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Okay, okay, Friday.
1. If you could eat dinner with and "get to know" one famous person (living or dead), who would you choose?
The living one.
No, okay, seriously? Hmm. That's a toughie. So many people, for so many different reasons. This evening, I'll go with Mr. Michael Chabon, whose bloody fantastic novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay won the Pulitzer, and deservedly so. Heard the guy speak, and he's just so cool.
2. Has the death of a famous person ever had an effect on you? Who was it and how did you feel?
A profound, lasting effect? Fortunately not. At the time, though, the assassination of Yitzakh Rabin hit me hard, as did the death of John F. Kennedy, Jr., and how I felt was pretty ripped up for their surviving families. Rabin's granddaughter, who was about my age, spoke not long afterward, and I remember she said "I'm not going to give a speech about peace today. I want to talk about my grandpa." I cried and cried. And in Kennedy-land, I just thought, God, of all the people in the world I'm glad I'm not, Caroline Kennedy is right up there in the top five -- old enough at the time of her father's murder to remember it, watching her mother die slowly of a long illness, and then losing her brother, god, god.
3. If you could BE a famous person for 24 hours, who would you choose?
Only 24 hours? Aaron Sorkin.
4. Do people ever tell you that you look like someone famous?
One of these days, people are going to ask me if I ever get told I look just like Fox, and I'm going to smile all smugly. :-D
Three stories about that:
Kathleen Turner is sitting on the subway in New York, in a nearly empty car, and becomes aware that a fellow-passenger is staring at her. Guy looks terrified. Guy finally works up the guts to say, in a choked whisper, "You look just like Kathleen Turner." She grins and says, in a harsh, brassy, not-at-all-Kathleen-Turner-like voice, "Oh, thank you, what a compliment!" Guy looks relieved -- it is clear to him that she is no one of the kind. :-)
Her Majesty the Queen of England is informed, by someone who has apparently managed to get close enough to speak to her without noticing the, you know, posse of guards she must have with her at all times, "You look just like the queen." Queen looks right at the guy and says, "How very reassuring." :-)
Harrison Ford is stopped on the street by someone who says, "You look just like Harrison Ford." Harrison Ford smiles and says, "You know, I get that all the time." :-)
5. Have you ever met anyone famous?
Depends on the criteria, both for "meeting" and for "famous." I met Pele, the soccer player, when I was a very small child. Shook hands with Al Gore at a '92 Clinton rally, though I was a layer or two back in the crowd and he certainly didn't see me. Worked in a theatre for a while, and knocked back a few beers with some folks who are eventually going to be very famous, if there's any justice. :-) Some of my professors in college, and some of the attorneys at my firm, are pretty famous in their respective fields, I guess. I've met and shook hands with Chita Rivera and Nathan Lane outside stage doors. [swoon.]
The living one.
No, okay, seriously? Hmm. That's a toughie. So many people, for so many different reasons. This evening, I'll go with Mr. Michael Chabon, whose bloody fantastic novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay won the Pulitzer, and deservedly so. Heard the guy speak, and he's just so cool.
2. Has the death of a famous person ever had an effect on you? Who was it and how did you feel?
A profound, lasting effect? Fortunately not. At the time, though, the assassination of Yitzakh Rabin hit me hard, as did the death of John F. Kennedy, Jr., and how I felt was pretty ripped up for their surviving families. Rabin's granddaughter, who was about my age, spoke not long afterward, and I remember she said "I'm not going to give a speech about peace today. I want to talk about my grandpa." I cried and cried. And in Kennedy-land, I just thought, God, of all the people in the world I'm glad I'm not, Caroline Kennedy is right up there in the top five -- old enough at the time of her father's murder to remember it, watching her mother die slowly of a long illness, and then losing her brother, god, god.
3. If you could BE a famous person for 24 hours, who would you choose?
Only 24 hours? Aaron Sorkin.
4. Do people ever tell you that you look like someone famous?
One of these days, people are going to ask me if I ever get told I look just like Fox, and I'm going to smile all smugly. :-D
Three stories about that:
Kathleen Turner is sitting on the subway in New York, in a nearly empty car, and becomes aware that a fellow-passenger is staring at her. Guy looks terrified. Guy finally works up the guts to say, in a choked whisper, "You look just like Kathleen Turner." She grins and says, in a harsh, brassy, not-at-all-Kathleen-Turner-like voice, "Oh, thank you, what a compliment!" Guy looks relieved -- it is clear to him that she is no one of the kind. :-)
Her Majesty the Queen of England is informed, by someone who has apparently managed to get close enough to speak to her without noticing the, you know, posse of guards she must have with her at all times, "You look just like the queen." Queen looks right at the guy and says, "How very reassuring." :-)
Harrison Ford is stopped on the street by someone who says, "You look just like Harrison Ford." Harrison Ford smiles and says, "You know, I get that all the time." :-)
5. Have you ever met anyone famous?
Depends on the criteria, both for "meeting" and for "famous." I met Pele, the soccer player, when I was a very small child. Shook hands with Al Gore at a '92 Clinton rally, though I was a layer or two back in the crowd and he certainly didn't see me. Worked in a theatre for a while, and knocked back a few beers with some folks who are eventually going to be very famous, if there's any justice. :-) Some of my professors in college, and some of the attorneys at my firm, are pretty famous in their respective fields, I guess. I've met and shook hands with Chita Rivera and Nathan Lane outside stage doors. [swoon.]
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Some day, not too far in the future, I am going to be wildly famous and well-regarded, and the one or two people to whom I have (heh) written appropriately respectful fan letters will say to themselves, "Holy crap, I had actual handwritten correspondence from her -- what did I do with that?!"
:-D
(To say nothing of my old pal the camp counselor. He's going to eat his liver. [g])