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[2009] famous people from your home town or where you live now?

Soledad O'Brien grew up in my hometown, Smithtown, NY. Baseball player Neal Heaton lives in nearby Bellport. Football player Jumbo Elliott went to my kids' high school, Sachem.
 
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Mike Tyson used to own a house on Tomiyasu Lane, but he lives in Arizona now I think. You should check out the area sometime, there are some incredible homes there. You wouldn't recognize most of the names, but there are/were casino owners and former casino owners on Pecos and Tomiyasu between Sunset and Warm Springs (Tomiyasu Lane is behind Wayne Newton's house).

The last house to sell on Tomiyasu was purchased for $15,000,000. by Phil Ruffin. He's the guy who now owns Treasure Island Casino. He sold the "New Frontier" at the top of the market as a "knock down," and then paid cash for the T.I. Here's a description of his house:
The property on Tomiyasu Lane has more than 71,000 square feet in building space with 18 bedrooms, nine bathrooms, an 11-car garage and a 10-stable horse stall. It has an 80-foot-by-40-foot swimming pool, a tennis court, indoor basketball court, gym, sushi bar, disco, formal ballroom and $1 million office.

The mansion is a combined 50,000 square feet with two separate buildings that are connected by an underground tunnel, Petersen said. It has eight structures, including two guesthouses.
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You can find pictures of it if you search for recently sold homes on Tomiyasu Lane, Las Vegas.

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Karen G said:
My son works at the Nordstrom Rack here and he was happy that he got to shake hands with Mike Tyson when he came in with his wife and kids the other day. Rumor has it that he lives nearby.

When my daughter was working at Neiman Marcus in the Fashion Show Mall on the Strip a few years ago, she helped Celine Dion pick out some Christmas gifts when she came in right before closing time. I think she still has a house at Lake Las Vegas, but I'm not sure.

Daniel Ruettiger, the real-life subject of the movie "Rudy," lives in our
neighborhood as does Paul Pierce, who plays for the Boston Celtics.
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William Mark Felt (a.ka. Deep Throat) The Watergate source known as “Deep Throat” lives in Santa Rosa.
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But he was from and grew up in Twin Falls, ID. Other than Yours Truly, and a passle of semi famous personality types in Sun Valley, Idaho is just full of 'common 'taters'.

Jim Ricks
 
But what about Ernest Hemingway or Filo Farnsworth--inventor of TV?

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But he was from and grew up in Twin Falls, ID. Other than Yours Truly, and a passle of semi famous personality types in Sun Valley, Idaho is just full of 'common 'taters'.

Jim Ricks
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Ernest was a Sun Valley area dude. A bit further away, but Filo is recognized as the inventor of TV at the age of 14. Not sure if he was still in Arco, ID or had moved to Rigby when this happened.

Filo Farnsworth
 
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Yeah, I was in Sun Valley when Hemingway scolded a waitress at the Christiana for giving him "the dregs of wine and life" and went home and did himself in. The rest of the family live there too along with the seasonal homes of Gov Schwartzeneggar, Tom Hanks, John Kerry and many more. We had dinner there recently and I looked over and saw Sally Field at the next table. The annual Allen group of very wealthy people (Gates, Buffet, Ellison, etc) show up his month. There are so many private jets that they park G-5's in the grass. There is a 250,000 lb limit at Sun Valley's airport so the folks who have 737's and above leave 'em at Twin and helicopter to SV.

They like it there 'cause the wealthy have been going there for so long and the local people don't make a big deal of it. You run into them at Costco or Home Depot like anybody else. Except they climb ino a Lincoln pickup or black Escalade when they are done.

Jim
 
Ft Myers

Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone had winter homes in my home town, Ft Myers, Florida.
 
Murray, KY

This will give you pause for thought (and head scratching):

Nathan B. Stubblefield, Murray, KY
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My high school had the following famous/infamous people:

Ken Caminiti (he was a freshman when I was a senior)
Susan Atkins (One of the Charles Manson's women)

Where I was born:
Jonathan Winters
 
Natalie Portman went to my high school, but since she's about 30 years younger than me, I didn't know her.
 
Actor James Read is indirectly related to me...his grandmother married my grandfather in 1950, and we spent holiday dinners together. If he heard my name, he would not know who I am.

Rep Chris Lee, recently resigned from the House of Reps, was a student at the high school where I worked, but I did not know him.

Astronaut James Oberg went to that same high school long befor I worked there.

Rick James is from Buffalo.
Tim Russert is from Buffalo.

Carl paladino is from Buffalo, too.
 
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Natalie Portman went to my high school, but since she's about 30 years younger than me, I didn't know her.
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Is that Syosset? My cousin graduated with her, but she had a different last name.
 
Well, let's see -- I can only name a current few hanging out/living here: Andie McDowell, Harry Anderson, Gladys Knight, Steve Martin in nearby Brevard (and I'm forgetting someone). Lots of celebs pass through (it was fun to see Bill Shatner visiting once). Tiger Woods was in the process of building a golf course here (or having his name on a new one), but that project seems to be indefinitely on hold. Warren Haines does an annual Jam. Ian Stewart and Cameron Maybin (and a few other ML baseball players) have played here. Our local team is called the "Tourists."
 
The ones I have met are :
Mario Batali - Iron Chef, He is related to my wife.
Kyle McLachlan - His little sister was our babysitter.
Phil & Steve Mahre -- Olympic Skiers
Dave & Brad Sharp - Snowmobile, Jackson Hole Hillclimb Champs


There are others that I have heard of but don't remember. The above guys are my age and thats why I remember them.

Recently we had a Mexican drug cartell member in the news paper. Martin Omar Estrada Luna, aka , El Kilo, is a leader of the Los Zetas gang. He grew up about 6 miles from here and is said to have murdered over 200 people. He was recently captured in Mexico. One of his better known crimes is pulling people off the buses and executing them.

William O Douglas, a supeme court judge, had a mountain cabin near ours that my father in law built. I heard many stories about Willy as he was a good guy with a good stories.

Richard Hovis , a federal judge, had the cabin next door to us. Real good guy. I knew him personally.

Miles McPhee is a climate scientist that developed the way ice cores are studied.

Gary Puckett, 60's singer, grew up and started his band the Union Gap in our town.

Dan Doornik , Seattle Seahawk, is from our area.

Bonnie Dunbar, astronaut, is from around here.
 
Paula Deen, y'all

better than Paula, though, are Flannery O'Connor, and Juliette Gordon Low (founder of the Girl Scouts) - both were Savannah natives, and you can tour both of their homes here in Savannah

I'd skip Paula Deen's restaurant, though - completely overrated, IMO
 
I went to high school with this guy, Chuck Connelly. He was a total and complete jackwad, even then. I palled around with him a little bit, in the mid '70s when we were both in our early 20s, until I decided I couldn't stand his company. His brother Dan was a great guy, though, as sweet as Chuck is nasty. But Chuck is the one who is the amazing artist. As much of an ass as he is, the man can paint.

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As I live in the Orlando area, Casey Anthony now claims title to the most notorious of our citizens.
 
Oh dear................... Whitey Bulger.

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ETA: John McCormack (Senator and Speaker of the House), Richard Cardinal Cushing and Rep. Joe Moakley.
 
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Paula Deen, y'all
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Interesting side effect of being famous in a comparatively small town - the news that Paula Deen had been cited for having 5 unauthorized chickens in her backyard made the front page of the Sunday paper this weekend. Oh, the shame :rolleyes:
 
just me...

and some guy named tim tebow
 
Village of Scarsdale, New York (only 6.6 square miles)

Beyoncé and Jay-Z

Bruce Beck, television sportscaster

Susan Lucci, star of soap TV series "All My Children".

Will Hawkins, singer-songwriter and playwright

Linda McCartney, former wife of Beatles Paul McCartney

Liza Minnelli, singer and actress, lived in Scarsdale with her mother, Judy Garland and attended Scarsdale High School. She also toured Europe and Israel in an SHS production of The Diary of Anne Frank

Yoko Ono, widow of Beatle's John Lennon. Her family moved to Scarsdale in the early 1950s; she later joined them from Japan.

Nina Totenberg, NPR legal correspondent.

Joseph Kaiser, opera, theater, and film actor

Nicholas Kristof, journalist and columnist for the New York Times, and twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize. His wife is Sheryl WuDunn, also a Pulitzer Prize receipient.

Florence Wald, former Dean of the Yale School of Nursing and founder of American Hospice

Alan Schwarz, reporter for the New York Times and author of The Numbers Game.

Aaron Sorkin, writer and creator of the TV series Sports Night and The West Wing

Jeffrey A. Hoffman Ph.D., astronaut. Born in Brooklyn but "considers Scarsdale to be his hometown", see bio at NASA website.

Frank McDowell Leavitt, early engineer and inventor, patent for manufacturing tin cans, inventor of Bliss-Leavitt torpedo

Joseph Capecci, scientist, architect, Dean-CCNY, holder of several US patents critical in the evolution of nuclear weapons, NASA consultant during the space race. has resided in Scarsdale since 1970.



FORMER long-time residents:

Kathie Lee and Frank Gifford

Benjamin (Bugsy) Siegel, gangster

Ronald "Escalade" Piscina, gangster, a key figure in setting up the Apalachin Meeting for the Mafia in 1957

Robert Hanssen, Soviet spy

Dean Rusk

Al Jolson

Note: There are also many UN diplomats, high level executives of large corporations (domestic and international) plus the "Wall Street "crowd" residing in this community.
 
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Gerald and Betty (First Lady of candor) Ford. Lots of people in town this week as Betty is laid to rest on Wednesday/Thursday.
 
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