How much do you know about the interesting lives of today's Hollywood superstars?
Questions:
1. What famous actress had her own birth expenses paid for by Coretta Scott King?
(Hint: Her famous actor brother's face was disfigured in a car accident early in his career, changing the kind of roles he played.)
2. What famous actor participated as a child in the Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island?
(Hint: His mother is a Peruvian activist.)
3. What famous actress's mother was introduced by Salvador Dali to Timothy Leary, and ended up marrying him?
(Hint: The Dalai Lama was a close family friend while she was growing up.)
4. What famous actor's father married Gloria Steinem?
(Hint: This actor was arrested for assaulting both his mother and sister.)
5. What famous actress decided, after being in a car accident that left her paralyzed and blind for 10 months, that if she ever recovered she would try her luck in Hollywood?
(Hint: She had recently come back from lving in a kibbutz when she had her accident.)
6. What famous actress grew up in the Belgian Congo as the daughter of the personal physician of the Congolese dictator Seko?
(Hint: She is an heiress to the Emily Post fortune.)
7. What famous actor/producer/rapper was sentenced as a boy to two years in prison for attempted murder?
(Hint: He was an original member of New Kids on the Block.)
8. What famous actor, emblematic enough of the Australian film industry to be commemorated on Australian stamps, is actually American, having been moved to Australia as a child by his Jeopardy Grand Champion father (using the $145,000 he won when he sued the New York Central Railroad) in order to protect this thespian and his nine siblings from the Vietnam War draft?
(Hint: Although famous for his antisemitism (sharing his father's well-documented view that the modern Catholic church is a Jewish conspiracy), he almost singlehandedly helped rescue Robert Downey Jr.'s career.)
9. What famous actress hails from the same Northwestern part of Glamorgan county in Wales as do Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins?
(Hint: Her kids' father and grandfather both have Oscars for Best Actor.)
10. What famous actress witnessed her mother kill her father in self-defense?
(Hint: She was "discovered" when a talent agent saw her get into a shouting match with an L.A. bank clerk because they wouldn't accept a check from South Africa (written by her mother)).
11. What famous actress finally became clean and sober (at age 14) after spending an extended period of time living in David Crosby's house?
(Hint: She is the goddaughter of Steven Spielberg and Sophia Loren.)
12. What famous actor turned his back on fame by moving to Italy to become a shoemaker?
(Hint: His father was a Poet Laureate of England.)
Answers:
1. Julia Roberts
2. Benjamin Bratt
3. Uma Thurman
4. Christian Bale
5. Debra Winger
6. Glenn Close
7. Mark Wahlberg
8. Mel Gibson
9. Catherine Zeta-Jones
10. Charlize Theron
11. Drew Barrymore
12. Daniel Day-Lewis
