Who am I?

[red dog 1]

Think about a famous person, dead or alive, and mention some little-known facts about him or her, then see if anyone can guess "who you are."


(For example)
Who Am I?
-I was born in Ohio.
- I was bullied as a kid because I was very short.
- I ran away from home many times.
- By the age of 18, I had worked at the following jobs;
- a tuna fisherman off the coast of Galveston
- itinerant crop-picker down in New Orleans
- short-order cook
- cab driver
- lithographer
- book salesman
- floorwalker in a department store
- door-to-door brush salesman

(Answered)

[yorkster]

1. Wild guess - Studs Terkel

[red dog 1]

3. No, now why don't you "become someone"?

(I loved listening to Studs Terkel's radio show)

[yorkster]

5. Oh jeez red dog 1, I forgot about that part.

And I was awake until 3am, not yet fully compos mentis. and dealing with eye irritation. Can I beg off? Your idea is a good one.
I miss Studs, too. A real mensch.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. Clark Gable?

[red dog 1]

4. Nope,

now, you "become someone" (if you want to)

[rsdsharp]

6. John Steinbeck?

[red dog 1]

7. No, good guess though.

He was a writer.

[werdna]

8. You forgot -

- joined an actual gang to get background for a story. Unless you felt that might give it away. Initials H. E.

[red dog 1]

11. Ding!

I hadn't heard about him joining an actual gang....Where might I get more info on that?
[Where did you hear about that?]

[LogDog75]

9. I'll take a WAG

Col. Harlan Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame.

[red dog 1]

12. It was a different Harlan, Harlan Ellison.

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[Doc_Technical]

10. Harlan Ellison

He was called an Enfant terrible by many famous people

[red dog 1]

13. That's the guy!

[red dog 1]

14. Who am I?

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- I was born in Chicago, but grew up in New Jersey.
- When I was 23, I went to Paris with my sister and did performance art.
- I returned to Manhattan, where I worked in a book store, and while there, I met a young man who turned out to be a well-known photographer.
- We lived together in an historic old hotel in Manhattan.
- I spent the early 1970s painting, writing , and doing performance art.
- In 1971, I performed in a one-act play which I co-wrote with Sam Shepard
- I wrote many poems, including several poems about Sam Shepard.
- On February 10, 1971, accompanied by an electric guitarist, I gave my first public poetry performance.
- I wrote lyrics for some Blue Oyster Cult songs and became romantically involved with Allan Lanier, Blue Oyster cult's keyboardist.
- On March 12, 2007, I was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
- In 2010, a book I wrote was published. It was a memoir about my time living in Manhattan in the 1970s, and it won the National Book Award for Nonfiction