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    I went to elementary, middle, and high school with a not-too-tall, slightly stocky-built guy named Jeff Richmond whom you probably have never heard of.... but you undoubtedly know his very famous wife...

    Jeff and I and several others used to hang around a lot. He was one immensely talented guy then as now. He could act, sing, draw, play sax and piano, and write hilarious sketches, plays, etc. We used to do tons of funny skits in every class we were in, and they were invariably written by Jeff. He eventually went to nearby Kent State University and majored in theater arts and then over to Chicago to join the improv circuit there, where he met and eventually married the one-and-only Tina Fey. Currently, he is music director (or at least I think that's his title) for Saturday Night Live.

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    Doug Walker (Alien Planetscapes)-knew him slightly at Andrew Jackson High(Cambria Heights-Queens) but was re-introduced by a mutual friend a few years later, became good friends.
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    Phoef Sutton - writer and producer of Cheers, writer for Newhart and a bunch of other shows. Wrote musicals in High School, good ones.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
    Varg Vikernes ("Count Grishnack"/Burzum). He lived in my neighbourhood, and chances are good that he even killed my cat - and I'm NOT kidding. Like all sociopaths that S.F.I. enjoyed torturing animals way into his teens. So much for the "musical genius" - took him a month's practice to learn an E flat chord on a guitar.
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    I went to High School with Joan Jett, as noted, as well as with Timmy Meadows and Guy Brandt (little brothers of Punky Meadows and Barry Brandt, both of Angel).
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    Megan Mullally - Actress
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    Guthrie Govan went to my school, but is quite a lot younger than I am.

    Grayson Perry, Turner Prize winning artists / potter was in my art class though.

    Squarepusher (electronica) is another younger musical alumnus.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
    Varg Vikernes ("Count Grishnack"/Burzum). He lived in my neighbourhood, and chances are good that he even killed my cat - and I'm NOT kidding. Like all sociopaths that S.F.I. enjoyed torturing animals way into his teens. So much for the "musical genius" - took him a month's practice to learn an E flat chord on a guitar.
    My former college roommate worshiped that guy. He also used to say, "hail Satan" before bed and talk about burning churches. This is why we are former roommates.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve F. View Post
    You WIN (if you wanna call that 'winning').
    I really don't want to, and I wish I'd rather gone to school with Joan Jett than that asshole. I was also in a crap band (not metal) with his best friend (unspeakably bad drummer) for about two years, and thereby got to experience the futility of trying/having to socialize with someone possessing a God-complex. Talk about twat tosser.

    Here's the wonderful Rå Ungdomsskole where we went together (and where the guy according to his own bio "[...] always won his fistfights" - er, no he did not, not a single one of the handful of pitiful inputs he laid down, no matter the amount of f'n Sho Kosugi VHS' he'd absorbed the last weekend while plucking pimples at his mom's house due to not being invited to any parties):

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    The newsreader Selina Scott went to my school but was a lot older than me ('51). Journalist Rod Liddle (Spectator) was about 4 years ahead of me.

    That's about it.
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    I went to primary school (1960s) with John and Gerard Bennett of the Television Personalities, previously of O Level. They were only 17 when they released their first single with Dan Treacy and TV Personalities in 78. With O Level the Bennetts released a single in late 77.

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    Some of my fellow alumni (all seriously older than me, of course...ahem!)

    Martin McAleese - husband of Mary McAleese, 8th President of Ireland (who is an alumnus of my wife's old school!)

    William Conway - All-Ireland Primate (a Cardinal). I went to primary school with his nephew.

    Joe Devlin - Nationalist MP for Belfast during Partition

    And last, but not least, one Gerry Adams TD, current President of Sinn Fein.

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    Graduated with a girl that soon after became Miss Nude USA. Did not see that one coming. Damn.

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    Nobody famous from my school years, although The Rock went there years later.

    But, to complete your question, "I went to high school with ... a haze around my head."
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    I'm too old to have gone to school with anyone recognizable on this list. However, Alumni includes Christine Perfect (McVie) of Fleetwood Mac. Roy Wood, The Move, ELO & Wizard. Earl Falconer & Ali Campbell of UB40. I met some of them at our 50th reunion.
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    I was in the same primary school class as the sadly late Charlotte Coleman for a couple of years, she was later an actress in Four Weddings And A Funeral and some well-known TV roles in the UK.
    My younger sister was in the same class as Dido, but that was quite a posh school so not too surprising there were successful alumni.

    Can't really beat Varg Vikernes or Joan Jett though...

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    A good friend of mine from high school wrote one episode of The Simpsons, which is just kind of cool.

    Also just found out a friend from school who's an actor did the voice of the character Kaidan Alenko in the Mass Effect computer games. Which doesn't mean much to me but my son was impressed.

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    Well, I'm not really certain that there was anyone truly famous in my High School class, though there were quite a few very successful people. Here's one guy from my college class, and in my fraternity, who started his own hedge fund. in 2014 he bought the most expensive property in the Hamptons for a record $147million = Barry Rosenstein.

    Yes, he was a dick in college and, as an "activist" investor he is likely a dick now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SuperTed View Post
    William Conway - All-Ireland Primate
    Is he a highly evolved orangutan?

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    I am definitely the most famous person I went to school with.

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    Quote Originally Posted by moecurlythanu View Post
    Is he a highly evolved orangutan?
    I doubt it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by moecurlythanu View Post
    Is he a highly evolved orangutan?
    I'd like to answer but I don't want the Baby Jesus (tm) on my tail!
    What if the Hokey Cokey really IS what it's all about?

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    Since we moved into celebs, I carpooled to Hebrew school with Jamie Gertz, still friends with her brother.

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    I did not go to school with her because she did not go to school, but was home schooled, however....

    Céline Dion used to live in the same apartment complex as me. Her balcony faced ours. We were both on the first floor but in different buildings. My friends had the apartment directly above her family's and we used to party our asses off right above her head! I was 17 at the time, making her 15. She was just starting her singing career. She did not fraternize with us but my friend did play tennis against her on occasion. Like all Type-A personalities, she was a sore loser. I never thought much of her, figuring she'd be yet another Québecois mediocre singer who'd never make it out of the local circuit and day time local tv talkshows. I may have missed the boat on that one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yves View Post
    As Lino once pointed out to me: "If you had killed her then, you'd be out by now..."


    And to think that the keys player from Pollen actually ended up in her backing band... With Sinfield doing lyrics for her. Death is not enough, my friend... We need old age and failure here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
    Death is not enough, my friend... We need old age and failure here.
    Wait for it.....

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