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Re: Are You Kinda Famous Or Know Someone Who Is
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First guess, Linus Pauling.
Nope, but wikipedia says you only have three (really two) more guesses.
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Nope, but wikipedia says you only have three (really two) more guesses.
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A guy, so not Curie.* This leaves John Bardeen and Frederick Sanger.* Bardeen, like Pauling,* is buried in a cemetary.* I'd go for Sanger, but isn't he alive?
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Nope, but wikipedia says you only have three (really two) more guesses.
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John Bardeen
Physics [1956]: Invention of Transistor
Physics [1972]: Theory of Superconductivity
Bardeen was also an important advisor to Xerox Corporation. Though quiet by nature, he took the uncharacteristic step of urging Xerox executives to keep their California research center, Xerox PARC, afloat when the parent company was suspicious that its research center would amount to little.
A guy, so not Curie.* This leaves John Bardeen and Frederick Sanger.* Bardeen, like Pauling,* is buried in a cemetary.* I'd go for Sanger, but isn't he alive?
I didn't interpret "burried in the sand" to mean he was dead, but that he was playing on the beach.
I met John Bardeen once in a bowling alley. He was a pretty playful and nice guy. I could see him letting someone bury him in the sand.
Huh . . . maybe I should have included this meeting in the "are you famous" thread.
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Re: Are You Kinda Famous Or Know Someone Who Is
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John Bardeen
Physics [1956]: Invention of Transistor
Physics [1972]: Theory of Superconductivity
Yup. To clarify for Martha, I met him in 1987. My second cousin and I were at a posh resort, and decided we wanted to bury someone in the sand -- the resort had a bunch of pools, one of which had an artificial beach. So we went up to this old guy sitting on the sandy fake beach and asked if we could bury him in the sand. He said sure. So as we were burying him in the sand we were chatting with him and eventually found out who he was. *Really* nice guy. Sorry to see that he passed away in 1991.
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I have been on gigs in backing bands/orchestras for:Mel Torme, Lyle Lovett, Joni Mitchell, Amy Grant, Barry Manilow, Donny Osmond;
pit orchestras for shows with:Robert Urich, Alan Thicke, Keith Carradine, Haley Mills, Marilou Henner, Carol Kane ( my tuba playing friend got his ass grabbed by Carol Channing)
symphonic concerts with Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Jessye Norman
On my last show, Julie Andrews came down to meet and talk with the band and I was on break and missed it!#@!
In general the Hollywood headliners will meet the band, and then we just leave them be, but the recording artists will generally be quite friendly and interact with the local musicians.
Ran into Andy Williams coming out of the bathroom in Branson, MO and sat next to Yakov Smirnoff at same restaurant. Had a nice chat with Rusty Wallace at Jim Stafford's theater in Branson. (althought this Rusty Wallace was a school teacher in Branson).
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It's really not a big deal - it's just portuguese nobility and he is a lesser known saint, I mean there are 5,161 of them, so its not that special, but still I got that going for me....
...... about 5 years ago, when I lived in Sand Canyon Ca- a few miles from where I live now - my next door neighbor was 'Steady Eddie' Murray, the former Oriole and Dodger player. He was so low key that I didn't even know who he was until a friend of mine, a huge LA Dodger's fan, saw him taking the trash out one day. My friend got so excited that he nearly tackled him! Turned out he was a terrific guy (and he had a beautiful wife, I HAD noticed her!) Anyway, the next day my friend ran to the local sporting goods store and purchased a dozen or so baseballs that Eddie was gracious enough to autograph for us.
BTW, living in Los Angeles I see alot of celebrities. I am very cool about it and hardly say a thing to them. But I have a few stories......here is a little one....
I ran into Nicholas Cage in Sherman Oaks Ca about a year and half ago. He was in a 'powder blue' convertible Rolls Royce -a POWDER freakin' BLUE Rolls Royce CONVERTIBLE! a 300K car! anyway, there he was, waiting at the red light right next to my wife and I. He was in the right lane we were in the left. we were at the corner of Woodman and the 101 fwy heading south on woodman. As we pulled up next to him, my gorgeous wife rolled the window down and said "Hey Nick! does that thing run as smooth as it looks?" and batted her eyelashes at him....... He had his right hand on the wheel. turned, cocked his head to his left, lowered his aviator shades and, ever the cool cat, paused for a pregnant few seconds, and said in his best Nick Caqe 'movie' voice, " Ihtsa very nishe car". then he flipped his glasses back over his eyes as the light turned green and ...bye bye baby, as he peeled off into the distance! We laughed about it for weeks aftewards. He was soooo very very cooooool......My wife says I do a fair imitation of him...."ihtsa very nishe car" ......lol....
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I just got a letter from Who's Who asking me to complete a questionaire updating my biographical information for their new Global Directory of Who's Who. I get these requests for one of their publications every other year or so. Recently, they send me electronic versions of the requests too. Since I never buy any of these publications, I have no idea whether my information shows up in the books. I've always suspected that they publish names of people who ask them how to buy the books.
Since I'm not famous and can't imagine why anyone would use a Who's Who publication to learn about me, I assume that these mailings go out to a lot of people. So does anyone else get these requests?
I've always assumed it was a scam. The fact that I started getting requests around age 12 was a tip off. They must figure that people will buy the book to see their name in print.
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