Fan letter to Huell Howser
Huell Howser is a California institution. His series "California's Gold" is an excellent travelogue of the world's fifth-largest economy. He's like Rex Trailer and Charles Kuralt.
The above is someone else's video of a Huell Howser interview at the U.S./Mexican border, and the interstitial commentary is clearly anti-Huell, who is a little softer on immigration.
But Howser's folksy enthusiasm about his adopted state (he's from Tennessee) makes his programs about California fascinating and devoid of smarmy Hollywood chatter. This weekend we watched his trip to the proposed State of Jefferson, which looked a little like a Vermont on the border of California and Oregon.
I wrote him a fan letter today. He seems like the type of dude who would appreciate a fan letter.
UPDATE: It almost looks like he responded ...
I would like to personally thank you for contacting us. As you can imagine our office is literally swamped with communications every day from all over our state and our staff does its best to process all of the information.
Unfortunately, we are not able to personally respond to everyone, but I can assure you that I do eventually read every single email and letter that we get. If you do not hear back from us -- other than this "form" letter -- it doesn't mean your story idea wasn't a good one, we simply receive many, many more good ideas than we could ever shoot or edit. I hope you understand and do not take it personally. We try very hard to be considerate and polite to every single person who sends us a request or story idea, but the truth is we are just not able to personally respond.
In closing, I'd like to thank you for your support over the years and for being thoughtful enough to contact our office.
The adventure continues,
Huell Howser
(...but he didn't.)
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Labels: california, celebrity
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by Marty Barrett at Monday, July 07, 2008
1 Comments:
Marty. Elizabeth O'Neill here.
elizabethonei@gmail.com
Hurry!
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