Who's from your town?

[Dookus]

The house next door to my local independent theater bears a plaque designating it as the Zasu Pitts house - she grew up in it. Rory Calhoun is also a local. The Rev. Mel White, former associate of Jerry Falwell and now his gay antagonist neighbor is from here - his Dad was mayor back in the 50's.

Go Zasu!! Whoohoo!

[Champ]

1. Mesa, Arizona

Danielle Fischel (From Boy Meets World)


Rodney Peete


Also Danny White former Cowboys quarterback and current Arizona Rattlers head coach. Yeah not much going on here as far as producing well known celebrities.

[LiberalVoice]

2. lol...Micheal Keaton(Pittsburgh) n/t

[Richardo]

22. Lotsa famous Pixburghers - MY personal favorite:

Barbara Feldon! :loveya:

[Westegg]

24. Funky Pittsburgh "celebs" include...

F. Murray Abraham, Lena Horn, Gene Kelly, Art Blakey, Billy Eckstine, Errol Garner, Jeff Goldblum, Charles Grodin, George S. Kaufman, Oscar Levant, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Adolph Menjou, Dennis Miller, Mercury Morris, Dan Marino, David O. Selznick, Getrude Stein, David Soul, Johnny Unitas, August Wilson, David McCullough, John Edgar Wideman, Annie Dillard, Eleanora Duse, Lillian Russell, Robinson Jeffers and Mary Roberts Rhinehart...

AND ME!

[Richardo]

26. Andy Warhol and Fred Rogers, too...

Joe Flahtery (Count Floyd)


AND ME!

[doc03]

34. You take credit for Dennis Miller?

[dryan]

3. Orlando

Mandy Moore
John Young
Buddy Ebsen

[Pretty_in_CodePink]

45. Wesley Snipes, Wayne Brady

Those 'NSync and Backstreet Boys
Davis Gaines (Broadway)

[dryan]

47. Sorry about Wesley

Proud Jones High Graduate!

[UrbScotty]

4. Mike Knuble of the Boston Bruins is from Kentwood, MI

Gerald Ford was raised in nearby East Grand Rapids.

[noonwitch]

49. Loy Vaught is also from Kentwood

He was a freshman at EKHS when I was a senior. My little sister graduated with him and knew him pretty well. I think she knew Mike Knuble, but he was too much younger than me to have been in high school at the same time I was. They didn't even have the hockey rink when I graduated (1982).

I visited EKHS a couple of years ago and was amazed at how much the campus has expanded. There's the whole "Freshman Campus" building (when I was there, we had the "ying wing" for freshmen), there's that new junior high right there and of course, they are building the new freeway right there. The farms are all gone, there's a McDonalds and a strip mall on Kalamazoo right across the street. When I went there, there was nothing around except the one block of houses and farms.

[lovedems]

5. Living in Springfield, Illinois we have Abe Lincoln.

The tour of his house is actually very cool. They have is sectioned off as a block and you can see who the people were lived on the block as well.

AG Edwards of financial fame lived by Lincoln and I guess he introduced Mary Todd to Abe.

It is fascinating to visit Lincolns home and Lincolns Tomb. If you rub his nose (at his tomb) it is suppose to give you good luck.

[sus]

6. Zasu Pitts was born in Parsons, Kansas. Are you in Kansas??

I know because that's where my family is from and everytime we go home my dad announces, "Zazu Pitts was born here!" as we enter town.
if it's not Zasu, it's "Buck Clayton was born here!"

[Dookus]

9. nope

Santa Cruz, California. She was raised here. Guess the family moved west when she was young.

But Zasu Pitts belongs to the world.

[sus]

13. can't blame them for moving west. parsons is no mecca.

[wryter2000]

7. Oaktown

Jack LaLayne, the Pointers, the guy who played Luke Skywalker, Tom Hanks, Isadora Duncan, Gertrude Stein, Mark Curry, Rickey Henderson and many, many more.

Plus Tower of Power, the Black Panther Party, and the Hell's Angels all originated here. Plus we have the first wildlife refuge in the US.

[StaggerLee]

40. Love Oakland

I was stationed at NAS Alameda in the late 80's- (yep I was there for the earthquake of '89) There was the coolest newstand right downtown across from the Bart station, is it still there?

[chiburb]

8. Speaking of Zasu....

ZaSu Pitts' high school graduation picture. It is from the 1914 edition of the Trident, the Santa Cruz High yearbook. The comment in the yearbook reads:

"Rarely is a class so fortunate as to have such a brillant leading lady as ZaSu Pitts. Even the solemnest, most awe-like member of the class loses their dignity at her comic interpretations. Can you imagine what future Hi plays will be without her? Moverover, she possesses that unusual quality, common sense, and lots of it."

[Dookus]

10. awesome....

ya gotta love Zasu.

[Political_Junkie]

11. Portland, Me

Stephen King and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

[Dookus]

12. cool

one good writer is from your town!

[Political_Junkie]

15. LOL

I myself never read anything from Longfellow, so I wouldn't be able to judge his work.

[GOPisEvil]

14. Lance Armstrong

He wasn't born in Austin, but he's lived here for quite some time.

Sandra Bullock - same deal.

I think Mike Judge, Robert Rodriguez and Richard Linklater call Austin home, too, although they might have been born in other places. Lots of musicians call Austin home as well.

Basically, there are 5 native Austinites. The rest of us moved here from somewhere else.

[Beware the Beast Man]

16. Dan Cortese

That guy that was on MTV Sports and Veronica's Closet...yay...

[Dookus]

17. ooh...

he was a hottie! Whatever happened to him?

[Susang]

18. Aretha Franklin, Iggy Pop, Jack White, Alice Cooper.....

Fred "Sonic" Smith, Bob Seger, Stevie Wonder, Lily Tomlin, among others.

I am from Detroit! :-)

[ironflange]

19. Calgary

Bret Hart - I was in high school with him, but we didn't hang out

Ashleigh Banfield appeared for a while on the local news here, but I don't know if this is her home town

Uh. . . I guess that's about it. :(

[TrogL]

20. James Cameron

The movie director.

I petted his iguana.

[Dookus]

21. perv

[mede8er]

23. Beaver Cleaver......

Jerry Mathers was my neighbor......

[kaiden]

25. William Inge.

And Alf Landon. And Vivian Vance, who spanked my dad when he ran out into the street as a boyo

[Dookus]

28. Albuquerque?

I read a really fascinating biography of Vivian Vance a few years ago.

[Bake]

27. Carl Perkins - Jackson TN

The King of Rockabilly! May he rest in peace.

Bake

[Dookus]

29. sweet...

that's a decent claim-to-fame.

[Maddy McCall]

30. I grew up next door to Janice Joplin's parents.

She was already "a star" by then.

Snoop Dogs parents live near me now. And Bo Diddley is from nearby, too.

A good guy friend of mine runs sound for Marilyn Manson.

There! Enough namedropping for you, future husband? :hi:

[Maddy McCall]

31. Oh, and Justin Wilson ate my homemade figs on his homemade biscuits

before he died a couple of years ago. He was my neighbor. Ugh--and then there's also Jerry Clower.

[Dookus]

35. heheh

I used to play cards regularly at the local poker-club with MC Hammer's parents.

And I'll only marry you if you're rich and have a bad heart. I have my standards.

[Maddy McCall]

36. Nah, not rich, but I do have mitral valve prolapse...

So, when I die, you can be strapped with all of my student loans. :-)

[Insider]

32. havre de grace & jersey city

havre de grace (my current home):
cal ripken, jr
ultra nate

jersey city (my hometown):
flip wilson
marilyn mccoo
valerie harper
martha stewart
phyllis newman
nancy sinatra
frank sinatra, jr
malcolm-jamal warner
derek luke
nathan lane
dennis james
bobby hurley
adrienne goodson

[ForrestGump]

33. A sampling...

:D

Adlai Stevenson
Albert Brooks
Alexis Arquette
Amber Tamblyn
Amy Smart
Angelina Jolie
Anne Archer
Ashley Olsen
Barbara Billingsley
Barbara Hershey
Beau Bridges
Bonnie Raitt
Brandy
Bridget Fonda
Bugsy Segal
Busby Berkley
Candice Bergan
Carnie Wilson
Charlene Tilton
Charlie Sheen
Cheech Marin
Christie Brinkley
Christina Applegate
Christine Ricci
Daryle Strawberry
David Carradine
Dean Stockwell
Deborah Raffin
Diane Keaton
Doug McClure
Drew Barrymore
Dustin Hoffman
Ed Begley
Edward James Olmos
Eileen Brennan
Elizabeth Montgomery
Eric Stoltz
Esther Williams
Frank Gifford
Gary Busey
Gene Hackman
George S. Patton
Gregory Peck
Gwen Verdon
Gwyneth Paltrow
Heather Locklear
Heidi Fleiss
Helen Hunt
Herb Alpert
Ice Cube
Jack Jones
Jack Webb
Jackie Coogan
Jackie Cooper
James Brolin
Jamie Lee Curtis
Jeff Bridges
Jenna Elfman
Jennifer Aniston
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Jennifer Tilly
Jill St. John
Jodie Foster
Joel McCrea
Joel Siegel
John Lovitz
John Ritter
Julie Newmar
Karen Carpenter
Kate Hudson
Katharine Ross
Kevin Costner
Kevin Tighe
Laura Dern
Leonardo DiCaprio
Lindsay Wagner
Lisa Kudrow
Liza Minnelli
Lucie Arnaz
Mackenzie Astin
Madeleine Stowe
Marilyn Monroe
Mary-Kate Olsen
Maureen McCormick
Melissa Gilbert
Melody Thomas
Mia Farrow
Michelle Phillips
Michelle Quan
Nia Peeples
Nicholas Cage
Nikki Cox
Norman Mailer
Oscar De La Hoya
Paul Petersen
Paula Abdul
Penelope Ann Miller
Piper Laurie
Randy Newman
Rene Russo
Rhonda Fleming
Richard Carpenter
Richard Chamberlain
Richard Crenna
Robert Redford
Robert Stack
Roger Mahony
Russ Tamblyn
Ryan O'Neil
Sally Field
Sally K. Ride
Sasha Alexander
Sharon Gless
Shelley Fabares
Shirley Temple
Soleil Moon Frye
Stefanie Powers
Steve Martin
Susan St. James
Tatum O'Neal
Timothy Bottoms
Tori Spelling
Tyra Banks
Val Kilmer
Yvette Mimieux

[carpetbagger]

37. Oliver North and the Butthole Surfers.

The Butthole Surfers have not, to this day, gone whining to the ACLU.

[liberalhistorian]

38. I'm in Painesville, Ohio,

hometown of my favorite science fiction writer, Harlan Ellison. Our neighbor and friend of thirty years graduated from high school with him and has his autograph in her senior yearbook. Unfortunately, he HATED Painesville, a sentiment I can certainly understand, lol!

[StaggerLee]

39. Magic Johnson, John Smoltz and Muhsin Muhammad

Burt Reynolds was actually born here (I believe the house is still standing) and Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) lived here for a little while as a kid.

I know, I know- I live in East Lansing but I am claiming Lansing since I grew up there.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

41. Hometown, El Dorado, Kansas

William Allen White. Bobby Douglass. Mort Walker. ME!

Now living in Oakmont, PA. I don't know anyone famous from here, but many famous golfers have played here.

[jobycom]

42. Brett Favre, or very near it

I grew up in a rural region not far from the Kiln. My best friend lived there, and his sister had a crush on Brett.

Another of my best friends was killed there. Then there was the family murdered with a sledgehammer...

Okay, I'll stop now.

[SarahB]

43. Ethan Hawke lived here briefly.

Other than that, I don't know. I never paid much attention. The town 20 minutes away where my parents still live boasts actress Annabella Sciorra, fashion designer Betsy Johnson, and Mark Lin Baker (Bronson Pinchot's bitch on Perfect Strangers in the 80's).

[King_Crimson]

44. Carole Lombard, Shelley Long, Rod Woodson, Jason Fabini...

good ole Fort Wayne, Indiana! Dan Quayle...25 miles away in Huntington! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Kat45]

46. There was a rumor in the '90s that Marilyn Chambers lived here then

Don't know if it was true or not. But Livingston Taylor did live here for a while.

[Bonhomme Richard]

48. Live here now. Diane Von Faustenburg, Peter Gallagher, ........

Skitch Henderson, Christine Baranski. Nearby, Conan O'Brien, Sam Waterston, John Oates, Richard Widmark, Kissinger, Mia Farrow, Dustin Hoffman.
There's more, just can't think of them.
My son got a kick out of serving ice cream to the whole cast of OC. I've never seen the show.