People With Something in Common by BruceM

What TV actor has played, among other roles, a baseball player turned bartender, a grouchy Bronx doctor, and a demonic "architect"?

Who sang the 1983 hit that contains these lyrics?

"'Cause they told me, when I was younger
Sayin' 'Boy, you're gonna be president'
But just like everything else, those old crazy dreams
Just kinda came and went"

Which ABC News correspondent covered the White House from 1977-1989 (and again from 1998-1999)? After the retirement of David Brinkley, he and Cokie Roberts co-hosted This Week.

Who became San Francisco's first black female mayor in July 2018? She described herself as "the most pro-housing mayoral candidate in the race" and was endorsed by SF YIMBY ("Yes In My Back Yard").

What reality TV star (in a sense) wrote Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining before accepting her signature TV role? If you don't remember her real name, we'll take her widely known moniker.

Which Black Panther (co-founder of the Illinois chapter) has represented the 1st congressional district of Illinois (including most of the south side of Chicago) since 1993?

What fashion designer serves, along with Georgina Chapman and Alyssa Milano, as a judge on Project Runway All Stars? In 2002 he began designing for Target, although New York magazine once claimed that he had "twice the bitchiness of Michael Kors with half the wit."

Which former Secretary of the Navy shares his first and last name with a prominent neo-Nazi? (His middle name is Vaughn; the other guy, who once urged supporters to "party like it's 1933," has the middle name Bertrand.)

What New York Times columnist, and proponent of "radical centrism," wrote both Thank You For Being Late and Longitudes and Attitudes?

One of Matt Taibbi's Rolling Stone readers observed that the latter anagrams to "Untitled Gas Station Dude," while another produced a graph in this man's honor titled "A Person’s Insight vs. Extent to Which They Are A Cab Driver."

Who co-stars with Jane Fonda on Grace and Frankie? Like Jane Fonda he has been repeatedly arrested at climate change protests in front of the Capitol building. Law & Order fans know him better as Jack McCoy.

What venture capitalist (founder of Point Judith Capital) succeeded Lincoln Chafee to become the first female governor of Rhode Island?

She shares her surname with (but is no relation to) Justin, the late founder of the web site Antiwar.com.

The people from the previous 11 questions have something in common. Michael Douglas claims (dubiously?) that the late Kirk Douglas also shares that connection by virtue of Kirk Douglas's last words.

The connection in question (decidedly not shared by your smith) is in support of what person?