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24 LIVING 2002 A Guide to Morris County Portrait Stephen Crane Red Badge of heads a long here. Two Morristown jazz artists were Robert Tucker Jr. (piano Academy Award winner Meryl Streep, born Mary Louise Streep, graduated from Bernards High School in Bernardsville in 1967, where she played the leads in many musicals, including "The Music Man," "Oklahoma!" and "L'il Sports Legendary baseball player Lou Gehrig got his start on Morris-town's semiprofessional teams in the 1920s under the name Lou Long, playing for $5 a game. Morristown native Al Foreman was a National League umpire from 1961 to 1965. Tampa Bay Buccaneer tight end Dave Moore lettered in football, basketball, baseball and track at Roy- list of illustrious novelists and short-story writers.

Crane's father, the Rev. Jonathan Crane, was minister at the Morr istown United Methodist Church from Rudyard Kipling (who recuperated from a serious illness in 1899 in Whippany), poet Joyce Kilmer (who taught Latin, freshman English and algebra at Morris-town High School), short-story writer Frank Stockton Lady or the humorist Dorothy Parker (who attended the prestigious Miss Dana's School in Morristown) and humorist Fran Lebowitz (who attended Morristown High and the Wilson School). Entertainers Quite a few famous entertainers were born here or moved accompanist for famous singers as Mildred Bailey, Bil-lie Holliday and Billy Eckstein) and Tony Scott (Sciacca), who played clarinet with Buddy Rich and other top m-TTT Joyce Kilmer Abner." She filmed "One True Thing" in Morristown. Film and stage actress Celeste Holm still owns an 18th-century farmhouse in Long Valley that has been in Jane Krakowski rSx bury High Jjfi School in Succa- 1864 until 1867. Other famous Morris County authors included short-story writer Bret Harte Luck of Roaring Janeane Garofolo 1 sumia.

ueis quarterback Neil O'Donnell played football, baseball and basketball at Madison High before taking Neil O'Donnell bands of the 1940s. Two famous Metropolitan Opera mezzo-sopranos were born here: Frederika von Stade, who grew up in Oldwick and sang in the chorus at Far Hills Country Day School, and Jane Bunnell of Chatham. (Her father, John Bunnell, was head of the music department at Madison High School.) Singer Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown were married and live on their 5-acre Mendham Township estate. Gene Shalit, film critic on NBC-TV's "Today" show, got his start writing a humor column called "The Korn Krib" for the Morristown High School newspaper, The Broadcaster. His parents owned Shalit's Drugstore in the flatiron building on Speedwell Avenue across from St.

Margaret's Church. her family for three generations. She was honored at the Myhelan Valley Arts Center's Independent Film Festival. TV and Broadway star Jane Krakowski (Elaine on Fox TV's "Ally McBeal" and Tony Award winner for Broadway's "Grand grew up in Parsippany. Her mother, Barbara Krajkowski (Jane omits the professionally) is artistic director of The Women's Theatre in Madison.

Other entertainers with local connections include actress Laura San Giacomo lies and from Denville and stand-up comic and movie star Janeane Garofolo (she attended Madison High School for a short time). the Pittsburgh Steelers to the Super Bowl. And Brian Saxton of Whippany, a graduate of Whippany Park High School and Boston College, played tight end for the Giants before being signed by the Atlanta Falcons. MetroStars soccer player Bill Walsh played soccer for the Chatham High School Cougars before joining the U.S. Olympics team in 1996.

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