Was it Andy Warhol who said that everyone, in their life, would get 15 minutes of fame? Well, I'm well on the way now ... te he! A few years ago whilst on holiday in England, I was filmed for their TV program "Collectors Lot". A crew of 5 turned up to the boat in Little Venice and I spent almost the entire day on the bed with Ruth England. She and her crew were a delight and my crew behaved themselves quite well too. DB's brother, DBB2 and DB's daughter DBD3 - wow this is getting complicated DBD3 sounds like a movie to watch when you've got a cold. Apologies to DBD3 who is much more pleasant that a disc with a cold. Anyway, to get back to my story ..... DBB2 and DBD3 steered the boat through to Camden Lock whilst DB's sister in law and nephew (getting really complicated now), DBSL and DBN walked and DB crawled around the cabin trying to prepare refreshments without getting in the way.
We lunched at Camden Lock and after 2nds of DB's delicious Damson Vodka Crumble, all eleven of us reversed the journey, filming all the way, which is not easy when you are under the influence. When the filming was finished we all sat around drinking Damson Vodka... for some reason the TV crew seemed reluctant to leave ...... probably being paid overtime for socialising. This entire day was reduced to four minutes on the telly. ....... but a very good four minutes of course and that means only 11 more minutes of fame to go.
Here in Australia they do things slightly differently. The ABC were here two days ago to film me for the Australian TV program "Collectors". The producer flew over from Tasmania and she with just a sound guy and a cameraman spent the day in the flat. If you go to the ABC collectors site, www.abc.net.au/tv/collectors, you will be able to see other people who are just as obsessed as I am with collecting and if you look at some of the 'collector cams' I promise you will be truly amazed at some of the things that other folk accumulate in wild proportions. But back to the filming .... the crew were excellent and had a great sense of humour which helped me to relax. This time DB didn't have to provide much more than coffee so she disappeared into the bedroom with her Bill Bryson book (BBB) and I had a brilliant day being a superstar. They took my collection seriously - which many wouldn't - and DB said later that the best moment was when I candidly said "I'm not interested in pegs at all". At the end of the day the producer took a heap of pegs from my racks in the hall and spread them out on the table to do an "animation" .... I am really looking forward to seeing that in real life (so to speak). The days filming will be reduced to about 3 minutes, so that leaves only another 8 to go.
Some of this 8 minutes may be taken up with a studio appearance in Hobart .... DB crossing her fingers as she has never been to Tasmania before .... but they have yet to make a decision on that ......... ... maybe if they had tasted DB's Damson Vodka Crumble .............
p.s. I've just looked it up and AW actually said "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes", so I don't have to have it all in one go!!
1 comment:
g;day from the foggy land of pommes,
ah what great memories i have from filming and driving the boat in little venice,my funniest one was when ruth had to keep re shooting the scene of her walking down the tow path because a dog had left a "parcel" and the smell kept making her and us laugh.
just to confuse you even more it is quite funny that i am refered to as dbd3 as in my days of playing pool i was well known for for my signiture shot of slamming in a double which was known by my teamates as doing a "BDB" (bugsie double blaster).
hope you do get to go to tassie as i loved my trip there it is a very beautiful place.
love ya heaps dbd3 xxx
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