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Charmedsclub · 10-19-2003, 02:12 PM

I went to my library to get that People mag with the HOTC in it. The nice lady said they only keep olg iusses for 3 months but they have a online databases. So I go home and look it up and find the article typed up, but not with the pics

But Dee put them up before so yay!!!!

Section: Where are they now?

Head of the Class
SCHOOL TIES

It's A Different World - if not zip code - for 90210ers and other grads of TV's classrooms. The second of a two-part series. HEAD OF THE CLASS 1986-1991 An unlikely hit, this sitcom about a motley crew of precocious honors students and their prickly teacher made being smart cool. When the cast went on Oprah, recalls Dan Frischman, who played Class nerd Arvid Engen, "they screamed like we were the Beatles."

Dan Frischman After cementing gawky Arvid Engen in the canon of lovable TV geeks, Frischman, 42, struggled hard to shed his pocket protector. Following a run on the stand-up comedy circuit, he spent four years on Nickelodeon's Kenan & Kel. These days, the single Frischman, who continues to act in Los Angeles, increasingly enjoys being recognized. "Now they say, 'You're an actor,'" he says, "which I much prefer to 'Hey, you're that nerd!'"

Robin Givens Fueled by her vitriolic split from Mike Tyson during the show's run, Givens, 36, who played haughty Darlene Merriman, "was called America's most hated woman by the media," says Class co-creator Michael Elias. Recently, however, the twice-divorced Givens, who lives in L.A. with her sons Michael, 9, and William, 2, has won praise for her work in The Vagina Monologues. Says Elias: "She has created a life for herself."

Leslie Bega For Bega, 31, who played Maria Borges, life after the show was tumultuous. Shortly after marrying INXS drummer Jon Farriss in 1992, she put her acting career on hold. Their divorce in 1998, coupled with the suicide of Bega's close friend and INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence the previous year, plunged her into depression. Counseling and yoga helped pull her out. Now an aspiring singer who runs her own production company, "I absolutely don't regret a thing," she says. "I'm much stronger, much more open."

Tannis Vallely She was just 13 when she left Class in 1989, but Vallely was ready to grow up. "I didn't want to be the baby anymore," says Vallely, 25, who played child savant Janice Lazarotto. "I wanted to be cool." After earning her degree in psychology from Stanford in 1997, Vallely found her niche working as a casting director in L.A., where she regularly encounters searching stares. "People will look at me," she says, "and be like, 'Did we go to camp together?'"

Brian Robbins As rebel Eric Mardian, Robbins, 37, injected Class with a dose of leather-jacketed sex appeal. But teen-idol status never clouded his real ambition: to work behind the camera. Married, with two sons, to Los Angeles publicist Laura Cathcart, 37, Robbins has directed teen flicks (Varsity Blues), produced the new television series Smallville and, with Class alum Dan Schneider, a string of such hit Nickelodeon shows as Kenan & Kel. "Brian gets what is funny to kids," says Nickelodeon exec Kevin Kay. "He's never lost that vision."

Tony O'Dell As a voice-over actor on the WB sitcom For Your Love, O'Dell is showing much more range than he ever did as cardboard-cutout Reaganite Alan Pinkard. The never-married O'Dell, 41, who lives in Burbank, provides a variety of offscreen voices--from airline pilots to wailing babies--and claims he doesn't miss his old gig a bit. "I just look back on that and say, 'That is so not me.'"

Kimberly Russell Since playing spunky Sarah Nevins on Class, Russell, 30, has guest-starred on shows such as ER and Ellen. Now she and cinematographer Michael Bonewitz, 35, whom she wed last year, are expecting their first child in December. Although she has fond memories of her old show, Russell is less misty about her late-'80s fashion sense. "Sometimes I would have, like, 20 barrettes in my hair," she says. "It was hideous!"

Khrystyne Haje When she signed on to play flame-haired poet Simone Foster, former teen model Haje knew it would give her career a major boost--but a date for the senior prom? "I took Tony [castmate O'Dell]," says Haje, 32. "We weren't dating but we were great friends. We didn't even have time to take our makeup off from the show." The perks didn't end there. Thanks to shrewd investment of her Class earnings, she is now quarter owner of a Silicon Valley company that boasts a net worth of $500 million. "I was really lucky and made a smart move," says the unattached Haje, who maintains residences in both New York City and Hollywood. Since Class wrapped, she has dabbled in theater, film and TV, most notably as Kathy Larson on the Disney Channel's Stepsister from Planet Weird. "It's very funny," says Haje of seeing herself on Class reruns. "We've all evolved so much. But back then we were just these baby-cheeked kids."

Howard Hesseman As the veteran actor in a cast of kids, Hesseman, who played teacher Charlie Moore, became something of a father figure to his young costars. After one emotional scene, recalls Frischman, "he came up to me and asked if I was okay, if I wanted to talk." Nowadays Hesseman, 61, who has acted continually in films and TV, divides his time between Hollywood and France with his wife, actress Caroline Ducrocq, 55. Says Frischman: "He seems to enjoy himself."

Dan Schneider Always quick with a sarcastic quip as computer-whiz Dennis Blunden, Schneider (below) had a sensitive side in real life. When Vallely's on-set goldfish died, says Russell, "Dan got a new one and replaced it" without telling her. Now a successful producer of children's programming, Schneider also indulges in the occasional cameo. "There's still the ham in Dan," says Nickelodeon's Kay. "He loves to get out there and be funny."

PHOTO (COLOR): The Brainy Bunch: (top row) Jeannetta Arnette, Jory Husain, Dan Schneider, Dan Frischman (middle) William G. Schilling, Leslie Bega, Kimberly Russell, Brian Robbins, Howard Hesseman (front) Khrystyne Haje, Tony O'Dell, Robin Givens and (bottom) Tannis Vallely.

PHOTO (COLOR): If an ex-Classmate "is going to be on TV, we'll gather and watch," says Russell (second from left, with Frischman, O'Dell, Bega and Vallely in Los Angeles).

PHOTO (COLOR): The Brainy Bunch: Jeannetta Arnette, Jory Husain, Dan Schneider, Dan Frischman, William G. Schilling, Leslie Bega, Kimberly Russell, Brian Robbins, Howard Hesseman, Khrystyne Haje, Tony O'Dell, Robin Givens and Tannis Vallely

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Written by Jason Lynch; Michelle Tauber; Ting Yu, Reported by; Vickie Bane; Karen Brailsford; Susan Christian Goulding; Mary Green; Maureen Harrington; Jenny Hontz; Valerie O'Barr; Cynthia Wang, in Los Angeles; Pamela Warrick, in Los Angeles; Peter Mikelbank, in Paris and Ericka Souter, in New York City

realchic1999 · 10-22-2003, 05:34 PM

They didn't have a "bound periodicals" section? That's where old issues of magazines are put together in hardcover-book type forms.

musiclvr14 · 10-22-2003, 08:00 PM

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Originally posted by realchic1999
They didn't have a "bound periodicals" section? That's where old issues of magazines are put together in hardcover-book type forms.

Our library didn't seem to have a bound periodicals section either, they had to get the old mags from the basement and when they brought the mags to me, they were the regular mags just like you see in the stores not bound in any hardcover thing. I guess each library is different, like yours had a color copier so you could make color copies of the article, your so lucky LOL. Our library only had a really OLD B&W copier which made crappy copies but better than nothing anyway lol. I was glad our library at least had that HOTC article lol.

Charmedsclub · 10-22-2003, 08:36 PM

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Originally posted by realchic1999
They didn't have a "bound periodicals" section? That's where old issues of magazines are put together in hardcover-book type forms.

lol That would be good...the women wasny very helpful so maybe they do...Ill go back again.

warsaw dreams · 10-23-2003, 11:20 AM

Here is a recent (?) picture of Dan Frischman I found on e-bay.

Charmedsclub · 10-23-2003, 02:58 PM

wow....he looks older

warsaw dreams · 10-23-2003, 03:07 PM

Yeah, I'd like to know when that was taken. He looked different in the People magazine article.

DustBunny · 10-23-2003, 03:50 PM

He looks like Alan Thicke there.

Charmedsclub · 10-23-2003, 04:10 PM

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Originally posted by DustBunny
He looks like Alan Thicke there.

lmao Carrie! How I missed you

DustBunny · 10-23-2003, 04:18 PM

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Originally posted by Charmedsclub
lmao Carrie! How I missed you

Helloooooo Raye! How are ya, friend?

Charmedsclub · 10-23-2003, 11:28 PM

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Originally posted by DustBunny
Helloooooo Raye! How are ya, friend?

Im doing great! How about you Carrie?!

musiclvr14 · 10-25-2003, 03:03 AM

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Originally posted by DustBunny
He looks like Alan Thicke there.

LOL I know, I thought the same exact thing when I first saw that pic and even before I saw your post, I thoguht he looked like Alan Thicke in that pic too!

He does look alot older now, I wonder when that pic was taken too? He seemed to age alot since that 2001 People mag pic tho!

realchic1999 · 10-25-2003, 04:24 PM

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Originally posted by DustBunny
He looks like Alan Thicke there.

I'm on this bandwagon, too. He does. Are you sure they didn't put the wrong name on the pic?

DustBunny · 10-25-2003, 04:36 PM

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Originally posted by Charmedsclub
Im doing great! How about you Carrie?!

I'm very well, thanks sweetie.

DustBunny · 10-25-2003, 04:37 PM

That's so funny how we all thought the same thing!

10-19-2003, 02:12 PM	#1
Charmedsclub Eric loven Member Forum Regular Join Date: Aug 19, 2003 Location: Long Island NY Posts: 609	Where are they now? I went to my library to get that People mag with the HOTC in it. The nice lady said they only keep olg iusses for 3 months but they have a online databases. So I go home and look it up and find the article typed up, but not with the pics But Dee put them up before so yay!!!! Section: Where are they now? Head of the Class SCHOOL TIES It's A Different World - if not zip code - for 90210ers and other grads of TV's classrooms. The second of a two-part series. HEAD OF THE CLASS 1986-1991 An unlikely hit, this sitcom about a motley crew of precocious honors students and their prickly teacher made being smart cool. When the cast went on Oprah, recalls Dan Frischman, who played Class nerd Arvid Engen, "they screamed like we were the Beatles." Dan Frischman After cementing gawky Arvid Engen in the canon of lovable TV geeks, Frischman, 42, struggled hard to shed his pocket protector. Following a run on the stand-up comedy circuit, he spent four years on Nickelodeon's Kenan & Kel. These days, the single Frischman, who continues to act in Los Angeles, increasingly enjoys being recognized. "Now they say, 'You're an actor,'" he says, "which I much prefer to 'Hey, you're that nerd!'" Robin Givens Fueled by her vitriolic split from Mike Tyson during the show's run, Givens, 36, who played haughty Darlene Merriman, "was called America's most hated woman by the media," says Class co-creator Michael Elias. Recently, however, the twice-divorced Givens, who lives in L.A. with her sons Michael, 9, and William, 2, has won praise for her work in The Vagina Monologues. Says Elias: "She has created a life for herself." Leslie Bega For Bega, 31, who played Maria Borges, life after the show was tumultuous. Shortly after marrying INXS drummer Jon Farriss in 1992, she put her acting career on hold. Their divorce in 1998, coupled with the suicide of Bega's close friend and INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence the previous year, plunged her into depression. Counseling and yoga helped pull her out. Now an aspiring singer who runs her own production company, "I absolutely don't regret a thing," she says. "I'm much stronger, much more open." Tannis Vallely She was just 13 when she left Class in 1989, but Vallely was ready to grow up. "I didn't want to be the baby anymore," says Vallely, 25, who played child savant Janice Lazarotto. "I wanted to be cool." After earning her degree in psychology from Stanford in 1997, Vallely found her niche working as a casting director in L.A., where she regularly encounters searching stares. "People will look at me," she says, "and be like, 'Did we go to camp together?'" Brian Robbins As rebel Eric Mardian, Robbins, 37, injected Class with a dose of leather-jacketed sex appeal. But teen-idol status never clouded his real ambition: to work behind the camera. Married, with two sons, to Los Angeles publicist Laura Cathcart, 37, Robbins has directed teen flicks (Varsity Blues), produced the new television series Smallville and, with Class alum Dan Schneider, a string of such hit Nickelodeon shows as Kenan & Kel. "Brian gets what is funny to kids," says Nickelodeon exec Kevin Kay. "He's never lost that vision." Tony O'Dell As a voice-over actor on the WB sitcom For Your Love, O'Dell is showing much more range than he ever did as cardboard-cutout Reaganite Alan Pinkard. The never-married O'Dell, 41, who lives in Burbank, provides a variety of offscreen voices--from airline pilots to wailing babies--and claims he doesn't miss his old gig a bit. "I just look back on that and say, 'That is so not me.'" Kimberly Russell Since playing spunky Sarah Nevins on Class, Russell, 30, has guest-starred on shows such as ER and Ellen. Now she and cinematographer Michael Bonewitz, 35, whom she wed last year, are expecting their first child in December. Although she has fond memories of her old show, Russell is less misty about her late-'80s fashion sense. "Sometimes I would have, like, 20 barrettes in my hair," she says. "It was hideous!" Khrystyne Haje When she signed on to play flame-haired poet Simone Foster, former teen model Haje knew it would give her career a major boost--but a date for the senior prom? "I took Tony [castmate O'Dell]," says Haje, 32. "We weren't dating but we were great friends. We didn't even have time to take our makeup off from the show." The perks didn't end there. Thanks to shrewd investment of her Class earnings, she is now quarter owner of a Silicon Valley company that boasts a net worth of $500 million. "I was really lucky and made a smart move," says the unattached Haje, who maintains residences in both New York City and Hollywood. Since Class wrapped, she has dabbled in theater, film and TV, most notably as Kathy Larson on the Disney Channel's Stepsister from Planet Weird. "It's very funny," says Haje of seeing herself on Class reruns. "We've all evolved so much. But back then we were just these baby-cheeked kids." Howard Hesseman As the veteran actor in a cast of kids, Hesseman, who played teacher Charlie Moore, became something of a father figure to his young costars. After one emotional scene, recalls Frischman, "he came up to me and asked if I was okay, if I wanted to talk." Nowadays Hesseman, 61, who has acted continually in films and TV, divides his time between Hollywood and France with his wife, actress Caroline Ducrocq, 55. Says Frischman: "He seems to enjoy himself." Dan Schneider Always quick with a sarcastic quip as computer-whiz Dennis Blunden, Schneider (below) had a sensitive side in real life. When Vallely's on-set goldfish died, says Russell, "Dan got a new one and replaced it" without telling her. Now a successful producer of children's programming, Schneider also indulges in the occasional cameo. "There's still the ham in Dan," says Nickelodeon's Kay. "He loves to get out there and be funny." PHOTO (COLOR): The Brainy Bunch: (top row) Jeannetta Arnette, Jory Husain, Dan Schneider, Dan Frischman (middle) William G. Schilling, Leslie Bega, Kimberly Russell, Brian Robbins, Howard Hesseman (front) Khrystyne Haje, Tony O'Dell, Robin Givens and (bottom) Tannis Vallely. PHOTO (COLOR): If an ex-Classmate "is going to be on TV, we'll gather and watch," says Russell (second from left, with Frischman, O'Dell, Bega and Vallely in Los Angeles). PHOTO (COLOR): The Brainy Bunch: Jeannetta Arnette, Jory Husain, Dan Schneider, Dan Frischman, William G. Schilling, Leslie Bega, Kimberly Russell, Brian Robbins, Howard Hesseman, Khrystyne Haje, Tony O'Dell, Robin Givens and Tannis Vallely PHOTO (COLOR) PHOTO (COLOR) PHOTO (COLOR) PHOTO (COLOR) PHOTO (COLOR) ~~~~~~~~ Written by Jason Lynch; Michelle Tauber; Ting Yu, Reported by; Vickie Bane; Karen Brailsford; Susan Christian Goulding; Mary Green; Maureen Harrington; Jenny Hontz; Valerie O'Barr; Cynthia Wang, in Los Angeles; Pamela Warrick, in Los Angeles; Peter Mikelbank, in Paris and Ericka Souter, in New York City
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10-22-2003, 05:34 PM	#2
realchic1999 Embrace nothingness! Forum Regular Join Date: May 23, 2001 Posts: 719	They didn't have a "bound periodicals" section? That's where old issues of magazines are put together in hardcover-book type forms.
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10-23-2003, 11:20 AM	#5
warsaw dreams Member Forum Regular Join Date: Sep 22, 2000 Location: Milwaukee, WI USA Posts: 659	Here is a recent (?) picture of Dan Frischman I found on e-bay. Attached Images

10-23-2003, 03:50 PM	#8
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10-23-2003, 02:58 PM	#6
Charmedsclub Eric loven Member Forum Regular Join Date: Aug 19, 2003 Location: Long Island NY Posts: 609	wow....he looks older

10-23-2003, 03:07 PM	#7
warsaw dreams Member Forum Regular Join Date: Sep 22, 2000 Location: Milwaukee, WI USA Posts: 659	Yeah, I'd like to know when that was taken. He looked different in the People magazine article.

10-25-2003, 04:37 PM	#15
DustBunny "Step by Step" Forum Regular Join Date: Sep 09, 2003 Location: Happy Jason Bateman is back on t.v.! Posts: 568	That's so funny how we all thought the same thing!