Secret Service agents had their hands full and bellies empty this week in Denver.
Barack Obama was in town Wednesday morning, former President Bill Clinton came in Wednesday evening, and President Bush was here Thursday afternoon and evening. Also, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul were here Friday.
That’s a lotta of guys to protect and not much time for lunch breaks. When Clinton met with people in the swank Cherry Creek condo of Lee McIntire (where Clinton was fed fancy food by Adde Bjorklund’s Adde’s Catering Kitchen), the Secret Service members in his caravan were hungry and parked in the alley behind Prime 121 steakhouse. Always cordial, owner Scott Fickling personally delivered to the agents platters of his signature sliders.
It may have been disconcerting that Fickling is a dead ringer for Clinton and both sport the same Southern accent. The agents were “shocked,” says Fickling, who laid it on thick when he knocked on the car doors and said, “Here you go, guys. You hungry?”
The agents recovered in time to gobble them down, then got back to keeping America safe for democracy.
One more time.
TruTV, which was Court TV until Jan. 1, is in Denver shooting a story on the unsolved murder of JonBenet Ramsey.
Insiders tell me a truTv crew has taken over the main stage at the Denver Studio Complex to re-create the Ramseys’ former Boulder home — including JonBenet’s bedroom and the basement, where the body was discovered by her father Dec. 26, 1996.
Super.
Get out of bed!
It’s Super Bowl Sunday and you have a lot to do.
Start with the 9:15 a.m. Super Bowl 5K at Washington Park — a funder run for Prostate Awareness and Cancer Education, or PACE.
Or catch the Ski Train to Winter Park at 7:15 a.m. The train heads back at 4:15 p.m. — so you’d be in a LoDo bar for the second half.
In a gig called “Football Widows Unite!” the new Denver Improv at Northfield Stapleton presents a football comedy showcase starting at 7 p.m.
Countless bars are hosting Super Bowl parties. I’m in a football pool at the Palm. And Del Frisco’s Cigar Lounge has a Smokin’ Super Bowl Party with prime rib, steaks and stogies from 3:30 to 8 p.m.
Meanwhile, 15-year-old Josh Sattler of Littleton won a free trip to the Super Bowl with his dad for outpredicting all contestants at ‘s Pick ‘Em contest.
City spirit.
Denver violin virtuoso Eugene Fodor, who at 22 won the International Paganini Competition in 1972 and the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1974, played Friday with Clay Kirkland’s 61st Birthday Band at Swallow Hill . . . The 1976 edition of the Boulder band Firefall reunites for a concert April 9 at the Boulder Theater . . . Aspen snowboarding beauty Gretchen Bleiler is the fourth female to shine on the cover of ESPN The Magazine . . . Sez who: “Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.” Don Shula
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