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Over 446 Movie, TV, & Stage Stars, Authors, Entertainers, Directors, Producers, Musicians, Athletes, Corporate Big Wigs, Government Officials, and Others Can't possibly be wrong! |
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| Below is a listing of famous (and/or infamous) people who make the Apple Macintosh their computer of choice. Prepare to be shocked. | |
ANorm Abram - Co-host of PBS's "This Old House" and host of "The New Yankee Workshop"Tim Allen - actor (formerly of Home Improvement) , stand up commedian Harry Anderson - actor Dan Aykroyd - actor |
BLauren Bacall - actressValerie Bertinelli - actress Gianni Boncompagni - Italian TV/radio entertainer Tom Brocaw - NBC Dateline Sandra Bullock - actress Lavar Burton - actor - Star Trek, TNG |
CSimon Callow - British Actor, Writer, ArtistDrew Carey - actor, commedian Pheobe Cates - actress Dabney Coleman - actor Stephen Collins - actor Star Trek movie, Jumpin Jack Flash Kevin Costner - actor Tom Cruise - actor/producer |
DGeena Davis - actressWilliam B. Davis - actor - X Files' "Smoking Man" John DeLancey - actor - "Q" on Star Trek--The Next Generation Danny DeVito - actor/director Richard Dreyfus - Actor and Apple Master |
EClint Eastwood - actorRoger Ebert - film critic and screenplay writer Emilio Estevez - actor |
FMia Farrow - actressSally Field - actress Lawrence Fishburne - actor Harrison Ford - actor Jodie Foster - actress Michael J. Fox - actor |
GMel Gibson - actorWhoopie Goldberg - actress Jeff Goldblum - actor |
HTom Hanks - actorGoldie Hawn - actress Mariel Hemingway - actress Gregory Hines - Actor, Dancer and Apple Master Dustin Hoffman - actor John Hughes - actor, producer |
IDon Imus - Imus in the Morning |
JSamuel L Jackson - actorAnn Jillian - actress |
KRichard Karn - actor (formerly Al, Home Improvement)Nicole Kidman - actress Val Kilmer - actor Peter King - Host, MTV Sports Kevin Klein - actor commedian Katie Kouric - Co-host of NBC's The Today Show (iMac) |
LJohn Laroquette - actorJennifer Jason Leigh - Actress and Apple Master Rush Limbaugh - Radio and TV personality Richard Littlejohn - Outspoken TV talk show host/Newspaper columnist |
MMarlee Matlin - actressMatthew Modine - Actor |
NDon Novello - actor (Father Guido Sarducci)Leonard Nimoy - Actor (actually its his daughter's iMac) |
OConan O'Brien - TV personalityRosie O'Donnell - Actress, Comedienne, TV Personailty Gary Oldman - actor Frank Oz (Muppets) - puppeteer |
PAdrian Paul - actor (aka Duncan MacLeod, of the Clan McLeod) on the TV show HighlanderDolly Parton - singer, actress Maury Povich - TV talk show host/personality Laura Prepon - actress - That 70's Show |
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RAnthony Rapp - ActorVanessa Redgrave - actress Paul Reubens - actor (Pee Wee Herman), commedian Natasha Richardson - actress (formerly of Home Improvement) Molly Ringwald - actress (Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, et. al.) |
SJerry Seinfeld - actor, commedian, producerAndrew Shue - actor Christian Slater - actor Wesley Snipes - actor Sly Stallone - actor Sharon Stone - actress Shannon Sturges - actress |
TJohn Tesh - actor/musician/singerLilly Tomlin - actress |
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WJames Woods - actorJana Wendt - Australian Television (60 Minutes) Robin Williams - actor, commedian Henry Winkler - actor, producer |
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| A Douglas Adams - author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" Kevin Anderson - author/editor Star Wars novels, trilogies, and short stories |
| B Marty Basch - writer German author Wolf Biermann Fred Brook - author of "The Mythical Man Month" & father of the IBM/360 |
| C Gerry Callahan - writer Sport Illustrated senior writer Ann Coulter- author of "Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Clinton" Tom Clancy - spy novel writer and Apple Master Michael Crichton - author "Congo" and Apple Master |
| D Professor Richard Dawkins - author of "The Selfish Gene" Barbara De Angelis - author "The Love Doctor" |
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| F Brad Ferguson - author Crisis on Centaurus and The World Next Door Will Friedwald - author of "Sinatra! The Song Is You" and "Jazz Singing" |
| G William Gibson - author, "Neuromancer", "Count Zero", "Mona Lisa Overdrive", et. al., coined the term "Cyberspace" James Glassman - financial writer for "The Washington Post" William Goldman - author Winston Groom - author of Forrest Gump David Guterson - author of the bestselling novel "Snow Falling on Cedars." |
| H Joe Haldeman - Science Fiction Writer, MIT Professor of Writing Seamus Heaney - Irish poet J.C. Herz - writer Playboy, Wired, plus books |
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| JMolly Jong-Fast - author and daughter of Erica Jong the author |
| K Ken Kesey - author "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" and "Sometimes a Great Notion" D Knowledge - poet (the late) Stankley Kubrick - Author, Director |
| L Frances Lear - author G. Gordon Liddy - columnist, Radio personality, & Richard Nixon crony |
| M Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Nobel prize winner, Author of "100 years of Solitude" Ian McDonald - author of "Desolation Road," "Evolution's Shore," and "Sacrifice of Fools" John McTiernan - writer Richard Mitchell - author of of "The Underground Grammarian" Edgar Morin - French philosopher, sociologist, science theoretician Robert Munsch - children's author Charles Murray - author of the infamous and controversial 'The Bell Curve' |
| N Nicholas Negroponte - author and director of M.I.T's Media Lab |
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| P James Patterson - Author - Kiss The girls, Along Came a Spider, Cat and Mouse Daniel Manus Pinkwater - author and radio personality Mario Puzo - author The Godfather series |
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| S Michael Marshall Smith, author of "Only Forward", "Spares", and "One of Us" Neal Stephenson - author of cyberpunk books "Snow Crash", "The Diamond Age", and "Cryptonomicon". Bruce Sterling - author, "Schizmatrix", "The Hacker Crackdown", "The Difference Engine" et. al. |
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| W James White - author of the "Sector General" series of novels |
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BJerry Bock - composer, "Fiddler on the Roof," etc. |
CSimon Cloquet - composer for the "Highlander" TV seriesCy Coleman - composer, "City of Angels," "Sweet Charity," etc. Betty Comden - lyricist, "On the Town," "Will Rogers Follies," etc. |
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GPaul Gemignani - conductorMichael Gibson - arranger, "Kiss of the Spider Woman," etc. |
HLuther Henderson - arranger, "Ain't Misbehavin'," etc. |
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KJohn Kander - composer, "Cabaret," "Kiss of the Spider Woman," etc. |
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OMike Ockrent - director, "Big," "Crazy for You," etc. |
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SDavid Shire - composer, "Big" and "Baby"Lucy Simon - composer, "Secret Garden" Marc Snow - composer for "The X-Files," Stephen Sondheim - composer/lyricist, "Forum," "Into the Woods," etc. Susan Stroman - choreographer, "Big," "Crazy for You," etc. |
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WShirley Walker - Composer |
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Z(The Late) Frank Zappa - Composer and musiciainDavid Zippel - lyricist, "City of Angels," several new Disney movies |
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Rock From the Sun 5:30 with Jude (New Zeland Martha Stewart-esque show) 7 Days Access Hollywood Ally McBeal America's Most Wanted Baywatch Baywatch Nights Becker Beyond 2000 Beverly Hills: 90210 Bill Nye "the Science Guy" Boy Meets World Buffy The Vampire Slayer Caroline In The City (PowerMac G3 in 'Carioline's' office) Clueless Computer Chronicles Connections3 (on TLC - Powerbook 3400 in the opening credits) Conrad Bloom CNN (uses Macs extensively) Daily Show, The Dave's World (I think the last version I saw was a Performa) Dawson's Creek Days Of Our lives HBO's Dream On (Martin Tupper uses a Powerbook) Drew Carey Show ER Felicity (Actual dialog regarding a character's "cool" Blueberry iMac which gets dropped when Felicity makes reservations for sex) Frasier Friends (Chandler uses a Powerbook at home and a PowerMac at work) Futurama Goin Wild w/ Jeff Corbin (Disney Channel Nature Show- PowerBook 540C in opening credits) Guinness Book of World Records Hangin' with Mr. Cooper Home Improvement Johnny Quest (cartoon) Just Shoot Me La Femme Nakita (USA Network) Lois and Clark LA Doctors Law And Order Melrose Place Millenium MTV Videos: Cher - Strong EnoughNaked Truth, The Nash Bridges NBC comedy NewsRadio Ned & Stacy Net, The Newlywed Game, The Next Step Night Court Nowhere Man Nova Nurses (Lifetime) NYPD Blue Oh Baby Pensacola Practice, The Pretender, The Profiler, The (Blueberry iMac gets blownup in rich kid's room) Real World, The (MTV) Road Rules (MTV) Rosie O'Donnel Show Sailor Moon Savanah Saved By The Bell - The New Class Seen on a TLC show about subs - LC Macs are actually used as sonar computers and tracking systems on Polaris-Class Nuclear Submarines- Seinfield (Jerry and George both have Macs in the background of their apts) Sex Bytes 2.4 (HBO) Shortland Street (New Zeland Soap Opera) Silk Stalkings Simpsons, The Smack The Pony (UK) Small Wonder (80's SciFi Sitcom) So Weird Spin City Sports Night Suddenly Susan Three Touched by an Angel TwinPeaks Vengeance Unlimited Veronica's Closet Vibe V.I.P. Walker, Texas Ranger Will And Grace Working X-Files |
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Things I Hate About You 2000 as seen by... (PowerBook *destroys* the world) 2010 (Mac Portable Case - curiously it was filmed 5 years prior to the Portable's consumer release) American President, The (Powerbook) Anaconda (PowerBook 5300) Analyze This At First Site (PowerMac G3) Assasins (PowerBook 5x0 series) Austin Powers- The Spy who Shagged Me (Dr. Evil uses a iMac keyboard for his "time machine", Austin's Shag-pad has an iMac, in photoshoot scene an assistant has a PowerBook G3, and Austin knocks oer a cart of Mac monitors) Back to the Future II (Mac Plus in "antique" store window) Batman & Robin (20th Anniversay Mac, eMate 300) Bird on a Wire Blade (3400, PowerMac G3 Towers) Blank Check PowerMac 6100 Series, Mac II Series, Apple Logo, Name "Macintosh" mentioned repeatedly as Hero Protagonist's name) Blast from the Past (Mac K/b) Bound (PowerBook 1x0) Can't Hardly Wait (Mac Plus) Christmas Vacation (Mac SE) Clueless Courage Under Fire (PowrBook Duo) Crazy People Crimson Tide (Mac sounds (disk drive whine) are heard throughout the film) Daylight Dead Man On Campus (Performas abound) Deep Impact Disclousure Disturbing Behavior (PowerMac, PowerBook) Dragonheart (obviously Macs weren't around in the 900's but the dragon in the movie wouldn't be around without Apple) Drop Zone Ed TV Enemy of the State (Powerbook 5300(?), various MacOS screenshots) Executive Decision (PowerBook 540) Eyes Wide Shut Face Off (AppleVuision 1710, ADB keyboards and mice, PowerBook 1400) Faculty, The Feirce Creatures Film '99 Firm,The (PowerBook 3400(?), Mac LC) Fled (PowerBook, Performa 5000 Series) Flubber (Mac Plus, PowerMac) Forces of Nature Forrest Gump (Forest is given shares in "a fruit company in California") Fujitive, The Game, The (PowerMac 500, Apple Monitors) Godzilla (hopefully the last ever) Great White Hype, The Gremlins II (Mac Plus) Grosse Pointe Blank (PowerBook 5300m AppleVision 1710, PlainTalk microphone, ADB K/b & mouse) Hackers (PowerBooks (540's and clear Duo 2300) save the world) Herbie the Love Bug (Newton MessagePad) Horse Whisperer, The I Got the Hook Up (PowerMac 7x00 Series, PowerBook) Indpendence Day (Powerbooks (5300, Aaron extension, Symantec Think C) save the world again) Island of Dr. Moreau (PowerBook 540) Jackal, The (ApppleVision Monitor, PowerMac 5200LC) James Bond - A View To A Kill (Apple IIc) James Bond - Tomorrow Never Dies (PowerMac 8600 or 9600, anti-M$ undertones) Jingle All the Way (PowerBook 1400, PowerMac) Johnny Mnemonic (PowerBook) Jurassic Park (Quadra 700 running a QuickTime movie as if it was a live video feed) Jurrassic Park, The Lost World Knock Off (PowerBook 1400) Liar Liar (PowerMac 7300, PowerBook 3400 or 5300) "Mind's Eye, The" and "Beyond The Mind's Eye" Series Feature-Length Animated Videos (done all on Mac of course). Mission Impossible (Powerbooks (3400?) break into Langley) Most Wanted Several PowerBook Duo 230's My Best Friend's Wedding (PowerBook- flavor unknown) Net, The (PowerBook 5x0, PowerMac 6100, 8100, Last Sequence filemd at MacWorld Expo SF) Never Been Kissed Next Stop, Wonderland (Mac Plus) Nutty Professor, The (Mac Classic w/ old PlainTalk) Office Space Outbreak (various Macs rendering 3D stuff in the background) Palmetto (PowerBook 100 Series) Pi (Mac K/b) Point of No Return (aka la Femme Nakita ruined) (Mac SE, ADB Keyboard, HyperCard, System 7) Pillow Book, The Primary Colors (PowerBook 3400 or G3, PowerMac, MacOS screen shots, Avid Workstation) Ransom (PowerBook 5300, Newton MessagePad 130, Newton OS, Quicktime) Ronin (only good thing about that damn movie was that there's Macs in it.) Rushmore (On a cart in a school hallway) Sabrina (20th Anniversay Mac) Saint, The (PowerBook 5300, Powerbook Duo 2300, MiniDock, System 7, HyperCard, Notepad, Apple Internet Connection Kit, M$ Excell for Mac, Seige, The (PowerBook 2400, various MacOS Screenshots) Short Circuit Single White Female (Mac IIfx, Apple Monitors, System 7, Adobe Photoshop for Mac) Snake Eyes (Apple MultiScan AV Monitors and "Think different" posters) Speed II Starship Troopers (Newton 1xx series Stylus) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (has the famous Mac Plus scene with Scotty talking into the mouse - precusror to PlainTalk ;-) ) Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (15" studio display in Aniken Skywalker's room) Stealing Beauty (PowerBook 2300, MacOS screen shots) Trading Places (Apple III) True Crime True Lies (Mac System Beep) Truman Show, The Under Siege II (Newton MP120 helps save the world- Do that with a Palm Pilot or Windows CE!!) U.S. Marshalls (PowerBook 1400, 540C, PowerMac Mac version of Photoshop 4 Vacation (Apple ][+(?) Series) Very Bad Things (PowerMac 7x00 or G3 Desktop) Volcano (PowerBook 5300) Wag The Dog (Powerbook Duo280C, PowerMac, MacOS Screenshots) Welcome To The Doll House (Mac Classic) War Games (Several Apple ]['s) Waterdance, The (Mac Portable (luggable) System 7, Apple Logo) You've Got Mail (PowerBook 3400 or 5300) Zero Effect (PowerBook 3400) |
Miscellaneous SightingsBen & Jerry's Ice Cream Factory in Vermont, USA - (used as customer service survey kiosks)Blair Witch Project, The - horror movie shot entirely in Hi8 and edited entirely on a Mac based Media 100 system- whole crew are Mac Users) Country Clutter -Camarillo, CA Outlet Mall- Retail store which uses iMacs for all of their servers and point of sale terminals. Very cool. Enzian Theatre (home of the florida film Festrival - Entirely mac ) Disney on Ice: The Little Mermaid - (used to control lighting and bubble machines) J. Edgar Hoover building (FBI Headquarters, Washington D.C., in the DNA analysis section) Genetic Engineering News - (June 1 Issue, Page 7 - 7600 running a gene sequencer) Kenworth Trucks Brochure - (http://www.paccar.com/kw/brochures/T2000.pdf) Lobby of U.S. Peace Corps in Washington D.C. - (iMac kiosk) Matrix, The (website) - (http://www.whatisthematrix.com/cmp/ted_12.html) MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch series recorded on PowerMac G3's National Geographic Traveller Magazine - (May/June Issue page 32) Playboy (uses Printdesk OPI (print management software) on an Apple G3 server) Popular Mechanics - (June 99 Issue, Pg 43) Saturn Commercial (in dorm room) Tarzan (used to render 3D Animation) The control center for the Breitling Orbiter 3 around-the-world balloon journey - run with iMacs. The Golf Channel - (all golf, all MAC, all the time) Time Magazine's Jan 11 (page 54) profile on Craig Venter -- the man whose research institute may win the race to crack the Human Genome - a photo shows Venter standing in front of a row of sequencing machines, all controlled by PowerMacs in their distinctive cases UPS Commercial Vitamin-Depot, Inc., a Mac-only company |
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