![]() ![]() Jim also added that the guy she was sitting with was Piero Gros, an Italian racer who would win the overall World Cup skiing championship that season. Moritz, Switzerland just a few weeks earlier. He told me that it was Fabienne Serrat, a French racer who had won two gold medals at the World Ski Championship in St. I noticed that an occupant of the booth was the guy she had been talking with just before I asked her to dance.Ī little later, my friend Jim, who was a big fan of ski racing, pointed to her and asked me if I knew who she was. Then I returned to my friends and she went back and sat in a booth. I'm pretty sure that my friends never even noticed this - I didn't mention it and they never commented about it. She agreed and we danced to a couple of tunes, probably less than five minutes. She looked towards me as I approached and I impulsively asked her to dance (very unusual for me). A guy was talking to her and she shook her head at him several times. She thanked me in English, but she had a strong French accent.Īs I returned from the restroom I saw her from across the room. We exchanged short pleasantries and I went on my way. She spilled some of her drink and I caught her to prevent her from losing her balance. As I passed her she suddenly stepped back and knocked into me. We hadn't been in the place for long when, on my way to the restroom, the young woman I had noticed earlier was standing along the railing overlooking the dance floor. I thought she looked very fit and was pretty with very long, dark hair. I had noticed one young lady sitting in a booth near the dance floor. I was quickly bored and would have been ready to leave at anytime. It wasn't really my kind of place, kind of noisy and dimly lit, and I was only there to be with my friends. One night after skiing in Vail we went to a restaurant, the Blue Gnu, which had been one of my friends favorite places when he lived in Vail a few years before. In the spring of 1974 I was living in New Mexico and some of my Ohio friends came out to visit me. He was very friendly and talkative, although I can’t remember anything that we discussed. I spoke briefly to him several times when his wife and I crossed his path. One student that I had for several days was the wife of William Katt, an actor most well known for The Greatest American Hero TV show. That was the extent of our acquaintanceship. I moved aside to let the person pass - it was St. As I was waiting, someone said, “Excuse me.” as they wanted to get by the spot where I was standing. I was hungry and got in line to buy some food. Aspen has a kind of snobby atmosphere and I suspect that no one wanted anyone else to think they were impressed by a movie star’s presence. Shows you how photographic lighting and makeup affects perceptions.Īnyhow, there were a lot of people there and no one was paying any attention to her. There were lots of other young women there who I would have said were more attractive. She was wearing quite a bit of zinc oxide (a white cream which stops ultraviolet rays) and it was somewhat blotchy. I was about 15 or 20 feet away from her and I remember thinking that she really wasn’t that pretty. John out to me, otherwise I don’t think that I’d have recognized her. I was with Jim Brenneman and some friends of his from Ohio State. She was on the sundeck at a mid-mountain restaurant, I think it was called Bonnie’s. This was just after she had finished filming Diamonds Are Forever, a James Bond movie. John was the first celebrity I ever saw (I had seen President Johnson in a limousine as he drove by). ![]()
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