You can see I got in eight minutes early for my 10 o’clock appointment. Roger called me into his office and we discussed show business and comedy in the 60s and 70s when Roger was booking talent for the Mike Douglas Show.
It was such a relaxed meeting I almost forgot why I was there, and at the end he said “well, you got the job.”
Great meeting!
You get to have a preview of the monologue . I’m just here in my office rehearsing.
The A block will make more sense when you’ve seen this video. You will have special insight into a bit which may or may lot have worked. We shall see!
Thank you for reminding me. I wanted to talk about our post-show hangout in Memphis and here it is:
“Officer Big’un! Please step into my office!”
We were speaking to our youngest child ‘Tiny Dancer’ yesterday. She brought up that when her friends ask what we did for a living, they are always impressed that @The_CINC worked at The Pentagon for 34 years.
Then she tells them, “My dad worked there also, as a Police officer. Then she tells them her favorite ‘Dad Police’ story.
Here ‘tis.
“Officer Big’un! Please step in to my office.”
Uh-oh, evening shift LT at the Pentagon was pissed about something.
I walked into the Shift LT’s office and stood in front of his desk.
“Sir, you rang?”
An arched eyebrow told me he wasn’t amused…
“Did you come into contact with any individuals last night?”
“Last night? Why no sir, I don’t believe I had contact with any outside public last night sir.”
“Well, the EPS shift commander (Executive Protective Service,i.e; uniformed Secret Service) phoned from the White House. It seems they had to take a gentleman into custody last night, that claims he was sent by a ...
Big’un, Movie Star?
Yes, I was in a major motion picture.
Staring, Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, and Sean Young.
“No Way Out”
You may watch the movie and never know I’m in it.
Then again, I’m the only one that knows I’m in it.
I was sent to babysit a film crew taking external shots of The Pentagon.
The Pentagon’s five main entrances on each side are named for their locations.
South Parking, North Parking, The River (faces the Potomac) The Mall (faces the US Mall in DC), and The Heliport (I’m not sure if it’s been renamed after 9/11).
The Mall Entrance is where they were to be filming. Only SES (Senior Executive Service) and other dignitaries could park in the small lot on that side of the building.
They ran around for 3-4 hours, putting in temporary lights in the old decorative exterior lights that no longer worked.
They were waiting for sundown to get the shot.
The shot they wanted was the stairs, entrance, and lights with the western sky at sunset.
The parking lot was completely empty by the time they ...
