Monday, November 3, 2008

Famous People Who Love Tintin... Test Your Knowledge

Below is the BEGINNING of a list of famous people who love Tintin (not in alpha order). If there are famous and lesser-known celebrities who love Tintin and who are NOT on this list, please let me know!
This list is culled from several sources including tintinologist.org

>Hugh Grant
>Paul Giamatti
>Charles de Gaulle - he said: "Tintin is my only international rival. Nodoby notices, because of my height. We are both little fellows who won't be got at by big fellows."
>Andy Warhol
>Roy Lichtenstein - drew two studies of Tintin for the book "Tintin in the New World" by Frederic Tuten.
>Wim Wenders
>Francoise Sagan
>Chiang kai'shek (the former president of Taiwan, I think) was also a fan after he read The Blue Lotus post-WWII. (re:Tintin and the World of Herge: an Illustrated History by Benoit Peters). In appreciation for the Blue Lotus, Chiang invited Herge to visit China during the Second World War, but Herge did not take up the invitation until some thirty years later, in 1973 (two years before Chiang's death).
>Terry Gilliam
>The ‘80’s Band: The Thompson Twins
>Steven Spielberg
>Former Indian Prime Ministers Rajeev Gandhi and Atal Behari Vajpayee
>Dustin Hoffman is one; there's a very brief scene in his movie Kramer vs Kramer (1979) where he's reading Red Rackham's Treasure to his son in bed (you can't really see the cover, but you could hear the dialogue word for word)












>Sting -in the award-winning music video for his hit song "We'll be together" (1988), Sting is wearing a Tintin sweater.

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