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Edgy MD
Aug 10 2023 09:38 PM

I was thinking about weird references I've stumbled upon about odd pairings of college roomies who both went on to fame and fortune.



I was going to make a poll of this, but it probably is OK just to list the ones I've known.


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  • [*]Peter Wolf and David Lynch, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

  • [*]Vice President Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones, Harvard

  • [*]Ving Rhames and Stanley Tucci, SUNY – Purchase

  • [*]Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson, U. of Texas

  • [*]Robin Williams and Christopher Reeve, Juliard

  • [*]Edward Gorey and Frank O'Hara, Harvard
    • [/list]

    Anderson and Wilson probably don't deserve to be here, as their relationship helped make each other.



    My favorite may be Peter Wolf and David Lynch, if only because Lynch supposedly kicked Wolf out for being too weird.



    Robin Williams and Christopher Reeve makes sense in retrospect. Reeve is everybody's all-time Superman because he's funny. And that he's funny in a deadpan/physical/reaction kind of makes sense because he probably never got a word in.



    I like Rhames and Tucci if only because they didn't meet at a big-shot school.

    Chad ochoseis
    Aug 10 2023 10:05 PM
    Re: College Roomies

    Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen at Texas A&M, which makes all kinds of sense.

    Edgy MD
    Aug 12 2023 06:10 AM
    Re: College Roomies

    That's pretty cool.



    Lou Reed and Garland Jefferies were bros at Syracuse, but I don't know if they ever roomed together.

    Centerfield
    Aug 16 2023 12:23 PM
    Re: College Roomies

    This is crazy. Is it because drama types and political types tend to room together? I guess the Juliard one makes sense.

    Edgy MD
    Aug 16 2023 12:57 PM
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    =Centerfield post_id=135113 time=1692210220 user_id=65]
    This is crazy. Is it because drama types and political types tend to room together? I guess the Juliard one makes sense.



    They both became famous playing aliens with distinctive shields on their chests.

    Frayed Knot
    Aug 16 2023 01:03 PM
    Re: College Roomies

    My uncle and Johnny (as he was known then ... his father was also John) McCain; USNA 1958



    Of course uncle Keith went on to neither fame nor fortune (despite graduating much higher than the future Senator) so this doesn't really qualify here, but I thought I'd throw it in anyway.




    Edgy MD wrote:

    [*]Vice President Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones, Harvard


    Too bad it wasn't Al Gore and Rickie Lee Jones .. now THAT would have been interesting.

    Edgy MD
    Aug 16 2023 01:06 PM
    Re: College Roomies

    Frayed Knot wrote:
    Of course uncle Keith went on to neither fame nor fortune (despite graduating much higher than the future Senator) so this doesn't really qualify here, but I thought I'd throw it in anyway.


    I'm pretty sure most of the class graduated much higher than the future senator.

    Frayed Knot
    Aug 16 2023 01:08 PM
    Re: College Roomies

    '5th from the bottom' I believe is the line he used often on the campaign trail.

    RealityChuck
    Aug 17 2023 04:56 PM
    Re: College Roomies

    Not In college, but finance guru Suze Ormand shared an apartment with John Belushi when they were starting out.

    Edgy MD
    Aug 17 2023 05:04 PM
    Re: College Roomies

    Yeah, I'm pretty sure the Robin Williams/Christopher Reeve thing was an off-campus roomie arrangement. I'm not even sure Juilliard had housing back in the seventies.

    dgwphotography
    Aug 18 2023 09:39 AM
    Re: College Roomies

    Not college roomies, but I love the story of Ted Williams flying as John Glenn's Wingman in Korea:



    https://www.moaa.org/content/publications-and-media/features-and-columns/moaa-features/baseball-legend-ted-williams-was-once-john-glenn-s-wingman/

    MFS62
    Aug 18 2023 11:35 AM
    Re: College Roomies


    Not college roomies, but I love the story of Ted Williams flying as John Glenn's Wingman in Korea:



    https://www.moaa.org/content/publications-and-media/features-and-columns/moaa-features/baseball-legend-ted-williams-was-once-john-glenn-s-wingman/


    Cool.

    Later