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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.

• 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

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.

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

That's pretty cool.

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

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

Centerfield wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 2:23 pm 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.

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: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2023 11:38 pm [*]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.

Frayed Knot wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2023 3:03 pmOf 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.

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

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

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.

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

https://www.moaa.org/content/publicatio ... s-wingman/

dgwphotography wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 11:39 am Not college roomies, but I love the story of Ted Williams flying as John Glenn's Wingman in Korea:

https://www.moaa.org/content/publicatio ... s-wingman/

Cool.
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