Talk:Glenn Close

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There is an awful reference in the Up with People article claiming that she was a former member. Is this awful awful claim true? If not, this slander should be removed.

• A biography by Andrew Ritchie at http://www.thespiannet.com/actresses/C/close_glenn/index.shtml states that her parents had joined the Moral Re-Armament society. She joined UWP, then left because she "found it to be too trite for her liking". If someone wants to edit that factoid into her wikipedia bio, I suggest you counterbalance it with her records of Democratic campaign contributions [1]. Jutta 04:35, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Contents 1 Glen Close's father as personal physician to President Mobutu Sese Seko 2 Taliaferro? 3 Reference to Late Night with Conan O'Brien 4 Small detail

[edit] Glen Close's father as personal physician to President Mobutu Sese Seko

I've edited the section on Glen Close's background to include the fact her father, Dr. William Close, attended to President Mobutu Sese Seko in the capacity of a personal physician. I lack the technical capability, however, to include the reference substantiating this fact. It is my hope that if I include the reference in this discussion, an individual with technical savvy may append it. The reference is: GARRETT, LAURIE 1994 The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Toronto: Penguin Group)- specifically chapter five. Thank you. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.39.33.74 (talk) 04:28, 13 March 2007 (UTC).

Taliaferro is a Virginia surname. The 17th-century immigrant from England was named Robert. I suppose he was about 3/4 English, but his grandfather, Bartolomeo Taliaferro, came from the Venetian Republic (before there was really an "Italy"). The Taliaferros intermarried with many early Tidewater Virginia families, most of whom still know how to pronounce Glenn Close's father's middle name: "toliver" or in the South "tolivah." FYI 97.81.86.187 22:21, 12 September 2007 (UTC)H. L. Erwin <hlerwin99@yahoo.com>

I don't know why my text onthe origin of the surname Taliaferro showed up in the section about Dr. Close, Glenn Close's father -- but that's where it is. 97.81.86.187 22:25, 12 September 2007 (UTC)H. L. Erwin <hlerwin99@yahoo.com>

[edit] Taliaferro?

if it's not a middle name, she's part italian... Taliaferro is an anglicization for Tagliaferro, in english is something like Iron Cutter... 85.20.112.46 12:22, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reference to Late Night with Conan O'Brien

I have deleted the silly item about eating dog biscuits in accordance with: "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a tabloid; it is not our job to be sensationalist, or to be the primary vehicle for the spread of titillating claims about people's lives. Biographies of living persons (BLP)s must be written conservatively, with regard for the subject's privacy." ([2])

Should this item re-appear, I will post a notice on the BLP Noticeboard and let the item be discussed there. ([3]) Thank you. JeanColumbia 16:46, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Small detail

I changed the description of her as a "lifelong" fan of the New York Mets to "longtime" fan, since there were no Mets for the first fifteen years of her life. - Oudeis2002