Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening, cartoonist, screenwriter and producer was
born in Portland, Oregon, the middle of five children. He attended Ainsworth
Elementary School and Lincoln High School. From 1972 to 1977, Groening
attended Evergreen State College Olympia, Washington. Groening is the
creator of the comic strip Life in Hell as well as two successful television
series, The Simpsons and Futurama. Groening has won 11 Primetime
Emmy Awards, ten for The Simpsons and one for Futurama.

Kenneth "Ken" Mars was born April 14, 1936. He was a television, movie and voice actor, best-remembered for his roles in several Mel Brooks films: the insane Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind in 1968’s The Producers, and the relentless police 
Inspector Hans Wilhelm Fredrich Kemp in 1974’s Young Frankenstein. He died 
Saturday, February 12th of cancer at the age of 74.

Actor Burt Reynolds is most noted for his roles as Bo ‘Bandit’ Darville in Smokey and the
Bandit (1977), Lewis Medlock in Deliverance (1972), and as Paul Crew in The Longest Yard (1974. He is one of America’s most recognizable film and television personalities with more than 90 feature film and 300 television episode credits.

Burt Reynolds in Deliverance

Burt Reynolds in Breaking In, a 1989 picture filmed in Portland