42 Things About Me

that was kind of fun wasn’t it.. maybe i need to lighten up and do a meme…….

and,, i want the boots….

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Everytime I read a post like this with all these personal information about u, I want to get on a plan and come and give u a hug.

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I loved reading all of your answers. I’m gald you did this and I do hope you enjoy that ‘free’ trip to Florida.

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Loved your fav sounds and fav smells list. And your Irish grandmother sounds swell, too. I miss my Greek grandma “Yia-Yia” soooo much.
btw, I met Mick Jagger years ago, in a tiny, nearly-empty Mexican restaurant, here in Atlanta. Really. He wandered in, with Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen, in uh, May, I believe, of 1991.Mick & Emilio were intown to re-shoot some scenes of “Freejack”(I’ve never seen the film, I heard it’s not very good). Anyway, I waved to a woman I recognized from a nightclub where we both worked(she apparently was dating a cameraman who was shooting that film). I headed to an old jukebox that sat in the corner, and put on the Stones’ “Miss You”. And Mick began laughing.I sent a note on a napkin asking her if I could say hello, and they waved me over.
Charlie Sheen approached me, and introduced himself. I must say, I never found him particularly attractive, but in-person, he’s INCREDIBLY sexy. Penetrating eyes(he actually “scanned” me, slowly, up-and-down,and I felt suddenly naked (in fairness to Charlie Sheen, this was when I was much younger, and I was actually WAS wearing very little– only a tiny tight white mini-skirt and a teeny-tiny white fitted top, and huge high heels!!I also had bleached, waist-length hair) and then stared into my eyes and said “Heidi(my co-worker) says you’re an actress…” We sat and chatted awhile, and when Emilio said “Would you like to go out?” I responded I had a date (my lawyer-friend, David from Texas, who was sitting at the bar, nursing a Margarita. He was very shy.)I wound up telling Emilio and Mick that “Club Velvet” was THE place to go,”Did you hear that Mick? Lisa says EVERYONE’s going to Velvet.” He giggled, and Mick giggled. And then Mick said, “Well, if everyone’s going, let’s go….” (the irony here is that most Atlanta gossip columns/entertainment news favored “Velvet” because it’s the CELEBRITIES who were always going there!)and we all caravaned down, and danced the night away. Really.
Charlie Sheen, who was in his very very sober period at this time, left around ten minutes after we allarrived. I looked up to see a slender long-haired blond on one arm, a curvy, short-haired blond on the other, as he headed out the door.
“Why is Charlie leaving?” I naive-ly asked of Emilio. “Oh, he got what he came for.”
Hilarious!

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Hi Selma–Thanks for word-up on my comments.And yeah–I’m considering adding-in a few “brushes with fame”(or in my case, brushes with famous people) in my one-woman “Show & Tell”.
For instance: I noticed comedian Steve Martin leaving a local (Phipps Plaza in Atlanta)Saks Fifth Avenue in uh, 1993(or 1994(?)-I discovered much later that he was in town working on the film “Nuts”, I think), I believe. And we ended up having a great conversation(well, mostly I told him how much I enjoyed “Short Cuts”–the Robert Altman film I’d just seen, and he told me he’d heard it was “boring”–I went on to tell him why it’s not, it’s very compelling, etc….he offered me his “card”, which reads:
“This is to certify you have had a personal encounter with me, and that you found me to be warm, funny, intelligent, and polite.” –Steve Martin
I later saw him again, at a playwright discussion at Alliance Theatre(in January of 1998)for his “Picasso at the Lapin Agile”. The auditorium was huge, but I raised my hand to be first to comment on his play(I’d seen the preview two nights before) and he commented immediately after I spoke “Are you Sarah Jessica Parker?” The audience roared–I assume they found me jumpy or flight-y like her, or something. He commented that he meant it “as a compliment. She’s a very very good friend of mine.” I did not get to tell him I’d met him before, or that I still carry his card with me….
btw, I loved his novel, “The Pleasure of My Company”–much more neurotic than “Shopgirl”, it’s like living in someone’s head!
A few other people I’ve met:
Madonna: (she literally walked up next to me, at “Club Velvet” in uh, 1993 or 1994(?)and said “Hi”.Her skin is amazing—(“I use alot of sunscreen”, she responded, when I exclaimed her skin was beautiful), and she’s TINY. When I commented on how short she was, she said “Hey, look who’s talking!”(I’m not quite 5’1”). She was smiling, and VERY down-to-earth and friendly! I actually felt “cheated”,though, because she was in her “brunette” phase; I prefer her as a blond. She left awhile later, with a basketball star she was dating at that time.
Isabella Rosellini:In line at baggage at LAX–1992; I said “You look like exactly Isabella Rosellini.”
“I am herrrr.” she said, simply (and quite regally, I might add) I told her how she is much prettier in person than in her Lancome ads, and that I loved her in “Blue Velvet”. She seemed genuinely surprised I knew the film…we spoke for only a few moments, before her bodyguard showed up, and whisked her away.
John Lithgow: Met him and heard him speak in the late 70’s at USF(his Daddy, Arthur Lithgow, was a theatre instructor there). Funny, brilliant guy(just like his Dad).
Melissa Gilbert ,Tim Matheson, Matthew (when he was still a li’l child!)Lawerence: (I worked on a TV Movie of the Week, with them–I had a tiny role)
Authors I’ve interviewed:
Elizabeth (“Oprah pick”) Berg: Interviewed her for “Never Change”, a novel written after her selection by Oprah for an earlier work. Sensitive, and funny and very bright, she remembered me, several years later, as “the poet”, at an Atlanta book-signing! She has a list of folks/fans on her snail-mail list.
Anna Maxted: Interviewed her for her “Running in Heels”; she was delightful! We still e-mail occasionally.
Ethan Canin: A great novelist, and short story writer, I interviewed him for his “Carry Me Across The Water”. Not a humble man.
Local authors I adore:
Pearl Cleage(“What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day”), Tayari A. Jones(“Leaving Atlanta”).
Both women write brilliantly of Atlanta and race, and their sense of identity as women of color, Southerners, and people seeking purpose in their lives. Pearl Cleage is a great playwright, too!
Billy Idol: Very long story here, a bit too “hot” to post! 😉

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