Comments on: 8 Surprising College Roommates

By: Spencer

Spencer — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:36:00 +0000

They didnt say Saunders coached the 04 Pistons to the NBA championship, it says the Eastern Conference Finals in 06 moron.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:45:00 +0000

I went to Northern Michigan University.

Izzo & Mariucci were legends on campus!

By: Shasta

Shasta — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:26:00 +0000

Although they weren’t college roommates, Bill Clinton lived with future Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch way back in the dizzay.

By: Jastin

Jastin — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:01:00 +0000

Illustrator Edward Gorey was a roommate of Frank O’Hara at Harvard. I was a fan of both artists when I learned this, and find it all the more interesting that they lived together as they have very little in common.

By: Kristy

Kristy — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:04:00 +0000

For all the indie music fans:

(Leslie) Feist and Merrill Beth Nisker (better known by her stage name, Peaches) were roommates while trying to start their musical careers.

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:44:00 +0000

In fact Robin Willaims and Chris Reeve were so tight that after Chris’s wife died Robbin gained custady of Reeve’s son.

By: McIntosh

McIntosh — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:23:00 +0000

For Fellow Canucks,
Bob Rae and Michael Ignatieff, both Liberal MPs and competitors for the Party Leadership were roomies in university.

By: donner

donner — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:41:53 +0000

I thought I read that Al Gore claimed to be the inspiration for Oliver in Love Story but that Segal denied it…hmmm…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 06:12:07 +0000

To CropTillDawn:

Hoffman and Hackman (and Robert Duvall as well) were roommates while trying to break into acting. They weren’t college roommates.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:03:09 +0000

David Lynch and Peter Wolf did room together in college, and Lynch did think Wolf was “weird”. So weird, in fact, that he threw him out. How weird do you have to be for David Lynch to not want to be around you?