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Re: Have you met someone famous?
Not exactly "fair" since these weren't chance encounters, but top-of-mind, here goes:
Circa 1998, during a remote broadcast from Dolphin Days at Hilton Waikoloa Village, my beloved and I met and interviewed:
- Daniel Baldwin and Isabella Hofmann (aka Isabelle Hoffman) then of "Homicide: Life on the Street" -- one of my favorite shows of all time. He'd previously had a very public meltdown and left the show. It turns out he'd been making the show and one movie after another and was terribly burned out ... off-mic, talking about his life and how he'd been skewered by the entertainment press, he added, "so, you don't scare me." And smiled. That broke the ice. He gave us his and Isabella's home number in NYC! We never used it, but I thought that was way cool.
- Michael Bergin and a couple other Baywatch Hawaii cast members. He was shirtless during the interview
- Olympic Gold Medal Winner Bruce Jenner
- Former Miss Universe Brook Lee, who was super-funny. She said one of the dolphins popped out of the water and looked at everyone around her, but not her. "When you are over, you are SO OVER," she said. We cracked up.
On another broadcast occasion, we interviewed Kelly Hu during a remote from (sigh) Columbia Inn on Kapiolani. She was, IIRC, on "Nash Bridges" at the time.
During that horrible format-du-jour period at the Q, during our "dance music" days, we interviewed singer Katalina in the studio. She had a novelty song out called "DJ Girl." It was just a single, I guess, but she said she was working on a new CD and the big deal about it was, it would have a track "with a REAL SAXOPHONE in it!" Cliff and I looked at each other, masking our reaction to her statement so she wouldn't see what we were feeling. One of us said, "Oh, a real saxophone ... cool," or something.
I mean, WHAT? A whole CD with only ONE ACTUAL INSTRUMENT?
Perhaps that's what was wrong with the genre? Ya THINK?
Not exactly "fair" since these weren't chance encounters, but top-of-mind, here goes:
Circa 1998, during a remote broadcast from Dolphin Days at Hilton Waikoloa Village, my beloved and I met and interviewed:
- Daniel Baldwin and Isabella Hofmann (aka Isabelle Hoffman) then of "Homicide: Life on the Street" -- one of my favorite shows of all time. He'd previously had a very public meltdown and left the show. It turns out he'd been making the show and one movie after another and was terribly burned out ... off-mic, talking about his life and how he'd been skewered by the entertainment press, he added, "so, you don't scare me." And smiled. That broke the ice. He gave us his and Isabella's home number in NYC! We never used it, but I thought that was way cool.
- Michael Bergin and a couple other Baywatch Hawaii cast members. He was shirtless during the interview
- Olympic Gold Medal Winner Bruce Jenner
- Former Miss Universe Brook Lee, who was super-funny. She said one of the dolphins popped out of the water and looked at everyone around her, but not her. "When you are over, you are SO OVER," she said. We cracked up.
On another broadcast occasion, we interviewed Kelly Hu during a remote from (sigh) Columbia Inn on Kapiolani. She was, IIRC, on "Nash Bridges" at the time.
During that horrible format-du-jour period at the Q, during our "dance music" days, we interviewed singer Katalina in the studio. She had a novelty song out called "DJ Girl." It was just a single, I guess, but she said she was working on a new CD and the big deal about it was, it would have a track "with a REAL SAXOPHONE in it!" Cliff and I looked at each other, masking our reaction to her statement so she wouldn't see what we were feeling. One of us said, "Oh, a real saxophone ... cool," or something.
I mean, WHAT? A whole CD with only ONE ACTUAL INSTRUMENT?
Perhaps that's what was wrong with the genre? Ya THINK?
The concert last night was awesome. Add Ms. Paiva to the list of "cool things about the Big Island" 
MISSING HAWAII
"Dont put of 'til tomorrow what you can forget about completely!!!"
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