My friend isn’t famous yet but she was in a TV movie called Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald with Helena Bonham Carter and Frank Whaley. Her name is Quenby Bakke and she played Janet Williams, Mrs. Oswald’s good friend.
Quenby, my husband and I all went to Heidelberg American High School in Heidelberg, Germany. She’s working on the Dallas theater scene at the moment - and raising a family.
Anyone else?
Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, dogs are from Pluto. - Anonymous
Well, I know Bryan Yegge. He’s a musician I work with. I hope he makes it; he’s very good. Sings, plays all his instruments, does his own mixes, he’s tha man! Here’s his site: http://home.att.net/~yeggemail/yeggecom.htm
I’m also friends with Jeff Burghart,Stand Up Commedian. We used to improv in drama class together in high school. He is simply one of the funniest people on the planet, and he has a heart bigger than Texas. He also looks just like Jerry Mathers (“as the Beaver”). He’s appeared on Evening at the Improv, and Comedy Central’s Make Me Laugh.
I met Jane Badler (Diana of V) before she became famous. My mother roomed with her mother in college and at one point we visited for a day. I was about 12 and she was even younger.
My hubby taught Andre Braugher (sp?) drama at St. Ignatius College Prep in Chicago back in the seventies. Hubby always says that he’s glad to see that he didn’t ruin him! <g>
I went to high school with Crystal Bernard, of “Wings” fame. We were even in a play together (did “Brigadoon” in my junior year, her senior). I would bet untold sums that she doesn’t remember me at all.
I saw Gary Sinise and John Malkovich in Sam Shepard’s TRUE WEST at the teensy-weensy Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village waaaay back in 1982, long before anybody’d ever heard of 'em.
I knew John Adams when I was in the music-publishing business years before he composed NIXON IN CHINA.
My wife went to high school with Daryl Hannah. She was an asshole back then, too.
Oh, yeah…her uncle did the special effects for CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND. Just in case you guys ever wondered how such a horsefaced no-talent got inta the moom pitchers inna first place.
Once designed a birthday invitation for Peggy Fleming…well her hubby’s birthday… and my daughter is a screen writer for Crusade, the Babylon5 spin off along with a new gig I am not allowed to tell. She just loves having power over her mother LOL
“Only when he no longer knows what he is doing, does the painter do good
things.” --Edgar Degas
I went to high school with David Crane (producer of Friends) and Larry Summers (the new head of the Treasury Dept.–no, he won’t send me any free money, I asked).
I was in college with the little person who animated the character of ET. She got shafted for credit, and was very bitter. Armstead Maupin (who I have also met) wrote a fictional version of her story called “Maybe the Moon.”
Photons have mass!? I didn't even know they were Catholic...
I grew up in Beaumont TX. About 4 or 5 houses down the block lived a set of twins that my (older) brother was pretty good friends with. Their names were Johnny and Edgar. (Frightening little pink-eyed freaks!)
Went to high school with Heather Locklear. Loser then, and (IMHO) still a loser (as in: small soul, incredibly small soul). I ran into her at a nail salon a couple years back - still thinks her shit don’t stink. Totally useless human being.
StoryTyler
“Not everybody does it, but everybody should.” I Spy Ty.
Most of my father’s side of the family went to Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, MD, so I’m willing to bet that they met and/or knew the two famous attendees of said high school: Ben Stein and Goldie Hawn.
As for myself, none of my friends has hit superstardom yet.
JMCJ
Die, Prentiss, Die! You will never have a more glorious opportunity!
I went to school with Jim McMahon. He thought he was pretty damn cool. Once asked me if I wanted to go for a ride in his “jalopy”.
I also went to school with one of Europe’s highest paid models (a few years back). She now goes by the name W’ren. Nice girl. Some of the assholes used to call her Olive Oil because of her dark hair and long legs. Who’s laughing now?
I was friends with Cindy Brimhall. She was Playboy’s Miss October in 1982 (or 1981 - I forget). She was also a Fredericks of Hollywood catelog model for quite a few years and in a few Van Halen and David Lee Roth videos. She is the redhead in black on the California Girls video.
I never saw the show, but I also went to school with a girl named Britt. She played Lily on the soap opera Loving.
What can I say - our school cranked out beautiful girls!
>^,^<
KITTEN
Fluff yer hair Beula, I’s feelin frisky - M.S.
I don’t know anyone currently famous. Perhaps later. But I just thought I’d show off this, because I think it’s cool. http://us.imdb.com/Name?Potiki,+Paul
Keanu Reeves, Keifer Sutherland and Billy Zane all starred in a horrible 80s TV movie (“Brotherhood of Justice”) that was partly shot in our backyard. I got to meet all of them and they seemed pretty nice (although then, the only one who was actually somewhat known was Keifer Sutherland). I didn’t even know that Billy Zane was in the movie 'till years later when I looked up the cast of the movie and realized “Hey, Billy Zane asked me if he could borrow my football!”.
I went to high school with none other than my Governor…Jesse Ventura. He was Jim Janos then. He was pretty skinny, and he was on the swim team. He was a senior when I was a sophomore.
When he first started wrestling a bunch of us bought tickets to the match and hassled him mercilessly. He came by after the match, and we all went out and got drunk.
I’m not even sure these qualify. But…I went to school with Constance Shulman. Who is that, you ask? Well, she was the Hellman’s mayonnaise lady in the commercials (“Connie’s Cafe”?) She also played Kathy Bates’ friend in Fried Green Tomatoes However, she is probably most famous for providing the voice of Patti Mayonnaise in the t.v show (and movie) Doug Hey, she’s involved with mayonnaise more than the average person, isn’t she? Hmmm…
I also attend the same college that Timothy Busfield attended for a time. (He’s Poindexter from the illustrious Revenge of the Nerds pictures and the lovely show thirtysomething.)
Suddenly, I feel so…conspicuously mediocre.
…what the French call, a certain “I-don’t-know-what”
