It’s the next step on a dream road to fame and, perhaps, fortune.
Nicole Greensher meticulously has charted her fast-track to fame. She’s founded Fashion Factor, a fashion/
production company, and this morning launches her monthly reports on “Colorado & Co.” (10 a.m., KUSA-
Channel 9), where she’ll show off her jewelry designs and talk about fashions for teens and young adults. The pay-for-play show, she says, “is a way to get the exposure I need.” She already appears several times a day on television in Vail.
Remarkable for an adult but Nicole’s dad, Bill, had to drive her from Vail for our interview because she won’t turn 16 until next month.
Greensher is looking far down the road to success. Ultimately, she wants to go to the Parsons School of Fashion Design in New York City and launch a fashion and jewelry line.
In the meantime, she’s about to approach Denver Public Schools about fashion clubs for high schoolers. “I think it would be a good idea. They have talent, but they don’t know how to get started.” Her plan is to let young designers show their work on her TV spots.
Wait, there’s more. She also skis, works out with martial arts and kick boxing and is mapping a route to an appearance on “Today.”
TV is a natural outlet for her. For her “Colorado & Co.” appearances she’s lining up models, getting high-end stores to sponsor her and “planning clever lines” to use on-air. She isn’t shy. “I love the camera.”
Streaming Pierre
Pierre Wolfe is going high-tech.
The long-time Denver restaurateur and radio personality launches his weekly travel/dining show, “The Good Life” on the Internet.
Wolfe and sidekick Ron Crider, who previously did their show on KRCN 1060-AM, go “live” at mrfivestar
.com, a travel site, on Saturday.
It runs 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays.
Hawthorne at 88
Never grow up: Happy returns to Jim Hawthorne, who hit the local radio waves in 1941 and went on to a long career in radio, television and movies. He just turned 88.
Known on the air only by his last name, Hawthorne pioneered off-the-
wall deejay antics at KMYR in Denver before moving on to KXLA and KFWB in L.A. He returned to KOA in the 1970s.
At home in California, he’s telling friends, “I plan to retire at 90.”
Around the dial
Kenny Loggins, Babyface and Cyndi Lauper among the performers on “KOSI Christmas Volume I,” a fundraising CD to benefit Brent’s Place. It’s available at area Guiry’s stores … ESPN reports its “Monday Night Football” games averaging 9.3 million homes, a 39-percent increase over the network’s Sunday night games last season … The Nacho Men headline the 19th annual KIMN 100.3 (“MIX”) New Year’s Eve party at the Grand Hyatt Denver … Quotable: “If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t, you most assuredly won’t.” Denis Waitley.
Dick Kreck’s column appears Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. He may be reached at 303-954-1456 or dkreck@denverpost.com.
