Dr. Bear's Picture.
Dan Gasparrini
Received my copy of the Regent's Newsletter and was pleased to see a
photo of one of my heros as well.
I did not become acquainted with John Bear's work until after starting
my non-traditional distance learning degree at Nova Southeastern
University.
I did graduate from Regents College in 1986 with a Bachelor's in
Nursing, so I guess I am a true, innovative, non-traditional distance
learner. Only my master's degree was conferred from a traditional
program at the University of California, San Francisco.
Dan Gasparrini
dga...@mindspring.com
John Bear, Ph.D.
You know, of course, that all of us world famous authors have stand-ins
(stunt doubles, we call them) that we send out for public appearances.
Regents? Let's see, we'll send Waldo, the distinguished looking one who
doesn't smile much. Columbia State? We'll send Guido, the 300-pounder.
(One of the true stories from the forthcoming, but not this millennium,
"There's a Bear on the Road" -- my journal of publicity experiences. I
was once on an author tour for a cookbook, and was double-booked, and
supposed to be in Chicago and Cleveland for TV appearances the same
morning. I called my friend Jay Conrad Levinson, then living in Chicago,
and asked if he wanted to be me for an hour. He agreed, and did the
appearance on some women's morning program, where the other guest was a
priest who had written a book on child discipline.
Then, two days later in Detroit, I was on, being myself, when the second
guest was introduced: yes, the self-same priest. He looked at me, and
remembered the skinny bald guy who had been John Bear two days earlier,
did a double take, but held off commenting until the commercial break,
when he roared, "What the hell is going on here." Following the
explanation, we all had a good laugh, and wondered how much of this
thing really goes on? Are there entire platoons of Sidney Sheldons out
there promoting his latest wonder, for instance.)
John Bear
http://www.degree.net
and co-author of "How to Repair Food"
Martin Spillane
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>"John Bear, Ph.D." <john...@degree.net> writes:
>
>>I was once on an author tour for a cookbook, and was double-booked,
>>and supposed to be in Chicago and Cleveland for TV appearances the
>>same morning.
*John,
Was that the cook-book which the printer inadvertantly (?) bound in
the covers of Mickey Spillane's "One Lonely Night"? And who's picture was on
that cover?
(And before anyone asks, all Spillanes are related, but some more than
others)
Steve wrote:
>Here in Philadelphia,.....[snip]
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> Steve Levicoff
> Levi...@ix.netcom.com
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>
*Steve,
Your email address, as above, refuses to accept mesages. Do you have an
alternative?
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Martin Spillane spil...@facstaff.wisk.edu
JohnBBear
Martin SPILLANE asks:
<<<Was that the cook-book which the printer inadvertantly (?) bound in the
covers of Mickey Spillane's "One Lonely Night"? And who's picture was on that
cover?>>>
Indeed. Those wacky folks at Harcourt Brace somehow managed to bind the pages
of Mickey Spillane's latest thriller into the cover (and dust jacket) of my
cookbook on food repair. While one feels sympathy for the person who, faced
with a fallen cake, reads, "She was naked. And she had a gun," imagine the guy
who settle into his Laz-E Boy with a beer, opens his "One Lonely Night," and
is told what to do about lumpy gravy.
John Bear, whose "How to Repair Food"
is now republished by Ten Speed