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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenobi65" data-source="post: 3367004" data-attributes="member: 1515">One might even say he came alive. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Over the 7 years I've been here, I've met a couple of celebrities who've come to the offices, mostly because they're doing work with us, including Trace Adkins (country singer) and Ernie Banks (Hall of Fame baseball player).  I also got to meet Mark Bowden, the author who wrote "Black Hawk Down".  At that time, he was just finishing work on "Guests of the Ayatollah", a book about the Iran Hostage Crisis of '79-'80; I got to have a very nice conversation with him about that time in history (he and I were the only ones in the meeting old enough to actually remember it).I've got an autographed photo of Johnny Cash, from when he did some work with us, though I didn't get to actually meet the man -- it was about a year before he passed away, and he wasn't well; our creative team had to go down to his farm outside of Nashville, for him to do the recording.Oprah Winfrey came here once, but that was because her cousin works here.  Apparently it was quite the mob scene.</blockquote>