Hi Everyone

Just poking about in your pasts, anyone out there got a claim to fame, worked, lived next door or went to school with someone we MAY of heard of?

Astralbex wrote:

Hi Everyone

Just poking about in your pasts, anyone out there got a claim to fame, worked, lived next door or went to school with someone we MAY of heard of?

Well, in the 60s I lived in the same town in Scotland as Jimmie McCulloch who became a member of Wings and died of a drug overdose. All my friends and I had pre-teen crushes on him, long before Wings. My sister was actually a friend of his then.

Oh, and when my parents were superintendants in Toronto in the early 70s, William Shatner rented one of the town houses for a little while.

I'm not sure which hub it is on but I chronicled how I grew up calling BILLY JOEL my uncle.  I have two of his Gold Records on the wall right here with me.  One is a Gold 45 of "My Life" which eventually became the theme song to the sitcom Bosom Buddies with TOM HANKS!

I also have a Gold Album of BILLY's best album THE STRANGER!  certified by the RIAA and Columbia Records. 

I have also waited tbles in Manhattan where i waited on LAUREN HUTTON, MARISA TOMEI, VICTORIA GOTTI, EDDIE VEDDER, BOB COSTAS, The group TLC, Ace of Base, and I even waited on Stephen Speilberg!

Oh dear, my claim to fame is really sad! I featured in a BBC show called Trade Secrets where people in certain jobs gave snippets of advice, their 'trade secrets'. As I was working in a hotel at the time I gave advice about hangover remedies (it was for a Christmas special). It was aired Christmas 1999 and 2000, but thank heavens hasn't been shown since!

Gee, interesting subject.  Although I'm sure you haven't heard about it, most haven't outside of Oklahoma, in the mid 70's while working in a road band out of Oklahoma City, I was voted Lead Guitar Player of the Year by the Oklahoma Country Music Association.  Along with playing back up for many top artists thru the years, studio musician for many recording sessions, and many hours playing in dance bands, I guess thats my little claim to fame.

I went to school with Karen Kwan, the sister of Michelle Kwan.  Karen was not as famous as her sister, but she was a graceful ice skater in her own right.

I slept with one of Mick Jagger's ex-girlfriends and she said I was much better than he was.

I also told Yul Brynner to piss off and sold Lady Diana a Sony Walkman.

Do they count?

I can't really even compete. The best I can say is that a close family member knows one of Nicole Kidman's relatives.

Mark Knowles wrote:

I slept with one of Mick Jagger's ex-girlfriends and she said I was much better than he was.

I also told Yul Brynner to piss off and sold Lady Diana a Sony Walkman.

Do they count?

Wow, I am impressed .

I don't know how many people know him, but for several years I lived next door to Bozo the clown. Years later, Bozo's sidekick, MR Houdini, was my high school"s student activities director. I also played backup for Lee Greenwood.

Mark Knowles wrote:

I slept with one of Mick Jagger's ex-girlfriends and she said I was much better than he was.

I also told Yul Brynner to piss off and sold Lady Diana a Sony Walkman.

Do they count?

Mark, you are hilarious

Misha wrote:

Mark Knowles wrote:

I slept with one of Mick Jagger's ex-girlfriends and she said I was much better than he was.

I also told Yul Brynner to piss off and sold Lady Diana a Sony Walkman.

Do they count?

Mark, you are hilarious

You mean he was joking? I was going to start a second account, just to join his fanclub again!

I'm ready to believe he is telling the truth - and I wouldn't be surprised if he is kidding

Misha wrote:

I'm ready to believe he is telling the truth - and I wouldn't be surprised if he is kidding

All true.

Mark Knowles wrote:

I slept with one of Mick Jagger's ex-girlfriends and she said I was much better than he was.

I also told Yul Brynner to piss off and sold Lady Diana a Sony Walkman.

Do they count?

I believe you . Thing is you are much more famous than all those people you claim to know .

Well, seeing as 2 of them are dead and one of them might as well be, I hope so

The Stones are still touring though......

Mark Knowles wrote:

Well, seeing as 2 of them are dead and one of them might as well be, I hope so

The Stones are still touring though......

Mark Knowles, you just got my vote for hubber of the month. LOL!

DJ Funktual wrote:

Mark Knowles, you just got my vote for hubber of the month. LOL!

High praise indeed

here we go:
- I interviewed Ricky Martin when he still had pimples.
- went to the same Marbella disco -at the same time- as  Dolph Lundgren
- once in LA I refused to be interviewed on the streets by Jay Leno because I did not know who the hell he was!
- bumped into David Letterman while he was interviewing someone in NY.
- had my babies in the same hospital as Melanie Grifftiths.

I used to date actress Mandy Siegfried.  We're still friends today and she came to my wedding too.  Some you might have seen her on Grey's Anatomy where she plays Molly Thompson, Meredith's half-sister who needed an emergency c-section in Season 3.  She was also on Eli Stone this year.

I also used to work at Jekyll & Hyde club in NYC where I worked with not only Mandy but also actress Missi Pyle who I'm sure everybody knows by now.  I was working with her in 1996 and i remember distinctly when she got hired as an extra waitress for the movie AS GOOD AS IT GETS with Helen Hunt and Jack Nicholson. 

Her biggest role to date was as the weird lady Fran in 'Dodgeball'  since then she's been in over 50 TV shows or Movies.

  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0797435/  ~~~ Mandy
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0701512/ ~~~ Missi