- She served a lifetime subpoena on a man who was harassing actress, Susan Dey, in Compton, CA.
- The late Wendie Jo Sperber, actress and founder of weSPARK asked her to visit before she died. Sperber started the first free-cancer support center in Sherman Oaks, California. Program Director, Nancy Allen told Fredric that her ongoing article coverage helped the center triple in size while Sperber was still alive.
- Mayor James Hahn gave Fredric a proclamation for a men's cancer awareness month. She wanted the current Mayor to carry the baton and help Dr. Ernie Bodai (he created the women's breast cancer stamp) to spread the word for men and women locally and globally. Louis Gossett, Jr. has the proclamation to help his Eracism organization. Gossett, a survivor himself, met Dr. Bodai at her son Dylan Bocanegra's first art show. The two men spoke within the themes of cancer, racism and education at Miceli's in Hollywood, 2010.
- In 2017, Mayor Eric Garcetti gave her a certificate of recognition for all the assistance she has brought by putting a spotlight on others or organizations.
- Has ridden an Orca and called a gray whale - whistling with cupped hands - (40 feet long) that eye-hopped alongside a 22 foot panga (boat) she was riding in Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico.
- Donated an audio interview for a documentary done of her friend, Hubert Selby, Jr. In "It/ll Be Better Tomorrow".
- Jason Miller allowed three of his one-act-plays to be used free for a theatre in Los Angeles on the condition that she play leads in them.
- Freelanced for the Sheriff's department, in-house. Her stories were rescue based: drownings, diving of Los Angeles ports to look for bombs or other suspicious activities, drug dogs, i.e.
- Mother of Dylan Bocanegra.
- When her son, Dylan Bocanegra, was a toddler, she worked for San Francisco's investigative team - Palladino & Sutherland's extended LA office briefly with their brother, Paul Palladino. During the O.J. Simpson and Snoop Doggy Dog murder trials Eva-Marie delivered legal papers to her boss.
- Good friends with two fine Mexican artists, Joaquin Pineda of Cabo San Lucas and his mentor, Victor Cauduro Rojas of Queretaro, Mexico. Gayle Garner Roski (Edward Roski's wife of the Staples Center) loved Cauduro's work so much that he may do something for Los Angeles. She was asked to pose for Cauduro, known for his amazing murals and Victor offered to paint his vision of a real Death Mask representative of a character she created for her screenplay, "Death Mask: No One Is Listening".
- Her grandmother was an opera singer in Munich, Germany.
- Her father worked in the prisons, (Soledad, Duel Vocational Institute) and quips that she and her siblings were brought up like little convicts. He also was head of the S.S.U. before retiring. An elite police force out of the Department of Corrections.
- Was on "One Day At A Time" in a scene that had Valerie Bertinelli in it. The two women didn't meet until their boys, Dylan and "Wolfie" Wolfgang Van Halen played basketball together.
- Went up in Childrens Hospital's Rescue Helicopter to do a story on their critical care team. One of numerous medical articles, she also went to County Jail for an in-house look between medical and prisoner relations.
- She performed in some of Sam Shepard's plays and met the playwright when she came to Los Angeles at the Improv Cafe. Shepard rodeo-ed in her hometown, Salinas, California.
- Andy Kaufman was both mentor and good friend to her. They did street theatre together and she was one of the few people who could trick Kaufman, the master of disguises.
- Was mentored by Paul Petersen who worked closely with Sam Peckinpah.
- Fredric along with Maria Shriver, Aileen Getty, Elizabeth Taylor, Ronnie & James Caan's mother - and more were subjects for son - Dylan Bocanegra's art show - 'A Mother's Nature' at M.O.M. (Museum of Motherhood) for the entire month of March 2012 in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Ms. Shriver loaned her commissioned piece - "Lady of California" for this tribute to mothers from all walks of life and their causes.
- With one article helped raise awareness for Leeza Gibbons' Memory Centers in conjunction with a weekend performance of NYC's CATS. Gibbons received over 10K and Leeza's Places began.
- Sheriff Lee Baca gave her a certificate for making her community better.
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