I really hope Bernadette does the autograph table/photo booth this year. I think I posted this story elsewhere...might have been a different message board, but anyway, I'm telling it again, for it is therapeutic.
This happened ages ago, back when Bernadette was doing Annie Get Your Gun. I was about 12 or 13; a young, in the closet lesbian with a biiiig crush on Miss Bernadette Peters. I was with my parents at the flea market, and we walked pass the autograph table...oh look, Bernadette Peters is doing pictures! And she was hugging everyone--male and female--rather closely. Well, I wanted a hug from Bernadette Peters, so I asked my parents if I could wait and get a photo. Of course my parents didn't know that I really just wanted a hug, but nevermind. They said yes, and we waited...finally, it was my turn. Suddenly, all the frauen in the crowd went wild--there was Mr. Tom Wopat, live and in person, making his way towards the photo booth! He jumped in the photo with me and Bernadette, me in the middle with the two of them on either side of me. Which meant no hug for me. The ladies in the crowd all cheered, while I cried a little on the inside.
I refer to this as the time I was c*ck blocked by Tom Wopat.
"I chose and my world was shaken--so what? The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not. You have to move on"
