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17/01/00 - PROMO: CHAPTERS BOOKS, POLO FESTIVAL, WINNIPEG, MANITOBA Marcie Davies is another Winnipegger who, in hindsight, laughs at her rather memorable up-close-and-personal encounter with Adams. But at the time, she was embarrassed at her less-than-cool reaction to meeting her idol. Davies, a 35-year-old assistant in the student affairs department at the University of Manitoba, met Adams in January 2000 when he was signing copies of his photography book Made in Canada at Chapters Polo Park. Although Davies describes herself as a very calm and collected person, she was understandably nervous when she dashed from work to Chapters just minutes before the book-signing line was cut off. She has been an ardent fan, she says, ever since she was 14 years old and first saw Adams' Run to You video on Video Hits. Since then she has attended four of his concerts, joined his fan club, and bought all his albums and books. "As I waited in line I started mentally rehearsing what I would say to him," recalls Davies, who was 29 at the time. "I wanted to tell him I had admired him for a long time and think he is a great musician, and I wanted to ask if the German shepherd in the Please Forgive Me video belonged to him." As she edged closer in line, she caught a glimpse of Adams. "He was dressed in a black turtleneck and jeans and looked really bored and tired, as if he didn't really want to be there." When it was finally her turn, Davies suddenly became more nervous and flushed. Instead of going in front of his desk, like everyone else, she rushed behind the desk where he was sitting, touched his arm and said, "Hey, peace." "I don't know where that came from," says Davies. "I had never said that before in my life." Adams opened the book and commented that it had already been signed. (Davies' husband Roy had arrived earlier to get her book signed, just in case she didn't make it in time.) She suddenly felt faint and began to panic. She was shaking. "I leaned right into him, really close, right in his space... I mumbled and stumbled, then blurted out, 'I think I need oxygen.'" Adams looked up and gave her a big smile, chuckled, and opened up the last page in the book and wrote under his picture B + M, and x for a kiss. As he wrote, Davies -- still in a state of shock and without thinking about what she was doing -- put her other arm around his shoulder. "I remember his sweater was so soft. I'm pretty sure it was cashmere," she says. The Chapters representatives and Adams' bodyguards moved closer, watching her carefully. And then, as they guided her away, she tripped over his chair. "I made such a fool of myself," Davies groans. "I had my whole speech mapped out. I was going to be so cool. And there's Bryan chuckling at me, like, oh my God, I have a crazy here..." And although Davies thinks she is probably now on Adams' management's "lunatics to watch out for list," she says the embarrassment was worth it. | |||
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