Okay, Mom, here goes:
1. Favorite Cookie: It's a long story--heartwarming too--but if I tell it here, people will be all "This little tale is so sweet, it's pathetic." So, someday. But the cookies are what I refer to as "Marie Angione's Cookies." I used to make them as a little girl with my friend and her very Italian mother. I still make the cookies and I still see Marie whenever she visits from Florida. She's 84 and I love her like a mother.
2. Hero as a child: Wow. I had so many. I guess I have to say my parents because they were such an interesting couple--a Scott and Zelda in their own way. My mother was strikingly gorgeous (and smart and artistic and loving). My father was a fashion designer and partner in an upscale restaurant in NYC, but a deeply private, modest and generous man. They were wonderful people who took us kids to the theatre ALL THE TIME. That's where my love of theatre comes from.
Both of my parents died too young and tragically. I miss them everyday.
3. Favorite Book as a Child: Catcher in the Rye. I loved it so much that I shared it with my friends in school and it was really popular. Then, one day, Sister Herbert saw someone reading it after a math test, charged down the aisle, ripped it out of his hands and said, "THAT is a dirty book." This, of course, made EVERYONE read it!
4. Way to spend a rainy Saturday: Besides being on the BWW Message Board, you mean? Watching a movie, reading, playing games with my kids, ORGANIZING. When it's warm, I like going for walks in the rain.
"Be on your guard! Jerks on the loose!"
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