Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:24 pm   Reply with quote         

Gene Roddenberry

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TheShaman wrote:

fine fine! I'm an idiot!

Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:46 pm   Reply with quote         

Roman Polanski

- in 2007 Forbes ranked him the fifth richest American, worth an estimated $18.0 billion
- the sole investor behind Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites' SpaceShipOne suborbital commercial spacecraft
- founded a small company in Albuquerque in 1975 - bottom right on this picture circa 1978

Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:36 pm   Reply with quote         

Paul Allen...also owner of Seattle Seahawks & the Portland Trail Blazers. You'd think he'd be smiling more

take your time...

Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:30 pm   Reply with quote         

Antonio Banderas (José Antonio Domínguez Banderas)

for bonus points find this intersection on the map

On the left - character name

Mon Sep 24, 2007 6:45 pm   Reply with quote         

That would be Bertie Wooster( Hugh Laurie) from "Jeeves and Wooster"...also w. Stephen Fry

hint: German.....director

Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:16 pm   Reply with quote         

Wim Wenders

Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:45 am   Reply with quote         

Willie Nelson

Tue Sep 25, 2007 10:49 am   Reply with quote         

Nick Cave (circa 1982) Nicholas Edward Cave - an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, and occasional actor. Best known for his work in the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

One of the best rock drummers. Played with Jeff Beck, Rainbow, Michael Shenker Group, Whitesnake, Black Sabbath, The Brian May Band (to name a few). Died on April 5, 1998 following a car crash, driving his Saab 9000 in bad weather on the M4 motorway near Bristol, while talking to his girlfriend on his mobile phone.

Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:50 pm   Reply with quote         

Cozy Powell...I remember that tragic story.

i believe you'll see a hint here..

Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:35 pm   Reply with quote         

Paul Erdös one of the most prolific publishers of papers in mathematical history, second only to Leonhard Euler. Can we get a bit more obscure, please

Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:16 pm   Reply with quote         

Ennio Morricone

Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:22 pm   Reply with quote         

Mika Hakkinen

Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:31 pm   Reply with quote         

Yes

Tue Sep 25, 2007 2:45 pm   Reply with quote         

Obscure hint:

Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:33 pm   Reply with quote         

H. G. Wells

If you hold a flat-edge mirror glass (no frame) up against the words "LONELY * HEARTS" in the middle of the letters, the message reads "I ONE IX * HE-DIE" with a small arrow pointing to....Paul.
(well...that's what I read.)