My brush with fame 1983

[charliesmum]

When I was in High School I sang with a group of kids called "The Young Entertainers". We sang 'pop hits' and standards and whatall. One of the people I sang with was Calista Flockhart. Unusually for my family, we actually have a photograph of me singing, and I'm at my parent's house and got out the album and they have a scanner and...well, anyway...





PS, Charlie picked the icon.

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Re: Do I know Calista?

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

She was very cool when I knew her. She's two years older than me so, at 15, I thought the 17 year old Calista was the height of cool. She was very unassuming, very nice and modest. And she's a good singer, too. :)

Very unassuming

[(Anonymous)]

...also describes foxcalista. She never got on a soapbox, or talked down to me - not even when we had a conference chat with a couple of my Army buddies, and one of them started talking about corpses and prostitutes. She simply excused herself, telling my friends that it was nice to meet them. She never made a big deal about it later, either.

I found it remarkable how she never broke contact without saying good-bye. A lot of people I've met in person will just leave me talking to myself during a chat. She never did that - ever. She always behaved like a lady, even when she was being naughty.

She never acted like it was too much trouble to explain football terms like "RZ" to me; she didn't make fun of me for not knowing who James Gandolfini was, or that the Cincinatti Bengals played football - not baseball.

She always seemed to understand and humor my fascination with her (or Calista's) celebrity. She walked that fine line between privacy, which Calista holds sacred, and fame.

If only everone were as kind, considerate and responsible as her!