Caligula, Itzhak Perlman, Tula Cossey,...

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Jan S

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Richard Gere, Maria Montessori, Eldridge Cleaver, Alma Mahler (Gustav's wife), Van Morrison, Queen Wilhelmina, Frank Robinson, Alan Lerner, Buddy Hackett, Dan Rather,

and I all have something in common (and I'm pretty damn sure there is only one thing; I'm the one without a Wiki page.).

If anyone can figure out what, it will give me a smile, and I'll give you any prize I can find that will fit through the internet.

Bonus points for naming the one person on this list that I've met. Well I sort of met this person; I was working for a caterer at a huge party and was told the guy in the snakeskin jacket that ask me where the loo was, was this person. Second hint: he wasn't with a brown-eyed girl when he asked me those directions.

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It's your birthday!!!!

Not that all of the others were born the same year you were.

Holly

P.S I cheated. I only checked 5 Online Bios.

Van Morrison? I like to use Pandora, and they keep sending me stuff by him. But I do not like his voice, so I keep giving him a thumbs down, but they keep sending me more.

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

Holly

Geez

that took no time at all. Yeah, none the same year; Caligula is the closest, i think.

(You really don't like his voice!?!?)

No, I do not like to listen to him

I do not know why, but as soon as his music comes on and I hear his voice, it istime to reach for the thumbs down button to go to something else.

Holly

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

Holly

But I thought ...

... Caligula was born around 2000 years ago! Surely you're not THAT old, Jan. If you are, congratulations and Happy Birthday anyway ;)

Robi

Happy Birthday....

....my gosh? You met Alma Mahler?

Dio vi benedica tutti
Con grande amore e di affetto
Andrea Lena

To be alive is to be vulnerable. Madeleine L'Engle
Love, Andrea Lena

Thank you,

and I'd like to have have, if she was really anything like Russel's vision of her. (If I remember that movie correctly.)

Happy Birthday

So you share your birthday with Caroline Cossey, obviously you're much younger and sexier than a mere Bond girl.

Have a lovely day.

Angharad

Sexier

for certain, and I've aged better too. :) Maybe

I summon the Mighty Conga Rats...

To celebrate your momentous day with much food, drink, and cheer.

Happy birthday.

Abigail Drew.

Working on it,

as fast as I can (and perhaps too fast).

I Know, I Know!

Happy Birthday to you! and the answer to the bonus question, It's Van Morrison!

Yeah,

but that's not my only brush with greatness. I used to unload musical instruments from trucks when I should have been working on papers, so there was a once when some people like that even knew my name, but none that are in this group.

I Have Personally Met Ashley Judd and Taylor Swift

I have personally met Ashley Judd and Taylor Swift. Ashley Judd autographed a photo with the message: To Jennifer, Choose to be you. Ashley Judd. Taylor Swift did a concert inside a Walmart store not far from where I live back when she first started out. I stood in line afterward and she autographed my CD cover for her first album. She posed for pictures too. She is one of most down to Earth people in the music business and has remained that way even as she has skyrocketed to fame. Her parents definitely did something right when they raised her.

And I've met...

And I've met my wife. She's kinda important, to me. :-).

Closest I've come to meeting someone that actually counts as famous would be seeing President Nixon - about 100 yards away standing on the steps to Air Force One, or Tony Randall - ate lunch about 15 feet from him (he was sitting alone). No, wait. I did meet Grady Booch. Does he count?

Anne

P.S. Happy Birthday!

heh

Alma Maria Mahler Gropius Werfel, to give her her full name.

As Tom Lehrer put it, she married all the most influential people in Europe at that time :)

I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.

but she

didn't marry the royals and pols that visited.