CELEBRITY SIGHTINGSis brought to you by Cheryl, one of your Gather Guides. Cheryl lives in North Carolina and loves to laugh and smile. She enjoys singing, writing poetry and song lyrics, reading and walking her dog.
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Dee Dee Bridgewater is an artist whose projects have traversed the musical kaleidoscope - from traditional vocal jazz to searing scat interpretations. She is perhaps the most versatile and inspiring artist and producer of her generation.
Her newest project, "RED EARTH - A Malian Journey" melds Malian voices, music and traditional instruments with American Jazz vernacular and penning many of the lyrics, Dee Dee Bridgewater has crafted one of her most important musical statements to date.
Bridgewater was also elected in 1999 as one of the United Nations' first Ambassadors for the Food and Agriculture Organization and you can learn even more about Dee Dee here.
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Tom Brokawis a popular American television journalist, previously working on regularly scheduled news documentaries for the NBC television network, and is the former NBC News anchorman and managing editor ofthe program NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw.
Inthe laterpart of Tom Brokaw's tenure, NBC Nightly News became the most watched cable or broadcast news program in the United States. Brokaw also hosted, wrote, and moderated special programs on a wide range of topics. Throughout his career, he has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors.
We were able to have a LIVE CHAT on December 17th 2007 and you can read all about it here: Tom Brokaw's live chat transcript on Gather
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Santa Claus & his head elf, Blix MacClaus, came to Gather on December 19th 2007 and had a nice chat with everyone!
Six lucky chat participants received gifts of reading from Santa. You can connect with Santa Claus at therealsanta.gather.com and Blix MacClaus at chiefelf.gather.com.
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Harlan Coben is an International bestselling author and his novels have appeared at the top of all the major bestseller lists.
His books are published in 35 languages and have garnered innumerable accolades and awards. A graduate of Amherst College, Harlan Coben wasborn andraised in New Jersey, where he still lives with his wife, AnneArmstrong-Coben. Harlan and Anne have four young children and two dogs.
Read the transcript of the December 14th, 2007 live chat here.
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Marc Cohn is a Grammy award winner and is best known for his signature song Walking in Memphis. Cohn has just released a new album, Join the Parade, on Decca Records and you can view one of his videos here: 'Join The Parade' video on Gather.
Christine Comaford-Lynchis CEO of Mighty Ventures and she has built and sold 5 of her own businesses with an average 700% return on investment. She has consulted to the White House (Clinton and Bush), 700 of the Fortune 1000, and hundreds of small businesses.Christine has led many lives: Buddhist monk, Microsoft engineer, geisha trainee, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. Her triumphs and disasters are revealed in her best-selling business book: Rules for Renegades: How to Make More Money, Rock Your Career, and Revel in Your Individuality. The book is available at all major retailers or via www.RulesForRenegades.com.
Christine has appeared on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, PBS, CNET and is frequently quoted in the business, technology and general press at large.
You can read up on her latest LIVE CHAT here: Interview with The Renegade!
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Chris Dodd was elected to the US Senate in 1980 and is Connecticut's senior UnitedStates Senator in his fifth term. He is the chair of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, which oversees America's financial institutions.
Chris is also a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and has played a central role innearly every foreign policy debate over the past 25 years, working with six Presidents and fostering relationships with many of today's most important world figures. He is a recipient of the Edmund S. Muskie Distinguished Public Service Award and recognized expert on Latin and South America. In addition, Chris has fought to ensure our troops inIraq have the essential equipment that they need and deserve.
You can read all of his Gather articles here.
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Linda Fairstein is one of America's foremost legal experts on crimes of violence who served for 25 years as the bureau chief of the famed Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit of the New York City District Attorney's Office before stepping down in 2002 to continue writing her bestselling crime novels.
On December 10th 2007, she revealed her favorite true crime story on TruTV's series "Murder By The Book." Gather members also had a chance to chat with her on Monday, December 3rd 2007.
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Kate Jacobs is the author of "The Friday Night Knitting Club" and she's been so pleased to see all the Gather members who've enjoyed her novel that she wants to answer any and all questions you may have for her.
Want to know how she learned how to knit? Who are the important womenin her life? How did she come to write her book? Ask her who her "sisters" are. Get to know the author who brought sisterhood to Gather and become her friend.
You can also invite her to call in to your book club when she checks in from the road, here.
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Faye Kellerman was here to chat live with us On December 24th. She talked about "Murder By the Book", the craft of writing and what it is like to be a crime fiction writer.
Faye Kellerman has become a New York Times bestselling author with
more than twenty million copies of her critically acclaimed novels in
print internationally.
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Jonathan Kellerman will be interviewed by Gather and you have the unique opportunity to leave a question for him!Jonathan began his career as a psychologist, specializing in the treatment of children. Kellerman's first published book was a medical text in 1980. He published his first novel, WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS, in 1985. The book quickly became a New York Times bestseller and won the Edgar Allan Poe Award.
Since then, Kellerman has published a bestselling crime novel every year, and occasionally, two a year. Last year, Kellerman's novel OBSESSION debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list and his #1 bestseller GONE has been released in paperback.
On January 21st, 2008, he will reveal his favorite true crime story on Tru TV's series "Murder By TheBook", but in the meantime you have the chance to ask Jonathan Kellerman a question of your own, so don't miss this one.
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Dean Koontz was born and raised in Pennsylvania and has sold over 325,000,000 books, published in 38 languages.
Ten of his novels have risen to number one on the New York Times hard cover bestseller list, making him one of only a dozen writers ever to have achieved that milestone. Fourteen of his books have risen to the number one position in paperback.
He recently returned to Gather.com to tell us how he came to write 'The Darkest Evening of the Year', which we think you'll find very interesting.
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Jim Lehrer is the anchor of The Newshour with Jim Lehrer and author of EUREKA.
MPR.org and Gather discussed his novels and other topics this October and you can view the chat transcript!
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Michelle Schoffro Cook will CHAT LIVE with us on Wednesday, January 9th at 7:00 PM. She is the author of The Ultimate pH Solution and this book teaches you how to control the level of acid in your body and reclaim your health in a simple, step-by-step program.
Michelle Schoffro Cook DNM, DAc, CNC is an international best-selling and five-time book author, Doctor of Natural Medicine, Doctor of Acupuncture, and holistic nutritionist. Some of her books include: The Ultimate pH Solution, The 4-Week Ultimate Body Detox Plan, and The Brain Wash.She has contributed over 500 articles to more than sixty magazines, journals, and newspapers worldwide and appears biweekly on CBC Radio Alberta and many other radio programs.
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You should be able to recognize Marty Wolff as a former "Biggest Loser" contestant who transformed himself by losing more than 125 pounds!
He visited us on Gather and you will find Marty's October 24th 2007 live chat with RegisteredDietician Molly Gee very interesting and entertaining!
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The Celebrity Gossip group: Gossip about all your favorite celebs... their antics, admirable traits,rehab, public comments, red carpet appearances, parties, jailtime, etc.
The Celebrity Stories: Interesting Conversations & Experiences With Celebrities group: Please tell us about are the details of any deep and meaningful conversations or experiences you've had with celebrities. Tell All!What we do want to hear about are the details of any deep and meaningful conversations or encounters or experiences - positive or negative - you've had with celebrities. Tell all!
The Close Encounters of the Famous Kind group: Share your true stories about connecting with well known public figures! Annamet F. Lee Bailey. I kissed Duke Ellington. My sister gushed with Julia Child.Let us know the details of your close encounter with fame and fortune. Be careful and avoid lawsuits. The goal is fun and fascination with fame.
With the advent of social media, new debate formats become possible. This group has been created to explore different formats for Presidential debate and develop a plan to advocate for the one most likely to foster informed debate between the candidates, among the citizenry, and between candidates and citizens as well.
The Hollywood Chat group: Anything you want to post about celebrities. Post anything of interest to you regarding celebrities. Dead or alive, popular or unpopular, hot or not, whatever you want. Remember to indicate any adult content.
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