6-term Senator (and longtime chair of the Armed Services Committee) Carl Levin
Lydia Ansel, electric violinist
David Duchovny
Incidentally: how many Senators have been censured since way back in the 1700s? Well, it’s a real short list; you can count the number on both hands; Joe McCarthy was one of them, of course; but Durenberger, yeah, he managed it too.
Thomas Sowell, economist
Paul Lafargue, “revolutionary Marxist socialist journalist, literary critic, political writer and activist; he was Karl Marx’s son-in-law”. Wrote a number of works — including The Right To Be Lazy — and, “despite being in police custody, he was elected to the French Parliament for Lille, being the first ever French Socialist to occupy such an office.”
Arthur Rubinstein, pianist
Michel Legrand, composer (and three-time Oscar winner) is apparently on tour this year, with concert dates in Japan in July — and, after France in August, it’s set to be Michel Legrand and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: 60 Years of Music and Movies at the Royal Festival Hall in London in September; and so on, in one country or another, in October and November and December; and so on for next year…
The #1 film at the box office this past weekend — and who knows how long it’ll be there, but with $700,000,000+ it’s already the year’s biggest hit so far that doesn’t involve Wakanda — is the latest JURASSIC WORLD, which like its predecessor was written by Derek Connolly, who in between put his knack for ‘rampaging monster’ blockbusters to work on KONG: SKULL ISLAND.
But for all that, I’m not sure he’s ever yet gotten quite enough name-recognition to qualify for this; and so, in hopes of increasing the odds that I’m bumping the thread with something relevant, figure I’ll pair him with someone else I’ve wondered about: Joaquin Phoenix, who surely made it in his thirties when WALK THE LINE got him a leading-man nomination at the Oscars — and in his twenties, when his GLADIATOR performance got him a supporting-actor nod before that — but before all of that, I figure he made it back when he was getting movie-poster billing in SPACECAMP and RUSSKIES and PARENTHOOD as Leaf Phoenix. (Sure, he only got as far as getting nominated for a Young Artist Award for his TV-movie work then; but, still.)
Dominic Cooper, English actor currently appearing in Preacher on AMC.
He’s also about to appear in the latest Mamma Mia movie, as the guy who’s married to Amanda Seyfried’s character; but in real life, the guy who’s married to Seyfried is Tony-nominated actor Thomas Sadoski — currently on Life In Pieces, after years of other name-in-the-opening-credits work on primetime TV.
Philippe Petit has done plenty of — publicity stunts? Yeah, let’s say publicity stunts. Anyhow, the most famous of those is surely that time he managed a high-wire walk between the Twin Towers, which featured prominently in that recent biopic where Joseph Gordon-Levitt portrayed him — you know, not long after Man On Wire got awarded the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.
Spider Robinson
Bill Laimbeer
Greg Gutfeld (Fox News host)
Another guy who hosted his own TV show: Jack Carter, who got lured away from his job hosting Cavalcade of Stars for the DuMont Network — since NBC really wanted him to host, y’know, The Jack Carter Show. And in the years after, Carter would reliably get a gig hosting Texaco Star Theater, or guest-hosting The Tonight Show plenty of times, and so on; and got a healthy amount of name-on-the-poster roles when it came to movies, but, hey, 40 appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show didn’t just happen, is my point.
On national television tonight, Luis Severino is set to take the mound once again as the starting pitcher for the New York Yankees, and he’s making lots of headlines.
Yankees’ Luis Severino powers his way to 12th win, tops in majors
Is Luis Severino having the greatest pitching season in Yankees’ history?
Luis Severino may force bettors to change their whole approach
…and Luis Severino leads them to an 11-1 win. The guy’s a marvel.
At that, Lew Wasserman got an Oscar and a Presidential Medal of Freedom and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and “was arguably the most powerful and influential Hollywood titan in the four decades after World War II”.
HAMILTON of course put Lin-Manuel Miranda on the map — but it also did wonders for Daveed Diggs, who got a Tony and a Grammy out of the deal.