Have you been on TV?

[annavandenhazel]

Larry and all, I moved this info to a new thread so I wouldn't have to hijack Bill's post.

admin said:

Yes, I was. I pulled into a gas station and saw a news crew sitting there. By the time I unscrewed the lid to my gas tank, the crew was almost piled on top of me, asking if they could query me about the rising gas prices! I'm thinking, "Oh, My God!"

So I hesitantly agreed, then it was finally all done and over with! I told them how they had caught me by surprise and the lady said, "We're the News, that's what we do, isn't it?"

Later, when I saw myself on the News, I thought I looked about as intelligent as a box of rocks! ;D

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I've been on the radio once and on TV 3 times, and I didn't know what the heck to say! On the radio thing, a reporter from a station I'd never even heard of cornered me going into McDonald's inside a mall on the way to work to ask what it was like walking in the snow, and I just babbled something about my feet being cold and then they thanked me and approached somebody else. (I didn't work in the mall, but it was a chance to get warm enroute to my workplace a block away).

The first time on TV I didn't have to say anything - I worked for the Utah Department of Public Safety and there was a scandal about someone illegally altering records, they only interviewed 1 or 2 higher-ups and then went around taking pictures at random. I never knew I had a camera aimed at me until I watched the news and saw myself getting up from a table and walking away.

The second and third times on TV were the same day 2 years ago, and this time I did have to talk. Someone (or several someones) went around our neighborhood in the dead of night, smashing out the windows of cars parked on the street. My husband was the first to discover this when he went to work, he was parked in the driveway and his vehicle was unharmed but I had parked in the street and was one of the victims; after we called the police we looked up and down the street and noticed more broken windows, and after the police talked to us they went around knocking on doors and waking people up to tell them their vehicles had been vandalized. The sun had barely come up when the local Fox News team knocked on the door asking to interview me, and the answers they got were pretty basic. Then the CBS channel was on their heels, and I wasn't any more interesting for them. By the time the NBC channel showed up and asked if they could do a live interview on the lunchtime news, Scott had come home and I made him talk to them, LOL! The ABC station never showed up, but I think we had enough media exposure as it were - several months later I would occasionally meet up with people who said "I saw you on TV". Too bad my TV time wasn't on something good (like winning the lottery or saving someone's life), but on well...

P.S. I was almost on TV another time 15 years ago when my son Tim was 2. We went to a Salt Lake Trappers baseball game and I dressed him in a construction-orange shirt and shorts so he could be easily spotted as he ran away (I got the idea from some magazine article). He wasn't interested in staying seated so I spent most of the game running after him because my super-fan husband paid no attention beyond the @#(^* game. When we got home and Scott turned on the TV to see the post-game highlights, the camera was aimed at the part of the stadium where we were sitting and we could see a little orange outfit darting across the screen. We didn't see me chasing him, my ordinary clothing blended right into the crowd.

[Kimmer]

I've been on TV a few times....once, when I was about 7, my mom and I took a train to downtown Chicago. There was some parade (I don't remember which one) going on so we watched a bit of it. For quite awhile after that, people in our (small) hometown would comment "Hey, we saw you on TV!!" (considering the crowd that was there, that's actually pretty amazing!!)

I was also in the audience of "Bozo's Circus" when I was about 9. (for people who have no idea what this is, it was a long running TV show in the Chicago area, people would send in for tickets while they were pregnant because it took about 7 years to get tickets!!) Anyway, I was in the audience and all of the activities (entertainment, etc.) were to your left, the cameras and crewmembers were in front of you. So, I kept watching the entertainers and my grandmother and the other adults who were in our group watched the cameras....we kids always knew when we were onscreen because our arms would be flapped around in a "wave" by the adults! ;D (it was a "live" show)

[Midge]

Oh, those live kiddie shows! I remember them well. Did your mom send in for Bozo tickets when she was expecting you, Kim?

I've been on TV a few times, mainly because I work at a TV station. Back in the day, my voice and my face have appeared in our promos. I appeared once in a story about a hot tub you could rent. The tub was enclosed in the back of a truck that would come to your house. The producer and I were in the tub in swimsuits, pretending to be a romantic couple. Another time I and a group of other KRON employees were filmed tasting a new gourmet water made from truffles. (It was icky! ) There were probably some other times that I don't remember any more.

Al was on nationwide TV the day of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. Al and I were both on duty at the time. He was at his regular post in Master Control, which is the nerve center of a TV station.

KRON lost all its electrical power after the quake, and the station and had no backup generator. The only way we could get on the air was to rent a generator truck, which parked in the alley next to the station. It only had enough juice to power the essential equipment needed to keep us on the air.

Someone set up portable lights in Master Control, a handheld camera and a tiny audio mixer the size of a hardcover book. We had one deck to play tapes in, and that was it. Our signal was broadcast live to the nation by NBC. The anchor was standing at the door to Master Control. Al was behind him, sitting with his back to the camera. So America got to see the back of his head!

The loss of power in the building was a real hassle. You needed a flashlight to use the bathroom or to go up and down the stairs. (We had no working elevators). It went on for three days that way. And that's how I got to meet Tom Brokaw.

We were on the air continuously for those three days, and Brokaw had flown out from NBC New York to cover the quake. I was on a coffee break and had decided to be a good samaritan. The building was in use 24 hours a day, and I had noticed that several of the restrooms were running out of toilet paper. So I grabbed a few rolls from the janitor's room and headed up the stairs.

That's when I saw Tom Brokaw headed for the same stairwell. I could see that he had no flashlight, so I offered to escort him. As I lighted his way, he was mumbling under his breath about how terrible "it" was. I thought "it" was the earthquake, so I agreed with him. I found out later he was furious that KRON didn't have backup power.

Next time I meet a celebrity, I hope not to be carrying half a dozen rolls of T.P.!

[annavandenhazel]

How funny Midge!

My first celebrity meeting wasn't quite as drastic as that - we stopped at Angel's Barber Shop in Seligman, and after I took a picture of the boys sitting on a bench outside we went in the store. I realized I'd left the camera outside so I went to get it it, and just before I turned to go back in the store, Angel Delgadillo himself came by on a bicycle. He greeted me just like an old friend then went on his way. Later we went to lunch at his brother Juan's Snowcap Drive-In and were subjected to a couple of his practical jokes (offering very old "Look" candy bars and shooting yellow string from a phony mustard bottle). When we went back through Seligman 3 years later they didn't play any jokes on us, so they must have remembered us.

[Midge]

He sounds like a really nice guy.

[dvdjunkie]

Those of you who want to see a very young (and skinny) DVD Junkie, should watch TVLand and keep an eye out for some television shows that I have been featured in. Back in the late 60's I was trying to get my foot in the door in Hollywood and hired an agent and everything. I had small walk-on parts in several movies, one of which was just recently released on DVD called "Hell's Angels On Wheels" and it starred Jack Nicholson. Although I never got to meet Mr. Nicholson, I do get to say "I was in a Jack Nicholson film"!! I was in an episode of "Bonanza", the episode is called "The Longest Lie", and I am in the opening teaser, where Little Joe shoots me. The story revolves around my death, when my pa comes to town to wreak vengeance on the Cartrights.

I was also in the television series "Batman" with Adam West and Burt Ward. In one episode, I was Gotham City's radio announcer, and I get tied up by The Joker (Cesar Romero) and thrown in a closet. They never show me being rescued. (Hmmm, I wonder if I can get residuals for that?) On another episode I was one of The Penguin's (Burgess Meredith) henchman - there were three robots, Biff, Boff, and Bam - I was Boff.

I was on The Dating Game in 1968, and was the lucky bachelor picked for a date, and then in 1971 my wife and I were on The Newlywed Game with Bob Eubanks.

Want to really turn back the clock, I was one of the dancers on "American Bandstand" when Dick Clark moved the show to Hollywood from Philadelphia. There's a lot more, but that was so many years ago.

[Kimmer]

Do you have all of your shows on video?

[diane]

Wow - you're all stars.
I will have to ask Herb if he has seen that episode of "Bonanza" - if he is not watching
"Law and Order" he is watching "Bonanza" or "The Big Valley".
I often watch quiz shows and get most of the answers right (probably got to do with
relaxing in an easy chair at home with a nice cup of tea) but my pathological shyness
would stop me from entering anything that would be shown to an audience.
So I really take my hat off to all of you .

[Larry's 66 Diner]

Anna, I am glad that you had the awesome opportunity of meeting Angel and Juan Delgadillo. And Bill, I am so glad that you've had a wonderful and interesting life in the movies! I will have to watch for some of those appearances!

I will comment more later when I am able to get on my own computer! (Didn't realize I had celebrities here at the Diner! Awesome! ;D

[tclion]

Cheers to all our movie stars I will post my experiences later.

[Midge]

Wow, Bill, you have been an actual card-carrying professional actor! I'm impressed. I am also quite envious that you got to work with Cesar Romero. From everything I've heard, he was a very nice gentleman.

[Larry's 66 Diner]

I would have loved to have had the opportunity to meet Cesar Romero!

[annavandenhazel]

Years ago at the Oregon state skills contest for FBLA (Future Business LEaders of America), the speaker at our first group gathering was a man named Kirby Brumfield(?) who was introduced as having appeared on several TV shows including Batman. He had dark hair and a mustache, and one of the less than bright girls in our group thought he played Batman himself! Another person said, "no, he was the Joker!" I actually believed that because I couldn't read when Batman was originally aired; the only reason I knew Adam West and Burt Ward played Batman and Robin was that I'd found a TV Guide from 1969 in my grandpa's basement library (it was 1975, and he normally threw out his TV Guides when a new one came, this one had been misplaced), and had alot of fun reading those old program descriptions. It wasn't until the mid-80's that I learned who really played the joker: A local Utah channel had started showing the old series and Scott was watching it when I happened to call him, and he mentioned that Cesar Romero played Batman. I still don't know who Kirby Brumfield played, but I suspect he was a henchman to one of the arch-villains (and of course he might not have had a mustache in the 60's).

[Kimmer]

Hey Anna, actually Adam West played "Batman." Cesar Romero played "The Joker."

Kirby Brumfield played a truck driver on one of the episodes from 1966.

[dvdjunkie]

Thanks Kimmer, you beat me to the punch about Kirby Brumfield.

And yes, Cesar Romero was a true gentleman, and what little time I had on screen with him was not near as much fun as the time off the screen. He was very much a practical joker, and I was his victim on several occasions.

And yes, I was an official card-carrying, and still am, of the Screen Extras Guild, and had to get waivers twice to play in films that were only using SAG members.

Just thought I would pass along two other television shows that I appeared in. One was "Cade's County" with Glenn Ford and Edgar Buchanan. I had the pleasure of being in an episode that also had Bobby Darin as the special guest star.

The other show that I had a 'good' part in was "Judd For The Defense" with Carl Betz. He was a Defense Attorney, supposedly in the state of Texas. When my agent got me the part in the show, I was excited, and thought I was going to finally get out of California for a couple of weeks. Nope! The entire series was shot in Thousand Oaks, California. Dang it!!

My wife was figuring up all my screen time, and she said it probably totals close to five minutes for all of the shows and movies that I had bit parts in.

[Larry's 66 Diner]

No big deal, Bill! At least you can still have the honor of saying that you're ... well ... er ... kinda sort of FAMOUS!!!!

[Midge]

Yes, Bill, you're definitely the star of Larry's Diner! Maybe your screen time wasn't that long, but hey -- look at all the memories you have.

[hallway]

I've been on television many times. The first time, I was in a shot walking down a street. I saw myself on the network news.

Plus, I have been interviewed several times, including two stories about me. And a couple of commericals and a talk show.

Radio. I use to work at a radio station. So, more times than I can count.