Message Board Celebrity Of The Day (Part II) - Shameless — Page 125

Ok, Best. I think I have to stick with my usual interests-art. Do you have any interest in art or photography? If so, do you have any favorites, and is any of it on your walls?

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Yay B12B! You're one of the posters I most admire here.

No question from me yet, I want to think up a doozy.

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Thank b12b. mmmmm margaritas.... mango or strawberry? Frozen oron the rocks?

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Congratulations Best! (Best12?, Bars?, ... whatever)

If you had unlimited financial resources available to you, what is the first thing you would do with them? What long-term investment would you make?

If you found a magic lamp with your own personal genie and his 3 wishes, what would your wishes be?

If you could go back in time to any 24 hours period, where would you go? Would you try to change anything about that time?

HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY!

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What is your favorite "comfort" read or music?

Grizzy---I can always go back to The Great Gatsby or Catcher in the Rye... although I don't find myself reading too many books multiple times. But I can always return to those two. As far as "comfort" music... two film scores stand out for me: Peyton Place (Franz Waxman) and To Kill A Mockingbird (Elmer Bernstein). My two favorites by far. And Aaron Copeland's "Appalachian Spring" or "Our Town." They make me think, relax me and inspire me, every time.


What five people with public voices - either living or dead, as long as their 'message' is available to the public - are worth listening to, and why?

DG---I'll give you the people that have touched my life personally. There are many throughout history, but the major ones that have affected my life... I'll give you the short answer now, and I'll do my best to give you more of the "why" later.... (in random order)...

Martin Luther King Jr.
Gandhi
Jesus Christ
Eleanor Roosevelt (although more by her life as example than by her "message")
Frank Capra (an odd choice to most, but I'll try to explain later!)

...More to come! I'll read through everything. Promise!

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kissmycookie---My ideal meal would be rich with flavor, calories and decadence... and add no actual weight to me whatsoever! I grew up in "Meat and Potatoes Land," so as I've gotten older I moved away from that a bit. I'm partial to Mexican and Chinese food now. But my partner is Italian... and makes the best damn pot of sauce you've ever tasted! So, that with any choice of pasta will ring my bell every time.

singingwendy---Why "best12bars?" Here's my answer from another thread (a good while back)...

It's an old theatre story. Back when I was pounding the pavements in New York a couple of decades ago, we'd be told every now and then at the ugly cattle calls to sing our "best 8 bars" of a song. Frustrated, I walked into an audition one time and suggested to them if I sang the blues could I get 12 bars? (Fortunately the musical director thought that was hilarious. He understood that "blues" is written in 12 bar phrases instead of 8, and it was my clever and pathetic way of trying to get 4 more bars out of it. He told me just for that, I could sing the whole damn song. I got a callback and almost landed the part... it was a replacement for a lead on Broadway. They narrowed it down to three of us and that's when I got cut. The point is, I decided to be gutsy, semi-clever... and ask for more time to be heard... and it paid off. So I decided to use that as my "name" on this board. It seemed like a personal but logical choice for me.

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Jane2---Yes I have a great interest in art and photography. My dad was (is?) really a "rennaisance man," meaning in addition to his acting/directing/writing/designing for theatre... he also worked as a professional photographer for years (with Life Magazine and others) AND he is a painter. I have an amazing photo from a shoot he did jointly with Nina Leen for "Life" of Helen Keller and Patty Duke together. It was taken the day that Patty met Helen for the first time, while she was in rehearsals to play her on Broadway. Patty is signing "hello" into Helen's 80-year-old hand. (Interesting that my dad would join Patty several years later as a cameraman on her TV show.) But this particular photo is amazing... and it was never published in the actual magazine. They chose a different shot for the page, so I guess I have a "one of a kind" from that shoot, hanging in my living room. I also have several of my father's original paintings. He was greatly influenced by Lautrec and Van Gogh... and so was I, as a result. I feel like they're old friends of mine, going back to my childhood.

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Yikes! No. Not original Lautrecs and Van Goghs. I WISH.

Those were Dad's influences as a painter... and mine too. But I have several "original" Dad paintings.

LOL!

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Oops, sorry Best! It looks like I'm developing a learning disability with reading in my old age~

Oh-and don't mind Miss P-she's delusional.

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Updated On: 3/20/06 at 12:59 PM

Yes Rath, this is a great guy-good choice!

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Jane, what do you mean I'm "delusional"????

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"Jane, what do you mean I'm "delusional"????


Meaning I don't do incest!

...during the week...

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Oh yay! Congrats b12b, you are definetly one of my absolute favorite posters on this board and are so nice!

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