tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37431669.post-89542714320108739632008-07-10T23:07:00.004-04:002008-07-10T23:19:08.224-04:00Well, things have finally calmed down with our local-boy-makes-good story about Jesse Csincsak and The Bachelorette.<br />I got involved writing the story when Steve Fogarty, our entertainment go-to guy, couldn't watch it one night.<br />Then, a couple weeks later, he couldn't watch it again.<br />After seeing it twice, I was, gulp, hooked.<br />It's a dumb show and I yelled at the TV as much as the sports guys in the newsroom do when they are watching the Cavaliers but I watched anyway.<br />I'm pretty sure it's just because Jesse was involved. Although I never knew him, he was a year behind -- and a friend of -- my older son in high school.<br />He also happens to be my cousins' cousin.<br />So I had more than a casual interest.<br />I never thought he had a shot ... even when he was one of only two remaining.<br />But I did think he was the only one of all of them who wasn't the kind of gushy guy I would never want to go out with.<br />I got the interview with him that ran on Wednesday by calling his publicist -- "Everything has to go through my publicist," he told us -- as soon as DeAnna Pappas picked him.<br />I asked if I could talk to Jesse the next day and she hooked me up.<br />I didn't know until I got him on the phone that I had 10 minutes with him. Now, I don't know if you've ever interviewed anyone but 10 minutes isn't a lot of time.<br />Sure, it was time to ask all the questions I had prepared but it didn't leave a whole lot of time to write down his responses.<br />If I would have been smart, I would have recorded the conversation.<br />He's a nice guy. He really is. And as was his style on the show, he seemed to be really honest and forthright with his answers.<br />I'll be curious to see how the story ends.<br />Until then, I'm trying to get an invitation to a party he (his publicist) is having when he comes to Ohio later this summer.<br />If the "press" isn't invited, I told her I would just come as a regular person.<br />Wonder if she believes me when I say I can separate the two.Patti Ewaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11118539617989280234noreply@blogger.com