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:
“My generation was ... haunted by Dr. Freud’s psychoanalysis, which ... had become the latest rage among the intelligentsia. I feel sorry for the modern mothers who have not one but a whole swarm of famous psychiatrists to confuse their thinking and spoil their fun by reminding them constantly that love is a dangerous business.”
—Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)
“Over the winter glaciers,
I see the summer glow,
And, through the wild-piled snowdrift,
The warm rosebuds below.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“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)