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coily2 · 05-18-2001, 03:37 PM

I was just talking about this on a different site I post at regularly and thought it would be fun to post here. What is your brush with fame? Have you appeared on your local news? Have you done some acting job?

Here's mine:

I was working as a movie projectionist one summer at a local ma & pa movie house (read: non-union worker who made the $4.25 minimum wage instead of the $50 that unionized shops paid). I don't know how, but somehow they caught me on film filling up a popcorn tub. I only went behind the concession stand when I was stealing popcorn, but that's a whole other story. Anyhow, a few months after I quit to go back to college, one of my friends at home called me to let me know that there was this little "Welcome to our theater, hope we can accomodate you" montage shown after the previews but before the feature attraction. And for the blurb about going out to the lobby and grabbing yourself a snack, guess who was serving up popcorn? To make matters worse, the day they managed to grab that shot, I was heading out to a rave after my shift, so I was getting all candied up in my booth during the movie. The cheap camera they used had a crappy lense and poor lighting, so my makeup made me look like a hooker.

2 years later, the owner sold his theaters to Sony or Lowes or someone. Lord knows what they did with that trailer. But to this day, my friends still tease me about working in "film". Then they sing the "Let's go out to the lobby" song to me. I hate them.

callmetootie · 05-18-2001, 03:52 PM

I was an extra in a Fox Family show, but I don't remember what it was. It was about 1 year ago, and I stepped on the camera wire, and they made me an extra. I was also in the newspaper once or twice.

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LaverneShirley · 05-18-2001, 03:55 PM

Well, my name's appeared in the local paper plenty of times for making the honor roll... and my picture was in it once in second grade when our class made scarecrows! Other than that... no...

Cokies · 05-18-2001, 09:22 PM

Well, I used to be in the paper a lot, because of my softball playing. But I was on the front page of the County newspaper once. It was Kevin McCall day ( some guy we honor around here..), and my picture was taken with a guy who was dressed up as Michealangelo from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I was eight or something...but my picture was on the front page! With a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, no less.

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"It was just like Saturday Night Fever, only it was a Friday."

NancyJoJinny · 05-18-2001, 09:35 PM

Ehhhh... When i played T-Ball daddy was the coach and Mommy wrote the newspaper articles, so i was MVP. Even though i sucked. I quit when i was 7. Also from girlscouts... Big picture of Me, Maureen, Stacey, sandy and Michelle. I was the tallest! HEHEHE! I want too act... And chances are if i get a role in next years play ill be on the front page... Trust me nothing happens here. Its easy too be on it. Also i was in Extremes Roller Rink when they filmed a cmommercial but i wasnt in it.

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Jinny: Who in the hell ARE YOU!?!?!

CD: I think its best if she talks to someone sober.
Jinny: Yep! Prob'ly a good idea.

Teddy: I dont know... it just seemed intamate.
Jinny: Intamate.... No... I sleep with him, but i sleep with all the guys in the division, just my way of breakin em in!
Teddy: Yeah sorry, none of my buissiness.
Jinny: Youre damn right.

~!@#$%^&* DANA JINNY EXSTEAD ~!@#$%^&*

The Dana parts Real... The rest i stuck in there for fun.

LaverneShirley · 05-18-2001, 09:45 PM

Oh! For acting... well, um.. At church... when we did "The Friendship Company", I was one of the cheerleaders that spelled "FRIEND". I was N. And I had the first narrator line in "Wise Guys and Starry Skies". And in "The 50th Annual Polk County Picnin", I was Swine #4. In the middle of a song I got to say "There's nothin' like wallowin' in your dinner". My proudest moment and I was a pig. Wow. Next year I'm gonna be in drama club, but I'm extrememly shy and quiet so I'll probably stick to scenery. And I'll be in Theatre class. But hopefully I'll be with a friend so it won't be as bad. Oh, and in fourth grade, I was in a class that had walls that opened up so it was really two classes. Anyway, we put on two little plays, three performances of each, with different people in each. And I was a girl named Maria in one about a girl who used another girl to get a new backpack. It was really weird but oh well.

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hockeychiC518 · 05-18-2001, 10:55 PM

well i have been in the local paper a lot for sports...like recently i had a shut out in the lacrosse game..my picture was in the paper for hockey once because during the tournment i was the leading scorer...and numerous time i have been in the local paper for hockey and in 5th grade we did this weird sudent times thing and i was chosen to be in it..other then sports i am not usually in the paper~i once was in the boston paper...well i was mentioned and i just remembered for this hockey promo commerical some guy was filming part of our practice when i was younger and it aired about 2 years ago and everyone is like i saw u on tv...i was like omg! then on-line there was an artical about my team playing some Texas team and there was a pic of both teams together...

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Jinny: See I know people too, dont screw with me

~*~*~Go Red Soxs~*~*~

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lesliem14 · 05-19-2001, 12:06 AM

I've always had my name in the paper for academics and sports. My good story is last year at Dad Vails in Philly. My boat was getting ready to come off the dock and the dock master said if we could hold on for a few minutes the tv news crew would get us going by and they would ask our school name. We think it made the 6 o'clock news which no one saw, but it wasn't on the 11 o'clock news because I stayed up to watch it! So, I may or may not have been on the Philly news.

05-19-2001, 01:06 AM

Two things....

One, I have appeared on the radio a couple of times doing ads.

Two, I alternate between managing and filming the ball team at my h.s. well, once, a clip from my tape made it on the news (it just so happened that no one else was taping the game that night and they needed some footage so they used mine.) By the way, as a adult job, I want to be a cameraman for ESPN. Crazy, huh,

80skid · 05-19-2001, 09:07 AM

Okay, to make a very long story short, there was this building or something that in one part of it was dedicated to my great-great grandfather. I was three and we (my family) were all supposed to go there and see it dedicated by the mayor. The mayor or somebody picked me (at three years old!!) to cut the ribbon to it, and so on the news ten years ago on this there's this little kid cutting a ribbon and saying "I cut the ribbon!" Cute, huh?

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Love is patient and kind, it is not jealous or conceited or proud; love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs; love is not happy with evil but with the truth. Love never gives up, and its faith, hope, and patience never fail. Meanwhile these three remain: faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love.

Blair: I'll make you beautiful, I'll make you perfect, I'll make you me!

05-18-2001, 03:37 PM	#1
coily2 Member Forum Regular Join Date: Dec 28, 2000 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 969	15 minutes of fame I was just talking about this on a different site I post at regularly and thought it would be fun to post here. What is your brush with fame? Have you appeared on your local news? Have you done some acting job? Here's mine: I was working as a movie projectionist one summer at a local ma & pa movie house (read: non-union worker who made the $4.25 minimum wage instead of the $50 that unionized shops paid). I don't know how, but somehow they caught me on film filling up a popcorn tub. I only went behind the concession stand when I was stealing popcorn, but that's a whole other story. Anyhow, a few months after I quit to go back to college, one of my friends at home called me to let me know that there was this little "Welcome to our theater, hope we can accomodate you" montage shown after the previews but before the feature attraction. And for the blurb about going out to the lobby and grabbing yourself a snack, guess who was serving up popcorn? To make matters worse, the day they managed to grab that shot, I was heading out to a rave after my shift, so I was getting all candied up in my booth during the movie. The cheap camera they used had a crappy lense and poor lighting, so my makeup made me look like a hooker. 2 years later, the owner sold his theaters to Sony or Lowes or someone. Lord knows what they did with that trailer. But to this day, my friends still tease me about working in "film". Then they sing the "Let's go out to the lobby" song to me. I hate them.

05-19-2001, 01:06 AM	#9
Devastation26 Guest Posts: n/a	Two things.... One, I have appeared on the radio a couple of times doing ads. Two, I alternate between managing and filming the ball team at my h.s. well, once, a clip from my tape made it on the news (it just so happened that no one else was taping the game that night and they needed some footage so they used mine.) By the way, as a adult job, I want to be a cameraman for ESPN. Crazy, huh,
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05-18-2001, 03:52 PM	#2
callmetootie Member Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 06, 2001 Location: Clifton Park, NY Posts: 4,768	I was an extra in a Fox Family show, but I don't remember what it was. It was about 1 year ago, and I stepped on the camera wire, and they made me an extra. I was also in the newspaper once or twice. ------------------ Andrew Carden

05-18-2001, 03:55 PM	#3
LaverneShirley Mission Doll Senior Member Join Date: Jul 26, 2000 Location: Liberty Twp, OH Posts: 1,552	Well, my name's appeared in the local paper plenty of times for making the honor roll... and my picture was in it once in second grade when our class made scarecrows! Other than that... no...

05-18-2001, 09:22 PM	#4
Cokies Head Goonie Senior Member Join Date: Oct 28, 2000 Location: Benicia, CA USA Posts: 1,719	Well, I used to be in the paper a lot, because of my softball playing. But I was on the front page of the County newspaper once. It was Kevin McCall day ( some guy we honor around here..), and my picture was taken with a guy who was dressed up as Michealangelo from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I was eight or something...but my picture was on the front page! With a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, no less. ------------------ "It was just like Saturday Night Fever, only it was a Friday."

05-18-2001, 09:35 PM	#5
NancyJoJinny Member Forum Regular Join Date: Mar 04, 2001 Location: Nancy Land, NJ. Posts: 989	Ehhhh... When i played T-Ball daddy was the coach and Mommy wrote the newspaper articles, so i was MVP. Even though i sucked. I quit when i was 7. Also from girlscouts... Big picture of Me, Maureen, Stacey, sandy and Michelle. I was the tallest! HEHEHE! I want too act... And chances are if i get a role in next years play ill be on the front page... Trust me nothing happens here. Its easy too be on it. Also i was in Extremes Roller Rink when they filmed a cmommercial but i wasnt in it. ------------------ Jinny: Who in the hell ARE YOU!?!?! CD: I think its best if she talks to someone sober. Jinny: Yep! Prob'ly a good idea. Teddy: I dont know... it just seemed intamate. Jinny: Intamate.... No... I sleep with him, but i sleep with all the guys in the division, just my way of breakin em in! Teddy: Yeah sorry, none of my buissiness. Jinny: Youre damn right. ~!@#$%^&* DANA JINNY EXSTEAD ~!@#$%^&* The Dana parts Real... The rest i stuck in there for fun.

05-18-2001, 09:45 PM	#6
LaverneShirley Mission Doll Senior Member Join Date: Jul 26, 2000 Location: Liberty Twp, OH Posts: 1,552	Oh! For acting... well, um.. At church... when we did "The Friendship Company", I was one of the cheerleaders that spelled "FRIEND". I was N. And I had the first narrator line in "Wise Guys and Starry Skies". And in "The 50th Annual Polk County Picnin", I was Swine #4. In the middle of a song I got to say "There's nothin' like wallowin' in your dinner". My proudest moment and I was a pig. Wow. Next year I'm gonna be in drama club, but I'm extrememly shy and quiet so I'll probably stick to scenery. And I'll be in Theatre class. But hopefully I'll be with a friend so it won't be as bad. Oh, and in fourth grade, I was in a class that had walls that opened up so it was really two classes. Anyway, we put on two little plays, three performances of each, with different people in each. And I was a girl named Maria in one about a girl who used another girl to get a new backpack. It was really weird but oh well. [This message has been edited by LaverneShirley (edited 05-18-2001).]

05-18-2001, 10:55 PM	#7
hockeychiC518 Member Forum Regular Join Date: Apr 06, 2001 Location: MA Posts: 539	well i have been in the local paper a lot for sports...like recently i had a shut out in the lacrosse game..my picture was in the paper for hockey once because during the tournment i was the leading scorer...and numerous time i have been in the local paper for hockey and in 5th grade we did this weird sudent times thing and i was chosen to be in it..other then sports i am not usually in the paper~i once was in the boston paper...well i was mentioned and i just remembered for this hockey promo commerical some guy was filming part of our practice when i was younger and it aired about 2 years ago and everyone is like i saw u on tv...i was like omg! then on-line there was an artical about my team playing some Texas team and there was a pic of both teams together... ------------------ Jinny: See I know people too, dont screw with me ~~~Go Red Soxs~~~ [This message has been edited by hockeychiC518 (edited 05-19-2001).]

05-19-2001, 12:06 AM	#8
lesliem14 Member Forum Regular Join Date: Dec 01, 2000 Location: Frankfort, KY Posts: 650	I've always had my name in the paper for academics and sports. My good story is last year at Dad Vails in Philly. My boat was getting ready to come off the dock and the dock master said if we could hold on for a few minutes the tv news crew would get us going by and they would ask our school name. We think it made the 6 o'clock news which no one saw, but it wasn't on the 11 o'clock news because I stayed up to watch it! So, I may or may not have been on the Philly news.

05-19-2001, 09:07 AM	#10
80skid smile :) Forum Regular Join Date: Dec 18, 2000 Posts: 971	Okay, to make a very long story short, there was this building or something that in one part of it was dedicated to my great-great grandfather. I was three and we (my family) were all supposed to go there and see it dedicated by the mayor. The mayor or somebody picked me (at three years old!!) to cut the ribbon to it, and so on the news ten years ago on this there's this little kid cutting a ribbon and saying "I cut the ribbon!" Cute, huh? ------------------ Love is patient and kind, it is not jealous or conceited or proud; love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs; love is not happy with evil but with the truth. Love never gives up, and its faith, hope, and patience never fail. Meanwhile these three remain: faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love. Blair: I'll make you beautiful, I'll make you perfect, I'll make you me!