Wednesday, March 28, 2012

FAMOUS PEOPLE WHO WERE EXPELLED FROM SCHOOL

 

TORI AMOS (1963 - ) SINGER AND SONGWRITER

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At the age of five, Amos was the youngest person accepted to the Peabody Conservatory in -Baltimore, Maryland. Six years later, she was expelled for refusing to read sheet music. The experience inspired the title of her first album, Y Kant Tori Read?

JOHN BARRYMORE (1882 - 1942), ACTOR

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American actor John Barrymore was 16 when he was expelled from Georgetown Academy in Washington, DC. A faculty member recognised him, in the company of several other young men, entering a bordello where they had gone to celebrate Washington’s Birthday. The next day, when asked to name the other men, Barrymore refused and was expelled.

HUMPHREY BOGART (1899 - 1957), ACTOR

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The son of a successful physician with inherited wealth, young Bogart was sent to Phillips Academy of Andover, Massachusetts and after a year was thrown out for “irreverence” and 'uncontrollable high spirits'. Since attending Y.ale was suddenly out of the question, Bogie joined the IJS Navy.

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