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Regional Value Spotter, November
A Christmas Card Is Born
By Elise Bell
he phrase, "photo
opportunities" came
into use during the
election campaign as if
it were a new concept
— but every doting
parent knows instictively about
photo opportunities.
From the moment a child is
born, the parent is there to
record every move with the
camera. Certainly we were
typical. The first child we
overbid,; the second we were
more reasonable about. But
when the third, our son, was
born, 11 years later, we reverted
back to the extremes we had
used with the first.
In fact, we put a picture of
our son on our Christmas card
every year: Our son with the
dog, our son with his pet
rabbits, our son in his cowboy
outfit, and so on.
Finally our son rebelled. Hc
told us in no uncertain terms that
he no longer wanted to be
featured op our cards, He
pointed out that, at the rate we
were going, when he got to be
20, we would still be sending
out cards showing a picture of
him -- with his car, with his
girlfriend, etc,
Secretly, we had to admit that
he was probably right, although
we put on an outward show of •
injured pride. The next
Christmas we used a picture of
our dog on the card. We got
even with our son by telling him
that we had received many more
comments about how cute the
dog was than we ever had about
him.
"Good," he said. "lust so
long as I'm not on the card."
During the following, years
OUT son was quite reluctant to
have any pictures taken of him.
We did manage to get him
playing football, graduating from
high school and college and at
family gatherings. But photo
opportunities became scarce as
he grew older.
Then he got a summer job
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with a television station in
Manhattan. He was put on the
night shift and his work was in
the heart of Times Square.
On the first night of his new
job, our son took off his jeans,
T-shirt and dirty sneakers and
put on a newly purchased
three-piece suit, a shirt and tie
and carefully polished shoes. I
sneaked out the camera and took
a picture of him. It turned out I
had acted in the nick of•time.
The next night he was wearing
his jeans, T-shirt and dirty
sneakers.
"It's a jungle out there," he
told us "I was a target before.
Now 1 don't look as it I have
anything worth stealing
That was certainly true. His •
camouflage worked and he
survived the summer intact
He next got a lob a1 d
ameraman to ,i TA., news
show 'faking other people'',
pictures was apparently a whole
different matter from having his
picture taken At least we could
"ax
'r1 about his satet'6 as he now
had normal daynine hours
We didn t relax long. He was
covering all kinds of stories and
was constantly in the middle of
knifings, fires, people running
amok and,. worst of all, he
sometimes went up in a rickety
helicopter to film scenes of
disasters, such as floods, often
in the midst of a storm.
By this time our son had
moved into Manhattan and we
usually only saw him when he
brought his dirty laundry home
for a visit. Then one morning,
we got an excited phone call
from him. •
"Watch the noon news!" he
said: "I'm in, the lead story!"
1 swelled with motherly. pride.
. "What did you dor' 1 asked.
"1 was arrested and put into
jail," he said, and hung up.
It. was not .a call designed to
brighten a mother's heart, but I
took comfort from the fact that
he had phoned; so he was
obviously alive.
I turned on the TV set at noon
and sure enough, in the opening
story, 'there were shots of our
son, He was in a courtroom in a
small suburban town to cover a •
controversial hearing. He was
taking a shot of the judge in the
front of the room as the
proceedings wereibout to start.
Suddenly the judge shouted:
"Is that a camera back there?
Get that camera out of here!
Arrest that man!"
"That man" was our son.
There followed fleeting shots of
a scuffle at the back of the room
and glimpses of two policemen
grabbing our son and trying to
drag him out. Our son'kept
filming in the best tradition of •
journalism. He kept the camera
going as the police led him
down a hall and' into a "holding
cell."
• To my great relief, the next
shot showed him being released,
a big grin on his face, while a
reporter standing by 'explained
that the television station had
permission to film the hearing in
the courtroom and it had all
been a "misunderstanding."
Our son thought the whole
experience was rather a lark,. •
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