And they became actors instead....

[Ummon]

Dolph Lundgren:


"He received a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, in 1982, and the next year was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to MIT."


By the way, he's Swedish.

[somunny]

Get some sleep. 

[danny_galaga]

cool he did it in Australia (",)

there are quite a few actors that have completely changed direction to get there. All the Monty Python guys come to mind naturally (they met at university) There are others but right now i cant think of them...

[saint]

Related: Moody Blues - bunch of college professors.

[CCM]

Kevin Grevioux, big scary werewolf dude form Underworld:

Has a degree in microbiology and studied genetic engineering in grad school

Was a research assistant at the National Cancer Institute at the world famous NIH - National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.



Asia Carrera, porn star:

NJ spelling champ, National Mathematics League, Spanish National Honor Society, placed in National Geography, Language Arts, and Mathematics Olympiads.

Played classical piano at Carnegie Hall at 13 & 14 (Ernesto Lecuona's 'Malaguena' and Bach's 13th Invention), taught Colloquial English at Tsuruga College in Japan at 16

Attended performing arts high school (emphasis on instrumental music and visual arts), National Merit Scholarship Winner (for 1440 on SAT's), and Garden State Scholar (for nerdly grades). Attended Rutgers University on full academic scholarship, with a double-major in Business and Japanese.

Member of Mensa

[ChadTower]

Isn't it illegal now to give out awards based on actual merit?

[Ummon]

Asia Carrera, porn star:

NJ spelling champ, National Mathematics League, Spanish National Honor Society, placed in National Geography, Language Arts, and Mathematics Olympiads.

Played classical piano at Carnegie Hall at 13 & 14 (Ernesto Lecuona's 'Malaguena' and Bach's 13th Invention), taught Colloquial English at Tsuruga College in Japan at 16

Attended performing arts high school (emphasis on instrumental music and visual arts), National Merit Scholarship Winner (for 1440 on SAT's), and Garden State Scholar (for nerdly grades). Attended Rutgers University on full academic scholarship, with a double-major in Business and Japanese.

Member of Mensa

Especially since she's a chick, that's really interesting.

[danny_galaga]

Asia Carrera, porn star:

NJ spelling champ, National Mathematics League, Spanish National Honor Society, placed in National Geography, Language Arts, and Mathematics Olympiads.

Played classical piano at Carnegie Hall at 13 & 14 (Ernesto Lecuona's 'Malaguena' and Bach's 13th Invention), taught Colloquial English at Tsuruga College in Japan at 16

Attended performing arts high school (emphasis on instrumental music and visual arts), National Merit Scholarship Winner (for 1440 on SAT's), and Garden State Scholar (for nerdly grades). Attended Rutgers University on full academic scholarship, with a double-major in Business and Japanese.

Member of Mensa

Especially since she's a chick, that's really interesting.

more obviously though, especially since shes a porn star- thats interesting 

[mameotron]

WAS a porn star.  Not anymore.

Really sad story, actually.  She quit porn, got married, had kids, and moved to Utah.  Then her husband died.

Quote from Asia: "I deliberately moved to St. George with my husband so we could raise our kids in a conservative atmosphere, in a low-crime, family friendly state."

[mameotron]

Sharon Stone has kind of a similar story.  She's hugely intelligent, went to college at 14, then went to New York to be a model.

She did finally admit that she never was a MENSA member.

[Ummon]

Not everyone is interested in joining puzzle clubs or sitting around smoking dope, which seems to be the two things MENSA members do.

I never got that latter part from from what I've heard. I had a girlfriend who was in MENSA in the early 80s and she NEVER smoked dope, nor indicated anyone in her experience of that group did.

[RayB]

Not everyone is interested in joining puzzle clubs or sitting around smoking dope, which seems to be the two things MENSA members do.

I never got that latter part from from what I've heard. I had a girlfriend who was in MENSA in the early 80s and she NEVER smoked dope, nor indicated anyone in her experience of that group did.

Key words there are "early 80's" AKA "conservative 80's"

[Ummon]

I see. <shrugs>

[Ummon]

More, somewhat indirectly on Dolph Lundgren. (I've been going through the Rocky series and I just watched IV. Seriously, I think it's a good flick in the set and definitely the peak. I mean, what else can you do?)


Sylvester Stallone has stated that the punching between him and Dolph Lundgren in the first portion of the fight is completely authentic. One particularly forceful punch to Stallone's chest slammed his heart against his breastbone, causing the heart to swell and his breathing to become labored. Stallone, suffering from labored breathing and a blood pressure over 200, was flown from the set in Canada to St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica and was kept in intensive care for eight days.

Additionally, Stallone claims that Lundgren nearly forced Carl Weathers to quit in the middle of filming the Apollo versus Drago exhibition fight. Lundgren tossed Weathers into the corner of the boxing ring, prompting Weathers to leave the ring and announce that he was quitting and calling his agent.

Maybe a case of the sleeping beast in Lundgren?

[ChadTower]

It is just as likely a case of movie hype as it is actually true.  If you take a 6-5 guy with that build and tell people half his size to take undefended full force shots to the head from him... eventually someone is going to get injured, yes?

[CCM]

http://gossip.celebritycowboy.com/15-smart-celebrities/

[ark_ader]

Wow after reading all that I'm glad to be me.

I finished high school at 16.  Big deal.   

[CCM]

Actually so did I... I didn't turn 17 until October of my freshman year of college...

[Ummon]

It is just as likely a case of movie hype as it is actually true.  If you take a 6-5 guy with that build and tell people half his size to take undefended full force shots to the head from him... eventually someone is going to get injured, yes?

Well, as a kid, I don't recall what I thought of the technicality of these kinds of situations, and as I've gotten older I did figure there was some intensity involved, but not to that degree. Make it look real, but it's not real, you know? Maybe Lundgren just got to caught up in the part.

[ChadTower]

Well, as a kid, I don't recall what I thought of the technicality of these kinds of situations, and as I've gotten older I did figure there was some intensity involved, but not to that degree. Make it look real, but it's not real, you know? Maybe Lundgren just got to caught up in the part.

Stallone was the writer and director... if he said "go real" Lundgren was obliged to go real.

[Ummon]

Yeah, I spose. Certainly whether Stallone was directing or no, he obviously went along with it for a spell.