Famous Summer Residents
After the Manhattan theater community began staying on Fire Island during the 1920s, the island had numerous summer celebrity residents.
- Gary Beach, Tony award-winning actor
- Tina Fey, creator of 30 Rock, stays during the summer at Fair Harbor and Ocean Beach.
- Christopher Noth, known for his acting in Law and Order, stays in Ocean Beach in the summer.
- Henry Fonda, actor, built a summer home in the Pines.
- Barbara Corcoran, investor, TV personality
- Nick Wooster, fashion style icon
- John Lennon, of The Beatles
- Mel Brooks
- Lea Thompson, Back to the Future star, and her director husband Howard Deutch
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Famous quotes containing the words famous, summer and/or residents:
“In a famous Middletown study of Muncie, Indiana, in 1924, mothers were asked to rank the qualities they most desire in their children. At the top of the list were conformity and strict obedience. More than fifty years later, when the Middletown survey was replicated, mothers placed autonomy and independence first. The healthiest parenting probably promotes a balance of these qualities in children.”
—Richard Louv (20th century)
“Behind the glass, under the cellophane,
Remains your final summer sweet
And meaningless, and not to come again.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)