Where Are They Now - Friday, November 25, 2016
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Charlie Korsmo is a child actor known for roles in Dick Tracy, Hook, Can't Hardly Wait, and What About Bob? His last acting role was in 1998, so what is he doing now? Read on to find out...
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--DEAD OR ALIVE?--
See if you know if the following celebrities have had a visit from the "Grim Reaper":
Dawn Wells: Played Mary Ann on the TV series "Gilligan's Island"
Tom Hulce: He played Mozart in the movie "Amadeus", he has also appeared in "Animal House", "Parenthood" and other movies
James B. Sikking: Played Doogie's dad on the TV series "Doogie Howser, M.D.", appeared in the series "Hill Street Blues"
(Answer at the bottom)
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Charlie Korsmo
Learn More About Charlie Korsmo on Celebrity Nooz
BIRTH DATE: July 20, 1978, Fargo, North Dakota
CLAIM TO FAME: He is known for his roles in Dick Tracy, Hook, Can't Hardly Wait, What About Bob?
INFO: Korsmo has appeared as The Kid/Dick Tracy, Jr. in Dick Tracy; Siggie, the son of Richard Dreyfuss's character, in What About Bob?, and Jack Banning, the son of Peter Pan in the 1991 film Hook. He went on to earn a degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000. He received a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 2006.
TRIVIA: Was raised in the Minneapolis suburb of Golden Valley, where he attended and graduated from Breck School.
Has one older brother, Ted (born 1976), and one younger brother, Joe (born 1983).
Has worked for the Environmental Protection Agency and for the Republican Party in the House of Representatives.
WHERE IS HE NOW: Korsmo passed the New York State Bar exam in 2007, and worked as an associate in the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. He was a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School. Currently, Korsmo is a professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio.
In 2011, he was nominated by President Obama for member of the Board of Trustees of the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.
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CREDITS:
1998 Can't Hardly Wait...William Lichter
1991 Hook...Jack 'Jackie' Banning
1991 The Doctor...Nicky MacKee
1991 What About Bob?...Sigmund 'Siggy' Marvin
1990 Heat Wave (TV Movie)...Jason (age 12)
1990 Dick Tracy...Kid
1990 Men Don't Leave...Matt Macauley
To see Then & Now pictures of Charlie Korsmo, visit: Celebrity Nooz
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--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--
Dawn Wells - ALIVE
Born: 10/18/1938
Tom Hulce - ALIVE
Born: 12/06/1953
James B. Sikking - ALIVE
Born: 03/05/1934
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WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...
11/23
Ralph Branca, 90, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Detroit Tigers).
Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili, 90, Iranian cleric and jurist, Chief Justice of Iran (1981-1989).
Rita Barberá Nolla, 68, Spanish politician, Mayor of Valencia (1991-2015), heart attack.
K. Subash, Indian director and screenwriter, kidney failure.
11/22
Tayssir Akla, 77, Syrian composer and conductor.
M. Balamuralikrishna, 86, Indian Carnatic musician and composer.
Chen Yingzhen, 79, Taiwanese writer.
Carlos Fayt, 98, Argentine lawyer and politician.
Craig Gill, 44, British rock drummer (Inspiral Carpets).
M. G. K. Menon, 88, Indian physicist.
Salim Moazenzadeh, 80, Iranian qari? and maddah.
Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi, 86, Pakistani politician, Acting Prime Minister (1993).
Viveki Rai, 92, Indian author.
Peter Sumner, 74, Australian actor (Ned Kelly, Star Wars, Heartbreak High).
Mathew Vattackuzhy, 86, Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Kanjirappally (1986-2000).
Ram Naresh Yadav, 90, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (1977-1979), Governor of Chhattisgarh (2014) and Madhya Pradesh (2014-2016).
11/21
Blakdyak (tl), 46, Filipino reggae artist and comedian.
Yehia El-Gamal, 86, Egyptian politician, Deputy Prime Minister (2011).
Edward L. Kimball, 86, American legal scholar and biographer.
Masatoshi Kurata, 77, Japanese politician, cancer.
Matthias Mauritz, 92, German Olympic football player (1952, 1956).
John Nuraney, 79, Kenyan-born Canadian politician, MLA of British Columbia (2001-2009).
Jean-Claude Risset, 78, French composer.
Hassan Sadpara, 53, Pakistani mountaineer, cancer.
Jan Sonnergaard, 53, Danish writer, heart attack.
Ron Thornton, 59, American visual effects technician (Babylon 5, Star Trek: Voyager, Spaceballs).
René Vignal, 90, French footballer.
Maximilian Ziegelbauer, 93, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg (1983-1998).
11/20
Gabriel Badilla, 32, Costa Rican footballer (Saprissa, New England Revolution), heart failure.
Wimal Kumara de Costa, 68, Sri Lankan film actor (Bambaru Awith).
Likhit Dhiravegin (th) 75, Thai political scientist, cancer.
Housseyn Fardjallah, 23, Algerian weightlifter, traffic collision.
Maria Glazovskaya, 104, Russian scientist and agrochemist.
Mita Mohi, 78, New Zealand rugby league player (Canterbury, national team), traditional Maori weaponry expert.
Hod O'Brien, 80, American jazz pianist, cancer.
Mitch Owens, 95, Canadian politician, Mayor of Ottawa-Carleton (1984-1985).
Joe Resnick, 62, American sports journalist, cancer.
Diógenes da Silva Matthes, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Franca (1971-2006).
Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, 90, Greek politician, President (1995-2005), pneumonia.
William Trevor, 88, Irish writer (Love and Summer, Two Lives, The Children of Dynmouth).
Ivan Zivkovic, 69, Serbian diplomat, ambassador to Kenya.
11/19
Sutan Bhatoegana, 59, Indonesian politician, liver cancer.
Monk Bonasorte, 59, American football player (Florida State Seminoles), brain cancer.
John C. Carpenter, 86, American politician, member of the Nevada Assembly (1986-2010).
Donald Farley, 46, Canadian cross-country skier, suspected heart attack.
Irving A. Fradkin, 95, American philanthropist, founder of Scholarship America.
Gino Gavioli, 93, Italian comics artist and animator.
Jacques Henry, 74, French rally driver.
Jan Huberts, 79, Dutch motorcycle road racer.
Ida Levin, 53, American violinist, leukemia.
Józef Mayer, 77, Polish chemist.
Aiace Parolin, 96, Italian cinematographer (Seduced and Abandoned, Keoma, The Birds, the Bees and the Italians).
Christian Salaba, 45, Austrian footballer (Rapid Wien, Vienna).
You Xiaozeng, 83, Chinese inorganic chemist and academician (Chinese Academy of Sciences).