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<blockquote data-quote="Sammie" data-source="post: 505316" data-attributes="member: 8657"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkgreen"><em>Other Famous RoomMates:</em></span></span></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones</strong></p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.mentalfloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/r.TLandGore.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Actor Tommy Lee Jones and Former Vice President Al Gore (and eventually John Lithgow) shared a room at Harvard and, like plenty of college roomies, chased skirts together, even joining a country music band to get girls. The unlikely duo also served as the inspiration for the character of Oliver in <em>Love Story</em>, written by fellow Harvard alum Erich Segal.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Joe Montana and Charlie Weis</strong></p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.mentalfloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/roommates%20-%20weis%20and%20montana.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Charlie Weis may run a pretty no-nonsense football program at Notre Dame, but back when he was a student there, he was fond of playing pranks on roommate (and quarterback) Joe Montana.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ving Rhames and Stanley Tucci</strong></p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.google.com/images?q=tbn:uPR-Jv24WKJiyM::www.thehollywoodnews.com/artman2/uploads/1/ving_rhames.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="http://www.google.com/images?q=tbn:76vJun10OhhgfM::www.thecinemasource.com/moviesdb/images/Stanley_Tucci%252520-%25252002%252520-%252520Devil_Wears_Prada.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Actor Ving Rhames probably wouldn’t have carved out his successful career if it weren’t for roommate Stanley Tucci. While at SUNY Purchase, Tucci convinced Rhames to shorten his name from Irving. And let’s face it, that was probably a good career move; Marsellus Wallace just wouldn’t be the same played by someone named Irving.</p><p></p><p><strong>David Lynch and Peter Wolf</strong></p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.mentalfloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/roommates-%20wolf%20and%20lynch.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>While attending the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Peter Wolf, lead vocalist for the J. Giels Band, ended up rooming with surrealist director David Lynch. The kicker, though, is that Lynch ended up kicking Wolf out of the apartment, saying that he was “too weird.” As if anything could be too weird for David.</p><p></p><p><strong>Christopher Reeve and Robin Williams</strong></p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.mentalfloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/roommates-%20williams%20and%20reeves.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>At Julliard, roomies Robin Williams and Christopher Reeve vowed to always be friends and help each other throughout life. Both held true to the promise, as they remained close. Williams even covered some of Reeve’s medical expenses after he was paralyzed. Of course, being Robin Williams, he couldn’t stop there; after Reeve found out he couldn’t walk again, Williams visited him dressed as a doctor and pretending to be his proctologist, reportedly causing Reeve to smile for the first time since the accident.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sammie, post: 505316, member: 8657"] [B][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkgreen][I]Other Famous RoomMates:[/I][/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [B]Al Gore and Tommy Lee Jones[/B] [IMG]http://www.mentalfloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/r.TLandGore.jpg[/IMG] Actor Tommy Lee Jones and Former Vice President Al Gore (and eventually John Lithgow) shared a room at Harvard and, like plenty of college roomies, chased skirts together, even joining a country music band to get girls. The unlikely duo also served as the inspiration for the character of Oliver in [I]Love Story[/I], written by fellow Harvard alum Erich Segal. [B]Joe Montana and Charlie Weis[/B] [IMG]http://www.mentalfloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/roommates%20-%20weis%20and%20montana.jpg[/IMG] Charlie Weis may run a pretty no-nonsense football program at Notre Dame, but back when he was a student there, he was fond of playing pranks on roommate (and quarterback) Joe Montana. [B]Ving Rhames and Stanley Tucci[/B] [IMG]http://www.google.com/images?q=tbn:uPR-Jv24WKJiyM::www.thehollywoodnews.com/artman2/uploads/1/ving_rhames.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.google.com/images?q=tbn:76vJun10OhhgfM::www.thecinemasource.com/moviesdb/images/Stanley_Tucci%252520-%25252002%252520-%252520Devil_Wears_Prada.jpg[/IMG] Actor Ving Rhames probably wouldn’t have carved out his successful career if it weren’t for roommate Stanley Tucci. While at SUNY Purchase, Tucci convinced Rhames to shorten his name from Irving. And let’s face it, that was probably a good career move; Marsellus Wallace just wouldn’t be the same played by someone named Irving. [B]David Lynch and Peter Wolf[/B] [IMG]http://www.mentalfloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/roommates-%20wolf%20and%20lynch.jpg[/IMG] While attending the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Peter Wolf, lead vocalist for the J. Giels Band, ended up rooming with surrealist director David Lynch. The kicker, though, is that Lynch ended up kicking Wolf out of the apartment, saying that he was “too weird.” As if anything could be too weird for David. [B]Christopher Reeve and Robin Williams[/B] [IMG]http://www.mentalfloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/roommates-%20williams%20and%20reeves.jpg[/IMG] At Julliard, roomies Robin Williams and Christopher Reeve vowed to always be friends and help each other throughout life. Both held true to the promise, as they remained close. Williams even covered some of Reeve’s medical expenses after he was paralyzed. Of course, being Robin Williams, he couldn’t stop there; after Reeve found out he couldn’t walk again, Williams visited him dressed as a doctor and pretending to be his proctologist, reportedly causing Reeve to smile for the first time since the accident. [/QUOTE]
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