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The closest Bill and I ever got to film immortality was that close. It was 1992, November, to be exact. Just after being squeezed into a crowd of onlookers inside a U.S. Capitol conference room, listening to Senators debate the Brady Bill and standing directly in front of NBC’s correspondent Pete Williams, we filed out into the hallway. We saw the TV cameras, the lights, the actions. It was time for the evening news on the East Coast, and Senators (all very tall) were lining up to give their sound bytes about the proposed gun legislation which later became law. We stood within 20 feet of the action–so close but so far from stardum/Marianne Love, Slight Detour. More here.
Question: Have you ever experienced any of your allotted 15 minutes of fame?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Liz on March 24 at 2:18 p.m.
Well, that would have been last Saturday night…LOL. I make no secret of it: I hope there is more to come!!
Ironically though, I have always hated the idea of celebrity because I hate the idea of having one’s life dissected by strangers. We’ll see what happens…
JeanieSpokane on March 24 at 3:40 p.m.
Cindy and I experienced 15 minutes of fame at Blogfest, while everyone else experienced torture for the same 15 minutes of who’s going to get what “award.”
Stickman on March 24 at 8:24 p.m.
I have experienced my 15 minutes of fame many times, I am lucky in that regard.
Sam on March 24 at 8:27 p.m.
I have and it’s over and thank god (it even got blogged here).