One wee lad shouts out a name, asking if the famous man remembers it.
He forged a letter in his father's name, asking Ninette de Valois for an audition for her Sadler's Wells Ballet School in 1944.
I once offered my name, asking gently if she would tell me hers, but something didn't quite pan out in the exchange.
She has been jobless for a while and finds companies, when they see her name, asking where she is from before declining even to interview her.
He, too, is out here all hours, greeting nearly everyone by name, asking after relatives and making note of book requests on "my Obama phone — that's what we call the free cellphones they gave out as part of the federal stimulus plan".
Uhhhh, Let's Get Ready To Rumbaaaaaa! Sadly, so few of our encounters with Boldface Names end with the Name asking, "Do you wanna see me do the rumba?" So, when DORIS EATON TRAVIS, 99-year-old Ziegfeld girl and new author, actually asked us the other night, we assented with gusto.
Wandering up to referee-jersey-clad salesmen, a store trademark, the companys CEO greets them by name, asking, You good?.
That's because the Federal Trade Commission could claim Choudhury has been operating as a franchise for decades by letting others use his name, asking for a degree of control and requiring affiliates to pay for the privilege (via those training sessions).
