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TableNine
04/19/09

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We had Dan Quayle's son (named Tucker, obviously) and the daughter of the family that owned the Yuengling brewery. One of them was very well liked.
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unclevanya
04/19/09

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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.
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unclevanya
04/19/09

@unclevanya: Hofstra is the school, BTW. Been up all night...
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Rumpelstilskin
04/18/09

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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?
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Helman
04/18/09

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We visit the fame of the fathers on the children? That's crap. Let this boy be who he wants to be.
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eatsshootsleaves
04/18/09

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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.)
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Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
04/18/09

@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!
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contradicto
04/18/09

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Um. . . Jenna Bush, Katie Coors, and that tool from Real World 10
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ChampsWife
04/18/09

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Lou Reed went to Syracuse (waaaayyyy before my time). Go orange.
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Rumpelstilskin
04/18/09

@ChampsWife: So did Richard Gere and Grace Jones.
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bess marvin, girl detective
04/18/09

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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.
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CaptainFantastic
04/18/09

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Jeff George.
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CaptainFantastic
04/19/09

@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.
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semiserious
04/18/09

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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.
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semiserious
05/20/09

@ngoandy: Eh, She posted the pix on facebook. I didn't have much to do with it.
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PrettyNotPretty
04/18/09

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Jerry Springer went to my junior high.

Yeah. Be jealous.
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mkknyr
04/18/09

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Ithaca College has Lindsay Lohan's brother or some shit.
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HereComesMyBaby
04/19/09

@mkknyr: Yep. My sister goes to school with him, but she's never had a sighting. Elusive Lohans!
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SaraRueful
04/18/09

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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.
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SaraRueful
04/18/09

@SaraRueful: Oh -- Wikipedia says he was with the FDNY. And he wouldn't let anyone take his picture while he was down there.
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Rumpelstilskin
04/18/09

@SaraRueful: He did that? Really???
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Rumpelstilskin
04/18/09

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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.
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Charlotte Rae's Web
04/18/09

@Rumpelstilskin: Go Heels. I went to grad school there. There are always a decent number of future celebs there based on the size alone.
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Rumpelstilskin
04/18/09

@Charlotte Rae's Web: Like whom? Wish I knew.
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skahammer
04/18/09

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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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contains_hot_liquid
04/18/09

@skahammer: You went to Hollywood Upstairs Medical College, too?
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skahammer
04/18/09

@contains_hot_liquid: I said "athletes," not "mathletes."

Hollywood Upstairs is known mostly for its graduate programs anyway.
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