# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/81 "2008-09-16T21:00:30Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > No it wasn’t Debbie Gibson. She was much more serious. Kind of like Avril but a little before her. She had long dark hair and I think her big video featured a bunch of people laying around a dark house like they were stoned on Herion. You know like those Calvin Klein ads. Fiona Apple? [http://criminal-incognito.tripod.com/id8.html](http://criminal-incognito.tripod.com/id8.html) ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/82 "2008-09-16T21:00:53Z")
Zebra is thinking of Fiona Apple. She had a pretty decent mildly successful (I think?) album around 2005 or 2006. ---
**Author:** ![hellpaso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@hellpaso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hellpaso)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/83 "2008-09-16T21:28:27Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > He [died](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001815/). thanks for the link–and remind me never to work with billy bob thornton!!! (see the news on jim varney’s imdb page) ---
**Author:** ![Some\_FNG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/48db29/32.png) [@Some\_FNG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_FNG)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/84 "2008-09-16T21:41:45Z")
What happened to Scott Baio (sp?) and John Davidson? I remember wanting to kill to the TV whenever either one was on screen during the late 70’s/early '80’s. ---
**Author:** ![CAT\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@CAT\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CAT_1)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/85 "2008-09-16T21:45:52Z")
> [@warmgun](#): > > Artist? Isn’t a sculptor an artist? That link brought up a whole page of his bronze sculptures. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/86 "2008-09-16T22:12:46Z")
Scott Baio has had a reality show on VH1 recently about his marriage and new fatherhood. Can’t say that I’ve watched. How about Jaleel White (“Urkel”)? Even better – to drive this thread right into the ground – what’s Tom Arnold up to these days? ---
**Author:** ![Arglefraster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@Arglefraster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arglefraster)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/87 "2008-09-17T13:35:35Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Zebra is thinking of Fiona Apple. She had a pretty decent mildly successful (I think?) album around 2005 or 2006. I actually saw her in concert a little over a year ago. She’s a little bit nuts, but I love her music. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/88 "2008-09-17T13:49:17Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Zebra is thinking of Fiona Apple. She had a pretty decent mildly successful (I think?) album around 2005 or 2006. But she was the only one in that video. Not a bunch of different people. Although I guess I can see how it would make sense, what with the “strung on heroin” look, which definitely fits Fiona Apple and “Criminal”. And Extraordinary Machine came out in 2005, “O Sailor” is an awesome song. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/89 "2008-09-17T14:41:59Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > But she was the only one in that video. Not a bunch of different people. ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/uTpvjNn2BUM/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/uTpvjNn2BUM?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque There are at least 3 people in the video, and several different versions of Fiona that could easily be misremembered as different people after 11 years. O Sailor was alright but I thought the title track on Extraordinary Machine was the best. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/90 "2008-09-17T14:52:35Z")
You know reading this thread maked me think that Zebra is obsessed with Fiona Apple. But yeah, that’s her. ---
**Author:** ![First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/First_Amongst_Daves)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/91 "2008-09-17T14:52:55Z")
Re: Sade - I seem to recall a run-in with the law two or three years ago. Re: Mel Gibson - recently loaned a holiday house to Britney Spears, according to last week’s tabloids. They are apparently friends. ---
**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 17, 2008, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/92 "2008-09-17T15:04:58Z")
> [@First\_Amongst\_Daves](#): > > Re: Mel Gibson - recently loaned a holiday house to Britney Spears, according to last week’s tabloids. They are apparently friends. He also seems to have been finding work as a producer–Carrier, for example. There was also Apocalypto. He’s got three movies coming out in the next year. Not sure how he qualifies as a “whatever happened to…” kind of guy. ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/93 "2008-09-17T23:36:54Z")
> [@chowder](#): > > This thread is about people who had their 15 minutes of fame and have since vanished into the great unknown… …Xaviera Hollander? … Darrow Igus? … Mason Reese? … Donna Douglas? … Dack Rambo? … Rodney Allen Rippey? … C.W. McCall? … Yma Sumac? … Mitch Vogel? … The Unknown Comic? … Garret Morris? … Louise Lasser? … Jimmy Nelson? … Diane Keaton? … The Statler Brothers? ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/94 "2008-09-17T23:58:56Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > 😕 No he didn’t. Er…what? I distinctly remember seeing his campaign flyers all over campus, and that he had sparked an interest in the Libertarian Party in a lot of students who didn’t like Bush or Kerry. Hell, Libertarianism was the talk of the town. I found myself debating people about it all the time. I also remember being surprised to find out that he had run as a Democrat before. I can’t be imagining all this. I’m willing to concede that it might have just been someone with a really similar name, though. ---
**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 18, 2008, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/95 "2008-09-18T00:05:31Z")
> [@Hostile\_Dialect](#): > > Er…what? I distinctly remember seeing his campaign flyers all over campus, and that he had sparked an interest in the Libertarian Party in a lot of students who didn’t like Bush or Kerry. Hell, Libertarianism was the talk of the town. I found myself debating people about it all the time. I also remember being surprised to find out that he had run as a Democrat before. I can’t be imagining all this. I’m willing to concede that it might have just been someone with a really similar name, though. From above: Michael Badnarik was the LP 2004 candidate. No sign that Dukakis ever got involved at all with the LP. He (Dukakis) has been a PoliSci professor & active in Democratic campaigning _Wikipedia_. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/96 "2008-09-18T00:07:22Z")
> [@DLuxN8R-13](#): > > Diane Keaton? Diane Keaton? She has a red hot movie career, and has made at least one movie, and sometimes two or three, almost every year since 1971. In 2004 she won a Golden Globe and was Oscar-nominated for “Something’s Gotta Give”. Last year she made “Because I Said So”, which was a major movie, although I don’t think it ended up doing that well at the box office. Earlier this year she was one of three stars (along with Katie Holmes and Queen Latifah) of “Mad Money”, another major movie. According to the IMDB she has three movies in development. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/97 "2008-09-18T00:16:35Z")
Huh. Badnarik. Wonder how I got that mixed up with Dukakis. ---
**Author:** ![Momofgirls](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/momofgirls/32/21798_2.png) [@Momofgirls](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Momofgirls)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/98 "2008-09-18T02:37:26Z")
> [@DLuxN8R-13](#): > > … Dack Rambo? He died of AIDS in 1994. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/99 "2008-09-18T02:44:58Z")
> [@DLuxN8R-13](#): > > …Xaviera Hollander? Running a bed and breakfast in [Amsterdam.](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/02/entertainment/main2323220.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705/100 "2008-09-18T02:50:06Z")
> [@DLuxN8R-13](#): > > … Mason Reese? Ran a (now closed) [gay bar](http://www.timeout.com/newyork/bars-clubs/west-village/5188/nowbar-closed) in New York [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to/463705.md?page=6)