Ohhh! Scotty…Scottay. I get it now. I wondered where he had gotten Taye from. I just noticed that on the IMDb page.
Nicole and Antonia, but I didn’t mix much with girls before age 10. So they’d be there, and I’d be over here.
Lesse here. I guess I would have entered kindergarten there in '77, and I continued there through the end of 6th grade in '84. Went to high school at Hillcrest, '86-'90.
My husband used to hang out with Tim Burton when Tim was just another movie geek — they’d go to horror movies together — lots of them :eek:
Our local radio station was really good at picking upcoming artists. They’d invite them to do meet and greets, sign guitars and CDs when they were struggling to get their music on the air. I wasn’t impressed with Keith Urban—his hair looked dirty and he looked exhausted, like he was coming down from coke or something. **Trace Atkins ** was so tall and his speaking voice was gorgeous. He was so nice. **Kenny Chesney ** danced around a bit while waiting for his intro, which I thought was adorable.
I just realized, listening to NPR this morning… I went to high school with NPR reporter Gwen Thompkins. sorta famous, I guess.
Met a kid named Ronnie at my first cousin’s house several years ago. I guess he was dating my cousin’s daughter at the time. I was staying with them for a couple of nights and he and a friend of his had a guitar and I (being a player) picked it up and picked out a couple of tunes. They were highly impressed.
This kid went on to marry my cousin’s daughter (my first cousin, once removed), and now he’s the lead singer in this little band called Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.
Nice kid, a little shy.
My husband knew Ted Nugent. Does that count?
This is not a story of the “I went to high school with” variety, but I hope it qualifies. I did meet the person, after all, and conversed with him.
Back in 1980, I was in LA with a friend. Like any good tourists, we sat in on a couple of TV show tapings. At one, a comedian came out to warm up the crowd. He joked about his life back in Toronto, where he was from, and coincidentally, where I was from. He wasn’t bad, and when he was done but before the show got going (there was a technical delay of some sort), he was standing near where we were seated. I struck up a conversation.
We spent the next 20 minutes or so talking about Toronto. He hadn’t been back for a while and was curious as to what was happening there. He definitely knew Toronto well, but our conversation was cut short when the technicians fixed whatever had gone wrong, and the show was ready to start. He said something like, “I gotta run. But first, I didn’t get your name.” I told him and we shook hands. Then he said, “I’m Howie Mandel. But you knew that from the guy who introduced my warmup. Anyway, I gotta go.” Then he left the studio.
He was unknown at the time, but as is well-known, years later, Mandel made a name for himself on St. Elsewhere, and as host of Deal or No Deal, among many other projects.
I used to babysit for Don Katz who is now the CEO of Audible.
I used to babysit for Don Katz who is now the CEO of Audible. Also, I was too young to have met him, but Tom Cruise went to the high school in my small NJ town and my parents had a program from when he was in the junior class production of Guys and Dolls.
I’m impressed. I can’t say I’ve known anyone really famous. My small town has produced three NFL football players but only one of them played longer than a year. We also had a guy from our town get a two record deal as a country singer. he was three years older than me in school and the same age as my sister. He did well in the nineties but he’s not played anymore.
Not me, but my father went to high school with Paul Wolfowitz. And apparently my grandfather met the young Dick Cheney and told my grandmother that he was a real up-and-comer and that we should expect great things from him.
The closest I’ve got is that I went to high school with a couple guys who made it fairly big in college sports, Eric McCoo and Tahj Holden. Tahj, who was almost seven feet tall at the time, sat in front of me in AP chemistry.
My wife knew Oakland Raiders running back Dominic Rhodes in high school and helped him with his English homework. He was kind of sweet on her. Nice to know your wife chose you over a guy making 2 million a year.
If you’re a Buffy fan, you might remember Veruca the werewolf girl who was a romantic interest of Seth Green’s character and appeared in three episodes. The actress was a friend of mine from high school. She also played Tara the crazy girl who stalked Kelly on seven episodes of Beverly Hills 90210.
My hub and I watched the first episode of AMC’s “Mad Men” via our cable company’s On Demand service this weekend. As the credits rolled, my hub asked, “So what’dya think of it?” and I replied, “I think my distant cousin is playing Salvatore, the closeted art guy.” 
Sure enough, the character of Salvatore is played by Bryan Batt, a distant relative through my mother’s side of the family. His father was a cousin of my grandfather or something like… they were the rich side of the family. Apparently, his dad once offered my grandfather free tickets to Pontchatrain Beach, the amusement park they owned in New Orleans back in the day, in what my grandfather felt was a patronizing, give-to-the-poor-relatives way. hahahaha
I didn’t actually get to meet him, but back in the early 90s I was on a BBS in which I used to chat with Matt Drudge. Also, I was once in a play with a magician whom I saw in a commercial earlier this year.
As for infamous pre-celebrities, my father-in-law went to high school with one of Charles Manson’s girls. Needless to say, she didn’t show up at their HS reunion.
I use to baby sit one of the guys who testified against Martha Stewart. The day his photo was on the front page of the paper I felt very very very old.
I went to high school with Toby Bailey, who experienced a good deal of fame during his college basketball career and was briefly in the NBA. Really nice guy, always happy to chat in the hallway for a minute.
More second hand, but I worked with a guy that used to be in a band with Wesley Scantlin and friends, but got married and had a kid so he dropped out of the band. The band later got popular and is fairly well known as Puddle of Mudd.
I worked for a year with Gary “Bababooey” Dell’Abate from the Howard Stern Show in a record store, just before he graduated college and started working for WNBC.
Great guy, then and now.