# Whatever happened to....... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 15, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705 "2008-09-15T15:02:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/1 "2008-09-15T15:02:16Z")
This thread is about people who had their 15 minutes of fame and have since vanished into the great unknown. I open the bidding with: Monica Lewinski ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/2 "2008-09-15T15:25:38Z")
I suppose her exploits are being recorded somewhere, but I’m too lazy to look into it. I see your Lewinski and raise you Michael “heckuva job” Brown. I kind of do wonder what he’s up to these days. I hope it isn’t pleasant, whatever it is. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/3 "2008-09-15T16:12:07Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > I suppose her exploits are being recorded somewhere, but I’m too lazy to look into it. > > I see your Lewinski and raise you Michael “heckuva job” Brown. I kind of do wonder what he’s up to these days. I hope it isn’t pleasant, whatever it is. Who the hell is Michael Brown? ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/4 "2008-09-15T16:20:30Z")
[Michael “heckuva job, Brownie” Brown.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Brown) What’s Tonya Harding up to? ---
**Author:** ![bufftabby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bufftabby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bufftabby)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/5 "2008-09-15T16:26:03Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > [Michael “heckuva job, Brownie” Brown.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Brown) > > What’s Tonya Harding up to? Mail order porn would be my best guess. For her, not him. Or a waitress at Shoney’s. Or both. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/6 "2008-09-15T16:30:52Z")
Monica update- [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDVPq1mYqwI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDVPq1mYqwI) Does ANYONE know what happened to screamin’ child evangelist Duffy Strode? I know his little sister Pepper grew up to get into women’s boxing. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/7 "2008-09-15T16:34:08Z")
I saw Tonya Harding providing commentary on The Smoking Gun’s “Dumbest Criminals” show on truTV a week or two ago, along with Danny Bonaduce, Leif Garret, Todd Bridges, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/8 "2008-09-15T16:47:51Z")
Tonya Harding was doing professional boxing for the last couple of years; she started on one of those “celebrity boxing” shows and, to nobody’s surprise, it was right up her alley. :rolleyes: Don’t know if she’s still doing it, though. Don’t care, either. How about Kato Kaelin? The professional mooch. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/9 "2008-09-15T17:06:13Z")
Kato appeared as himself on a recent episode of Comedy Central’s Reality Bites Back. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/10 "2008-09-15T17:09:40Z")
> [@chowder](#): > > Who the hell is Michael Brown? Oops, sorry. I have to get out of the habit of assuming everyone around here is acquainted with the second- and third-string assholes of American politics. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/11 "2008-09-15T17:13:34Z")
The Buzzcocks (Come on. I can’t be the only one to think of that song.) ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/12 "2008-09-15T17:16:58Z")
\*\*Whatever happened to… \*\* Faye Wray? Okay, that one’s easy. How about Jaye Davidson? ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/13 "2008-09-15T20:41:38Z")
Wasn’t Gretchen Mol supposed to be the next Julia Roberts back in the late nineties? Whatever happened to her? ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/14 "2008-09-15T20:46:17Z")
Iran-Contra document-shredding cupcake Fawn Hall? Anybody heard anything of her? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/15 "2008-09-15T20:50:30Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > How about Jaye Davidson? Kurt Russell done blowed his ass up real good in **Stargate**. Now he’s a fashion assistant in London. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/16 "2008-09-15T20:54:02Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > The Buzzcocks > > (Come on. I can’t be the only one to think of that song.) Leon Trotsky and The Stranglers came to my mind. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/17 "2008-09-15T21:04:08Z")
Cat Futch? ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/18 "2008-09-15T21:06:54Z")
Rev. Wright. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/19 "2008-09-15T21:08:38Z")
Lauren Tewes, Ted Lange and Jill Whelan? ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/20 "2008-09-15T21:13:27Z")
> [@Neidhart](#): > > Wasn’t Gretchen Mol supposed to be the next Julia Roberts back in the late nineties? Whatever happened to her? Oh, I know this one!! She is in the new ABC show **Life on Mars** this fall. Saw her in the promos this weekend. Whatever happened to Randolph Scott, riding the trails alone? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705.md?page=2)