A New Question
Given the recent popularity of Skating with "Celebrities" and Dancing with the "Stars," as well as surprising and disparate news about former "star" athletes Jeff Reardon and Heath Shuler, I thought this might be entertaining.
Advisors, choose a notable figure from our younger years--say, Paul from the Wonder Years (he was not Marilyn Manson) or former slugger Pete Incaviglia or Kathy Ireland--and, first, tell us what their life is like now. Then, use Google or imdb.com or The Smoking Gun or your local police blotter and see if you can figure out what the person's life is actually like now, and not just what it's like in the mind of a twisted dude in his late twenties with a brain full of utterly worthless trivia. Then we'll see which is funnier, truth being stranger than fiction and all that...
UPDATE: You have got to go check out that Durango, CO police blotter. He's a sneak preview:
Advisors, choose a notable figure from our younger years--say, Paul from the Wonder Years (he was not Marilyn Manson) or former slugger Pete Incaviglia or Kathy Ireland--and, first, tell us what their life is like now. Then, use Google or imdb.com or The Smoking Gun or your local police blotter and see if you can figure out what the person's life is actually like now, and not just what it's like in the mind of a twisted dude in his late twenties with a brain full of utterly worthless trivia. Then we'll see which is funnier, truth being stranger than fiction and all that...
UPDATE: You have got to go check out that Durango, CO police blotter. He's a sneak preview:
3:36 p.m. A juvenile wrote a threatening letter, according to a report from the Robert E. DeNier Youth Services Center, 720 Turner Drive.Dangerous times we live in, friends. Dangerous times.
posted by JLD at 22:59
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No one seems to want to play I love the 80s, Your Life's Ideas-style, but I dug deep to find a good candidate: The Neverending Story. Our Subject: Barret Oliver. Roles: Bastian, in the aforementioned Neverending story; also Buddy in Knight Rider and the grandson in Cocoon and Cocoon Returns. I say that after wrapping up his acting days before he was out of his teens, he some years later became the manager of a white hip-hop group and leveled the undocumented Mid-West threat to the East Cost/West Coast rap world turmoil, exchanging rhymes - and later bullets - with both Eazy E and BIG. They say, courtesy of "whatever happened to?" (www.weht.net: Originally reported that he joined The Church of Scientology and was editing it's "Celebrity" magazine, status unknown.
New contributor says he teaches photography in Los Angelos, CA.
He learned the 19th century wet plate process and has exhibited in numerous galleries and museums. He has used the wet plate process in a recent Guinness commercial in Ireland and in Romania for the film Cold Mountain.
He also writes articles on photography and does demonstrations and workshops.
His own "unofficial fan site" says he is a welder.
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