![]() ![]() He knew what I was just beginning to understand. The scene was surreal, and I was smack in the middle of it, about to go live in front of 2.7 million viewers.Īfter my interview, Smith leaned in close to me and, in an almost fatherly way, said, "I don't think you fully realize it yet, but your life will never be the same." "Only on morning television," host Harry Smith cracked to me moments before we went on the air. Waiting in the wings with me to appear in the same half hour of the morning talk show were rapper/actress Queen Latifah, movie mogul Jerry Bruckheimer, and two young women with hardly any clothes on who billed themselves as "the world's only twin belly dancers." I was there to talk about my book, Marley & Me, and its surprising vault from obscurity to the top of national bestseller lists. ![]() A makeup artist powdered my nose and fussed with my hair. 13 and I was sitting in the green room at the CBS studios in New York, waiting to go on The Early Show. ![]() I know exactly when and where it happened - the moment I finally figured out that my quiet, contented, boring little life had changed in powerful ways, and would not be changing back again anytime soon. ![]() Celebrity & Me Look what Marley has dragged in now.īestsellerdom is an unexpected and rich blessing, but at times the author has a bone to pick. ![]()
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