Phil Collins was one of the extras in the crowd scene during the stage show in the film “A Hard Day’s Night.”
Rose Wilder Lane probably rewrote the Little House on the Prairie books to conform more to her tastes. She did not start any political party. She is considered to be one of the three most important American women to advocate libertarianism, so she’s approximately one of the dozen most important Americans in creating the modern-day American notion of libertarianism.
Olivia Newton-John is the grandchild of Noble prize winner Max Born.
And Mick Fleetwood’s ex-wife Jenny Boyd is the sister of Patti Boyd Harrison Clapton, making Mick the ex-brother-in-law of both George Harrison and Eric Clapton.
Bill Wyman once dated a young girl while his son dated the girl’s mother. Had both couples gotten married then his son would also be his father in law.
Stripper Gypsy Rose Lee became a major celebrity in the 40s and has the musical Gypsy written about her, which shows how she took over the family vaudeville act when her sister June left the act. June is not mentioned again in the play.
However, the real June because a successful Broadway and Hollywood actress under the name June Havoc.
Self-appointed national moralist William Bennett once went on a blind date with Janis Joplin.
Musical satirist Tom Lehrer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim once attended summer camp together.
Lehrer also claims to have invented the Jell-O Shot.
Bill and Mandy eventually did get married. And if Bill’s Son and Mandy’s Mother had a child together, Bill Wyman would have become his own grandfather.
Gloria Steinhem hated the novel American Psycho for it’s misogynistic pornographic content. and was vocally opposed to the original leading man Leonardo DiCaprio thinking that the legions of adoring female fans would get the wrong message.
So they instead ended up casting Christian Bale.
3 years later Steinhem became his step mother.
Ok, got one more. This isn’t exactly news and pops up often in this kind of threads, but I’m a big Papa Nez fan and have to mention it: Michael Nesmith’s mother Bette invented liquid paper.
He also sang “Witch Doctor”. In fact, it was his experimentation with sped up voices on that song that led to the Chipmunks.
Wally Cox and Marlon Brando were college roommates, and remained good friends.
Anni-Frid Lyngstad, of ABBA, is a Nazi lebensborn project child.
That one’s awesome.
Was that project running near Narvik, in Norway, in early 1945? Or was she the result of a hook-up between a young local girl and and a soldier far from home? I rather suspect the latter.
Long time ago, don’t remember where I read it, Brando and Cox were very close, and Brando was “devastated” by Cox’s death.
The kicker on this is that Twain and Roach are both buried in the same cemetery, in Elmira, NY.
Various sources online say that all of these people are examples of ones who grew up thinking that their mother was their older sister and were thus raised by their maternal grandparents, who pretended to be their parents:
- Bobby Darin
- Jack Nicholson
- Eric Clapton
- Ted Bundy
- Paul Nurse
- Merle Oberon
- David Campbell
- Bayard Rustin
- Catherine Cookson
That’s really fucking sad. And disturbing.
Well, maybe not so sad. Remember, the grandparents are people who didn’t throw their pregnant daughter out of the house. They’re not people who demanded that the baby be adopted and never spoken of again. They’re not people who let the daughter and baby grow up in their house and then spent the rest of their life telling them both how they were an eternal shame to the family. These are people who knew that the only way that they could avoid shame to the family and yet raise the child within the family was to create this elaborate pretense. These are people who loved and wanted to protect their child and grandchild, even if it required a complicated set of lies.