So yesterday I was talking on cf-community about my father and his days in television, and I thought I would share something pretty cool.
I was trying to remember the exact day my father died (I watched Nixon resign on the funeral home TV while he was lying in state), so I went online to look it up. I came across a reference to him in a book, went to the site, and saw an old picture of him. So I ordered the book from Amazon. I get the book, and my father is in it a bunch of times. I'm flipping through the pages. and there's my mother, too! So I go back over the whole book carefully, and they're both in it multiple times, with one picture of them together. So I call the author and he's tickled pink. He had no idea they got married, which surprises him because they were both so well known back then. I gave him a bunch of hot gossip about the people in his book whose stories I remember my parents telling me, and we vow to get together next time he has a production in Atlanta (he had just finished one). Then I bring David the book to prove a point. When Men In Black II came out, there was a scene where Lara Flynn Boyle turns into a Victoria's Secret lingerie model, and the camera pans up her body to her face. She has a very serious look on her face, and she casts her eyes to the side in a scrutinizing fashion. I told David that at that exact moment, Lara Flynn Boyle - figure, hair, makeup, face, attitude, the whole nine yards - looked exactly like his grandmother when she was that age. Looking up at that angle was exactly what I saw when I was a little kid and something caught her attention. So I show David this one picture of her in the book where she's being serious. She was one of the world's first Weather Girls on TV, and she was the type to always be taken seriously, hence the serious look. It's freaking Lara Flynn Boyle from Men In Black II! She's in a black dress rather than black lingerie, but it's remarkable, really. Here's the book: http://www.amazon.com/Cincinnati-Television-Images-America-Ohio/dp/073855169 4 My mother's name at the time was Ramona Burnett (from her first marriage), and my father's stage name was Bud Chase. I had almost forgotten that he once hosted the forerunner to American Bandstand. They got married a few years after the times when those photos were taken, she raised me and my two half-siblings (Bud's first wife was killed in a car accident), and my father went on to bigger and better things. Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis President Productivity Enhancement ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:281438 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
