JIM HULL'S FRIENDS!
(Hey, he's got a couple.) They're different, they're interesting, they're much weirder than Jim (but they like him anyway), and here they are, in alphabetical order, plus how to reach some of them on the Net:
Ginger
BERGLUND sings jazz, and
she's appeared with Kenny Rankin, Steve Allen, and a scad of others.
She's also performed opera, and she's sung for the Pope! Ginger's also
enormously sweet, super-smart, and cute as a button. Everybody falls in
love with her, and you will, too. Check out her Web site right HERE.
Warren
CASEY He's the coolest
dude in
Glendale and - when the spirit moves him - he throws the best World
Beat music
parties in the Southland. Join him at his Website, where he holds forth
with
his bandmates from the slightly off-kilt-er Celtic tribal bagpipe-and-drums band
seen on TV and in the Doo Dah
Parade, WICKED TINKERS. And check
out Warren the Art Director / Drum Maker / Painter at http://www.wickedtinkers.com/warrencasey.html (He's a busy guy.)
Alice
DUNCAN Alias Emma Craig, alias Rachel Wilson, alias Jon Sharpe, Ms.
Duncan
(assisted by her alter egos) writes Western Romance novels with a
twist.
Instead of the typical bodice-rippers, these novels introduce humor,
odd
characters, the occasional dachshund - and THEN there's a lot of
bodice-ripping. Find out for yourself at her Website, ALICE
DUNCAN/EMMA CRAIG/RACHEL WILSON - ROMANCE AUTHOR (That's harder to write than the URL
itself!)
Shane GIBSON Shane made Geo Tile into the biggest,
best tile-contracting company in the San Fernando Valley. But that was
just his
warm-up act. Lately Shane's into showbiz, doing comedy/variety gigs in
L.A.,
and of course he's the Southern California Zydeco King (don't ask).
He's often
away visiting his birthplace - Canada - or touring Mexico or France,
but he
keeps returning.
George
HULL
A really cool guy - who happens to be my brother - George lives in Utah
(where
the snow is powdery and the air is clean) with his wife, Nancy, a
graphic
designer. George just retired as Chief Pilot for Delta Airlines in Los
Angeles and Utah, a his many hobbies:
motorcycles, skiing, travel, and Macintosh computers. He's on a couple
of civic
boards in his town (and won a national award for his troubles), lives
in a
really cool house, has bunches of neat friends, and is generally one of
the
happiest, most successful people I know. It's enough to make you sick,
but he's
such a nice guy, you get over it.
Celeste
JONES One of the two or
three smartest women on the planet, Celeste was
also first runner-up for Miss Wisconsin awhile back, and she's a
devotee of
T'ai Chi, so watch it! She's married to Olympian Sam Jones - who
designs
computer programs and theatre lighting when he's not mountain-climbing
or
fencing - and lately Celeste assists scientists who're doing
cutting-edge
genetic research. (One of them even had an assistant named Igor.)
Cathy
KANNER You've seen
Cathy's
illustrations in books and magazines, and her serene drawings of people
- coats
blowing in the wind - show up in the "Opinion" section of the Los
Angeles Times. Her
sketches appear
in Michael Crichton's recent thriller Timeline. She's
collaborated on a very cool book
about Moby
Dick, which you can
hunt down at her website, kannerbook.com,
where you'll also find a beautifully
designed and illustrated book of prayers by Robert Louis Stevenson,
along with numerous other stunning works. Let's face it: she
brings cultyah to
the world.
Linda LONGSERRE One of about a dozen
people in the
entire country with that last name, Linda hails from Texas, and she has
the frontier
spunk to match. Her ancestral home was featured in the film Hope, and Linda (SAG/AFTRA) is busy getting herself featured in films, including the 1998
USA Network
movie, The Con.
She’s a
marriage-and-family counselor, and she also fashions some of the most
beautiful
leaded-crystal necklaces, earrings, and bracelets this side of Austria.
Linda
has exhibited her wares at shops and craft fairs in California. And
look! She’s
wearing a gold-leaf design of her own right now!
Kaydee McKinney raised a family, then
she
went back to college and graduated Summa cum
Laude, then she went to
USC and
got a Master’s Degree in Environmental Science. Meanwhile, she is in
shape, and she achieves
it the old-fashioned way by
working out twice a day, including weights, aerobics, dance, tennis,
jogging,
bicycling, hiking, and rock-climbing. If she has any time left
over, she spends it keeping her
attorney-boss above water despite a sea of paperwork. Kaydee also
happens to be
one of the nicest, sweetest people you will ever meet. She is a rare
breed, an
actual grown-up person, her head screwed on right. If we had more
people like
her, the world might truly work.
Terri PRIZANT has
one of the
most difficult, complex, and stressful jobs on the planet, namely, TV
script supervising, and she's worked on many of the biggest comedy hits
including "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" and "Drew Carey", not to mention
"Freddie", "Greetings from Tucson", and "Wanda at Large". Despite all
the pressure, she manages to be cheerful, funny, and charming ... and
she's cute, too! When she's not calming panicky TV producers, she plays
mandolin in the LA folk/country girl band CLEMENTINE
and sings in the Balkan choir NEVENKA.
In case that's not enough, she also toured internationally as a dancer
with the Aman Folk Ensemble. Her biggest compliment is that somebody is
"brilliant!" Well, Terri, you're definitely brilliant.
Elisha
SHAPIRO is easily
one of
the strangest beings on the planet. When he's not helping
syntax-impaired
college students with their English skills, he's hard at work managing Nihilist
Industries, a dark and
mysterious
cabal that puts forth performance art (Elisha ran for president on the
Nihilist
ticket, chaired the Nihilist Olympics, and presented the recent Nihilist
Expo), the annual Nihilism
Calendar (hang it on
the wall, it
does the rest), the Nihilist's Corner cable-TV show, and of
course the
Nihilist philosophy and manifesto
("Don't Whine"). Elisha has catalogued all this michief at his
Website, Nihilist's Corner. Visit it! Or don't, I don't care.
Ken WILLIAMSON Ken was a top deejay in Houston until
they rode
him out of town on a rail -- er, until he moved to LA, where he's a
sound
engineer for NBC. Ken is famous for his "Tape from California"
cassette, an annual update on his family in the form of a drive-time
music-radio show. If you're lucky, Ken will put you on the mailing
list; if
you're really lucky, he won't. Check out Ken's Web site!
Larry
WILSON is one of THE comedy-magicians of the era. He has appeared
on countless TV shows, consulted on movies ("Airplane", among others),
and is a regular emcee in the main room of the Magic Castle in
Hollywood, where he often brings his irreverent show, "Larry Wilson and
his Hellhounds", which is like watching the Marx Brothers do magic.
Larry has produced and starred in big stage reviews, including "Just
Add Water" in Lake Tahoe and "Wonderland" in Reno. When not performing
on cruise ships, lately Larry enjoys the good life in the high desert
with his lovely wife, Nicole, and his frisky son, Joss. Hanging out
with Larry is like living inside an ongoing comedy tutorial: it's hard
on the sides, for all the laughter. (That's me holding Larry's son in
the right-hand picture, taken in late 2005. Joss has gotten much bigger
since then.)
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