My wife and I and a group of friends went to a dance last night with an 18 piece orchestra.

It was a very social affair with a lot of non-ballroomers dancing.

In many instances, including faster numbers, we danced Night Club Waltz and had a lot of fun.

A little over a year ago they made a television movie here, "The Making of Charlie's Angels".

One of the talent agents came to one of our Club dances because they thought they'd be able to get people with gowns and tuxedos for the Emmy Awards scenes.

When they set one scene they just paired us up helter skelter with all the other extras who had no dance experience. Suddenly a director leaned over a balcony and said,

"When the principals pass through the lobby I'd like all the extras to pretend to be dancing."

There were about 50 of us from the Club, including 4 teachers all paired with non-dancers. One of the other teachers looked at me and said, "What should we do?"

"Night Club Waltz," I replied.

Word spread and we were off to the races. Very quickly and by the end of the shoot everyone looked like they knew what they were doing. Even though in the final cut everyone is in the background it looks good.

OB