Entertainment

• Paparazzi wouldn't have perhaps their most prominent subject: Paris Hilton. (Her great-grandfather, Conrad Hilton, was born in New Mexico. And she inherited a lot of his hotel fortune.)
• Hanna-Barbera's popular cartoons, including The Flintstones and The Jetsons, wouldn't have quite been the same. (William Hanna was born in New Mexico.)
• The 2007 film No Country for Old Men, winner of that year's Academy Awardfor Best Picture (among others), would never have been made. (The original novel was written by a New Mexican and the film was shot in New Mexico.)
• The many musicians Norman Petty helped make famous - Roy Orbison, Waylon Jennings, Buddy Holly and others - would never have become famous. (Petty was born in New Mexico and set up his recording studio here.)
• John Denver's "Thank God I'm a Country Man" would never have been made, as Denver would have never been an American citizen. (He was born in Roswell.)