FAMOUS PEOPLE I'VE MET

Every man and every woman is a star. -- Aleister Crowley

Yeah! You're a starfucker! -- Mick an' Keef

This is kinda like the old history-nerd game of "Two Handshakes from Hitler," a variation on the Kevin Bacon game. See how many you can match.

POLITICS

� L. Brooks Patterson (Executive of Oakland County, MI), 1994
� Don Riegle (U.S. Senator from MI), 1994
� Ted Strickland (U.S. Representative from OH), 1999
� Ted Celeste (Democratic Candidate for Senator from OH), 2000
� Wesley Clark (U.S. Army General, NATO Supreme Commander, 2004 Candidate for the Democratic Presidential Nomination), 2000
� Susan Eisenhower (author, granddaughter of President Dwight Eisenhower), 2000
� Sherrod Brown (U.S. Representative from OH), 2001
� Michael Coleman (Mayor of Columbus, OH), 2001
� John Edwards (U.S. Senator from NC, 2004 Candidate for the Democratic Presidential Nomination, 2004 Democratic Nominee for Vice President), 2001 and 2003
� Jennifer Granholm (Attorney General of MI, Governor of MI), 2002
� Carol Moseley Braun (U.S. Senator from IL, U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand, 2004 Candidate for the Democratic Presidential Nomination), 2003
� John Cherry (Lieutenant Governor of MI), 2003
� Dick Gephardt (U.S. Representative from MO, 1988 and 2004 Candidate for the Democratic Presidential Nomination), 2003
� Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (U.S. Representative from MI and mother of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick), 2003
� John Dingell (U.S. Representative from MI), 2003
� Sander Levin (U.S. Representative from MI), 2003
� Jim Blanchard (Governor of MI), 2004 and 2006
� John Conyers (U.S. Representative from MI), 2006
� Debbie Stabenow (U.S. Senator from MI), 2006
� Bill Clinton (U.S. President), 2006
� Pete Ashdown (candidate for U.S. Senate from Utah), 2006

SPORTS

� Mickey Redmond (Detroit Red Wings player and TV announcer), 1995

MUSIC

� Alice Cooper, 1994
� Ted Nugent (think I saw him in a parking lot one time), 1996?
� Jonathan Richman, 1999
� John Sinclair (White Panther and big-time hippie-dippie asshole), 2002
� Handsome Dick Manitoba and Adny Shernoff of the Dictators (sorta), 2003
� Scotty Moore (Elvis' guitarist), 2004
� Jerry Phillips (son of Sam Phillips, the founder of rock and roll), 2004

MOVIES & TV

� Wendie Malick (sort of), 2001
� Kate Mulgrew, 2001
� Melvin van Peebles, 2002 or 2003
� Rob Corddry (correspondent forThe Daily Show with Jon Stewart), 2003
� Ken Jennings (all-time Jeopardy! champ), 2006
� Ike Barinholtz (MAD TV), 2007
� Roscoe Orman (Gordon from Sesame Street), 2007

AUTHORS

� Gordon Korman, 2003

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