William Petersen as “CSI’s” Gil Grissom may have retired. But that doesn’t mean county Demo chief Thom George will be switching allegiance to David Caruso and Miami’s version of “CSI.” Thom has a hard time taking his ex-classmate Caruso seriously. Caruso was the Class of ’72 clown at Archbishop Malloy School in Queens, New York. Thom and he future star were among 12 students enrolled in Mr. Egan’s American history class. Caruso had a reputation for never doing his home work. One day, he presented a small scrap of paper to Mr. Egan, with a typical excuse that the dog had eaten his home work or it’d be trampled on the subway. Mr. Reeves said he should write his assignments on toilet paper because that’s about what they were worth. So the next day, Thom recalls, Caruso presented Egan with a roll of Charmin upon which he’d written his assignment meticulously with a ball-point pen. Says Thom: “It was the only assignment I can recall that he turned in.” Also, Thom recalls that Caruso was one of only a handful of students from his Catholic school class of 365 or so who didn’t go onto college. Mebbe there’s a lesson in that?/DFO.

Question: Did you go to high school with someone who later became famous?