Are YOU a celebrity?

[Powerhouse]

Have you ever appeared on TV?
If so, why?
Were you able to save a video of it?

(Enquiring minds want to know. :D )

[Emily]

Do home videos count? ;)

[Heartland]

Nope, not me. If I see a TV camera, I hide. :1gamecock

[Powerhouse]

Well, it's just one of those things that could happen anytime anywhere.
My wife and son were on TV once.
It was when the Harry Potter craze first took off years ago, she and he were at a toy store looking over Harry Potter stuff when a local news crew happened to come through just then to do a story on the craze and they interviewed her about it and showed my son picking through the Harry Potter toys.
Made the 6 and 11 news that night.
As an interesting addition it happend that Lex and Terry of the Lex and Terry national radio show which is based out of here both saw the interview of her on TV that night and discussed it on their show the next day while my wife and I were driving somewhere.
So in addition to the TV interview we also wound up in the rare position that we were both together in the car and listening to Lex and Terry (she never listens to them) and got to hear them talking about her - they called her a 'soccer mom' :1rotfl1: She was thrilled.

:D

[Heartland]

LOL, the last time I hid from a TV camera, I was standing in line at 5 AM for a first edition FURBY. Got it, too, and I still have it NRFB (never removed from box).

[Bastet]

That's cool about you wife and son, Powerhouse. Especially the part about it being talked about on the radio the next day. :1clap4:

In April, the hospital I had cancer surgery at had a Cancer Survivors Appreciation get together. My Oncologist asked my Husband and I to be interviewed for T.V. So we did it. But, I have never seen it. I don't want to see it, LOL! My Onc said he thought we would be articulate. All I remember doing is going, "Um Ahh Um." LOL! Yeah, real articulate. My Onc's nurse saw our interview and she said we were really "cute." I will never know.

[Kiheicat]

Yes I've been on tv but not for a little over a decade now. Too many trolls check this forum out to divulge specifics so I'll just leave it at that. ;)

[Heartland]

Oooooh, a mystery! :1crazy:

[Kiheicat]

LOL
:1bonk1:

[packyrat]

Sheesh Mikey....you DO like to get nosey sometimes.....you writing a book or just collecting blackmail material???

I popped up on several Columbus, Ohio station's news shows back in 1981 when a group I represented, dedicated a permenant memorial to the servicemen killled in the Iranian Hostage rescue attempt. Also appeared several times, 2 years in a row on the local segments of the UCP Telethon making donations for the national company I worked for. I only have stills from that.

When I opened my antique store here in Pensacola, the anchor came down and worked up a 2 minute interview for the 6 & 11 news. That one I do have a copy of.

I was also in the front row at the Neil Armstrong Homecoming in 1969 and was told that my parents & I were seen on national news broadcasts that day when they panned the crowd....but since that was WAY before the VCR era, I have never seen proof.

Fortunately, the segment scheduled for America's Most Wanted was killed off by the Witness Protection guys. :cool:

[Kiheicat]

Fortunately, the segment scheduled for America's Most Wanted was killed off by the Witness Protection guys. :cool:
That makes me a saaaaaaaaad Panda :1rotfl2:

[TerrorEd]

I was in the studio audience of "The Captain Jinks Show" in 1963. My Cub Scout Pack was the studio audience. The Captain Jinks Show was a weekday afternoon, three-hour-long extravaganza of cartoons, Three Stooges, and Little Rascals.

We kids all held Captain Jinks in the highest esteem.... ;)

Ed.

[Powerhouse]

That makes me a saaaaaaaaad Panda :1rotfl2:

:1chirol_r

[Kiheicat]

PH :) - one of my fav episodes :)

[sadie999]

Yes, once on the news.

And my little brother and I were in the newspaper once when we were little kids for our Halloween costumes - I was an organ grinder and he was my monkey. :1rotfl1:

Peace,
Sadie

[Powerhouse]

I was an organ grinder ...

:1chirol_r :1chirol_r :1chirol_r

[ssnafu]

Made the front page of the newspaper as one of the survivors from a gun shop fire and explosion that all but leveled the building.

[Kiheicat]

Dam! :(

[ssnafu]

That's putting it mildly!

[Powerhouse]

Made the front page of the newspaper as one of the survivors from a gun shop fire and explosion that all but leveled the building.

Wow! What caused it?

[ssnafu]

According to the State Fire Marshall's office, it was a suspected bombing. Thats about all I was told afterwards. Nobody could prove anything.

[Powerhouse]

Did you keep the news article? Was anyone hurt?

[ssnafu]

I kept the articles, but that was Boo Coo time ago. The other man in the place got burned but lived. One of the firemen got hurt but not bad. We made local TV for about a day, then something else hit the tube.

[larruone]

Closest I ever came was having an auction mentioned on the Howard Stern radio show.

Lots of hits, but only closed at $33.00.

[Powerhouse]

I suppose it was something sexual if Howard Stern mentioned it?

[GammaWaif]

I was on the local news, probably a decade ago, because I was captain of the AIDS walk team, for the company I worked for. I was breifly interviewed. Nope, didn't get any tape of it.

In college, I was among the cast members of a play, and we were on a local tv talk show, in Gainesville, FL. This was probably 1976-77. I think it was called The Patricia Rogers Show, but don't fully remember. No tape on this, either.

[Kiheicat]

Gamma, I lived in Gainesville at the same time you did! I graduated from Buchholz in '78. Small world after all! :)

[Kiheicat]

...and my father was a professor at UF at the time. Secondary Education Foreign Language.

[mewsicmama]

Good topic!

I was on the Chucko the Clown show about 41-42 years ago. Was on the Mike and Matty show in the audience. Have been to the Ellen DeGeneres Show 3 times and have showed up twice there (do have it on video).

Not a celebrity in any sense of the word - lol!

Shari

[juliatheena]

The only time I've been on TV was when the cameras panned the audience.

~The Price is Right, 1985

~Dr. Phil, last year

~The Ellen Degeneres Show, this last April.

[Eriu]

I was in the Movie "Milk Money" as an extra. Most of it was shot in Cincinnati. All I did sll day long was walk up and down 4th street in downtown Cincinnati. I would never do that again!

[Powerhouse]

Oooh! Tell me more about it. How did you get into it? What was it like?

[Heartland]

I would've been in the movie "Hoosiers," but they caught me peeking through the door into the gym. :1rotfl2:

(One of the games was filmed at my old grade school, St. Philip Neri ... if you watch it, it's the gym decked out in green.)

[Eriu]

PH,

There is a production company in Cincinnati that is trying to get more movies made here as it is much cheaper. A few that come to mind are Rain Man, Harlem Nights, and some horse movie that Molly Ringwald was in. Oh yeah and Big Man Tate, Little Man Tate something like that.

Anyways, they do casting calls for people who want speaking parts in the films. Then they advertise for extras. In the case of Milk Money, I think they needed about 300 people to walk up and down the street.

What's bizarre is we started at 7:30 in the morning and sis not quit until somewhere around 7:00 in the evening. And all we did was walk back and forth.

I rented the movie and I think that particular scene may have lasted about 1 minute. Wow, one day of shooting for one minute of screen time.

[GammaWaif]

Gamma, I lived in Gainesville at the same time you did! I graduated from Buchholz in '78. Small world after all! :)

Yes, the world is small and getting smaller all the time. I was an out-of-state student, tho, as I was born and raised in Long Island. So, that's where I went to high school. My grandparents lived in FL, so I went to college there.

I'm assuming Buchholz is a high school?

I was a theatre major, so I probably didn't cross paths with your dad, either.

But, yanno, maybe we were both at Sonny's, chowing down on bbq, at the same time, and never knew it! LOL

:1micio1:

[Kiheicat]

Yes, Buchholz is a high school. Go Bobcats! :1chirol_r
Being a theatre major, did you ever happen by Gainesville Little Theatre? I was in a couple of shows there in high school - Showboat, and Roar of the Greasepaint.

[GammaWaif]

Yes, I'm sure I saw shows at that theatre. Sorry to admit, my memory is not what it once was. I believe I saw The Children's Hour, there.

I did work at the Hippodrome Theatre, do you remember that one? I think it grew up to be quite a venue, after I left. It was just a hole-in-the-wall, when I was in Hogtown.

:1chirol_c Bobcats ;)

[Kiheicat]

Yes I wanted to audition for the Hippodrome but my mother wouldn't frikkin let me cos they had just done Equus and - well, she didn't think it was a place for a kid to be hanging out :lol
Too bad, I wish I had expanded my horizons earlier. I did a lot of shows with the Jacksonville Open Theatre which may no longer exist back in the early 80's.
Just finished a show out here on Maui called Pump Boys and Dinettes. Awesomely fun show; have you ever seen it? (I was Rhetta)

[GammaWaif]

Well, your momma was right! The Hippodromers were a buncha pot-smokin' hippie freaks! LOL :1weed_pac

There would almost always be some nudity in a Hippo show, so I'm not at all surprised they did Equus. I saw that on Broadway, astounding show. I can still see scenes from it, playing in my head.

Yes, I know of the show Pump Boys and Dinettes. I never saw it, however, but I know the name.

When I worked at the Hippodrome, there was one huge dressing room for everybody. One of the guys was a little fellow whose claim to fame was an enormous schlong. . .so he was always naked, backstage. He had a habit of coming to chat with you, while you were seated, so you were nose to, uh, nose, as it were, with his "main attraction!"

:1b2:

[ddhafe]

Heck yes I'm a celebrity.............. I was on the Bozo the Clown show in the early 60's when I was 6 years old. We even picked the right key for the chest and got all the toys. :p

[Kiheicat]

nose to, uh, nose, as it were
:irollers5 LOL

[Powerhouse]

PH,

Anyways, they do casting calls for people who want speaking parts in the films. Then they advertise for extras. In the case of Milk Money, I think they needed about 300 people to walk up and down the street.

What's bizarre is we started at 7:30 in the morning and sis not quit until somewhere around 7:00 in the evening. And all we did was walk back and forth.



WOW! Did you not get to see any stars? Did they cater lunch for you? Was it an hourly thing? Did they provide wardrobe and tell you what to wear?
Did they give you any partucular instructions?

I find it all very interesting. :)

[babyhippie]

My husband is the "celebrity" in the family, but I was in a commercial in the early 90's. I've had my picture in the paper fairly recently too, for doing turtle patrol here.

[Eriu]

WOW! Did you not get to see any stars? Did they cater lunch for you? Was it an hourly thing? Did they provide wardrobe and tell you what to wear?
Did they give you any partucular instructions?

I find it all very interesting. :)

I just saw this...

No, the only star I saw was Richard Benjamin who was actually directing the film. Yeah they catered lunch all right, it was nasty and did not get served until 3:30 in the afternoon. Nope, not an hourly thing, I think if I remember correctly I got paid like 85.00 for the day before taxes. THey told ud to wear business attire, but nothing bright. Thank goodness I wore tennis shoes with my dress. LOL. My coworker and friend who did this with me had a dark purple dress on and they gave her a trench coat to wear to cover the color of the dress. She was not to happy.

The only instructions we received were to walk. We would start at a spot, walk until the director yelled ciut, and then walk back to where we started and repeat the process. It was interesing to do once, but I have do desire to that again!

:1crazy:

[mouthymouse]

I was on the news once. My sister and I were the first sunbathers of the season while watching a rugby game at the park. Unfortunately for my sister, she had called in sick that day and got caught because of the news clip.

[Kiheicat]

Ok I did a General Hospital weekend location shoot, a Columbo gig, and almost got my SAG card doing a bit with Val Kilmer in an HBO gig a couple of decades ago. Val was yakking with me while I was getting makeup done, trying to get me to say one more line so I'd get my card but I chickened out because I wasn't supposed to and the director was being a dick that day, LOL
Kyra Sedgewick was in that show as well and in case anyone cares she's a bitch. ;)
I worked as Ann Jillian's vocal stand-in while she was recovering from chemotherapy at a USO show in Dallas. Also sang (and danced) on my own in that show. Lots of celebs there: Ben Vereen, Barbara Eden, Brooke Shields, John Forsythe, yada yada yada. Took some pix that during that gig. Here's me with Brooke:
http://www.mauishack.com/catbrookeuso.jpg
Here's me with Ben:
http://www.mauishack.com/catben.jpg
And here's me with Anson Williams (Potsy from Happy Days)
http://www.mauishack.com/catanson.jpg
I really don't care for name dropping which is why I refrained from this thread because some troll is going to take the ball and run with it, but there ya go. There's some of what I've done.
:)

[babyhippie]

Fun pics, kcat! :)

And to hell with the trolls! :1leopard:

[mouthymouse]

I think it's very cool :1clap5:

When I was a bartender I waited on a few famous people, no pictures though.

[ADMIRAL]

Fun pics, kcat! :)

And to hell with the trolls! :1leopard:

I dunno ......... I saw Rodney on the lurk line. :1bradquac

[Kiheicat]

Rodney doesn't give a shit about me :sticktnge

[ADMIRAL]

Rodney doesn't give a shit about me :sticktnge

But ..... but ..... but ..... but ..... Rodney is a celebrity and a published author !!! :1clap3:

[ADMIRAL]

and .................... he is a :1bradquac

[Kiheicat]

LOL
:2chirol_k

[mewsicmama]

:1bradquac

[Powerhouse]

The only instructions we received were to walk. We would start at a spot, walk until the director yelled ciut, and then walk back to where we started and repeat the process. It was interesing to do once, but I have do desire to that again!

:1crazy:


Wow. Does sound boring after the first few minutes, but it is an experience you get to have and share! Thanks!

Kcat got pictures of her experiences - pretty cool! Sounds like you got to do a lot of neat stuff. Good for you! and Thanks for sharing it too!

We have a couple of stars amongst us! Neato! :)

:KaoC010:

[Powerhouse]

Bumping to ask the same of our newer members as well:

Have you ever been on TV or in a movie?
Have you a copy of it on tape?
What was the experience like?


:1clap5:

[Zilvy]

I've been in the Boston Newspapers twice as a small child.

Once in my Sunday best, about age 3 or 4, selling war bonds with my mother who was a Powers Model at the time....and another time when I was probably about 2-1/2 because of some hi-jinx during a court hearing. I have the articles stored with other paper milestones.

[Heartland]

Wow, very cool stories! K-cat, the pics are awesome. Kyra is a bitch? Who woulda thunk it?

Eriu, my daughter loved that movie Milk Money when she was a kid. I can't remember if I watched it all the way through or not, but she probably watched it at least half a dozen times.

I shook Bobby Kennedy's hand when I was 12, and saw him speak in Indy the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed (Indy was one of very few large cities that didn't have rioting that day, thanks to RFK). No pics, though. How I wish I'd taken some, but I didn't even own a camera then! I'll never forget that handshake or that smile.

[butterflykisses]

Yes, I was on the news. I did a chairity thing for a local solider who was shot and almost killed in Iraq. He is a wonderful kid and brought it so very closer to home. The local news caught wind of it and asked to televise my efforts. The rest they say is history.