Celebrity Facts - Did You know?

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Anonymous wrote:Julia Louis-Dreyfus went to Holton Arms; Her mom lived in Spring Valley across from AU, now in Somerset; her dad, Gerard,, had a net worth in the billions.

She was class president for several years and head of the honor council. And had great roles in plays, of course. Miss Everything, even then.

Somerset residents here. They moved.

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Geddy Lee has been married to the same woman since 1976.
Their son is a PhD.

I always like hearing about musicians who stay married. Charlie Watts (Rolling Stones) has been married to the same woman for over 50 years. I think that's incredible.

PP and I am borderline obsessed with LT rocker marriages.

John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin married in 1967

Jack Blades of Night Ranger and Damn Yankees: married in 1977

Maybe my fave couple: Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo: 1982

That is incredible considering their lifestyles. My fave is U2’s Bono and his wife Ali. They were high school sweethearts in Dublin (1982).

And Jon Bon Jovi! High school sweethearts.

Most, if not all of these, have kept their family life private. Coincidence?

PP quoted. Great point. Something to be said about keeping your professional life just that.

Alright...since I’m here I’ll share another fact.

Margaret Hamilton, known forever as the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz was a former schoolteacher. She got into acting when she was (unusual for the time) a newly divorced mother with a very young son. She was perhaps self-conscious of her “scary” image and appeared on Mr. Rogers to explain how she was NOT wicked and was playing “ make believe.” As an older woman, she was cast in a long running Maxwell House commercials.

Yes! She also reprised her role as the wicked witch on a 1976 episode of Sesame Street. It was highly controversial, as parents felt she was too scary for kids, and the episode never ran again. It is apparently impossible to find and probably lost for good unless someone happened to record it the one time it aired.

I don’t know why this has always fascinated me!

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Ricky Gervais tried his hand as a pop star in the eighties in a new wave band, Seona Dancing.
Sorry don’t know how to imbed the picture, but he wore makeup in pure Duran Duran style!

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Ed helms (The Hangover movies, the Office) has never revealed the names or ages of his wife and daughter (who is presumably a little kid).

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This is probably well-known now, but Leigh-Allyn Baker who played Amy Duncan on Good Luck Charlie is an antivaxx, Trump supporter.

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Ellie Kemper and Chelsea Clinton were both National merit semifinalists in the late 1990s. Katie Ledecky was national merit commended in 2013.

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PP quoted. Great point. Something to be said about keeping your professional life just that.

Alright...since I’m here I’ll share another fact.

Margaret Hamilton, known forever as the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz was a former schoolteacher. She got into acting when she was (unusual for the time) a newly divorced mother with a very young son. She was perhaps self-conscious of her “scary” image and appeared on Mr. Rogers to explain how she was NOT wicked and was playing “ make believe.” As an older woman, she was cast in a long running Maxwell House commercials.

Yes! She also reprised her role as the wicked witch on a 1976 episode of Sesame Street. It was highly controversial, as parents felt she was too scary for kids, and the episode never ran again. It is apparently impossible to find and probably lost for good unless someone happened to record it the one time it aired.

I don’t know why this has always fascinated me!


Interesting about her background in education. Her granddaughter is a professor of Renaissance history.

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Anonymous wrote:The actress Whitney Blake (from the old show Hazel) was Meredith Baxter's mother.

George Clooney was the nephew of Rosemary Clooney (famous singer.) I remember seeing him on episodes of Facts of Life, The Golden Girls and Roseann. He was always hunky!

One of my friends bought Whitney Blake’s house in Chatham, MA. The family owned it prior to my friend buying it and they left artwork and some other belongings of Whitney’s in the house.

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Anonymous wrote:Robin Williams had a stipulation in his contract that for any movie or event he did, the company hiring him also had to hire a certain number of homeless people and put them in work.

This came from a Facebook post that went viral after he died. It has never been confirmed or proven. You should not believe every Facebook post you see.

That’s not where it was found. Actually, it appears to have originated with an article posted by Brian Lord (“A Little Known Robin Williams Story”) on 12 August 2014, recounting the author’s experience in attempting to hire Williams for an event. Snopes claims this is unproven, which doesn’t mean it isn’t true. It went viral through Facebook. Is a fact? I’d like to believe so. You’re right, it can’t be called a fact.

Logistically and legally (let alone unions) it just doesn't make sense to be true. The idea that you can just walk over to a homeless camp and hire people to work on your film set /event no matter where you are in the world sounds like someone who has never really done business. And where are all these homeless people who were hired - Robin Williams did hundreds if not thousands of events / films - that is a lot of homeless people who would be telling stories about the time they got hired

It’s not difficult to be an extra in a movie. I was an extra in Pelican Brief w/Julia Roberts. They just have you sign some paperwork and give you a check. I made a whole $25.00. And I happened to be working for a bank at that time, we had accounts of a lot of homeless people in DC, so homeless people do have bank accounts. In fact one at the time had $30k in his account.

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Anonymous wrote:Coretta Scott King paid the hospital bill for Julia Roberts’ parents when she was born as a thank you for giving drama lessons to the King children.

Two names I never would have expected to see together in an anecdote, Julia Roberts and Coretta Scott King.

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Anonymous wrote:Robin Williams had a stipulation in his contract that for any movie or event he did, the company hiring him also had to hire a certain number of homeless people and put them in work.

This came from a Facebook post that went viral after he died. It has never been confirmed or proven. You should not believe every Facebook post you see.

That’s not where it was found. Actually, it appears to have originated with an article posted by Brian Lord (“A Little Known Robin Williams Story”) on 12 August 2014, recounting the author’s experience in attempting to hire Williams for an event. Snopes claims this is unproven, which doesn’t mean it isn’t true. It went viral through Facebook. Is a fact? I’d like to believe so. You’re right, it can’t be called a fact.

Logistically and legally (let alone unions) it just doesn't make sense to be true. The idea that you can just walk over to a homeless camp and hire people to work on your film set /event no matter where you are in the world sounds like someone who has never really done business. And where are all these homeless people who were hired - Robin Williams did hundreds if not thousands of events / films - that is a lot of homeless people who would be telling stories about the time they got hired

It’s not difficult to be an extra in a movie. I was an extra in Pelican Brief w/Julia Roberts. They just have you sign some paperwork and give you a check. I made a whole $25.00. And I happened to be working for a bank at that time, we had accounts of a lot of homeless people in DC, so homeless people do have bank accounts. In fact one at the time had $30k in his account.

Yeah my son’s history teacher was an extra in The Irishman. He’s not an actor or anything.

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Mike Nesmith of "The Monkees" mom invented "Liquid Paper" in the 1950s, which was a typing correction fluid.

When she died, she left him an estate of apx. $50 million.

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Anonymous wrote:Speaking of the Wizard of Oz, there is such backstory about the film, it is considered cursed: in the scene where they fall asleep in the fields, the snow used was asbestos. The paint used on the Tin Man contained aluminum powder landing Buddy Edson in the Hospital and replaced, the Cowardly Lion’s costume was made from a real Lion’s Hide, the witch was severely burned from a failed pyrotechnic trick; Toto’s foot was broken when stepped on and can be seen limping.

Weren’t there also suicides on the set?

No, that is a myth.

Actually, I think in one scene you can see where a stage hand accidentally hung himself on set?

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Brian May, lead guitarist for Queen, is an astrophysicist and consulted with NASA on their mission to Pluto.

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Geddy Lee has been married to the same woman since 1976.
Their son is a PhD.

I always like hearing about musicians who stay married. Charlie Watts (Rolling Stones) has been married to the same woman for over 50 years. I think that's incredible.

PP and I am borderline obsessed with LT rocker marriages.

John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin married in 1967

Jack Blades of Night Ranger and Damn Yankees: married in 1977

Maybe my fave couple: Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo: 1982

Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa married in 1991.