James Caan, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Walken, George Coe, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Davi, Lainie Kazan, Susan Sullivan, and Tom McGowan are alumni. Also Alan Colmes, Mary Matalin, Gov. Paterson, former HBO whiz Chris Albrecht, former Marvel CEO/producer Avi Arad, NY1's Kristen Shaughnessy, Lisa G, Mr. G, Dan Ingram, and Ellie Greenwich. Tommy Mottola went but dropped out.
Oh yeah, also Bernie Madoff and Norm Coleman. Sorry about those.
Broadway's James Barbour, and Everybody Loves Raymond's Monica Horan were classmates of mine (her husband, ELR co-creator Phil Rosenthal went there before me). I performed in Hair with Monica.
Uggh, forgot. Chapel Hill again, David Brinkley's son, Joel, was in my class, we were friends and again, when I got my first job in Richmond, there he was, living next door and working for the local rag. Last time I heard, he was at the NY Times. The sweetest guy you would ever want to meet.
Arthur Godfrey's son was there too, didn't meet him but all my friends knew him, a lot of Daddy Dearest stories (Joel too) with father's multiple wives and houses. Who knew, or cared?
Stop cheating by naming alumni, people! (I mean, seriously, if you want to play that game: Martin Luther King, Jr. went to my school. Therefore, you lose.)
@eatsshootsleaves: Wait--it's the alumni game now? I'll see your MLK Jr and raise you one John Marshall, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, james Monroe, ect.. This is FUN!
David Boreanaz, Ricki Lake (dropped out) and currently, I hear that the only sane Lohan (that being Michael Jr.) is a lacrosse player. So I got that goin' for me...which is nice.
@CaptainFantastic: Oh, not just celebs while I was there? Let's see: Hugh Hefner, a bunch of Nobel and Pulitzer winners, the guy who invented Mosaic and Netscape (the first browser), the guys who started pay pal, guy who invented the plasma screen, Dick Butkus, guy who started shareware, Gene Shalit, and Roger Ebert.
While I was at "america's #1 party school" we had Lucille Ball's granddaughter, Toni Danza's daughter (posted pics of her smoking pot which dutifully got posted on local blogs) and Geraldo Rivera's illegitimate son. We also had John Landis' kid who was a weird for the sake of being weird type.
No one famous when to my school when I was there. I think Bud Selig was a grad -- he spoke at my master's graduation. Not that I listened to anything he said.
However, I just want to say that I have a crush on Steve Buscemi. I always loved his work, he's so weird and cool. But when I found out that after 9/11 he ran home and got his old gear from when he was a (volunteer?) firefighter and took it to Ground Zero and worked for like, days, yep, I was swooning. Amazingly cool guy.
Me, Chapel Hill, though I'm not sure who was famous in my time beyond basketball players. My partner went to Hampshire College and knew Ken Burns, Gloria Vanderbilt's son by Leopold Stowkowski, who they called Stash (very unbalanced), and Wendy Wasserstein who was actually at Mt. Holyoke. But Hampshire and Holyoke part of the five college partnership (with Smith, Amherst and U.Mass) so he took classes at each of the schools. Funny story about when he went home with Wendy to NYC for Thanksgiving one year.
My school just turned out scads and scads of world-class athletes whose names you profess not to know but whom you secretly admire with every whimpering fiber of your being.
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Oh yeah, also Bernie Madoff and Norm Coleman. Sorry about those.
Broadway's James Barbour, and Everybody Loves Raymond's Monica Horan were classmates of mine (her husband, ELR co-creator Phil Rosenthal went there before me). I performed in Hair with Monica.
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Arthur Godfrey's son was there too, didn't meet him but all my friends knew him, a lot of Daddy Dearest stories (Joel too) with father's multiple wives and houses. Who knew, or cared?
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However, I just want to say that I have a crush on Steve Buscemi. I always loved his work, he's so weird and cool. But when I found out that after 9/11 he ran home and got his old gear from when he was a (volunteer?) firefighter and took it to Ground Zero and worked for like, days, yep, I was swooning. Amazingly cool guy.
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Hollywood Upstairs is known mostly for its graduate programs anyway.