Michael Rosenbaum Biography

Familiar to television addicts for sporting the trademark chrome-dome as (pre)criminal mastermind Lex Luthor on television's Smallville, self-assured actor Michael Rosenbaum has also provided voice-over work for such comic-book inspired animated series as Batman Beyond and Justice League (for which he voiced the role of the Flash). Born in Oceanside, Long Island, in July of 1972, Rosenbaum began his acting career in high school by landing a role in a play on a bet. Subsequently enamored with the stage, Rosenbaum earned a B.A. in theater and communications from Western Kentucky University. Continuing to act on-stage but hungering for more challenging roles, the aspiring actor packed his bags and set his sights on New York. Performing in off-Broadway plays and low-budgeted independent films, Rosenbaum fueled his passion and became familiar to nighttime television viewers in a recurring role as the "Amsterdam Kid" on Late Night With Conan O'Brien. It wasn't long before Rosenbaum was cast in the WB series Tom (starring Tom Arnold), and feature roles began to follow shortly after. Turning up in such films as Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) and Urban Legend (1998), Rosenbaum would alternate between television (Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane, The Zeta Project) and film (Sweet November and Rave Macbeth [both 2001]) before turning up as one of a trio of gender-bending college students (alongside Harland Williams and Barry Watson) in 2002's Sorority Boys. In addition to acting, Rosenbaum is an avid hockey player/fan as well as a musician. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

• 1. Parker: (answers the phone - at his party) Hello?
  2. Brenda: You're gonna die tonight.
  3. Parker: Oh, really? I see. The call's coming from inside the house. Could it be an urban legend? Am I right? Hello? Hey, don't get shy on me all of a sudden, f**k face. This is the one about the baby-sitter, right? She's getting those scary, harassing phone calls. When she traces them back, they're coming from inside the house, right? But aren't you forgetting something? I'm not babysitting any kids.
  4. Brenda: Wrong legend. This is the one about the old lady who dries her wet dog in the microwave!
  5. Parker: (runs in the kitchen and sees his dead dog in the microwave) Goddamn, fu**ing sick, motherfu**er!
  From Urban Legend. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Parker: (complimenting his girlfriend Sasha) Hey, who's my girl? That's my girl!
  From Urban Legend. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Paul: Look, you might wanna end this party a little early.
  2. Parker: What?
  3. Paul: (about the murders) Natalie was right all along.
  4. Parker: Say no more. Everybody, listen up! No, listen. Turn the music down. Listen, everybody. Paul here, he thinks we should end the party. No. Tell everybody why they should go home.
  5. Paul: (embarrassed) There's a killer on campus.
  6. Parker: And let me guess, this killer is offing people based on urban legends?
  7. Paul: (embarrassed) Yeah, that's right.
  8. Parker: Well, I've got a legend that you may or may not have heard of. This mediocre Woodward and Bernstein wanna-be realized I'm gonna graduate in a couple of weeks and end up writing gardening tips for Martha Stewart's 'Living.' Hang on. Unless I get a really hot story; something that really flies. I got it. I'll take advantage of my homicidal instincts and I'll start killing people in a trendy, attention-getting, cover-story kind of way, basing them on urban legends.
  9. Paul: (pissed off) Why don't you have another drink? (Paul walks away)
  10. Parker: Maybe you're the one that should leave and let everybody else have a GOOD TIME! (Everyone at the party cheers)
  From Urban Legend. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Natalie: (crying) It's like someone out there is taking all these stories, and making them reality?
  2. Parker: Then my big question is, what is he gonna do next? Maybe put spider eggs in bubble gum or ram a gerbil up a celebrity's ass.
  From Urban Legend. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Parker: Whoa, wait a minute. [Scratching on the roof of the car] Don't you guys get it? Come on. Just like that urban legend.
  From Urban Legend. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Parker: (about Damon's ordeal and disappearance) It was a mannequin. Damon uses it all the time to scare pledges during hazing. He also has this life-size blow-up doll. But you don't wanna know about that.
  2. Natalie: It wasn't a mannequin. Damon was dead.
  3. Parker: Come on. Damon is the best practical joker on this campus, all right? He once convinced a freshman he was the middle Hanson brother to get laid.
  From Urban Legend. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Brenda: (about the girl who was murdered) Hey did anyone here know her? She roomed in Daley.
  2. Parker: No.
  3. Sasha: No.
  4. Brenda: (Brenda sees Natalie daydreaming) Hello? (Snaps her fingers) Space cadet?
  5. Natalie: Oh, no, I didn't know her.
  6. Damon: Actually, you know, I did know her.
  7. Sasha: You did?
  8. Damon: (looks saddened) Yeah, I'll miss her, too, 'cause that girl gave great head. (Starts laughing) You get it? She gave great head. (Laughs) Come on, that was good.
  From Urban Legend. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Parker: (while Damon fakes a convulsion after swallowing pop rocks) He's gonna explode!
  From Urban Legend. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Professor Wexler: Something you might have heard about mixing Pop Rocks and soda?
  2. Brenda: Well, supposedly...your stomach and your intestines, everything bursts.
  3. Professor Wexler: Really? Anyone you know who died this way?
  4. Brenda: Mikey, from the cereal commercial. Give it to Mikey. He'll eat anything.
  5. Professor Wexler: (puts up a picture of little Mikey from the commercial) You mean him?
  6. Parker: (mimics little Mikey from the commercial) 'Mikey likes it.'
  7. Professor Wexler: What if I told you that this is Mikey, alive and well and working as an ad executive in New York City? Would you drink some then?
  8. Damon: (about swallowing the pop rocks) I'll do it!
  From Urban Legend. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Parker: Hey Paul!
  2. Paul: Yeah?
  3. Parker: Before you go, if there's another E. coli crisis in the cafeteria, I want you to have the biggest, juiciest burger on me.
  4. Paul: I'd love to. That article almost got me the student Pulitzer.
  5. Brenda: Bye Paul.
  6. Parker: (mimicking Brenda) Bye Paul.
  From Urban Legend. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)

• 1. Parker: So this guy, he was a professor on campus, maybe 25 years ago.
  2. Brenda: What did he teach?
  3. Parker: I don't know. Physics or some sh*t.
  4. Paul: Abnormal psychology. You know, if you wanna tell the story right.
  5. Parker: Not the point of the story, paperboy! But fine. Abnormal psych it is. Anyhoo...this guy, he just flips out, you know? Goes completely berserk. Grabs a hunting knife, and he strolls into Stanley Hall. Bangs on every door. And every student that answers their door, he takes that little knife, and he cuts their throat, ear to ear. Yeah. He does away with an entire floor, before finally stabbing himself, straight through the heart. And thus, the annual Omega Sigma Phi bash.
  6. Brenda: So you have a frat party to commemorate a massacre?
  7. Parker: You betcha.
  From Urban Legend. Submitted by Creep F (12 months ago)