Did any of you grow up with someone who is now Famous?

[tickler_n_black]

my dad played football at Purdue with Bob Griese. that's as close as i come to this question.

any of you? grow up with, or personally know someone famous?

 

[JPie1]

I went to camp with the son of Danny Aiello but thats as close as I come..

 

[venray]

I went to school with Bill Cosby's son in Longmeadow mass, but never met Bill himself...



Ray

 

[the_Baron]

sort of connected to the question -

when my father was growing up in williamsburg and coney island (both in brooklyn), he knew or went to school with:

- alan king

- mel brooks

- louis gosset jr. (louie was younger, and played basketball with
him sometimes)

 

[the_Baron]

you know, my brother's best friend was from sayerville. he and john giovanni (as he was called then) were close friends. hanging out on the street together; shooting pool.

 

[Cav88]

Living so close to the big apple means that you are bound to hear of some celebrities near by.

I was in the same grade and went to the same school as Bill Murray's son. I personally didn't know him. But I saw him from time to time and he was in a few of my classes. He moved away but I have heard he has moved back.

I live near where Rosie O'donnel lives. Never Saw her.

I heard one of the baldwin brothers lived in my county.

Nunzio, the WWE pro-wrestler lives in the town next to mine. I saw him in the mall once.

That girl who played the kidnapped Senator's daughter in "Silence of the Lambs" graduated from my school.

There are probably more, but I can't think of any at the moment.

 

[TicklingIsLife]

went to school with former mayors Guliani's son.

 

[Mitchell]

I've known many people who are and were famous, as I've stated on here. I didnt grow up with anyone who is now famous. Perhaps the closest I got to that was going to the same college as Colin Furgerson, the guy who shot all the people on the Long Island Rail Road in 1993. I didnt know him personally, but my professors knew him well, as it was a small campus.
The closest thing I've heard in my family to growing up with someone famous was my mom and aunt. They went to summer camp with Ralph Lauren. My aunt really knew him well, and, a couple of years later, he asked her out on a date when they were in their 20s, before he struck it rich with Polo, and she wouldnt go out with him! He was crazy about her! GRRRRR! I love his clothes! He is married for years, and to think I came THIS close to having uncle Ralph. I shudder when I think what my aunt did. Oh, well.

Mitch

 

[steph]

Growing up in Santa Barbara, we had lots of opportunities too. When I was 12 I saw Kenny Loggins naked when I was surfing at our town's nude beach--didn't know who he was then. I did community theater as a kid (Oliver) with Eric Stoltz, my big brother Scotty was best friends with Scott Ireland (Kathy's bro).

My dad dated a gal who lived in Montecito and lived next door to Davy Jones (yes of the Monkees--God he was an ass, even to us as little kids) and down the beach from Susan Anton & Dudley Moore (she was great, very down to earth, he was another ass.)

Anthony Edwards (ER, Revenge of the Nerds) was 2 years ahead of me in Jr. High. My pop (a Jr High School teacher had Laura Dern in class and Ray Bradbury's kid). Also a way obscure reference, Atilla Von Symogy (I'm sure I f'ed up the Hungarian spelling) but he was the first long-haired model to make it big thanks to Calvin Klein. His pop is an international fencing coach who helped my high school friend Molly make it as an alternate on the US Olympic team. The condos we lived in in Boston was next door to Carl Yazstremski's (Yaz) dad. And I went to school with Gary Cheever's (the Bruins) kids. I cheered with Cheryl and dated Jerry, damn, talk about a gorgeous family!

XOXO

 

[Knox The Hatter]

"Sayreville's where I spent the first 10 years of my life. Funny, though, I don't remember too many details about it, except that the first two things that pop into my head are WaWa's and White Castle"

Ah, I know that White Castle well, Flatfoot! On 9, near the Ernston Road intersection. I've eaten there many times, and at all hours of the day or night. Man, it didn't take much to turn that place into a menagerie.

Sayreville. Just the name of the place brings to mind this girl I worked with not long ago that I had a bit of a problem with. I had a terrible crush on her, and she felt the same about me, and since I'm married, that was the end of that. I try not to think about her, because then I ruminate, and I'm sick of ruminating.

Famous people: Well, I was three years behind NBC sports announcer and commentator Jim Nantz in High School. He was class president and the big star of the golf team. Surprised? His features haven't changed a bit since then, either. From what I remember he was a decent fellow.

I also have reason to believe that for one year, Fran Drescher and I attended the same elemetary school in Flushing. She lived on the other side of Parsons Boulevard, within walking distance. I moved late in the Kindergarten year ten minutes away, to Jamaica, and a different school. Meanwhile, later on, she hung out at the same pizzeria on Kissena Boulevard as my cousins...

Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce graduated in the same High School district here in New Jersey as mine, thirteen years before me. In that time, four new high schools were built in the district, including mine, and we got many of our teachers from Freehold, including this history teacher I had. He was a diminutive little dweeb with a big shock of hair even more sharply silver than an Audi TT, a single black brow that crossed his forehead with zest, and lips the size of the largest sandwich you could buy at Blimpie. Not quite the most attractive man in the world. One day, he was gloating over the fact that he failed Bruce Springsteen in History. Not surprising, since Springsteen failed most of his classes in school. Well, this teacher was having a grand old time, and then one smart ass girl in my class said, quite firmly, "yeah, well, look at where he is...and look at where you are."
The teacher quickly changed the subject, and went back to discussing the Wilmot Proviso... 😱

 

[nenezinho]

I used to go to the same bar has some of the young players from my local team.....as some might know, among these fellows were to of the 11 portuguese players that outplayed the english yesterday achieving the semi-finals of the euro cup. Actually two of the best players....I consider them the best!!!! Deco and Ricardo Carvalho. We used to chat a bit during the year they stayed here. actually it was two different years as Deco was here for a year and Ricardo came the next year on loan from Porto, he made a great season here and got back to Porto joining Deco who was already also at Porto....the rest of the story......they-ve won the UEFA cup, the Champions League, 2 league titles in a row, 1 portuguese cup and now fighting for the european championship.

And it was only years ago they were both young kids struggling for a place and wanting someone to talk on this small town.

 

[nenezinho]

Almost forgot a third one!!! lolol
And a very important one to!!! Maniche! another portuguese player! can´t remember if he was here on the same year as Deco or the year before but he was also here for at least one season.

The thing with Maniche is that he was from Benfica wich is a club in Lisbon as has my town´s pretty near Lisbon he was allways getting home after the games or going to Lisbon to meet his teammates from Benfica. So we almost never talked with him...can´t remember if he ever came to drink a beer on the bar with everyone else.

With Deco and Ricardo was different because Deco had arrived from Brasil and Ricardo was 300km from his friends at Porto so it made sense to make some new friends here.

 

[TicklishSinner]

my brother went to high school with Tom Delong from Blink 182

 

[KoocheeKoo]

Let's see...

I went to high school with former pro football player Quency Williams (he played in the CFL after a stellar college career at Auburn).

Former NFL head coach turned tv football analyst Jerry Glanville wife's (Brenda) parents lived in the same subdivision as me until their deaths a few years ago. I saw Coach Glanville there visiting his in-laws many times over the years, and stopped and chatted football with him on a few occasions.

My cousin Doug Worthan is the Director of Security of the Atlanta Falcons football franchise (since 1991).

My dad and stepmom live right down the street from country superstar Alan Jackson's wife's parents in Newnan, Georgia. Also, Alan Jackson's sister was my baby sister Beth's 4th grade schoolteacher (according to sis, we're both distant cousins of Alan Jackson and his siblings....very distant....do 8th cousins count? 😀

My oldest sister and I both knew Daystar religious network director Marcus Lamb when he was a kid (both our dad's were church pastors here in Georgia).

I didn't know them growing up, but I'm very good friends with gospel singer Eric Horner and his wife Debby. How good? We exchange Christmas and birthday cards; they gave me their private phone and cellphone numbers.

I grew up in the same Georgia county as American hero and former POW Ronald Young Jr and his family....see his mother in the grocery store occasionally (she always hugs my little grandmother 🙂

 

[tickledorange]

I used to go to school with Brian/Brad (I can't remember which one plays baseball cause they have the same name) Daubach and Darius Miles (even though I only knew them indirectly from other friends). A few people I grew up with will become famous someday, when we get a little older.

 

[aticklishguy]

yes

went to school with all 2 Baldwin Brothers

 

[stacyshippen]

My dad knew Bobby Rydell and Fabian. He said Fabian was possibly the dumbest guy who ever lived. My aunt said that Bobby Rydell was a dirtbag who married his high school sweetheart and cheated on her pretty much from day one.

Oh, and my best friend's cousin was the Don in Philadelphia/Atlantic City. If you're from the area and remember Angelo Bruno, he's the one (he was murdered a block from my aunt's house in 1980). We all went to see his funeral procession -- lots of flower-filled cars, just like the procession in the Godfather!

Peace,
Stacy

 

[the_Baron]

speaking of godfathers, when i was shooting wedding photography years ago, we did an affair on one of those yachts that circle manhattan. big paulie (paul castellono) was there. he wasn't yet dead.

i too remember that sayerville white castle. ummm. castle.

steph, how can davy jones not be nice? he's a monkee for goodness sakes. i loved that show. i still listen to him singing daydream believer.

once in atlantic city, on a buffet breakfast line, along comes jackie mason. my father introduces himself. jackie asks if his son is a doctor. my father tells him that my brother is a lawyer. jackie then mentions that in a nice jewish family, the sons become doctors and lawyers. the morons become the accountants.

being the accountant in the family, i was tempted to throw juice on his tie. i resisted.

 

[steph]

Oh Honey, he was just the nastiest little man. We all had a major crush on him! He loathed giving autographs. (I didn't ask, when you grow up that close to Hollywood, you don't really get starstruck) but I watched him shoo away kids younger that us, and very rudely I might add. I think we were in about 6th grade. He just thought he was the hottest thing ever and we were devastated, watching him treat "his fans" so badly...

XOXO

 

[rajee]

😀 My mom went to highschool with Eugene Levy and Martin Short. 😀

 

[tommytikl]

I went to school with Bill Cosby's son in Longmeadow mass, but never met Bill himself...



Ray

My father was in the same swimming class in Philly as Bill Cosby...that is about as close at I get to anyone famous.

 

[the_Baron]

after a performance of "the sunshine boys" on broadway - with tony randall and jack klugman playing the lead roles, i went around back to meet them.

tony became very rude and boisterous when a 7 year old girl asked him to autograph his playbill. apparently she forgot to say "please" and "thank you". this sent him off in a tirade.

jack was much more like the friend next door type.

 

[natural tickler]

Ray Nitchske, the former Green Bay Packer great, went ot the same high school I did, along with Michael Finley of the Dallas Mavericks, ray Buchanan of the Falcons, now with the Colts. Also knew actresses LisaRaye and Stacey Dash😀

 

[TicklingIsLife]

does talking to TIB on the TMF count? 😛

 

[Jimblast]

My grandfather was a pretty high profile person...

..we have a town named after our family in upstate New York, Cooperstown. It's where the Baseball Hall of Fame is. My great great great grandfather was James Fenimore Cooper who wrote 'The Last of the Mohicans'. I'm his direct decendent and carry his name as the fifth. My father's father was in the 'Skull and Crossbone' fraternity at Yale with George Bush Sr.'s father Prescott, and dad was in the same elite fraternity with Bush Sr. Dad is very big friends with George Bush Sr. and I've met 'W' many times as owner of the Texas Rangers from induction ceremonies in Cooperstown where our family has great seats. Our family growing up was friends with the Anheiser Busch family, the Rockerfellers, and many other prominent families. My grandparents had 2 floors of an apartment building on Park Avenue in Manhattan from 1927 to 1984 and there were celebrities who lived there. One of them was Jacqueline Onassis for a brief time and I used to see John Jr. and Caroline whenever I was up there in high school. I would have to say that Caroline Kennedy was a stunning woman looks wise even as a kid. Grandad's circle of friends included Charles Lindbergh whom he helped with investing in his flight in the Spirit of St. Louis. Others we met as children were Norman Rockwall and Dr. Seuss. Grandad was very big into the arts. Another of his great friends was the commander of the Lost Battalion in WW1. You know, as I write this because I rarely talk about it, I'm thinking grandad was pretty well connected! LOL! Anyway, growing up and spending summers in Cooperstown which is an old established vacationing town for many prominent people who have summer homes there, I got to know many famous people's kids. I would have to say generally that the vast majority were not well adjusted. The towns folk up there are mostly the people I hang out with up there. They're just 'down to earth'.