Tell me about your 15 minutes of fame

[Lorien]

or have you yet to have had those 15 minutes?

I had mine years ago when the film studio I worked for made me take a lot of TV and radio interviews to promote our films (I was painfully shy, the bastids). They also drafted me and another hot young girl that I worked with as extras in a Donny Osmond music video (not a fan). It wasn't much, but it was more than I wanted, lol!

[Schema Thing]

1. I was featured in an episode of Unsolved Histories on Discovery Channel

.....as a photographic expert. They had me recreate the shot that Mary Ann Moorman took just as the bullet struck JFK, and then interviewed me about what we might have seen with different film formats (answer: a hell of a lot, with 8X10 or 4x5 film; you could read hand writing on a sheet of paper taped to the fence line behind the grassy knoll).

It's been about six years, but just a month or so ago a waitress at a place I frequent said "hey, Mark, where you on TV the other night?". I'm always amazed, with all the channels to choose from, how many people who know me catch me on their television when these shows have run.

With all the reruns, it's probably added up to 15 minutes by now :)

[Lorien]

2. Wow! That's really cool. Were any specific conclusions about the

assassination drawn from that single photograph?

Sounds like you could be right about the reruns, lol!

[Aristus]

3. I was on "Jeopardy!" And I lost.

IntraVenusDeMilo is much better at "Jeopardy!" than I am, obviously.

[Lorien]

4. Did you win anything at all?

not sure who IntraVenusDeMilo is...

[Aristus]

6. IntraVenousDeMilo is our resident "Jeopardy!" champion.

He won five or six games and did us all proud. I came in second place when I was on the show, and took home $2000; just enough to pay my expenses down and back. Oh well, it was fun. My fifteen minutes were actually just about half an hour.

[Inchworm]

5. I had a letter read on the House Floor

I was in college during the 1996 "shutdown" and they were fucking with my grant money. I "WROTE MY CONGRESSMAN" with a wishy-washy emotional sobbing story requesting that they all stop acting like kids on the playground fighting over the ball.

Umm.. not done much since but it was sure neat when a consultant friend of mine called me and said he heard my name on C-Span. I would have never known it otherwise. :P

:hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

7. I'm featured in an art column in a local paper this week, does that count?

Pages 12:
http://www.currentmag.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/may_1_2008pdf.pdf

[Lorien]

8. Yeah, that counts. After all, throughout most of America's history people

primarily became famous by being written about in the paper. So, which one are you?

[ghostsofgiants]

9. Jonathan Kennedy. Page 12 is all about me, haha.

[Lorien]

23. Great interview, and great art too!

I've been a professional Illustrator and animator since I was 18 (I'm now 43). Just a little friendly advice, one artist to another: if you want to continue having a passion for art, never do it to earn a living. That is, unless you can manage to go the fine art route where YOU remain the art director of your own work. Otherwise, your soul will slowly be sucked dry. Believe me, I would give body parts to have the same passion for art that I did 20 years ago.

But, if you ever do want to look into an art career, let me know. I'm well acquainted with most of the best art schools out there. I used to teach myself, and I was the ombudsman for the Disney Feature Animation internship program, so I can help you narrow down the choices at least.

:hi:

[Elidor]

10. I can't top being an extra in a Donny Osmond music video

In fact, I don't think anyone can top that. That is the nec plus ultra of goofy fame. :)

[graywarrior]

11. You're famous in my eyes everytime I look at

[grannylib]

12. I got to give a bouquet to the king of Norway when he visited our

little NE Iowa town, back in the '60s.

[havocmom]

13. Weird Al Yankovic once called me the strangest woman he ever met

I was dressed as a penguin and groovin down Broadway in Tucson with a bunch of kids at the time.

Shoulda seen all the ducks following me through Reid Park that morning.

Then there was that DJ at the after march dance... cut in on 6 little kids rockin out with me to dance with and try to find out who that was inside that big bird beak.

[snailly]

15. Now THAT'S a compliment!

That sounds hilarious. What a great memory.

[Faygo Kid]

14. 1. Me and Michael Moore as the reviews for "Roger and Me" came in. 2. Madonna at wedding reception.

1. Spent an evening at the Genesee County Bar Association (Flint, MI) with Michael Moore waiting for his friends in New York to fax first reviews for "Roger & Me." It went well.

2. Wedding reception in Rochester, MI in 1976; Madonna was a neighbor girl who came to my wedding reception. That went well for 18 years.

I have a few things I've done myself, but I prefer to bask in the glow of these Michiganders.

[Lorien]

20. Those are more in the line with "brushes with greatness"

everyone seems to have at least a handful of those these days (since I worked at the studio I lost count ages ago). I'm talking about moments where the spotlight was on YOU: newspaper articles, an interview on local or national TV or radio, a book that was published, an op-ed piece on The Huffington Post,being in a popular Broadway or off Broadway play, a major gallery exhibition (ooh- that reminds me; I had a few drawings shown at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC many years ago)....that sort of thing.If you haven't had your 15 minutes, then there's still time!

:hi:

[Robeson]

16. Not personal fame, but I did sit down and talk with a famous person...

...Mrs. Robeson and I met and sat down with Gore Vidal and talked with him for some time, and had a great discussion about Greta Garbo! It may not have been fame, but I was damn sure honored to be able to sit and talk with him....:-)

[Lorien]

21. That's a brush with greatness

now if you write and publish a short story about your meeting with Gore Vidal....;-)

Those who live with fame always have amazing stories to tell. I had lunch with Ray Bradbury once, another with some of the actors from the original "Star Wars" movies, and dinner with a composer who had done the music for a bunch of Judy Garland films (he was 92 and still working, but I can't recall his name. He wrote stuff like "Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas), and I took Stephen Sondheim (sp?) on a tour of our facilities. Only I was never really a fan of Broadway so I didn't know much of anything about him (which he thought was refreshing). They were all fascinating people. Gore Vidal is absolutely brilliant, so any conversation with him had to be a real treat!

[Robeson]

25. When we were talking to him, there was a line he said I'll never forget...

...we were discussing Garbo, and he said the "funny" thing about Garbo was when she was in the room, and the discussion became about her, the "topic never left"...
;-)

Also, when we were leaving, we told him we just had to have an autograph. We were all looking around for something to write it own and could find nothing. Mrs Robeson finally grabbed a drink napkin, and asked him if he'd sign it. She apologized profusely for asking him to sign a napkin, and stated we had all his books and was embarrassed for asking him to sign a napkin. He - in classic Vidal form - gladly signed it saying, "but you don't have all my napkins!".... :-)

[Robeson]

24. delete.

[flvegan]

17. Heh heh...

Thankfully, I'm still enjoying mine.

Not in the public eye so much, but in the AR community. Different kind of fame, but I prefer it.

[DarkTirade]

18. I've never quite made that 15 minutes of fame.

I've had probably about an hour of background-ness though. :P

Being a musician, one tends to be in the background of a lot of things. Some of them bigger than others. Of course, the only one that I can think of offhand that was televised was when I was just one face in a crowd of them.

[ironflange]

19. Still waiting here

Though this may qualify, sort of: I was on Romper Room, aired live, on November 22, 1963. I'm not sure that one made it to air.

[Fox Mulder]

22. I'm still waiting for mine...

and I hope it's because I win the large Powerball drawing.

[Cabcere]

26. I was on the cover of a brochure

for Natural Chimneys when I was a kid. My dad was working there and they didn't want to have to hire models, so they just got our family to stand there looking up at the formation. It was a long-distance shot so you couldn't even really tell it was us, and a lot of the kids at school refused to believe me, which made me mad, lol. :P I guess that counts as my 15 minutes of fame. I've also been on local TV a couple of times for academic competitions, and when I was about 7 I was in a "fashion show" for the Goody's store that opened near us, but the brochure is probably the most "lasting legacy." :rofl:

OK, found a picture:


Yellow shirt, black pants, 2nd from right - that's me. :hi:

[Breeze54]

27. Three times, over the years...

I was on TV, radio and local newspaper after my car was totaled by a drunk in a 3 car accident.

I was on the news after testifying in front of a SW state senate committee; fighting 'the man'.

I was featured in a home county circulated newspaper for a 'feel good' story.

[ellisonz]

28. One Millionth Obama Donor

[YankeyMCC]

29. I was selected to be 'sheriff" on an episode of the Rex Trailer show

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Trailer

[BarenakedLady]

30. You'll all know when it's mine.

:evilgrin: