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30. I came close to being on TV but missed it

Fri Jun 13, 2025, 05:53 PM

Jun 13

A local TV station, WTEN, used to show old movies at a 5 pm time slot called "The Big Movie". I was in high school at the time but was a big fan of old movies, especially Bogart's. When it was announced that The Big Movie was going to have a Humphrey Bogart week and that viewers could send in postcards to vote for which movies would be shown, I went to the post office and bought a bunch of blank postcards to send in to ensure that the movies I had never seen would be shown. This was the rare time I could influence what was on my TV before VCRs. The week before Bogart Week, they did an on-air drawing and my name was picked as one of the people who would appear on-air with Bogart inpersonator Jerry Lacy but alas me and my mom got lost trying to find the studio and arrived just a few minutes too late to appear on-air but I got to meet Lacy and chat with him a bit. He portrayed Bogie in Woody Allen's Play It Again, Sam. My prize was a Polaroid camera that my parents later took on a trip to Italy where my Sicilian cousin Nunzio broke it.

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I was on the Happy Hal Show as a tot. LudwigPastorius Jun 13 #13

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We did have fun. Waiting to go on air was the time for donuts and milk. Onthefly Jun 16 #84

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In my youth, I was in several sex scenes almost throughout an entire movie (in the back row of the movie theater!). Doodley Jun 13 #20

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No I was in crowd scene. Thankfully not eating pig guts debm55 Jun 14 #50

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I came close to being on TV but missed it nuxvomica Jun 13 #30

So sorry about your chance to be a star. nucvomica. You did get to talk with Jerry Lacy. And you did get a Polaroid debm55 Jun 14 #47

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Just had to tell you that yesterday for no reason (no prompt, or a reminder) I thought of "Romper Room". 😄 electric_blue68 Jun 14 #44

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Off hand I have no actual memories, which is why I was confused about it showing up. electric_blue68 Jun 14 #62

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