On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:14:05 -0700, "Janet B." >
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>"Dee.Dee" > wrote in message
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>>
>> Last night on Next Iron Chef, Symon won -- I was glad he won, too, but I'm
>> glad they didn't show 'points' as they sometimes do.
>> Alton had his suit along with his spikey hair-dooo.
>>
>> This morning I got up to finalize a movie that DH had wanted me to
>> record - Point Blank with Lee Marvin on the Turner Movie Channel. Usually
>> there is a regular guy with a lead-in about the movie. Last night must've
>> been a 1960's night.
>>
>> But guess who was the second lead-in guy- ALTON! discussing it with the
>> first lead-in regular guy. In this particular movie, Alton said he was
>> probably too young to have seen the movie, but he had seen it, and that he
>> liked the Sam Peckinpaw movies of the time. He said that he enjoyed
>> seeing these types of movies, but didn't want to pattern his life in this
>> way.
>>
>> Guess that's why he's out on the motorcycle doing TV shows-- reliving that
>> part of his youth or that era that he didn't have.
>>
>> He looked like the was running from one studio to the other --
>> ossibly? - because it looked like he had the same suit on. Of course, I
>> didn't compare it -- wouldn't go that far.
>>
>> Dee Dee
>>
>He's a clever guy. The more you watch him, the more you see. I'm still not
>sure which persona is the real Alton because some parts seem in conflict,
>but maybe he is just a diverse dude.
>Janet

I read a bio on him a few years ago and he is diverse. He originally
graduated as a theater major and liked producing short movies. He got
a cooking theme brainstorm and went back to school to become a chef.
The rest is history. With all his talent he most go crazy when he
sees Sandra Lee and hears Paulas speech impediment.

Lou