# I wonder if there are any TV/movie/sports stars on the SDMB. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 29, 2002, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597 "2002-06-29T19:11:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/121 "2002-12-06T15:26:16Z")
I’m enough of a skeptic that I was included in an ABC News piece on skepticism and atheism with Michael Shermer, along with some other folks who make their way around Shermer’s site, as well as James Randi’s. Famous? Hah! No. Bad Astronomer is definitely a candidate for famous though. I was an extra in some Rocky movies. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/122 "2002-12-06T20:07:58Z")
It’s possible that you can perhaps read my real name on your computer right now. [sub]I’m in the credits of every version of PowerPoint. :p[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/123 "2002-12-06T22:05:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by h.sapiens \* > \*\*Shortly after I appeared on Jeopardy! (8 years ago or so), I was recognized twice in public. I am no longer even a little famous, which is fine with me. > > Which brings up an interesting point. Anyone else here ever appeared on a TV Game Show?\*\* Jeopardy, 1975 (back when Art James was host, not that Trebek guy). 2nd place. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/124 "2002-12-06T22:20:43Z")
**BadAstronomer** , when and where were you on It’s Academic? I was on the Washington, DC one in '81-'82 and '82-'83. ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/125 "2002-12-06T23:33:57Z")
I was in two feature films. I am probably an unrecognizible speck in _The Replacements_ (though I wouldn’t know, never bothered to see it, it looked pretty dismal). I will probably be at least visible in _The Company_ club scenes, but they were extremely heavy-handed with the smoke machine (was still sneezing up black gook a day later, yech!) so I may or may not be more recognizible than a silhouette. This one is just recently in the can so it’ll be a few months before I can find out. 🙂 Other than that, I’m the semi-official photographer for a Chicago sketch comedy trouple called the [Suspicious Clowns](http://www.vincenttruman.com/clowns1.htm) who will supposedly be taking part in an HBO special in Aspen later this year. Or so they tell me. 😛 Celebrity brushes: other than being within 3 feet of Neve Campbell last month, my uni had a habit of getting prominent people to speak at graduation. While I was there, we had James Earl Jones, Hillary Clinton, Christopher Reeve, and some actor who was in some way indirectly connected to _Beverly Hills, 90210_ (I guess the events coordinator was having an off year). ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/126 "2002-12-07T02:13:56Z")
/hijack > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bdgr \* > My dog used to belong to a serial killer. I too had a dog I got when living in Pocatello that was [previously owned by a convicted murderer](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newreply.php?s=&action=newreply&postid=809262) (but he only killed once, thank God). Ursula is the sweet perk-eared dog toward the bottom of my webpage. Weird. I’m not famous, but a Rutgers University publicist called me the “most infamous unknown at Rutgers” once. :rolleyes: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/127 "2002-12-07T02:23:58Z")
Ugh, that sounds bad. I should have said that the killer was not a _serial_ killer. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/128 "2002-12-07T06:56:07Z")
Actual fame? me? no. But… ~My HS biology teacher graduated with Bob Dylan ~I have met Jesse Ventura numerous times–I used to skip classes and hang out at his gym in N Minneapolis. He also came to our church when Tyrel was maybe 4-5. Child had a black eye courtesy of rasslin’ with his dad. We spoke a few times when he was mayor of Brooklyn Park-he jogged on the same path I did. I have spoken to him once since he became guv-I called him an idiot. ~I played a duet with James Galway for about…5 minutes…off stage. ~My ex’s roommate opened for Queensryche. ~I dated a quasi-famous Mn Gopher basketball player for a few months ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/129 "2002-12-10T21:36:30Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m a movie star. Spring and summer 2001 I made an amateur movie with my friend. It didn’t go out any farther than Carroll County, Maryland. [joke]Hey, were you in The Blair Witch Project?[/joke] ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/130 "2002-12-10T21:38:10Z")
Sorry Muldoon III, I forgot to attribute the above quote to you. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/131 "2002-12-11T00:29:24Z")
Not famous myself, but, I have, now that I think about it, a **lot** of friends, acquaintances, or relatives who are borderline famous, or have met the truly famous. -My uncle (dad’s sister’s husband) is about as famous as a political scientist can be, which is not very. He was dean of the Kennedy School at Harvard for a while, and met Clinton on multiple occasions, including helping him out with one of his state of the union addresses (resulting in my parents having one of the ultimate neat knickknacks, a Camp David frisbee) -My maternal grandfather was an eminent logician, rocket scientist, and computer scientist. There’s a vaguely well-known CS theorem named after him (The Church-Rosser Theorem… he’s Rosser). My mom used to spend time as a kid hanging around with the children of people like Edward Teller. The grim side to that story is that he was the head of the Army Math Research Center at the University of Wisconsin that was infamously bombed during the '60s. The best side of that story is that there’s a photo of his wife, my grandmother, playing in a string quartet with Einstein. -My father is the chief scientist working on [The Space Infrared Telescope Facility](http://sirtf.caltech.edu/), which means that he’s showed up on science-related shows from time to time, and will presumably have a burst of exposure around April, when SIRTF is launched. (Perhaps he and the **Bad Astronomer** could team up to fight crime.) -My sister is an AP reporter in Los Angeles, and has certainly met the governor and many other such people, at least in the context of a press conference -My CEO was once named one of People Magazine’s 50 most beautiful people -My paternal grandmother was a moderately succesful artist. Her most prominent work, I believe, was the lighted sculptures outside the Indianapolis convention center. A sample of her work (named for me!) can be found [here](http://www.purduenc.edu/cd/odyssey/2003/werner03.html) -One of my longtime coworkers wrote the original **Pac-Man** for the Atari 2600, and was the first video game programmer to become a millionaire. Another of my coworkers wrote **ET** for the 2600, which was the Edsel/Ishtar/New Coke of the video game world. And my former boss was the producer/director for the original arcade versions of **Battlezone** and **Star Wars** As for myself, well, I was briefly the second highest ranked **Hearts** player on the internet gaming zone. ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/132 "2002-12-11T04:04:41Z")
I once talked to the guy who lost making tha band at planet hollywood. He was really nice. ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/133 "2002-12-11T04:09:00Z")
Posted by XCchick22: > [@](#): > > Also, my friend’s sister was on that old Nickelodeon show “Clarissa Explains it All” several times. Really? do you remember the character name ? I know every episode of that show. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/134 "2002-12-11T12:21:29Z")
I was a model, and appeared on the cover of a national catalog. No, really. I was a kid, and appeared in a Boy Scouts of America equipment catalog, not only inside, but on the cover as well (I wasn’t alone, though – there were a lot of us). I was a Cub Scout at the time, and this was back in the 1960s. And I wrote a book. These are my claims to fame, but I ain’t famous. ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/135 "2002-12-11T18:04:04Z")
I will be a writer if I can get published next year I did write and direct a community theatre play… And my Dad’s Cousin is Gary Roberts of the Maple Leafs. So that makes me no one right now… but I’ll be a somebody one day… or not ---
**Author:** ![Nichol\_storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Nichol\_storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nichol_storm)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/136 "2002-12-11T19:57:06Z")
Let’s see… the Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring, was something like my third cousin twice removed. Not long ago, I got in contact with one of our Neree cousins in Spain – very exciting. I know Faith Hill’s cousin. Well, he’s actually her adopted cousin (the nephew of her adoptive parents) and no biological relation, but close enough. My mother once dated an honest-to-goodness mafioso, a fact I did not find out until just a couple of years ago. This was when I was six or seven. I don’t remember him too clearly, but his name was Gianni and he eventually moved to Italy to avoid the feds. I’m a great-great-great-great-niece of Sam Houston of Texas fame. Geoffrey Chaucer is another ancestral uncle, though not a blood relation. .:Nichol:. ---
**Author:** ![Tomcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/137 "2002-12-11T20:49:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by carnivorousplant \* > \*\*Ok, _nobody_ can get lower than this: > > I touched someone who touched someone who touched Adolph Hitler. \*\* How about this: I did vodka shots with someone who did vodka shots with Stalin! ---
**Author:** ![XCchick22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/e19b73/32.png) [@XCchick22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XCchick22)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/138 "2002-12-11T20:50:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Flowerchild \* > \*\*Posted by XCchick22: > > Really? do you remember the character name ? I know every episode of that show. \*\* I never actually watched the show, but the actress’ name was Shannon Woodward. She has an imdb page. It says that she played “Missy” in episode “Alter Ego.” Apparently she’s also been in Crossing Jordan, Gounded for Life, and Malcolm in the Middle. ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/139 "2002-12-11T22:05:58Z")
Believe it or not, but I actaually remember that episode and that person… I need to get myself a life. ---
**Author:** ![Neeps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a183cd/32.png) [@Neeps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neeps)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2002, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597/140 "2002-12-11T22:52:20Z")
I thought that this was hilarious at the time - Mark McGwire tried to steal my brother’s girlfriend (now wife) last year. Needless to say he wasn’t successful. Somehow this never impresses my friends (all non-American. like myself)… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-wonder-if-there-are-any-tv-movie-sports-stars-on-the-sdmb/116597.md?page=8)