Before I was a soon-to-be self-published novelist, I was a radio, print, and cable TV journalist…
Here’s a video that by my business partner at the time, David Hunt (who describes the event in additional detail here), and I won a Los Angeles Area Emmy Award for. Adam Yurman composed the haunting music for it. Earth Alert! funded it.
What a find — I thought it was lost!
Interviewees include Heal the Bay founding president/environmentalist Dorothy Green and marine biologist/environmentalist Rim Fay, Jr., along with former California senator Tom Hayden representative Cliff Gladstein and former California supervisor Dean Dana.
Back when it was made, we produced a documentary series, a talk show, and more for the cable TV station located in Hermosa Beach, CA, in addition to videos and commercials for small businesses. Once a show was produced, we’d ‘bicycle’ it, meaning we’d distribute copies of it to the cable stations of outlying cities, so they could air it on their local channels.
In this episode, off-camera is an audience of passersby. Already nervous, the presence of onlookers made me borrow my partner’s jacket to calm my shivers despite the warm day.
The day we won the Emmy, at the dinner afterward, I learned the profound meaning of “impostor syndrome” when someone congratulated me. They had to remind me that indeed I had won and that I had good reason to be proud…
Have you had your 5 minutes of fame yet?…
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Wonderful Accomplishments, daAL. My best wishes. ♥
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Rim Fay Jr was the son of marine biologist/ environmentalist Dr. Rimmon C Fay.
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You won an Emmy?! Wow–you continue to astound me:-)
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you are too kind ❤
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daAl, That is so great to have accomplished something so big an an Emmy. I have never thought about writing a book, but it just came to me one night. I like the science fiction movies and shows. It was quite a task learning what I had to do to get it published. My husband got tired of me using his computer so he bought me a laptop. It took me a year to write the book and about eight months to get it published. It was an exciting time.
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I did’t mean to make my comment above Anonymous. I thought my Email would show up…Marsha Mull
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no worries, Marsha – I knew it was you 🙂
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you are someone who does what they dream & set out to do! I am impressed 🙂
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Thank you for sharing a part of your life and adventures!!… loved the video and you haven’t aged at all!.. 🙂
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thank you!
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