INTREPID SENIORS SEE SITCOM TAPING AT DISNEY STUDIO.Byline: Bettie Rencoret Senior columnist LANCASTER - It was one of the things seniors do, when 24 people carpooled to the Walt Disney Studios The name Walt Disney Studios may refer to:
The show was titled ``8 Simple Rules (for Dating My Teen-age Daughter),'' based on a book by W. Bruce Cameron W. Bruce Cameron (born in 1960 in Petoskey Michigan) is an internationally known humor columnist. Cameron went to attended Westminster College, where he became a brother of Sigma Chi He is the author of the 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter and starring John Ritter and Katey Sagal. Ritter rit·ter n. pl. ritter A knight. [German, from Middle High German riter, from Middle Dutch ridder, from r won the seniors over. When warm-up host Mike Burger talked the crowd into doing a rolled, standing-wave tribute to him, Ritter was gracious with his thanks and generous with blown kisses. ``I didn't believe he would be so down-to-earth,'' said one of the seniors. In the audience was the book's author, Cameron, humor columnist for the Denver Rocky Mountain News The Rocky Mountain News is a daily morning tabloid-format newspaper published in Denver, Colorado. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. (Despite Scripps still running the paper, it's the only newspaper in the Scripps family not to have the corporate lighthouse logo on , who answered questions like whether his daughters approve of his book. ``Not at all,'' he said with a grin. ``They hate it.'' Some of the seniors at the taping were Lancaster residents Anne Chronister, Iris Shelton, Katey Panton, Norma Godfrey, Marjorie Ledgerwood, Lloyd Good, Joan Hill, Carlos and Bette Jo Valdez, Francis and Georgia Woodland, and Randy and Tracy Harris. In the warm-up host's opening, Burger singled out for special attention the Woodlands and their daughter and son-in-law, Tracy and Randy Harris. Francis is an Edwards Air Force Base Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. retired engineer who oversaw a lot of work on the base hospital. Georgia still works as an education counselor at the base. Sgt. Randy Harris recently retired from his U.S. Air Force military assignment at EAFB EAFB Edwards Air Force Base (California, USA) EAFB Ellsworth Air Force Base (South Dakota) EAFB Elmendorf Air Force Base (Anchorage, AK) . His wife, Tracy Harris, also works at Edwards. Attorney Bill Clark and his wife, Sandi, who had organized the outing, and Lancaster United Methodist Church United Methodist Church, in the United States, religious body formed by the union in 1968 of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Methodist Church (see Methodism). Pastor James Ledgerwood, drew brief mention from the host. For some viewers, the sitcom pilot's taping left a few questions unanswered. ``What exactly were the eight simple rules?'' one woman asked on her way back to the van for the ride home. ``I could pick out one or two but where did the other six come in?'' No one knew the answer. Similar trips are planned for the future. Anyone interested in going should contact Bill or Sandi Clark at (661) 947-0178 for more information or to make reservations. |
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