “art”):

  1. Leonard Nimoy (The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins)
  2. Lee Marvin (I Was Born Under a Wand’rin Star)
  3. Patty Duke (Songs from Valley of The Dolls and Other Selections_
  4. William Shatner (The Transformed Man)
  5. Burt Reynolds (At Long Last Love/Best Little Whorehouse in Texas)
  6. Jack Webb (Try a Little Tenderness)
  7. Telly Savalas (If)
  8. Joe Pesci- (Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Songs of Love)
  9. Joey Lawrence - Nothing My Love Can’t Fix
  10. Lucille Ball (Mame)
  11. Sylvester Stallone (Paradise Alley)
  12. Richard Harris (MacArthur Park)
  13. U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)'s Hanukkah song

Next category:

Noteworthy fictional mentally-disturbed people

  1. Hannibal Lecter
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Really? We just did “Fictional Heroes/Protagonists who suffered from severe mental disorders” as a category last week.

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Well, if we’re going along with this category, here’s my answer. If not, please ignore…

Noteworthy fictional mentally-disturbed people

  1. Hannibal Lecter
  2. Travis Bickle
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Well, these don’t have to be protagonists or heroes, so that frees you up a bit. Example:
Noteworthy fictional mentally-disturbed people

  1. Hannibal Lecter
  2. Travis Bickle
  3. Michael Myers (Friday 13th movies)
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Yeah, I thought this was different enough we could go with it.

Noteworthy fictional mentally-disturbed people

  1. Hannibal Lecter
  2. Travis Bickle
  3. Michael Myers (Friday 13th movies)
  4. The Joker
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Noteworthy fictional mentally-disturbed people

  1. Hannibal Lecter
  2. Travis Bickle
  3. Michael Myers (Friday 13th movies)
  4. The Joker
  5. Dr Jekyll
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Noteworthy fictional mentally-disturbed people

  1. Hannibal Lecter
  2. Travis Bickle
  3. Michael Myers (Friday 13th movies)
  4. The Joker
  5. Dr Jekyll
  6. Norman Bates
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Noteworthy fictional mentally-disturbed people

  1. Hannibal Lecter
  2. Travis Bickle
  3. Michael Myers (Friday 13th movies)
  4. The Joker
  5. Dr Jekyll
  6. Norman Bates
  7. Rhoda Penmark
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Noteworthy fictional mentally-disturbed people

  1. Hannibal Lecter
  2. Travis Bickle
  3. Michael Myers (Friday 13th movies)
  4. The Joker
  5. Dr Jekyll
  6. Norman Bates
  7. Rhoda Penmark
  8. Renfield, from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”
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Noteworthy fictional mentally-disturbed people

  1. Hannibal Lecter
  2. Travis Bickle
  3. Michael Myers (Friday 13th movies)
  4. The Joker
  5. Dr Jekyll
  6. Norman Bates
  7. Rhoda Penmark
  8. Renfield, from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”
  9. Ahab

The Captain of the Pequod not the King or the Arab or the cyborg.

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  1. Hannibal Lecter
  2. Travis Bickle
  3. Michael Myers (Friday 13th movies)
  4. The Joker
  5. Dr Jekyll
  6. Norman Bates
  7. Rhoda Penmark
  8. Renfield, from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”
  9. Ahab
  10. Lady Macbeth
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Noteworthy fictional mentally-disturbed people

  1. Hannibal Lecter
  2. Travis Bickle
  3. Michael Myers (Friday 13th movies)
  4. The Joker
  5. Dr Jekyll
  6. Norman Bates
  7. Rhoda Penmark
  8. Renfield, from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”
  9. Ahab
  10. Lady Macbeth
  11. Ophelia
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Noteworthy fictional mentally-disturbed people

  1. Hannibal Lecter
  2. Travis Bickle
  3. Michael Myers (Friday 13th movies)
  4. The Joker
  5. Dr Jekyll
  6. Norman Bates
  7. Rhoda Penmark
  8. Renfield, from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”
  9. Ahab
  10. Lady Macbeth
  11. Ophelia
  12. Sybil
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Noteworthy fictional mentally-disturbed people

  1. Hannibal Lecter
  2. Travis Bickle
  3. Michael Myers (Friday 13th movies)
  4. The Joker
  5. Dr Jekyll
  6. Norman Bates
  7. Rhoda Penmark
  8. Renfield, from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”
  9. Ahab
  10. Lady Macbeth
  11. Ophelia
  12. Sybil
  13. Blanche DuBois
    (I started to nitpick that Sybil wasn’t fictional, but I suppose she was sufficiently fictionalized to count.)
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Sorry, forgot-

New Category:

Favorite quotations of Oscar Wilde (need not be exact so long as close enough)

  1. To lose one parent is a great misfortune; to lose both just seems like carelessness.
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Favorite quotations of Oscar Wilde (need not be exact so long as close enough)

  1. To lose one parent is a great misfortune; to lose both just seems like carelessness.
  2. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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Favorite quotations of Oscar Wilde (need not be exact so long as close enough)

  1. To lose one parent is a great misfortune; to lose both just seems like carelessness.
  2. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
  3. One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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Favorite quotations of Oscar Wilde (need not be exact so long as close enough)

  1. To lose one parent is a great misfortune; to lose both just seems like carelessness.
  2. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
  3. One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
  4. If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it out by one’s conversation.
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Favorite quotations of Oscar Wilde (need not be exact so long as close enough)

  1. To lose one parent is a great misfortune; to lose both just seems like carelessness.
  2. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
  3. One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
  4. If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it out by one’s conversation.
  5. I am not young enough to know everything.