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ACTORS, SINGERS & MODELS I'VE MET

Jon Voight at Disneyland 2007

1990 Kirk Douglas at the American Booksellers Convention

Gary Allan - His mom is my best friend.

Davis Gaines ~ My favorite Phantom of the Opera - at the stage door

Sean O'Brien

Sean Smith (center) - who starred in the Kopit-Yeston version of Phantom. An amazing voice. You may have seen him on Two and a Half Men and Frasier.

Grant Norman - who also played the Beast and the Phantom. We took him to lunch on his birthday when he was starring in Phantom. When he was doing Beauty and the Beast, he gave us a backstage tour.

Fabulous Fabio - met him at Romance Writers of America when he signed my copy of Comanche Flame

Douglas Sills - star of The Scarlet Pimpernel - at the stage door

William Michals - co-star in The Scarlet Pimpernel at the stage door.

James Barbour - star of Beauty and the Beast. He also gave us a backstage tour, and we got to meet his dog.

Billy Ray Cyrus. I was lucky enough to get to see him several times.

Cathy Rigby, star of Peter Pan, backstage

Other Celebrities I've Met

Randolph Scott

in the bank where I worked

John Astin

(The Addams Family)

Hermione Baddeley

Imogene Coca

on locaton in my town

Ben Gazarra

Robby Benson

on location shooting The Death of Ritchie

Dean Koontz

Tom Bosley

(Beauty and the Beast)

Billy Barty

Regis Philbin

Tina Yothers

(Of Family Ties)

by phone

I have Jerry Lee Lewis' autograph

though I never met him. My husband

did.

INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS!!!

"WE'RE CHURNING OUT A GENERATION OF POORLY EDUCATED PEOPLE WITH NO SKILL, NO AMBITION, NO GUIDANCE, AND NO REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS OF WHAT IT MEANS TO GO TO WORK.~MIKE ROWE

"IF KIDS KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED TO BE AT AGE EIGHT, THE WORLD WOULD BE FILLED WITH COWBOYS AND PRINCESSES. I WANTED TO BE A PIRATE. THANK GOODNESS NOBODY TOOK ME SERIOUSLY AND SCHEDULED ME FOR EYE REMOVAL AND PEG LEG SURGERY."
~BILL MAHER

* WE DON'T LET ATHLETES BET ON GAMES THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO INFLUENCE. SO WHY DO WE ALLOW CONGRESS TO INVEST IN COMPANIES THEY REGULATE.

* WHY IS IT THAT WHEN ARCHEOLOGISTS FIND HUMAN REMAINS, THEY ALWAYS DETERMINE THAT THEY ARE EITHER MALE OR FEMALE AND NONE OF THE OTHER DEMOCRAT-PRODUCED GENDERS?

* HOW IS IT THAT THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION COMPLAINS THAT IT CAN'T CONTROL GASOLINE PRICES, BUT THE WEATHER (CLIMATE CHANGE) IS SOMETHING IT CAN FIX?

* WHY ARE WE TOLD TO LOWER OUR A/C USAGE ON HOT DAYS TO PREVENT OVERWHELMING THE ELECTRIC GRID WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY BEING TOLD TO TRADE IN OUR GAS CARS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES?

* WHY IS CANCELING STUDENT DEBT A GOOD IDEA?    DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO REWARD PEOPLE WHO DO NOT HONOR THEIR FINANCIAL COMMITMENT BY TAXING THE PEOPLE WHO DO?

* IT APPEARS WE ARE LIVING IN A TIME WHERE INTELLIGENT PEOPLE ARE SILENCED SO THAT STUPID PEOPLE WON'T BE OFFENDED.

* IF AN 18 YEAR OLD ISN'T MATURE ENOUGH TO BUY AND OWN A FIREARM, THEN MAYBE EIGHT YEAR OLD'S AREN'T MATURE ENOUGH TO CHANGE THEIR GENDER.

* IS THIS AN APT DESCRIPTION OF AMERICA?     ANDY HAS LEFT MAYBERRY AND BARNEY IS NOW IN CHARGE!

* WHY IS TALKING SEXUALLY IN THE WORKPLACE CONSIDERED SEXUAL HARASSMENT TO ADULTS, BUT TALKING ABOUT SEXUALITY TO CHILDREN IN K-3 AT SCHOOL CONSIDERED ESSENTIAL?

* WHO ELSE BESIDE JOE BIDEN HAD A "MINISTRY OF TRUTH"?
    A: HITLER, GOEBBELS & STALIN!

* I ONCE SAW A MOVIE WHERE ONLY THE POLICE AND MILITARY HAD GUNS.    IT WAS CALLED SCHINDLER'S LIST.

* IF YOUR ELECTRIC CAR RUNS OUT OF POWER ON THE INTERSTATE, DO YOU WALK TO A CHARGING STATION TO GET A BUCKET OF ELECTRICITY?

* WHY ARE WE RUNNING OUT OF MONEY FOR SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE BUT NOT FOR WELFARE, ILLEGALS AND THEIR FREE COLLEGE?

* MICE DIE IN MOUSE TRAPS BECAUSE THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THE CHEESE IS FREE.   THE SAME THING HAPPENS WITH SOCIALISM.

* WANT TO STOP DRUNK DRIVERS FROM KILLING SOBER DRIVERS?   BAN SOBER DRIVERS FROM DRIVING. THAT'S HOW GUN CONTROL WORKS.

* IF SOCIALISM IS SO GOOD AND CAPITALISM IS SO BAD, THEN WHY AREN'T THE IMMIGRANT CARAVANS HEADING TO VENEZUELA?

* IF YOU DON'T WANT TO STAND FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM, PERHAPS YOU SHOULD GIVE YOUR LEGS TO A VETERAN WHO LOST HIS. THAT WAY A REAL AMERICAN CAN STAND IN YOUR PLACE.

HISTORY IS NOT THERE FOR US TO LIKE OR DISLIKE. IT IS THERE FOR US TO LEARN FROM IT. AND IF IT OFFENDS YOU, EVEN BETTER, BECAUSE THEN YOU ARE LESS LIKELY TO REPEAT IT. IT IS NOT ANYONE'S TO ERASE. HISTORY BELONGS TO ALL OF US.

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