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A swing and
a miss - Thurl makes the mighty Goliath come to life...
Utah Celebreality
May 1,
2006--Since Utah doesn’t really have any real celebrities, we have to
settle for news reporter [see
Shauna Thomas Disappears], creepy Mormon recording artists [think
Kurt Bestor] or
senators who think it’s a great idea to
blow up music file sharers [please don’t vote for
Orrin Hatch,
please]. Oh, and old basketball stars.
I
interviewed ex-Utah Jazz star
Thurl Bailey for
Utah Business Magazine a couple of weeks ago. Big T now has his own
clothing line (cleverly called the Thurl Bailey Collection) in addition to
his career as a Mormon music artist, his film career which includes such
roles as Goliath in a seminary movie, a Jazz commentator and the owner of
a fertilizer company (whah?!).
I must say
it was very cool to check the messages on my cell phone and hear, in the
deepest voice imaginable, “Hey, Spencer. This is Thurl Bailey.” But the
funny part was that he was calling to tell me that his email response to
me kept getting sent back to him. I gave him two other addresses, but
still no luck. I started thinking that Thurl wasn't such a superstar in
the email department. He called me again and told me he’d fax it to
me. Yes, Thurl Bailey printed off the email and faxed it to me. I
couldn’t help thinking of Kip singing at the end of Napoleon Dynamite,
“Yes, I love technology. But not as much as you, you see…”
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