Marcus L. Boston

1/21/2009 7:01 PM UTC

God bless you Cj, I trust all is well with you. Haven't seen you in awhile. Be blessed and I hope to see you soon. MLB

Tracey Ricks Foster

10/16/2008 4:14 PM UTC

CJ, Thank you for listening to the African American Literary Review! GURL! You just don't know the half of what went down with that!! lol! First of all, there was a storm the night before the show. We had wide-spread power-outage. Praying and hoping that the power would be restored in my neck of the woods, I prayed some more and called her publicist with the info. I asked if instead of me calling her, perhaps she, Diahann Carroll would call in to the show. They told me to call her around air time and inform her. I did so, spoke with the DIVA HERSELF, and she said that if her publicist was going to PAY for this call, then it would be a GO! You know that wasn't going to happen, so Ms. Carroll suggested that I give her a call the next morning at ten and we could do the interview then. Right? Right! Well, I called at 9:58am and Ms. Carroll remembered who I was, but she wa puzzled why I had called when she had spoke to her publicist and rescheduled the interview for later on in the afternoon! I was upset because I hadn't received anything from the publicist! Not a email, not a phone call...nothing! NADA! Ms. Carroll told me she would speak to me then. GURL...I received the phone call from the publicist at 3pm...3PM telling me that the interview was rescheduled. I told her that I wasn't rescheduling the interview. That was that. I decided that two tries was enough and I wouldn't pursue it any further. At least I got a chance to laugh and speak to Ms. Carroll TWO DAYS IN A ROW!