People We Knew Part 12: Famous and Infamous People Edition

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Courteney Cox
actress, ( Friends - TV Series )

Courtney Thorne-Smith, actress in Allie McBeal*
(TV)

*Courtney plays a lawyer, co-worker of Allie, whose husband is a an old boy friend of Allie.

Good Morning, rolandperkins, I think it will be
Holland versus Spain in the World Cup Final. I predict Spain to win by penalty kicks at extra time(after full-time of 90 minutes )

Is "Courtney' and "Courteney" are two different Christain names or there are variations ?

on Spain v. Netherlands (3) :

You know better than me. (But that isnʻt necessarily knowing very much!) So I deduce that Spain beats Germany, and the netherlands beats Uruguay?

Courtney v. Courteney

I havenʻt seen the spelling with 2 E s before this.
Iʻve always assumed they were one name, not two, however spelled.

When I was in school absolutely NO ONE was named Courtney. So, if you identified someone as "Courtney", the answer would be "WHO COurtney?" because it must be a surname Nor was "Tiffany" heard, nor "Emily", nor a lot of other names which are in everyday use today.

Courtney Love ,
female American country singer.

Consider the names are variations.It is only a game.No sweat.

Vincent Courtney horror/ vampire novelist

Vincent Price,
horror film film actor

Vincent van Gogh ,
famous Dutch painter

Vincent C. Marino
author of Vinny: Victory over Drugs

Frank Marino,
female impersonator/drag queen

Frank Francis Fasi (1920-2010)
mayor of Honolulu for 24 of the years
from 1968 -1996

Sir Francis Drake,
famous British explorer

David Drake novelist

David Hare,
playwright

David Beckham* author of David Beckham,
my Side

*how did this guy ever become famous?
Play for England in the World Cup, or something?
Welll you didnʻt see "his" team winning it, did you?

b t w, Skoobdo, congratulations on your
prophetic qualities: (A Spain-Netherlands final)

Victoria Beckham,
wife of famous British footballer, David Beckham

Famous is linked to "Luck" and "Good Looks".

He has a "X" factor or that special "star quality".
After his "football" era, acting will be his next agenda.

Victoria, R., Queen of Great Britain, *Empress of India

*so certified by British only not by Indians

Victoria Principal ,
television actress

Victoria Jackson

from SNL

Jackson Pollack, artist

did I spell his last name right??

Jackson Browne

(Did I spell his last name correctly?)

And as for soccer, I don't know much, so my money is on Paul the octopus, he hasn't picked a loser yet! I think he was born in the UK, but resides in an aquarium in Germany now.

I'm not sure how the German's are doing in the games, but there have been threasts of eating Paul if he doesn't chose what they want!

to the exiledlibrarian:

"Search" says itʻs PollOck

Lewis Browne, writer on religious
esp, Judeo-Christian subjects

Shari Lewis
Handmaiden to Lamb Chop

Lewis "Scooter" Libby governmental
trouble-shooter, novelist

Jerry Lewis

Alfred Lewis novelist

Alfred Vargas ,
actor

Alfred E. SMith NY Governor, and
presidential candidate

Paul Smith ,
fashion accessories designer

John Smith Scottish Labor* politician

*His sudden death soon after becoming Party leader led to Tony Blairʻs ascension.

John Wayne ,
late actor, mostly in the western (cowboys/red indians) mivies

Patti Wayne exotic dancer

Wayne Rooney ,
Manchester United FC footballer, forward, England International Team player.

Will he garner more "fame & popularity" status as David Beckham in the near future ? Far from it.

Andy Rooney - curmudgeon

Anne Rooney writer of science, tech., math
non-fictions

Mickey Rooney ,
actor

Mickey Lolich great A .L. pitcher

Mickey Zucker Reichert, author

Mickey Mantle, baseball player

Burns & Mantle editors of an annual
Best Plays series

Robert Burns ,
18th Century Scottish poet

Kenneth Burns writer, film maker

Kenneth Copeland ,

speaker, televangelist, founder of Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Aaron Copland

The genius responsible for Appalachian Spring

Good morning, MerryMay:

Is the surname, Copland similar to Copeland ?

I suppose it is an alternate surname ( a variant )?

I did a google search on aaron copeland, and it came up "Copland," so I went with it!!

I still think there oughta be an e in there.

Aaron James Ramsey ,

Welsh International footballer, also Arsenal FC forward

On 50: TO Skoo bdo and MerryMary

Search says that the less famous (Kenneth) is
a CopEland while Aaron, the more famous,
is a Copland without the E.

Copland is one of the variants of "Copeland". Game resumes.

Charles Townsend Copeland
Harvardian, did some writing and editing, but more noted as a teacher.

Charles Edward, "Bonnie Prince Charley" Stuart

Edward Albee ,

American playwright,
Who's Is Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward "Whitey" Ford
NY Yankees Hall of Fame pitcher

Glenn Ford ,

Hollywood's Golden Era 's actor

John Glenn astronaut, later senator

Pope John Paul II ,

late Pope of the Catholic Church, Vatican City State

Pope Benedict XVI is the present Pope.

Note: (You can play on the words: John,Paul,Benedict in the next posting )

Paul Doherty, author

Pope John Paul I entered the papacy in 1978 and lived one month as pope. Author of Illustrissimi: Letters

Paul McCarthy ,
singer, ex-group member of the pop group, The Beatles

Joseph R. McCarthy (R, WIS), Senator,
anti-communist activist and attacker of reputations of the 1950s.

Joseph N. Welch, the lawyer who helped reveal McCarthy's true nature to the public in the televised Army-McCarthy hearings.

Joseph N. Weatherby writer on
Third World topics

James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George DuPree

Hero of a Milne poem

Samuel Eliot Morrison, naval historian

Samuel Clemens pseudonym of Mark Twain

Samuel L. Jackson ,
Afro-American film star

Samuel J. Tilden (D, NY)
defeated in a "stolen" (?) election in 1876.

Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)

famous British essayist/writer

Lyndon Johnson (1908-1973)

36th American President, presiding from 1963-1969

Howard Johnson

Andrew Johnson 17th President of the U.S.

Shawn Johnson, ra ra go girl

Sean Penn, actor

Sean OʻCasey dramatist

Sean Connery,

actor

Sean Williams Australian science fiction author

Andy Williams ,
singer

Andy Devine
Beloved side-kick with the impossible voice

Thomas M. Devine writer on Scottish History

Thomas Dewey - 47th governor of New York - unsuccessful presidential candidate in 1944

Thomas Kinkade

Thomas Woodrow Wilson
27th president of the U.S. (who abandoned his
original 1st name).

Thomas Kempis ,

author/monk

Saint Thomas Didymus aka "Doubting Thomas"

Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles ,

British colonial officer, founder of city state, Singapore

Thomas Moore

poet, songwriter

Michael Moore - gadfly

James Michael Curley (D, MA)
Massachusetts politician; was governor, mayor of Boston.

Michael J. Fox ,
Canadian-American actor

Irwin "Pete" Fox
old time Tigers, Red Sox player

Allen Irwin ,

late TV and Movies producer

Mel Allen, long-time NY Yankees broadcaster

Mel Gibson .

actor

Virginia Gibson actress, dancer

On 99:

actually M G was born in
New York State, U.S. -- something I learned from
many trivia questions.

Virginia Satir ,

(1916-1988)

late noted American author,psychotherapist

Virginia Hamilton author

Lewis Hamilton ,

British F1 racing car driver

Alfred Lewis once popular U.S. .novelist

Jerry Lee Lewis , (1935 - )

Rock N Roll legend/pianist/country singer

Harper Lee

of course

Cliff Lee Indians, Phillies, Mariners, Rangers* pitcher

*Currently Rangers. (Why does no one want to hang onto this guyʻs contract?)

Coco Lee ,

Chinese songwriter,actress,pop singer

Note: Try to include Asian and others personalities
names, they do have Christian names or dual Asian-Westernised surnames.

Robert Edward Lee
U.S. officer in Mexican War; anti-U.S. general in C ivil War

Stan Lee ,

comic illustrator, creator of fictional characters, "Batman", "Spiderman" and etc

Stan Kenton 1940s band leader

Sebastian Stan ,

Romanian-born American actor ( TV series - "Gossip Girls" )

Sebastian Coe
Olympic athlete, politician

Sebastian Bach

Canadian hard rock,heavy metal singer
ex-frontman(lead singer) , Skid Row

"P. D. Q. Bach" *

*stage name of a musical comedy act; he was said to have been born in the early 18th century and died in the late 17th century!

Barbara Bach*

*Ex-Bond girl.

Saint Barbara

patron saint of artillerymen, military engineers, miners, mathematicians and anyone who works at risk of sudden and violent death

(to be honest, I had no idea mathematics was such a dangerous pursuit)

My husband used to teach a class called Terminal Math, which I though summed it up rather neatly.

Itʻs not exactly "violence" or being "terminal", but I remember a strange remark from years ago about two field of mathematics. One of our faculty at ʻAtenisi University, Rene Labouchere, in the 1980s said, "Algebra is real mathematical thought, while calculus is just a bag of tricks."

I was curious what would make him think that, but I didnʻt have enough math. background myself to understand an explanation of it, if any. (I went only as far as 2nd year Algebra in high school. ANd on the U.S. mainland in those days, we didnʻt study calculus on the high school level. (Tongan high schools did study it.) The highest h.s. math. was "Solid (geometry) and Trig".

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Barbara Stanwyck, actress

Barbara Jordan
US congresswoman (from Texas!)

>119 MerryMary: "Terminal Math" Too funny!

Jordan Segundo Hawaiʻi singer, American Idol contestant

Michael Jordan, legend

Michael G. Horowitz American scholar, writer,
educ. administrator in Oceania

Vladimir Horowitz
classical pianist

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
one of the founders of Soviet Communism

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer

Pyotr ʻPierreʻ Bezhukov
a protagonist of Tolstoyʻs War and Peace

Pierre-Simon Laplace
French mathematician and astronomer

(apparently he liked to live dangerously)

Simon Cowell judge (?)

Paul Simon ,

songwriter/singer

Rand Paul politician

Paul Anka ,

songwriter/singer

Les Paul
jazz guitarist and inventor

Les Murakami great U. of Hawaiʻi baseball
coach 1970ʻs -- 2000s, retired

Les Dawson, no-longer-with-us British comedian, famous for his hangdog expression, mother-in-law jokes and deliberately bad piano-playing.

Len Dawson; hall of fame quarterback and sports announcer for the Kansas City Chiefs

Christopher Dawson
Catholic writer on religion and culture

Christopher Lee
actor

Cliff Lee much-traded (or sold?) A. L. pitcher
currently: Texas Rangers

Jimmy Cliff
reggae legend

Cliff "Mountain Music" Melton
NY Giants pitcher of the 1930s-40s; pretty good but not quite in a class with 141. Not to be confused with RUBE Melton also Giants p, of that era.

Cliff Richards ,

British veteran pop singer

"Mary Richards" role name of
Mary Tyler Moore in a long term Tv comedy

Liv Tyler .
actress, daughter of Aerosmith's lead singer,
Steve Tyler

John Tyler 10th President of the U.S. (Also 1st vice president to replace a deceased president; and president who had the most children (16); and only
former president to join the Southern breakaway Confederacy (1861).

John Henry

steel-driving man

Henry Miller novelist, essayist

Roger Miller
King of the Road

>149 rolandperkins:, prior to deletion, well-played! Gave me a "huh?" moment for a second!

"149 . . .well-played...."

Yes, but it was mistaking this for another thread: "Word Association. . .". (which is more free-wheeling and doesnʻt require an exact word of the previous post to be repeated.) I was naming singers who probably would have sung John Henry.

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+ Mitch Miller + *

*died this week at age 99 --New York Times

Mitch Albom

author, journalist, screenwriter, dramatist, radio and television broadcaster and musician (whew!)

"Mitch Rapp" character in a series
by Vince Flynn

Danny Rapp

musician and frontman for Danny and the Juniors

"Danny Fisher" a harold Robbins character

Danny Boyle ,

movie director

Tom Coraghessan Boyle
author

Tom Holt, comic fantasy author - not as good as Pratchett, but pretty amusing all the same.

Torry Holt

wide-receiver for the New England Patriots

Leinaʻala Holt actress of the 1930s*

*In the 1938 musical film Honolulu, Holt was
the only named player in the cast who was of
Hawaiian ancestry.

Victoria Holt aka Jean Plaidy aka Phillipa Carr

all pseudonyms for Eleanor Hibbert

British novelist

Christopher Hibbert British historian

Christopher Columbus ,

Spanish explorer

Christopher Fry British playwright

Christopher Walken ,

American film/stage actor

Christopher Marlowe, British Elizabethan
playwright

Philip Marlowe
character from Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep.

Philip II of Macedonia, under-rated
monarch and statesman, over-shadowed by
the fame of his son, Alexander the Great

Philip Roth
American writer

Henry Roth American writer

Uli Jon Roth
former lead-guitarist for German metal band The Scorpions

Cecil Roth Historian of Judaica

Cecil Taylor
avant-garde jazz pianist

David Cecil British biographer

David Soul
The only real Hutch (and not a bad little pop singer, if you like one-hit-wonders)

John P Murtha- Pennsylvania Representative

Also, I'm friends with a girl who's dad works directly with Stephenie Meyer's. I can't say more than that but no, I haven't met stephenie or talked to her or get any perks. My friend isn't even a fan of her so she doesn't feel like flying to Arizona or where-ever to meet her while her dad begs her to go. She's into Harry Potter... ironic, huh?

I know that I know someone else, but I'm drawing a blank right now.

Judith Rush Murtha
writer on Compuer Science

Jennifer Rush ,

American rock singer, co-wrote a very popular song,
"The Power of Love" covered by Canadian singer,
Celine Dion who sang a much accepted cover version of the song

Jennifer Jones, great actress of the 1940s
and after; died recently, in her 90s.

Jennifer Lopez ,

Latino singer

AL Lopez national League catcher, American League manager; only manager (with Indians and then White Sox) other than Casey Stengel to win an AL pennant during the decade of the 1950s.

AL Kennedy, author (touchstones are gremlin-filled today, aren't they?!)

David Kennedy financier (?), 1st Sec. of the Treasury in the Nixon Administration; not related to "THE Kennedys".

Nigel Kennedy ,

" New Age " Classical violionist ( British )

Nigel Statham Oceanian lingusit

Jason Statham
English thespian

Jason Mraz ,

new artist -American singer- songwriter

Jason Bourne
fictional character created by Robert Ludlum, first appearing in The Bourne Identity

Caroline Bourne author of romances

Princess Caroline of Monaco

heir presumptive to the throne of Monaco

Caroline B. Cooney Childrenʻs
and Young Adultsʻ author

Caroline Kennedy ,

daughter of late US President John F. Kennedy and
late First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Robert Francis kennedy,
campaign mgr., attorney general, senator.
activist

Robert Johnson, blues guitarist.

Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson
First Lady, 1963-1969

Claudia Black, actress

Lewis Black
stand-up comedian

C. S. Lewis, Author

Lewis Thomas
essayist

Thomas Hart Benton
painter

George Benton Hawaiian poet and translator

George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright

George McGovern
Democrat , senator in a heavily Republican state (SD); he was finaly defeated by "targeting".

George Steinbrenner

Hal Steinbrenner

Hal Sutton
professional golfer

Don Sutton Long in the Dodgersʻ starting rotation

Don Knotts
comedic thespian

Don Money American League infielder*

*less than a Hall of Famer, more than the proverbial "cup of coffee in the major leagues" partaker. Of course their were unfair jokes about his name and his reason for playing baseball.

Money Mark
music (rap) producer

H. Rap Brown activist, author

Clifford Brown
jazz trumpeter

Clark Clifford Dem. trouble-shooter, briefly Sec. of Defense

Clark Kent
mild-mannered reporter

Richardsʻs "Dick Kent"
hero of a juvenile adventure series

Kent McCord

(One Adam 12)

Gary McCord
golf commentator

Jim McCord chief of security for the Republican National Comittee*, during the "Watergate" era.

*Or perhaps it was for "CREEP": the Committee to Re-elect the President" that he was chief of security.

Jim Reeves ,
late American country/spritual singer

Dan Reeves NFL football coach

Christopher Reeves '
late American actor of "Superman" series

Christopher Columbus,* navigator,
naval condottiere

*aka Cristoforo Colombo, Cristobal Colon

Christopher Cross ,

pop singer

Christopher Fowler*

*author of such enticing titles as Disturbia,
Psychoville and Demonized

Robbie Fowler ,

England-born (ex-Liverpool team player)footballer

now playing
for Perth-Glory FC in A-League (Australian League )

Art Fowler old time Philadelphia Athletics
pitcher

Art Garfunkel, once partnered with Paul Simon.

"Dutch" Garfinkel
old time Celtics player -- in fact NBA charter
player, 1940s

Simson Garfinkel .

writer and journalist on computer security

Alan P. Garfinkel American Western
non-fiction writer

Alan Rickman ,

actor

Alan Garner, author.

Peggy Ann Garner child, young adult actress
of the 1940s

Ann Landers, of column fame

Wellsʻs Ann Veronica

Veronica Lake

Peekaboo!

Veronica Lodge
fictional character from The Archies

Madonna Veronica Ciccone*

*said to be the birth name of Madonna

Veronica Lario ,

Italian actress, current wife of Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi

Veronica Bennett
author of Gothic and literary-link novels

Bennett Cerf
publisher and humorist

Arnold Bennett British 20th c. novelist

Arnold Palmer ,

former American veteran 18-course golf champion

Tom Arnold U.S. actor

Tom Hanks ,

Academy Award ( Oscar ) winner , won twice for best acting (Best Male Actor ) Hollywood actor

Nancy Hanks Lincoln mother of Abraham lincoln

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