Who am I?

[red dog 1]

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Think about a famous person, living or dead, mention some little-known facts about him or her, and see if anyone knows "who you are" without using Google.


Who am I?

I was born in Manhattan and I was interested in music at a very young age.
When I was 6, I began teaching myself how to play guitar.
I was a mediocre student and dropped out of high school after continuously repeating my sophomore year.
My first job was as a messenger at the Loew's State Theater, where I collected autographs from movie stars.
I made my television debut singing "You Belong to Me" and later entered a local talent show and sang "You Are My Sunshine." I placed second.
I began performing at dance club amateur nights under different names such as "Texarcana Tex," "Judas K. Foxglove," and "Emmett Swink."
To stand out as a performer, I grew my hair long and wore pasty white face makeup, partly inspired by Rudolph Valentino.
In 1962, I signed with manager George King, who booked me at the Cafe Bizarre, where I earned $20 a week.
King then booked me at the Cafe Wha? where I met Bob Dylan.
In 1963, I began performing at Page Three, a club with a mostly gay clientele, where I played 6 hours a night & 6 nights a week for $96 per month.
After the Page Three was closed by the police in July 1965, I briefly adopted the stage name Rollie Dell.
In December, I began performing at The Scene, which led to an appearance on The Merv Griffin Show in March 1966, and the rest is history.

Who am I?
(answered)

[Wiz Imp]

1. Tiny Tim?

[LoisB]

2. I agree.

[red dog 1]

6. You're correct.

[red dog 1]

4. Yes

What gave it away?... The "pasty white face makeup"?

[Wiz Imp]

7. That whole sentence

To stand out as a performer, I grew my hair long and wore pasty white face makeup, partly inspired by Rudolph Valentino.

When I read that, I thought - that sounds like Tiny Tim.

[Doc_Technical]

3. Tiny Tim AKA Larry Love

[red dog 1]

5. Yep!

[red dog 1]

8. I was born in 1942. I have an older brother named John and two sisters, Joanne and Debra.

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I have four uncles,
I attended USF in San Francisco and studied business.
When I was 23, I married Jennifer Gooch, an art student, in Manhattan.
We had two children and lived in Berkeley, CA.
We later moved to Walpole, Mass
I once owned a pineapple plantation in Hawaii.
As of 1987, I was living in Great Britain and was a certified Waldorf teacher.
My grandfather was very well known, as is one of my cousins.

Who am I?

[red dog 1]

9. I was born in 1937. My mother was Irish and my father was Cuban.

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I grew up in Brooklyn
I earned an academic scholarship to Cornell University, starting out as an engineering major but later switching to English.
While at Princeton, I became good friends with Thomas Pynchon and Peter Yarrow.
After returning to Manhattan, I often hung out at the White Horse Tavern in Greenwich Village, where I met a successful folksinger named Carolyn.
18 days later, Carolyn and I got married.
I was present when my wife recorded her 3rd album at Columbia Studios in September 1961, where a then-little-known Bob Dylan played the harmonica on several tracks.
Dylan and I became best friends.
I played guitar, sang, and wrote songs.
Like Dylan, I was considered a "protest singer."
In 1962, my wife divorced me.
That same year, I met a guitarist/singer/songwriter and we got married in Paris. She was 18, and I was 25.
We played guitar together & sang folk songs, and put out two albums on Vanguard Records.
I wrote a novel that was well-received.

Who am I?

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Phil Ochs?

I went with protest singer who (I thought) grew up in NYC.
Never mind - I looked it up. Ochs is wrong.

[red dog 1]

11. I was born March 14,1948 on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

As a toddler, I moved with my family to Long Beach, NY, on Long Island.
After graduating from Long Beach High School in 1965, I attended Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia on a baseball scholarship, but I never played baseball at Marshall because the program was suspended during my first year.
I did not return to Marshall as a sophomore and instead studied acting at HB Studio in New York.
I attended Nassau Community College and later transferred to New York University, where I was a film & television directing major.
One of my instructors was Martin Scorsese, and Oliver Stone & Christopher Guest were among my classmates.
I spent four years in a comedy improv group & later became a solo act & performed regularly at "The Improv and "Catch a Rising Star."
In 1976, I appeared on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" and on an episode of "All in the Family."
My earliest role was in a comedy television series from 1977 to 1981.
After hosting "Saturday Night Live" twice, I joined the regular cast for the 1984-85 season.
My first film role was in a 1978 movie co-written & directed by Joan Rivers.
Since then, I've been in more than 35 movies.

Who am I?