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Can we all agree that Gilmore Girls leads the list of TV shows set in Connecticut? |
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Katherine Heigel from Grey's Anatomy is a CT native. |
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The Baby-Sitters Club was set in Connecticut. |
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My favorite thing emanating from Connecticut is currently in Boston, but never mind that. Just know that there was no way Charlie wasn't getting a link out of this thread. |
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Matt, there's a case to be made for Who's The Boss as well. Okay, not really. |
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Bookends in Enfield. |
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Meatloaf, the singer, lives in CT. He was a customer at the bank my mom worked at and gave us tickets to a dress rehearsal for his tour back in 1993. |
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Martha Stewart, people! In fact, all of Greenwich has a lot to answer for... |
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Much as I love Gilmore Girls, I put it in a dead heat with my beloved Soap, also set in Connecticut. |
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My life wouldn't have been complete without I-91. |
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Thanks for the plug, Phil. |
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Unrelated, but when William F. Buckley, Jr., ran for mayor, John Lindsay made hay of Buckley's residence in the Constitution State (he had an apartment in Manhattan, though), and Buckley's response: "I don't know what Mr. Lindsay has against Connecticut. Perhaps it's that he was sent there twice to be educated and is manifestly displeased with the results." So, Buckley's got the state's back. (Though they also must claim Ann Coulter.) |
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Million years ago, when Jim Belushi was on SNL, he did a funny bit called "White Guy's Rap" where he boasted of his home in, you guessed it... |
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I'll note that while I've lived in NYC for 7 years, I have been to Connecticut a sum total of once--when I was a summer associate, to visit our Stamford office and a client's offices up there. What have I missed, aside from the casinos? |
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My vote is, of course, for Lou Kahn's great British Art Center in New Haven, though that may be stretching the "popular" in culture a bit much. |
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Having strained many a synapse this morning pondering the question, I find that I can think of no noteworthy music groups from CT. I'm not saying there aren't any, just that none come to mind. FWIW, I would not consider Mr. Loaf all that noteworthy these days. |
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Bob, wiki suggests Dashboard Confessional and Michael Boltin as possible answers. |
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Keith Richards of that quintessentially nutmeggish band, The Rolling Stones lives in CT |
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Well, crap, if we're crossing over from culture to "things in Connecticut that are worth it," might I suggest Sally's, Pepe's, or Modern Pizza; the Marcus Dairy run on summer Sundays if you ride a motorcycle; a bicycle ride up West Rock or an easy hike with the kids up Sleeping Giant; or a late afternoon drive around Woodbridge when the leaves are turning? |
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Isaac, I'll add to that list the Yankee Doodle and Toad's Place, plus a boat ride down the Connecticut River with a night's stay on the hook at Hamburg Cove. |
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John Mayer is from Connecticut? I always associated him with ATL, because he was in the folk scene here before making it big. |
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It seems that they are taking an extensive definition of "Connecticut Musicians." Though she was born in CT, Emily Sailers is under no definition of the term a "Connecticut Musician." |
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Sully's Pub! in Hartford |
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James Blake hails from Fairfield. There are even tennis courts named for him. |
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True. Hell, in Southland in the Springtime, Emily Saliers sings, "When God made me born a Yankee, he was teasing." |
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I'd nominate Yale-educated Jodie Foster. |
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My family lives in Connecticut (and I lived there for nine years), but apart from that, or maybe because of that, I'm not its biggest fan. |
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Isn't there a really great writer from CT? She wrote that book about the girl with the dog who had a jerky ex? And the one about the sisters and the shoes? Hmm ... What's her name again? |
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I'd also nominate the Connecticut jokes on Scrubs as being fantastic. |
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The one with the book that has spent the past three months on the trade bestseller lists set in the fictional town of Upchurch, CT? Vaguely familiar with her work. |
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Manute Bol's initial U.S. basketball experience was in Connecticut, and he currently lives in West Hartford. Based on his Wikipedia entry, I'd guess that he's pulling for Lieberman today. |
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CT may have some OK burbs, but its cities are dreadful. And the highways are always clogged with construction. Forget the Big Dig, why has I-95 near Waterbury been under going non stop work for the better part of a decade. |
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Pizza at Mystic Pizza was actually quite good! Great film in Julia's infancy. |
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Richard Belzer, John Ratzenberger, and Meg Ryan are all from Connecticut -- I leave it up to you all to decide if those are plusses or minuses for the state. |
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My experience with Connecticut is largely limited to lovely, relaxing visits with good friends now living in CT. So, I'm not joining in the fifth ring of hell concept. |
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The Skulls is set at Yale; they just never call it that. But the school's nickname is the Bulldogs; the athletes wear the letter 'Y' on their uniforms; they hang out at "Mory's", etc. |
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CT has UConn Basketball, which I consider heaven. Screw Dennis Leary. Long live Coach Calhoun!! |
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The reason why movies are set at Harvard is because it's a brand that conveys what the movie people want to convey to people who don't know better. It's like picking a law firm name for a movie by using the ad on the back of the phone book. |
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Good things in Connecticut: Pepe's, the hike to the second-largest-waterfall in Connecticut, roasted corn on the cob and lobster at The Place in Guilford, minor league baseball in Bridgeport, Le Petit Cafe in Branford, the Summer Arts and Ideas Festival in New Haven, Yale Repertory Theater, and the aforementioned British Art Gallery at Yale. |
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Also, I would just like to say that I took a tour of the WB backlot a few days ago and did the full tour of Stars Hollow, complete with the requisite photo in front of Lorelai's house. And I saw Luke's car. And Lorelai's car. And Rory's car, which has California plates (at least right now.) It was seriously the most amazing thing. But it did not look very much like Connecticut. (Also, I have (inconsequential and minor) spoilers!) |
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Nobody's mentioned Milford Jai Alai. (Ok, it's gone now, and I never actually went there, but we used to talk about it a lot.) Also, I have special memories associated with North Haven, but it's complicated (and, to be truthful, dorky). |
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Oh, yes: Paul's Pasta in New London. |
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Paul's is in Groton, technically, and now I am CRAVING it! |
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My favorite thing from Connecticut is of course Yale-educated isaac_spaceman. My second favorite thing from Connecticut is a stone's throw, which is Rhode Island. |
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I agree with Kevin that CT has perhaps the worst highways in the US. |
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Jenn. - re: movies set at Yale... "Chances Are" with Robert Downey, Jr. and Mary Stuart Masterson. Probably playing a little loose with the word 'set' and definitely with the word 'good.' But she's a law student there and she works at the library. Where she meets him. (And doesn't realize that he's her reincarnated father and so falls in love with him. But it turns out ok because he gets a shot from an angel, so he forgets he used to be her dad and they get married). Ooh - and there's that Peter Cetera/Cher song in there...After All the Stops and Starts We Keep Coming Back to these Two Hearts... maybe Clay will cover it! |
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Luna: Everything west of New Haven is New London. Sorry. :) |
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Not "west." The other one. "East." |
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Acutally, the reason so many movies are set at Harvard is that they have a policy that anyone can use their name in a movie, but no one can film on campus. It's brilliant - they become the go-to college in films wanting to show and elite institution, because they know they won't get sued., and since they let anyone use it, they can't get tagged with endorsing a film based on it. But almost any school with old ivy-covered buildings can (and has) substituted for it. |
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Hey, MrsSpacewoman--I was in LA for a few days with family--I'm up in the central valley now at my parent's house. Had I but known, I would have requested a throwingthings convocation at The Grove, which is definitely my all time favorite mall ever (and to keep on topic, let me discuss one terrible thing about Connecticut, which is the shopping. Man. The Connecticut Post Mall is a nightmare.) |
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I also owe Gretchen a drink and/or coffee, pursuant to a promise made long ago. That said, I'm not flying out to L.A. solely to do so. |
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Lola, I stand corrected. Now whenever anybody asks that question, I won't say "because the unwashed masses won't know better"; I'll say "because Harvard is practically giving it away." |
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I think Mrs. Isaac's revelation a few posts back undermines the Spaceman's credibility a bit when it comes to Harvard... Go back to the tables down at Morry's ("wherever that may be...")! |
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What a shame we didn't know you were here, Gretchen. The Grove is our local mall, and it is indeed awesome. Next time you're in town, let us know, and we'll buy you a drink from Matt. |
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Well, given that Gretchen and I reside in the same metropolitan area, probably easier for me to buy her one when she gets back here... |
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Mrs.IsaacSpacewoman, that is definitely a deal. Matt, I am totally emailing you for that drink as soon as I get back to New York (though LA does offer the Gilmore Girls tour, which is pretty dang fabulous.) |
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The real "Space Ace" Ace frehey is from CT. |
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