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Olivia Newton-John has been named Grand Marshall of the 2012 Indianapolis 500 Festival Parade in downtown Indianapolis May 26, the day before the running of the 96th Indianapolis 500 Mile Race.
Newton John's nephew, Emerson, is also in Indianapolis this month, where he'll attempt to qualify and then compete in the 500's supporting race, the Freedom 100, held the same day as the parade.
Rumor has it that Indianapolis bath houses have been alerted that Newton-John's Grease co-star may also be making appearances...
...whatever.
FWIW: 500festival.com says 300,000 spectators line the parade route, "for one of the nation’s premier parades, alongside the Pasadena Tournament of Roses and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade." Here's the (incomplete) list of past 500 Festival Grand Marshals (per wiki):
1957 Lt. Gen. G. W. Arnold
1958 Shirley MacLaine
1959
1960 Gen. David M. Shoup
1961 Lt. Gen. Joe W. Kelly
1962 Gen. Herbert B. Powell
1963 Lt. Gen. Charles G. Dodge
1964
1965 James Stewart
1966 Walter Cronkite
1967 Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
1968 Ambassadors from Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador
1969 Manuel Fraga Iribarne
1970 Edie Adams
1971 George W. Romney, John Arthur Love, Carl Stokes
1972 Phil Harris
1973 James H. Kasler
1974 Mickey Mouse
1975 Peter DePaolo
1976 Tony Hulman & Bob Hope
1977 William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
1978 Roy Clark
1979 Gerald Ford
1980 Mike Douglas
1981 Joyce DeWitt (grew up in Speedway, Indiana, graduated from Speedway Senior High School)
1982 Merlin Olsen
1983 Joseph P. Allen (Crawfordsville, Indiana native)
1984 David Hasselhoff
1985 Mickey Mouse
1986 Jerry L. Ross
1987 Mario Vázquez Raña
1988 Jim Davis & Garfield
1989 Gene Autry
1990 Dan Quayle (sitting Vice President of the United States, an Indiana native)
1991 A. J. Foyt & Mary Fendrich Hulman (Foyt was planning to retire after the 1991 race, but recanted)
1992 Mickey & Minnie
1993 Larry Bird (Indiana native)
1994 Mario Andretti & Bonnie Blair (Andretti was retiring at season's end, and 1994 would be his final Indy 500)
1995 A. J. Foyt, Rick Mears, Al Unser, Sr. (the three four-time Indy 500 winners)
1996 Jim Davis & Garfield
1997 Cam Cameron, Bob Davie, Joe Tiller (at the time the head coaches of the state's three largest Division I-A college football programs)
1998 David Wolf (Indianapolis native)
1999 Medal of Honor Recipients
2000 Jim Nabors
2001 Five Public Safety Agencies of Indianapolis
2002 Jim Caviezel
2003 Wynonna Judd
2004 Jane Pauley (Indianapolis native)
2005 Reggie Miller (retired from Indiana Pacers days earlier)
2006 Lance Armstrong
2007 Peyton Manning (won Super Bowl XLI MPV with Indianapolis Colts)
2008 Patricia Heaton
2009 Dick Vitale
2010 Butler University Men's Basketball Team
2011 Anderson Cooper
Olivia Newton-John has been named Grand Marshall of the 2012 Indianapolis 500 Festival Parade in downtown Indianapolis May 26, the day before the running of the 96th Indianapolis 500 Mile Race.
Newton John's nephew, Emerson, is also in Indianapolis this month, where he'll attempt to qualify and then compete in the 500's supporting race, the Freedom 100, held the same day as the parade.
Rumor has it that Indianapolis bath houses have been alerted that Newton-John's Grease co-star may also be making appearances...
...whatever.
FWIW: 500festival.com says 300,000 spectators line the parade route, "for one of the nation’s premier parades, alongside the Pasadena Tournament of Roses and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade." Here's the (incomplete) list of past 500 Festival Grand Marshals (per wiki):
1957 Lt. Gen. G. W. Arnold
1958 Shirley MacLaine
1959
1960 Gen. David M. Shoup
1961 Lt. Gen. Joe W. Kelly
1962 Gen. Herbert B. Powell
1963 Lt. Gen. Charles G. Dodge
1964
1965 James Stewart
1966 Walter Cronkite
1967 Lorne Greene, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
1968 Ambassadors from Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador
1969 Manuel Fraga Iribarne
1970 Edie Adams
1971 George W. Romney, John Arthur Love, Carl Stokes
1972 Phil Harris
1973 James H. Kasler
1974 Mickey Mouse
1975 Peter DePaolo
1976 Tony Hulman & Bob Hope
1977 William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
1978 Roy Clark
1979 Gerald Ford
1980 Mike Douglas
1981 Joyce DeWitt (grew up in Speedway, Indiana, graduated from Speedway Senior High School)
1982 Merlin Olsen
1983 Joseph P. Allen (Crawfordsville, Indiana native)
1984 David Hasselhoff
1985 Mickey Mouse
1986 Jerry L. Ross
1987 Mario Vázquez Raña
1988 Jim Davis & Garfield
1989 Gene Autry
1990 Dan Quayle (sitting Vice President of the United States, an Indiana native)
1991 A. J. Foyt & Mary Fendrich Hulman (Foyt was planning to retire after the 1991 race, but recanted)
1992 Mickey & Minnie
1993 Larry Bird (Indiana native)
1994 Mario Andretti & Bonnie Blair (Andretti was retiring at season's end, and 1994 would be his final Indy 500)
1995 A. J. Foyt, Rick Mears, Al Unser, Sr. (the three four-time Indy 500 winners)
1996 Jim Davis & Garfield
1997 Cam Cameron, Bob Davie, Joe Tiller (at the time the head coaches of the state's three largest Division I-A college football programs)
1998 David Wolf (Indianapolis native)
1999 Medal of Honor Recipients
2000 Jim Nabors
2001 Five Public Safety Agencies of Indianapolis
2002 Jim Caviezel
2003 Wynonna Judd
2004 Jane Pauley (Indianapolis native)
2005 Reggie Miller (retired from Indiana Pacers days earlier)
2006 Lance Armstrong
2007 Peyton Manning (won Super Bowl XLI MPV with Indianapolis Colts)
2008 Patricia Heaton
2009 Dick Vitale
2010 Butler University Men's Basketball Team
2011 Anderson Cooper
