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Originally Posted by WIWL
How did you first meet Bill?
and I'm so jealous you got to see a filming of Roswell!!! ESPECIALLY the season II finale!!!! And didn't you say you didn't even care for Roswell that much??? Lucky!!
~WIWL
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Ah, but I care for Bill that much!
And I have a background in theatre, so I LOVED seeing the mechanics of how a television show is filmed. I had a wonderful time poking around and meeting the various techies -- all of whom had an extremely high opinion of Bill and his professionalism.
Bill and I "met" via phone call when he called and said he was looking for someone to help him come up with a web page. He was just BARELY getting online (on an ancient Mac Quandra) but he heard about Rene Auberjonois' website when he was filming an episode of DS9, and he thought that might be a fun way to connect with his fans. As it happens, the president of Rene's fan club was on the set that day, and gave Bill my contact information. So he called me and I agreed to work with him to come up with a nice website for him. During the process we discovered that we had a whole lot of stuff in common, and we just hit it off well. Consequently we became very good freinds before we actually met in person, when Bill had a layover for several hours in Chicago. He brought me two Roswell High School Athletic Department t-shirts. I met him as he came off the plane with a kiss on the cheek.
I had told him before, when he asked how he'd know me, that I'd just throw grapes at him. (Apparently this was an attention-getting device used with some regularity between certain cast members on the
Roswell set.) So I met him with a kiss on the cheek and told him to "consider himself graped". We've been buddies ever since.