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1. When Martha Stewart was 20…
The Beatles played their first show at the Cavern Club.
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2. When Ian McKellen was 24…
The first issue of X-Men was written.
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3. When Helen Mirren was 25…
The first New York Marathon was held.
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4. When Beyonce was born…
Laserdisc was the most popular audio format and CDs hadn’t been introduced yet.
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5. When Hugh Hefner was 20…
The word “pin-up” was first coined.
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6. When George Clooney was 15…
The first spacecraft landed on Mars.
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7. When Bruce Willis was 17…
He had hair.
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8. When Steven Tyler was 18…
Frank Sinatra’s “Strangers In The Night” was the number one single released.
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9. When Charlize Theron was 14…
Aileen Wuornos (who Theron would later go on to play) killed seven men.
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10. When Sean Connery was 23…
Sir Ian Flemming wrote the first James Bond novel.
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11. When Dr. Dre was 21…
The Beastie Boys were the most popular rap group in the world.
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12. When Larry David was 20…
He had hair.
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13. When Ryan Seacrest was 13…
The most popular reality show was “Cops.”
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14. When Clint Eastwood was 26…
The most popular movies were “The Ten Commandments” and “Around The World In 80 Days.”
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15. When Jamie Foxx was 17…
Jerri Curls were actually popular.
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16. When Steve Carrell was 22…
Mustaches weren’t always ironic.
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17. When Harrison Ford was born…
There was no color television.
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18. When Billy Corgan was 14…
He had hair.
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19. When Drew Carrey was 22…
CNN first went on the air.
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20. When Christopher Walken was 22…
The first McDonalds was opened. Also, he looked very un-Walken-like.
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21. When Eminem was 16…
The first white rapper topped the billboard charts — Vanilla Ice.
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22. When Jack Nicholson was 30…
The Doors and Pink Floyd both released their FIRST albums. Also, he still looked really old.
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23. When Michael Stipe was 21…
He had hair.
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24. When Nancy Pelosi was 17…
Democrats were the racist ones.
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25. When James Lipton was 27…
He wasn’t interviewing actors, he was one.
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26. When William Shatner was 24…
The term “sci-fi” was first coined by Forrest J Ackerman.
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27. When Chuck Norris was 27…
There were several people alive, including Bruce Lee, who could still kick his ass.
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28. When Alex Trebek was 44…
He started hosting Jeopardy. He’s 71 now.
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29. When Rupert Murdoch was a little boy…
The first can of beer was introduced. Presumably, people also had this thing called “privacy.”
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30. When Steve Jobs was 18…
The internet didn’t even exist.
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31. When Stephen Colbert was 22…
Larry King began his television show.
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32. When Betty White was 20…
She got naked. And the US was still fighting World War II.
When Celebrities Were Young
Poor Harrison Ford. When he was a kid, they didn’t even have color television. Here are 32 celebrities and the things they had when they were much younger than they are now.
I know, right? Now tell your friends!
When Celebrities Were Young
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Jaybone a year agoUntil, say, the mid to late 1980s, Helen Mirren was known mainly in the biz for having no problem taking her clothes off in films. And why not? She had that rockin’ bod and all. Now she’s gettin’ mad respect just for her acting skillz. Why I went all hip-hop there I dunno.
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Avarielle a year ago
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Hey, Helen fans…I’ll leave this here…
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Cinnamon Broom a year agoThis was kind of random… I thought it was at least going to be their own reflections on what stuff was like when they were younger.
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