Some folks may understandably get sick of the name-dropping, but I did meet her once back in '93. (I only met her that once so I'm not claiming to be anything beyond a one-time acquaintance.) She was a columnist for the Daily News here in LA. I wrote a piece that they published and I got to go to dinner with her and one of the paper's other columnists, Linda Seebach. (Her name was Michelle Maglalang back then, before she was married.)
She is just as classy and as sharp in person as she seems in her columns and radio appearances, and...
WARNING: SAPPY SHALLOW DISCUSSION OF PHYSICAL APPEARANCES AND AGE-GUESSING AHEAD (WHOOOOP! WHOOOOP! WHOOOOP! WHOOOP!...)
...she is every bit as cute in person too. In those days she wore her hair in kind of a bun with bangs*, which was cute but I like her hair the way she has it now better. I'm sure she was out of college at that point and was probably in her early 20's, so she must be early to mid-30's now.**
(*Michelle, if you're out there, sorry if my description is inaccurate.)
**Sorry again! You've been outed -- but you look better than ever, FWIW! (I know, nice save.)
Okay, it's time to end this post before it gets any more pathetic...