And, while we're posting books about our families, the front cover of this book is a photo of my grandfather and uncle: http://books.google.com/books?id=7E-soIKrX5kC&printsec=frontcover&dq=cats+to+kings
They're also on page 82 and my grandpa's on page 155. A lot of the book is about my grandfather and his buddies. On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Adam Churvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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:281458 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
