While David doesn’t act much, they are both writers. In fact, they wrote a play together.
They’re both actors, and half-siblings at that.
Bill Clinton was famous for being President. His half-brother Roger was famous for being an actor and cokehead.
Come to think of it, a lot of Presidents have had brothers famous for various types of assholery.
How about Steven and Cary Stayner? One became famous for being abducted, the other for being a serial killer.
Mentioned in the OP. While true crime writer Ann Rule tends to shy away from famous cases, she’s mentioned that she would like to write a biography of the two.
The right author would turn it into a fascinating read.
Whoops. Reading comprehension -1.
Paul O’Neill was a pretty damn good baseball player for the Yankees and Reds. His sister Molly is the food columnist for the New York Times Sunday Magazine.
No, they’re full. They both changed their name though; Warren changed Beaty to Beatty and Shirley changed their mother’s maiden name from McLean to MacLaine.
Their sister and brother-in-law also had a distinction: they invented those balloons that come in toothpaste like tubes that used to be sold in gumball machines (possibly still are), though they sold the patent for next to nothing. Their brother-in-law was working on a variation of the invention to earn some money when he was killed in a car accident the same week his wife/Kurt & Bernard’s sister died of cancer.
Most of those pairs are famous for the exact same thing. It even lists the Bush sisters and a Vaudeville twin act.
My mistake about the Hillerman boys. Turns out they are unrelated. I had heard differently.
Tom Skilling is the chief meterologist for WGN TV and radio and the Chicago Tribune, and from all that I’ve heard, an upstanding citizen and generally nice guy. His brother Jeffrey Skilling was one of the lead villains in the Enron fiasco and is serving a 24-year sentence in the federal slammer.
Cousins, but Ira Glass and Phil Glass are famous for different things.
But would they be *famous *assholes without their brother being famous already?
No.
I think they’re cousins- not sure if it’s first or not. They look a lot alike (John… Tony).
While not super famous, Ruth Stapleton was well known in Christian evangelical circles based in North Carolina long before her brother Jimmy Carter became famous outside of Georgia. (She wasn’t just a hands in the air holiness housewife either but a fairly well educated and published author before he entered national politics.)
They’ve written several plays together, but playwriting is not what either is really famous for. David is famous for being an essayist/humorist, and Amy is famous primarily as a comedic actress. The playwriting is a sideline for both of them.
Don Novello, a writer and comedian best known for playing Father Guido Sarducci, has a brother named Joe who’s a very respected psychologist; he’s not that well known outside of academia, but he’s written many articles and books. (Novello’s his wifewas Surgeon General under Bush 1 and Clinton.)
Likewise, Carroll O’Connor’s brothers were very successful physicians. One was a psychiatrist who’s well known in the field of sleep disorders, the other was one of the most sought after heart surgeon in the country. O’Connor (who unlike Archie was well educated, well traveled, and from a well to do family long before becoming famous) said in one interview that when he was the most famous actor on TV he was still considered the family underachiever.
Yeah! But what do they have in the Smithsonian? All he had to do was plop his butt in a chair and that chair is probably more famous than they are. Not to mention, Archie Bunker is as much a part of America as baseball and apple pie. Funny to think someone who will have such a long legacy is the slacker, eh?
I’m completely gobsmacked by the Michael/Tracy Pollan thing. I had no idea, and I’ve read almost all of his books.
His brother Joe Novello is a Psychologist in Washington, DC, who is married to the former Surgeon General Dr. Antonia Novello.
Viginia Wolfe had a sister Vanessa Bell who has a painter with one helluva sex life.
Woody Allen has nothing on David Garnett. The things some people will do to be the basis of an ALW musical.