If everyone is famous for 15mins, what is your claim to fame

Andy Warhol once said that everyone is famous for 15 minutes. That being said - what have you done to claim your 15 minutes of fame.

I'm still thinking of what mine would be!

:shrug:

The place across the street from me burnt to the ground (no injuries or fatalities), and I had to evacuate my place.

:D

I played bass for Cul de Sac.

The specifically worthy 15 minutes was probably our performance of "Fourth Eye" the night we played at Tonic in NYC, especially my bass solo.

After 9-11. NYS Gov George Pataki spoke before I did (he had to go somewhere afterword). The speech was in front of the local black / latino business coalition. I gave a much better speech then Pataki gave. Me and my running mate are the only local Dems to ever be endorsed by this organization.

In 1953, at age 12, I was "Mr. Bones" in a school fund raising minstrel show. In blackface, in front of a "chorus line" of blackfaced little white girls, I sang and danced the Hokey Pokey. Yes, it was a different age. :-(

In 1958 (at age 16) I made a kinescope recording (before the days of video tape) as the "spokesman" for "Teen-agers for Patterson" (a totally bogus and non-existant organization) during John Patterson's campaign for governor of Alabama. It ran on the 3 or 4 TV stations in the state.

Patterson won, and I attended the inaugural ball with the reigning Miss Alabama as my date. She was 4 or 5 years older than I, but I was tall for my age. ;-)

Still in my teens, I was the head square dance caller at the YWCA square dances.

Later, at the University of Alabama, I shot pool & had a few beers with Joe Namath. (Who?)

In the 70s, with the country deep in recession and the Arab oil embargo, I had been laid off from my job as a pilot at TWA and was featured in a Newsweek cover article about how the suddenly unemployed were coping. Photo spread and all.

Ah, memories...

dude, your famous!

so did you nail Miss Alabama? :yoiks:

It made me (in)famous in my hometown.

Won a car in a Mom's Day photo contest in 2000
with this pic:

OOPS! Not that PIC...

:rofl:

This one!

absolutely beautiful

Does that count? :shrug:

surgery. No way of knowing, now, w/out paying someone to dig at St. John's in Santa Monica.

And, I was on local Fox TV news, singing part of the national anthem. Auditions for the honor at a Bowie Baysox (Orioles' AA affiliate) game. (Wasn't chosen.)

:)

I was working on the radio. I got recognized in public, had fans, and even had a stalker.

Does that count?

(Also, once when I was working radio in Cambridge, MN, I was writing a check at the liquor store - of all places - and the guy looked at my name and said, "Are you that girl on the radio?")

an article about my website and homeschooling.

:evilgrin:

It's already on the way to being legendary, in fact.

Redstone

forget that. :evilgrin:

:shrug:

Does that count?

Redstone

In a subduded fashion

can't tell you why...

on the front page of the local paper. Mr. CB was in the foreground and I was a speck in the background of a 1" square front page color photo! :)

Mr.CB is much more famous! His band (he was the lead singer/songwriter) opened for r.e.m. back in the day and he knows all of the r.e.m. guys.
They were all part of the local music /arts scene :)

but I don't think that's what you were asking

the year that the Check bouncing scandal erupted in Congress....

Of course Mary Rose was at the center of it....

I just decided to run, not thinking I could win, just wanted to bring up some points...

There were 7 of us running including Mary Rose and Tim Hagan, a sitting county commissioner and the former head of the democratic party in Cuyahoga County....

Well, at my interview for the Plain Dealer, I must have impressed someone because they decided to endorse me...

I was interviewed several times on live TV, made a blurb in the Wall Street Cournal and actually had people recognize me out on the streets...

Fun time, heady time....

And I came in fifth....

necessary devices from metal.

:anvil:

Which is a dubious distinction at best. Probably amounted to 15 minutes grand total.

I was in a couple of plays... got randomly recognized on the streets and in restaurants, etc. for months afterwards. Even got interviewed at the anchor's desk on a local morning news broadcast. Was interviewed in the local weekly alternative paper, which also featured more pictures... Also had my picture plastered on the front page of the Sunday paper's Arts section in full color. Nini gave me a coffee cup our first xmas together with that pic on it. :-)

Have to admit, it is a helluva buzz even in very small doses. Moving to L.A. helped me get back anonymity. ;-)

Twice demonstrating gingerbread houses and once demonstrating these little beeswax/cinnamon candle thingies that kids could make.

Small-town, so a small degree of fame, but a lotta people knew me and read me. :shrug:

Been on teevee a buncha times, too — once in a local station's feature on the Bleacher Creatures, a group of minor-league baseball fans I co-founded.

Oh... and when I was 13, I was Newspaper Boy of the Month. Got my photo in the paper.

Oh...wait...make that newspaper girl of the month.

"Split Second" back in 1973. I won a car and $500.00. If you take out the commercials, I guess I had about 20 minutes of fame.

One is when I performed in Denmark with singing star Melanie ("Look What They've Done to My Song", "Candles in the Rain", "Brand New Key", "Animal Crackers", The Nickle Song"...). I was her lead guitarist in '92.

Well, a sort of dating show...12 years ago.

The show was terrible...everything about it. The concept, the 'host'...I did get an update letter from them saying it had been running on a Texas station and they loved it. I wondered what the hell was in the water there.

Apparently it got sold to South Africa, too. Big success. :shrug: