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Tampa couple seeks to win Bravo contest, bring gay wedding to national TV
For Pam DiMuccio, it would be the ultimate triumph delivered by one of her favorite TV personalities: To join partner Liz Hillen in a rare, real-life, nationally televised gay wedding officiated by Bravo channel star and executive Andy Cohen in his Watch What Happens Live clubhouse.
And it’s not just because she’s a Cohen and WWHL super fan. DiMuccio and Hillen live in Tampa — a city within a state where same-sex marriage remains illegal.
So DiMuccio figures winning Cohen’s recently-announced wedding contest, traveling to New York and getting married on national television would be a tremendous sign to the country that it’s time for marriage equality everywhere, especially in Florida.
“I think having more visibility and ammunition to say ‘Listen, this is happening; the trend is going, hop on board,’ is a great thing,” said DiMuccio, who harbors a secret hope that Cohen, hailed as the first openly gay host of a late-night talk show, wants to officiate a same-sex wedding.
Cohen, the executive vice president of talent and development at Bravo, became an on camera star hosting a talk show devoted to dissecting the channel’s various reality show characters and storylines. Earlier this year, he announced a contest where fans could win a wedding in his show’s clubhouse set, and 2,000 couples submitted 200-word essays.
The prizes are calculated to make a Cohen fan drool: Wedding in the clubhouse, officiated by the host himself (Real Housewives of Atlanta star NeNe Leakes might even agree to be a bridesmaid, according to one press account), a 2014 Fiat car, and a glitzy reception.
DiMuccio and Hillen are among five couples chosen as finalists after submitting a 1-minute video, which took them about eight hours to film (fans are asked to vote for the couple they like after watching all the videos here; deadline is Sept. 6, winners to be revealed Sept. 9).
“I may be a lesbian, but I have no idea how to use one of these,” DiMuccio cracks, holding up a wrench; later the couple notes they’ve been together 14 years and would love to be married on his show (it wouldn't be the first nationally televised gay wedding; Conan O'Brien televised the wedding of his costume designer and his partner in 2011).
“When (Cohen) got to our names, he said ‘I love a lesbian wedding,’” said DiMuccio, laughing. “Of course, we’re reading (meanings) into everything. I want to win because I want people to connect with us.”
DiMuccio, 47, and Hillen, 41, met in 1997, when the two worked for the same physical rehabilitation hospital in Largo. They began dating two years later.
So why haven’t they married before now?
“Before it was legal (in some states), it would be just another fabulous party,” DiMuccio said. “Having it legally recognized is a whole other thing. And I want to make that point in front of a nationwide TV audience.”
Vote for DiMuccio and Hillen by clicking here. See outtakes of their video and see their story by clicking here.
And it’s not just because she’s a Cohen and WWHL super fan. DiMuccio and Hillen live in Tampa — a city within a state where same-sex marriage remains illegal.
So DiMuccio figures winning Cohen’s recently-announced wedding contest, traveling to New York and getting married on national television would be a tremendous sign to the country that it’s time for marriage equality everywhere, especially in Florida.
“I think having more visibility and ammunition to say ‘Listen, this is happening; the trend is going, hop on board,’ is a great thing,” said DiMuccio, who harbors a secret hope that Cohen, hailed as the first openly gay host of a late-night talk show, wants to officiate a same-sex wedding.
Cohen, the executive vice president of talent and development at Bravo, became an on camera star hosting a talk show devoted to dissecting the channel’s various reality show characters and storylines. Earlier this year, he announced a contest where fans could win a wedding in his show’s clubhouse set, and 2,000 couples submitted 200-word essays.
The prizes are calculated to make a Cohen fan drool: Wedding in the clubhouse, officiated by the host himself (Real Housewives of Atlanta star NeNe Leakes might even agree to be a bridesmaid, according to one press account), a 2014 Fiat car, and a glitzy reception.
DiMuccio and Hillen are among five couples chosen as finalists after submitting a 1-minute video, which took them about eight hours to film (fans are asked to vote for the couple they like after watching all the videos here; deadline is Sept. 6, winners to be revealed Sept. 9).
“I may be a lesbian, but I have no idea how to use one of these,” DiMuccio cracks, holding up a wrench; later the couple notes they’ve been together 14 years and would love to be married on his show (it wouldn't be the first nationally televised gay wedding; Conan O'Brien televised the wedding of his costume designer and his partner in 2011).
“When (Cohen) got to our names, he said ‘I love a lesbian wedding,’” said DiMuccio, laughing. “Of course, we’re reading (meanings) into everything. I want to win because I want people to connect with us.”
DiMuccio, 47, and Hillen, 41, met in 1997, when the two worked for the same physical rehabilitation hospital in Largo. They began dating two years later.
So why haven’t they married before now?
“Before it was legal (in some states), it would be just another fabulous party,” DiMuccio said. “Having it legally recognized is a whole other thing. And I want to make that point in front of a nationwide TV audience.”
Vote for DiMuccio and Hillen by clicking here. See outtakes of their video and see their story by clicking here.
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Pray that Pope Francis will come to agree with Father Robert J. Fox in his Immaculate Heart Messenger [Spring 2007 Issue] and endorse the Marian devotion to "Our Lady of America" [this is distinct from "Our Lady of Guadalupe, Empress of the Americas"] as being related to Our Lady of Fatima and to Peace through Purity. See: (Article) or (Newsletter Archive). If, after prayer and prudent reflection, one believes that he or she should write to His Holiness, Pope Francis, and encourage Him to endorse this devotion and lead the Catholic bishops in the "solemn procession" which "Our Lady of America" requested of Her statue into the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception at Washington, D.C., then please do not hesitate to do so. Many have come to believe that the solemn procession which Our Lady specifically requested will facilitate the Triumph of Her Immaculate Heart, including Father Robert J. Fox, apostle of Our Lady of Fatima.
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ACHIEVEMENT LADDER ENTHUSIASTS ENCOURAGE POSITIVE WORK PLACE ENVIRONMENTS
With the many unique talents that exist in today's work environments, the atmosphere is conducive to success when the human resources are encouraged to provide positive reinforcements with their co-workers, associates, team members, and co-owners. To achieve a sound workpersonship, each human resource strengthens morale when a positive attitude is enhanced and empowered. To accomplish effective and efficient positive work environments, each person is expected to communicate rather than complicate. Effective communications brings about understanding of the organization's mission, objectives, and goals. Communications is a common mutual acceptance of each unique person's aptitudes, altitudes, and attitudes. The barriers to effective communication hinders the sender's and receiver's messages that may often be misinterpreted. When a co-worker is speaking, an active listener is focusing on the message with their eyes and their ears. When an associate writes an e-mail, letter, report,or news release, the receiver considers the context and the content to comprehend the actual meaning intended or unintended.
When a team member performs a challenging task, another team member will be observing the total non-verbal messages that will be achieved with actions rather than with formal words.
Positive attitudes are initiated by the individual; and these positive approaches to life's challenges in the working environments are owned by the individual expressing these positive attitudes. If you are expecting others to respond to your positive approaches in a favorable manner, remember that you are unable to predict another person's response to be positive. For some a simple smile, which takes about six muscles, affects an associate in the work environment to respond accordingly; but often many persons respond with a "frown," which takes about 42 muscles. Smiles go a long way to positively affect a working environment; and that is a risk worth taking. Positive attitudes at all levels have long lasting effects that results in positive changes.
Time and tide wait for no person. Each day we have opportunities to make a difference with our smiles and our positive attitudes in achieving the challenges at hand. A wise person once said: "If a job is work doing, that job should be completed with a positive attitude or NOT AT ALL."
When we read the daily newspapers or listen to the daily news media, we often hear and observe negative news that brings about more negative responses. In the long run, much more could be accomplished by using a positive approach to reduce unnecessary tensions, divisiveness, and discords. Having a sense of humor about rumors, myths, and other stressful concerns, the positive attitude will allow laughter to replace despair, hopelessness, and undocumented falsehoods.
Each day we all have an opportunity to bring about a positive approach to all of those persons who we will have the honor of meeting even for the first time. Achievement Ladder Enthusiasts encourage all persons of good will to bring about effective change by their wisdom to have a positive attitude with their aptitudes to reach their altitudes of lifelong learning with a legacy.
When a team member performs a challenging task, another team member will be observing the total non-verbal messages that will be achieved with actions rather than with formal words.
Positive attitudes are initiated by the individual; and these positive approaches to life's challenges in the working environments are owned by the individual expressing these positive attitudes. If you are expecting others to respond to your positive approaches in a favorable manner, remember that you are unable to predict another person's response to be positive. For some a simple smile, which takes about six muscles, affects an associate in the work environment to respond accordingly; but often many persons respond with a "frown," which takes about 42 muscles. Smiles go a long way to positively affect a working environment; and that is a risk worth taking. Positive attitudes at all levels have long lasting effects that results in positive changes.
Time and tide wait for no person. Each day we have opportunities to make a difference with our smiles and our positive attitudes in achieving the challenges at hand. A wise person once said: "If a job is work doing, that job should be completed with a positive attitude or NOT AT ALL."
When we read the daily newspapers or listen to the daily news media, we often hear and observe negative news that brings about more negative responses. In the long run, much more could be accomplished by using a positive approach to reduce unnecessary tensions, divisiveness, and discords. Having a sense of humor about rumors, myths, and other stressful concerns, the positive attitude will allow laughter to replace despair, hopelessness, and undocumented falsehoods.
Each day we all have an opportunity to bring about a positive approach to all of those persons who we will have the honor of meeting even for the first time. Achievement Ladder Enthusiasts encourage all persons of good will to bring about effective change by their wisdom to have a positive attitude with their aptitudes to reach their altitudes of lifelong learning with a legacy.
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