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I LOVED that show!!

When I was in business school, I was the go-to student that the Career Services team used for media opportunities.  (Probably because I was one of the few people graduating in 2003 who managed to find a good job)  

As a result, I got interviewed for a segment on CNN, as well as videotaped doing a mock job interview.    I also got quoted in the Financial Post in a story about the tough MBA job market. 

When I was in high school, I also got hit up for a man-on-the-street interview in Toronto -- the topic, as I recall, was Eric Lindros' refusal to play for the Quebec Nordiques.  Given that neither the player nor the team exists in the NHL anymore, I guess that dates me...

Made ABC news once after we had a fire in the house caused by a floor refinishing company.  Just damage, but a week after there was a fire in Hull that killed a few people (same cause), so the investigative journalism team stopped by and shoved a mic in my face.  Lots of locals saw it...

Caught a foul ball a few years back (JD Drew at bat) at a Red Sox/Indians game in Cleveland.  Early season, COLD (so I had gloves on - thankfully) and behind home plate to the left.  He tipped it back, came screaming over the net, I exercised my full 6" vertical leap and one handed it.  Landed, turned to my then 8 year old (now 12) Red Sox nut of a son and handed him the ball.  HUGE smiles and cheers all around.

Got a LOT of congrats on the way out of the park and subsequently. 

As for robbery or the like, never convicted - and that's all I count.

Matt

Yes, on the local news a few months after we adopted our son. They were doing a piece on adoption options, agencies etc. I really didn't want to do it but it wasn't that bad.

Funny, I forgot all about it. I bet my son would enjoy watching it but all we have is a VHS copy and we don't own a tape player anymore.

There are a lot of places that will transfer it to a DVD or file and I don't think it's that expensive.

1) Sang on-stage with Barry Manilow in 1981.  He was on tour for the "One Voice" album; I auditioned, and won, a spot in his background choir.  First time I ever drank a Perrier water.  btw:  Manilow was kinda a DB.

2) While stationed in Turkey, a friend of mine was filming a story for the Armed Forces Network.  As she is talking into the camera I can be seen having a horrific endo, bike wreck.  Broke arm, cuts, scrapes etc.   She included this little 'mishap' in the finished version of the televised segment see across the European Theater.

Oh I'll have to look into that!

not TV, but back in high school a friends dad got us into a video that played on the jumbotron at the Astrodome during all the houston astro's home games.  it was a short little clip that showed proper fielding, batting, sliding, etc technique in betweeen innings.  we each got a little segment.  we thought we were hot $hit at the time. 

when i was a little whipper-snapper i was behind a reporter at at some event and i was waiving my arms around and jumping up and down.  i remember the camera man waiving at me to stop and move, but i kept at it.  several people my parent knew saw it b/c it was on the evening news. 

i'm most proud of the second one.

So I'll preface this by stating I like watching Cops, but always wonder why, when the suspect is laying prone on the ground, with his arms behind his head, fully compliant, some officers feel compelled to bring their full weight down on the guy with a knee to the back of the neck. Seems a tad excessive, and at times just seems to be done out of anger and in a vindictive manner. I can get it with a suspect who is resisting and fighting, but when he's just laying there doing nothing and is surrounded by officers?

Let's try and stay "On Topic".  You can start the 'cop bashing' aka 'jackbooted thugs' thread later.  Thanks 

Yes, I have been on TV, but (to my knowledge) not in my own country and generally not in my own language. In China, our school head was an amateur actor and often helped any interested staff get TV roles or advertising gigs on weekends or holidays for extra money. I played (in Chinese) the mother of a young boy in a few epidsodes of a TV sit-com. (My character was an academic who runs all over China, leaving her "son" in the care of a nanny, who's a famous Chinese comic actress.) At one point I was offered the female lead in one of China's most popular sit-coms at the time, but turned it down as the hours were incompatible with teaching.

I've also appeared on talk shows about education and social issues, and been interviewed on Guizhou Provincial TV about bilingual education in the US and China.  I've recorded several real-estate ads (in English) for what I call "Ex-pat Villas on Airport Road" in Beijing. At the time, I was earning about $1500 a month and living in Chinese public housing! Weird but true.....these gigs are pretty easy to get, esp. for foreigners who speak fluent Chinese.

That sounds soooo awful!  I can't help but picture the situation of her talking... and all of a sudden "CRASH". 

i was on an ESPN network a few times about 6 years ago when they were airing collegiate/pro paintball tournaments pretty regularly.

got interviewed once when i was like 8 at a parade i went to about the anheuser busch clydesdales which were in town for it.

On TV once - actually a regionally broadcast college basketball game between Colorado State, and Wyoming back in the 80s.  Wyoming had Fennis Dembo playing, and were kind of a big deal.  I had basketball hat on, complete with eye holes, that said "Hi Mom" on the top.

The hat and the liquid courage made for some decent photo ops.  Mom was so proud!!

Many times as I was an auctioneer for the local PBS channel in Liverpool NY during their fund raising events.  Yep thats right, that guy that says, "now lets go to the board and see where we are, and now over to our wonderful volunteers working the phones".

Also, many radio interviews, and most recently an interview on the Senior TV Network as a participant and the VP of the Board of Directors for the Nevada Senior Olympics here in Las Vegas.

A typical sales person I guess, give me a microphone and get out of the way.

Would that include the Thread Topic Police?

My OWS squad is being filmed tonight for some marketing website I didn't catch who for (Swisse vitamins maybe)

I'll let you know if and when it is posted!  Great my 10secs of fame will be in wetsuit cap and goggles...