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valign="top"><td class="boxBI_3159408"><div class="textMed"><b>Brian Williams</b></div><div class="credit">Anchor & “Nightly News” managing editor </div><hr size="1" width="85%" color="#cccccc" align="center"><div><span class="bulletRedSmall">• </span><span class="textMed"><a href="/web/20060615102022/http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3667173/">Profile</a></span></div></td></tr></table><table width="102" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="boxF_3159408"><tr><td class="boxFI_3159408"><div class="textSmall"></div></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table>NEW ORLEANS - Here’s a note on a friend we've been keeping track of since Katrina forced him and his family from their home and their beloved city.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Terry Fortia, his five children and wife Nichelle left Baton Rouge airport for the unknown nine months ago, telling NBC News he felt “kind of nervous, anxious at the same time. But really, I mean, it may be the only choice I have.”</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>When NBC caught up with him again, in December, he’d made the move to California and said, “It's something I'd always seen on TV, but I never imagined I would see the Hollywood sign.”</p><div class="aC"><div class="textSmallGrey w320"><a href="#storyContinued">Story continues below ↓</a><hr noshade size="1"> advertisement <div style="padding:0 10 10 10;"><script>ad_dap(250,300,'&PG=NBCMSN&AP=1089');</script></div><hr noshade size="1"></div></div><a name="storyContinued"></a><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>A talented chef here in New Orleans, he was offered a new beginning in Los Angeles —Hollywood actually — by a Christian charity. Though he'd hoped to get back on his feet, Terry never thought he'd land quite like this.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Say hello to Hollywood's hottest new chef. </p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>“It's very surreal,” Fortia says, “Because I'm not used to all of the celebrities and all the big parties and premieres that we do here, and seeing all these different people that you only see on the television or in the movies, so it's been really weird for me.”</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Here at “Memphis,” the new <em>it</em> place in Hollywood, Terry cooks his New Orleans specialties for a glitzy crowd. Restaurateur Richard Heiman, the owner of Memphis, saw Terry on our broadcast and tracked him down.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>“I'm like, ‘Oh, my God. I've got to get a hold of this guy,’” Heiman explains, adding, “We wanted to have a good blend of Southern style, and we wanted to be authentic. 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