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Author Topic: Is anyone famous from the town you grew up in? Stephen Frazza Expert Film Handler Posts: 161 From: Nutley, NJ, USA Registered: Mar 2004 posted 03-24-2005 01:25 PM                        Watching the news made me think of this- I grew up and went to High School in Nutley,NJ The only famous people I know of from there are, Robert Blake & Martha Stewart Martha Stewart was actually inducted into the Nutley Hall of Fame.(Pre-legal troubles) Yes I am serious about that. Nutley Hall of Fame To think I played on the same playgrounds as a Little Rascal and sat in the same classrooms as Martha Stewart.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 03-24-2005 02:05 PM                        Angola, New York: William Carrier, who developed modern air conditioning (HVAC) and founded the Carrier Corporation. Clint Holmes, perennial Las Vegas entertainer. Christian Laettner, NBA basketball player with the Miami Heat who played on the Duke NCAA Championship team of 1992. John Pytlak, honored with an Academy Technical Achievement Award in 2001, the 2003 EPA Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award, and Fellowship in the SMPTE in 1982.  |  IP: Logged Mark Ogden Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 943 From: Little Falls, N.J. Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-24-2005 02:18 PM                     Elmira, New York: Hal Roach, motion picture pioneer, producer of the "Our Gang" and "Little Rascal" shorts. Ernie Davis, Heisman trophy winner Tommy Hilfiger, fashion designer (who I knew briefly when he and his brother were just getting started, they had a store downtown that I still have a pair of bell-bottom jeans from, circa 1970). Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News anchorman Eileen Collins, first female captain of the space shuttle.  |  IP: Logged John Lasher Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Newark, DE Registered: Aug 2001 posted 03-24-2005 02:31 PM                        Newark, DE Sean Patrick Thomas (Save the Last Dance, Barbershop 1 & 2, Dracula 2000) George Thorogood (Singer of "Bad to the Bone", used to live right down the street from where my house is (i.e. we never lived on that street at the same time)) Elizabeth Shue (The Karate Kid, Back to the Future 2 & 3...okay she's from Wilmington, but it's only a 20-30 minute drive from Newark, only 10-15 minutes by bus or rail...there's a middle school in the greater Newark area named after her)  |  IP: Logged Kyle Caudill Film Handler Posts: 92 From: Wichita Falls, TX Registered: May 2002 posted 03-24-2005 04:01 PM                     Flatwoods, KY Billy Ray Cyrus.....mullet man and country music singer/actor  |  IP: Logged Jeff Stricker Master Film Handler Posts: 481 From: Calumet, Mi USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 03-24-2005 04:20 PM                     Strother Martin ("What we have here is a failure to communicate" - warden "boss" from Cool Hand Luke)was born here. Great character actor, who left us at too young an age.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 03-24-2005 04:30 PM                     Bethesda, MD Jim Hensen Mark Halperin (VP of ABC news on the political desk...most recently noted for his memo on the Kerry/Bush election thing)...he was in my class in Jr. High and High School. Anthony Delwig...was QB of Greenbay Packers for a season or two in the '80s. I'm sure there are many others that are just not coming to mind at the moment.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 03-24-2005 04:33 PM                        Wimbledon (suburb of south London, as in the tennis): William Wilberforce (anti-slavery pioneer) Neville Heath - aka the 'brides in the bath' murderer Jessie Matthews (British film star in the '30s) Now you get into arguments about the definition of 'from there'. Wilberforce, Heath and Matthews are the only celebs I know of who (like me) were born and spent most of their childhood in Wimbledon. Others associated with the place are: Tennis players associated with the championships there; Football (soccer) players associated with the Wimbledon team between its spectacular F.A. Cup win in 1988 and the start of its decline in the late '90s, Vinnie Jones being an obvious example; Julius Caesar encamped on what is now Wimbledon Common; The former Prime Minister John Major attended Rutlish High School, as did Heath and Yours Truly. Don't worry, though - I have no intention of following in the footsteps of either! Fictitious Wimbledonians: The Wombles Characters in Nigel Williams' novels, e.g. The Wimbledon Poisoner.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 03-24-2005 05:22 PM                        Let's see, born in Malibu and grew up in and around Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Lots of celebrities come to these places, but can't think of too many that are from these places.  |  IP: Logged Greg Mueller Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1687 From: Port Gamble, WA Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-24-2005 05:28 PM                        Everett, Washington Patrick Duffy ....although he claims he's from Montana. He was a cheerleader at Cascade HS in Everett. (and I have the yearbook to prove it)  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 03-24-2005 05:54 PM                       Winchester, KY: -- Some kid named Matt Long, who's a principle in "Jack and Bobby" on TV. -- Old bag newspaper reporter and press corps hanger-on Helen Thomas. -- Tim Reed, trailer producer/director. -- an NBC announcer, whose name I forgot in the 60s, who v/o'd "Concentration".  |  IP: Logged Jim Ziegler Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 753 From: West Hollywood, CA Registered: Jul 99 posted 03-24-2005 06:32 PM                     I grew up in Topeka, KS.. Famous residents include Vice President Charles Curtis, Karl Menninger, and the local nut case, the Rev. Fred Phelps...  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 03-24-2005 06:40 PM                        For Tim, Hugh Downs?  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-24-2005 06:53 PM                        I don't know how famous he is outside of art circles, but premier western sculptor Bill Rains grew up in Forsyth. www.billrains.com  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 03-24-2005 07:55 PM                       Paul, it wasn't Hugh Downs. I'm thinking it was either Bob Clayton, who was announcer on the show before becoming the host, or his announcer.  |  IP: Logged

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