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:
““Why visit the playhouse to see the famous Parisian models, ... when one can see the French damsels, Norma and Diana? Their names have been known on both continents, because everything goes as it will, and those that cannot be satisfied with these must surely be of a queer nature.””
—For the City of New Orleans, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn’t seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can’t find it when I take the suit off.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“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)