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I've met a good amount of famous people: Darius McCrary (from Family Matters), Lori Beth Denburg (from All That), Lil' Zane, Chico (Spencer on Half & Half), New Edition (sorry, Bobby wasn't there), Brandi Chastain...there's some I've never met, but was within touching distance of: John P. Kee, Kirk Franklin, Donnie McClurkin, Al Sharpton, 98 degrees (back when they were still cool:) )...

Probably a few others, but I don't remember anymore than that at the moment.

I went to the victory celebration for the 2005 National Basketball Association Champion San Antonio Spurs held at the Alamodome and watched the city and the team celebrate a third championship from upper deck, first row center, then honked my way down commerce street with friends on the way home.

I debated about whether saying giving birth to my two kids. While it was, personally, the two most amazing days of my life, I wasn't sure whether it fit this type of list (and so many women end up doing it!). However, on a personal level, the two births are the most important things I've ever done.

Walter Cronkite spoke at my brother's graduation from the U of Michigan. He was a great speaker and I thought at the time that he should run for President.

When I saw Clinton, it was on the lawn of a library. The area around the library was closed off for two days preceding the event, all trash dumpsters in nearby apartments were scoured for explosives, no cars could park anywhere near it. While he talked, there were Secret Service with machine guns in every window of the library and on the roof. There were Secret Service all over the audience (the only ones dressed in suits in 95 degree weather and talking into their ties). The biggie was the helicopter with a soldier hanging down, M-16 in his hands. I was so preoccupied with watching all the Secret Service that I barely remember what was said! I can't imagine what the security is like Post 9/11 when the President speaks!

Dee

* trained at the Olympic Training Centers in both Colorado Springs and Lake Placid

* was the "centerfold" in the NY Daily News (not Playboy, sorry!)

* climbed to the top of the second highest tall ship in the world-- 179' up! (The Kruzenstern)

* swam in an outdoor geothermal pool in Iceland in 34 degree weather

* saved a boy from drowning when I was 17 at a hotel pool

* was the first female to take the "Weight-training for Men" course in college (thank you Title Nine!)

* got kissed on the lips by a Klingon (Michael Dorn)

* interview many celebrities for television (but, hey, that's my job, and yeah, I have a pretty cool job :D)

---sang in Carnegie Hall twice while in high school

---performed with Mark Jones, "Grandpa" Jones' son (I sang and played guitar, he played banjo)

---Family is featured on movie soundtrack to Cold Mountain....Sacred Harp singers at Liberty Church (Idumea, I'm Going Home), and Cassie Franklin ("Lady Margaret"). The 2 shape-note songs are in the movie, Idumea in the battle scene at the beginning, and I'm Going Home in the church scene before the boys go to war....

---met Nicole C. Mullen while working a concert venue in college

---have met all members of IIIrd Tyme Out, and have sung with Greg Luck, former fiddle player(now with the Circuit Riders), who also wrote The Healing Kind for LeAnn Womack.

Can't think of anymore right now.

I was in the movie "Now and Then"

I modeled a little bit when I was younger

I was on 2 Play-Doh boxes when I was little and a Play-Doh Catalog. I was also in commercials for like Lazarus and McAlpins, and a couple random catalogs.
One of the commercials I did, was shot on my 5th birthday and they had hired carolers (sp?) b/c it was a Christmas commercial, and they all sang Happy Birthday to me. Not really a big deal, but it meant a lot to me.
ETA: Here is one of my Play Doh Boxes... the other one, I can't get to scan.
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...e/Image001.jpg

I hate to say it by by reading this thread I have a feeling that many of you are full of bullbeep!


R. KELLY IS MY HERO!

I went to New York for the National Model United Nations Conferrence and represented Denmark, where I spoke in front of everyone in the actual GA

That's awesome! We do American Model United Nations in Chicago (which is in a hotel, so not nearly as cool). My school has done the NMUN before, but they had problems w/ ppl not showing up to sessions.

That's the good thing about about being a TV director and having a lot of your life's work on videotape -- with credits.

Started a Local that became LXA Chapter.:)

Been a COP.

Met Jimmy Buffet at My Smoke Shop and had a Cigar with Him.

Soccor with The Miami Playboy Bunnys on The Beach.

Rode a Tram With Tipp O, Neil in DC.

Body Guarded Larry Winn, Ks Rep two Years and almost shot one of his Body Guards!:o

Live TV Commercials in the Old Days.
DJ on the College Radio Station.

Snow Ski Raced in Toas, Aspen, Centennial, Vail, Brek, Copper, Keystone, Kitzbuhl, and some others.

Things I cannot talk about as more infamous than Famous!:D

Presidential security has always been tight, but it obviously has increased.

President Clinton did a speech at our facility outside Denver a few years ago, and there were about six of us who were the direct interfaces with Secret Service and WHCA (Pronounced WA-KA), the White House Communications Agency.

They come into every site with the attitude that they're dealing with amateurs. Between the six or so of us, all former local or network broadcasters, we had televised hundreds of "head of state" type events -- which they came to realize when we started asking questions about lockdowns, magnetometer locations and sweeps with the dogs before they brought them up.

The good news was that the lead Denver Secret Service Agent was also the lead agent when the Pope was there and he remembered me from that broadcast. Made everything a little easier.

It was still pretty disruptive to the rest of the employees.

Working at the UN Building has been interesting for the past month -- security definitely tightned, at least in terms of sheer number of guards, since the second set of London bombings last week.

Those guys are in the same career-field i'm in. They are always recruiting Comm guys from around the air force...great job from people i've spoken to that have done it since you travel with the president and wear civilian clothes, but a lot of hard work and not very good for future promotions as it is very rank-heavy and chances are you will be the youngest one there, even as a mid-level NCO - meaning you have no troops to supervise.