Before there was King of Queens, Sex and the City and the Sopranos, there was spring break 1997 and I was on the prowl.
Months earlier I scored tickets to both the Late Show and Late Night so I was stoked.
My mother and I packed up and we left for gourmet food and luxury shopping. We both visited the Statue of Liberty (even though I had seen it before.) This time though, we were not allowed in her crown, it was closed for security reasons.
One week prior, a gunman got to the observation deck at the top of the Empire State Building. We didn’t visit since my sixth sense kicked me and made me feel more hesitant than ever.
But I did get to watch a taping of the Late Show. Which is actually really I went in the first place.
I had decided I wanted to be a writer for the show about a decade earlier when I was about 10 and sent in hundreds, yes hundreds of letters to their CBS Mailbag segment. I was determined to get noticed somehow, someway.
It eventually worked. One Friday, he read my letter on air concerning Santa’s reindeer. Unfortunately I feel asleep and never saw it. I wrote to the show to just tell them what happened – they ran another letter of mine that week. I think that was a show first to be “featured” twice in a row.
So I had in hand an original Mustang Ranch gift certificate for $50 for him for his 50th birthday which was ten days later. In short, that small piece of paper came back home with me.
He came out and let the audience ask questions and we somehow ended spending all of our time on a woman from New Jersey. To this day, I wished I interupted; at least I would have gotten my point across.
I had travelled to New York once before in 1992 when Dan Quayle infamously misspelled ‘potato(e)’ on a school chalkboard.
For the record, I couldn’t understand the furor over it and why David Letterman would not let the issue go. And I also seem to remember watching promos for a new MTV show called ‘Real World’ premiering May 21. Wonder what ever happened to it? J
It was also the same week that the Black Crowes’ Southern Harmony and Musical Companion debuted at number one on the Billboard charts.
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