Best Seller?

My respect for "Best Sellers" is gone.  Apparently the secret is to have a category so narrowly defined, your book winds up being #1.  Check out this screen shot from amazon.com:

Backstory: I did some editing/reviewing for Barron's in the past and when the author of their current AP Physics B book declined to reorganize and realign it with the new AP Physics 1 and 2 exams, they asked me if I would take on that piece and become a co-author. An interesting experience and a lot more work that I ever anticipated, but now I, too, am a "best seller"...

TV star

The year is 1990 ( +/- 1 year).  I am working in a lab at Purdue, making mirrors for astrophysicists.  They are looking for faint blue light released when cosmic rays hit the Earth's atmosphere.  A very (now) dated show called "Beyond 2000" comes to do a profile of the scientists I work for.  They needed some action shots and so a star was born (I appear briefly in 3 scenes: don't blink!)