When I was seven years old, I was in a public-service announcement on a local independent TV station.
Doesn’t the Bad Astronomer look like Ben Stein in drag? Or is it just me?
I wasn’t responding to your original post, just to the general direction the thread was going.
DarkRabbit
Cripes, I hope it’s just you.
Actually, I do look a bit like Anthony Edwards from E.R. I have been mistaken for him once:
Woman in parking lot: “You look a lot like the doctor from E.R.”
Me: “I am the doctor from E.R.!” (getting in car and driving away quickly)
Also, I have never been in a visine commercial.
Awww, I think he’s kinda cute! Although he should stay out of the sun…you’d think even a bad astronomer would know that it causes wrinkles. 
<blush>
Sue Duhnym thinks I’m cute! Woohoo!
Now, to tell my wife…
(and S.D., check your eyesight. That picture is not terribly good. But it must be better than this one.)
I was mildly famous for a short time in a small venue. I was briefly one of the most well-known polymer clay artists in the US, and even got thanked for my inspiration by another artist in her book. Plus I published a few magazine articles on the subject. Unfortunately, very few people really know what polymer clay is, and even fewer people care. There are roughly 30 well-known polymer clay artists in the whole world, so in that sense I probably WAS pretty famous. I guess. 
You owe me one.
If Sue thinks you’re cute, that’s good enough for me. I hereby withdraw my (not-too-celestial) observation.
I was interviewed once by the New York Times, and eventually quoted in an article which made the A section of the national edition.