I'm always impressed by families who find fame in multiple generations. Not when they're famous for the same thing, like former NFL Quarterback Archie Manning and current NFL Quarterbacks Peyton & Eli. And not when the offspring is only famous because of the parent, like Ron Reagan or Nicole Ritchie.
Here's the kind of lush family tree I'm talking about: Anaheim Angels draft pick Trevor Bell is the grandson of Bob Bell, better known to generations of Midwesterners (and anyone else who had WGN growing up) as Bozo The Clown.
I was hoping to end this with three or four other examples to better illustrate this phenomenon, but I'm drawing a blank. Help me out here...
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Bette Nesmith, inventor of White Out?
Wow, that's a great one. Way to collaborate.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blliquid_paper.htm
Would Lenny Kravitz have made it without his hollywood roots?
How bout the Hemingways, Mariel and Margot - granddaughters of Papa.
Paul Giamatti, son of former Major League Baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
Loving the collaboration.
That's a great one. How about different sports. ie: Ken Norton (boxing) and Ken Norton Jr. (football)
Cowboy RB Calvin Hill and his son Grant, the Duke/Detroit/Orlando hoopster. The hits keep coming.
Also, on a much smaller scale due to the son's relative lack of success, baseball Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith and his boy Nikko, who was in American Idol's Top 12 this year.
How about Beck and his mother artist Bibbe Hansen.