Message Board Celebrity Of The Day (Part II) - Shameless- Page 75

Posted: 3/6/06 at 7:20pm

Bluemoon:
My question: how is life different for you now that you've retired as moderator?

Well, that's easy. I spend less time reading the BWW message baords, and so it's easier not to get caught up in the posts. When I do read some posts I find it's a lot easier to simply say to myself as I respond to what someone has written, "it's only a message board for gosh sake's," or "get a life." And then I simply close the screen down. Yeah, I know.

[Time for dinner. I'll be back]

[mominator]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 7:32pm

Jose' just loved the answers!! Somehow your rainy Saturdays are just how I pictured them!! Give a hug to Charles for me please!

[beacon1]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 8:12pm

Okay *rolls up sleeves* here goes:

1. What is your favorite sandwich filling?
2. What will be your epitaph?
3. What would we be surprised to know about someone in your
family tree?
4. Favorite boy's name? Favorite girl's name?
5. What did you want to be when you grew up?
6. If you could address Congress about any topic, what would it be?
7. Where do you go for spiritual refreshment?
8. Is there a frightened Broadway star lurking around BWW and
searching for posts by beacon1? :o)
9. What was your favorite make-out place in high school?
10. If you could have any Broadway star (living or dead) croon you a tune,who would it be and what would they sing?

Have fun! :o)

[Glebb]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 8:13pm

Yay Jose'!

Posted: 3/6/06 at 8:32pm

SonofMamaMiaSam:
Your question: Which RobbO photo made the most money -- RobbO and Boobs in the tent, RobbO and me in the sling hung from the pine tree or the one of you, RobbO and that tall guy you hang around with impersonating a S'more?

Hmmmm...

This is a tough one.

RobbO and Boobs in the tent wearing nothing but cowboy hats was going very strong for a while....

The S'mores pictures did OK for a short while, but it just ain't the same without chocolate so interested faded very quickly...

RobbO and you hung from a sling in the pine tree has shot higher than anyone could have expected. They are now going for upwards of $3,000 per photo. However, the two that Boobs took as he laid on the ground under the two of you are going for $7,450 for the set, because they are extremely rare. Boobs was only able to take two shots before he was bit in his bare ass by a field mouse. To this day he swears it was a snake but that's only because he doesn't want RobbO to know he was tricked into sucking out the snake venom.

Posted: 3/6/06 at 8:34pm

[Dinner is over and I postponed an installment of BLEAK HOUSE to attend to my celebratory obligations.]

[DAME]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 8:36pm

Preguntas para Jose.

Tienes un idolo?

Te gusta la musica latina?

Cual es tu plato favorito?


Y entre nosotros... cual es tu posicion favorita?

Posted: 3/6/06 at 8:38pm

mira! la nena sabe espanol.

Posted: 3/6/06 at 8:40pm

Kelrel:
What is your favorite way to spend a day in the city?

That's a tough one, too, Kel. I love to walk around the city looking at the architecture and relating it to the city's history. For example, once I set up a walking tour for Charles and me which took us several weekends to accomplish. Using Mary Henderson's book "The City and the Theatre" as our guide we walked the streets of Manhattan visting the locations of every theatre listed in her book, starting downtown in the financial district and ending up in our neighborhood of Lincoln Center. Now days, I get great pleasure by simply spending time in The Strand Bookstore and finding many treasures old and new which I want to have in my library.

Posted: 3/6/06 at 8:53pm

grizzabella:
My usual question: What us your favorite "comfort" read or "comfort" music?

My favorite read is any 19th century novel by Charles Dickens or Anthony Trollope. Right now I'm rereading BLEAK HOUSE.

My favorite comfort music, well that is extremely difficult for me to pick a favorite.. I have a broad musical taste so it would depend on my mood. Oftentimes I would favor to some type of show music, mostly classic shows. OF THEE I SING is a masterpiece that ranks beyond Sondheim, in my opinion, and is one which I am currently re-enjoying. I have little tolerance for what open passes for show music in these contemporary times. I love Richard Strauss, his tone poems and his operas; Puccini, Wagner, and Arthur Sullivan whether his works with Gilbert or his classical compositions. Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" is always a pick-me-uppper for me, too. If there was one, no two pieces of music, uh, make that three, that I would want paid at my funeral they would be: the overture to GYPSY, the overture to FUNNY GIRL, and anything by Elgar, Ravel, Fauré. I am extremely found of the Great American Songbook in all its forms, too, as long as the vocalist can sing.

Posted: 3/6/06 at 8:58pm

smartpenquin78:
Which is my question:
Are you going to Into the Woods and when?
(I am certainly going, but have yet to pick the date.)

Well, smarty, I am going to INTO THE WOODS at NYU. Charles and I have been invited to the opening night performance on March 30th. I suspect we will be going again before the run ends. I look forwarding to meeting you there in person! No guessing this time if we are sitting in front/behind one another.

[DAME]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 9:04pm

Mira papito.. me estas ignorando?

[justthefacts2]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 9:12pm

Felicitations, Jose!! What superhero did you imitate as a child? And who is your favorite Dickens character?

Posted: 3/6/06 at 9:13pm

Mamie:
1. For those of us who haven't had the pleasure of meeting you face to face, would you mind turning on the light a little into your life? In general terms, describe a typical work day and a typical day off.

2. What is your earliest memory?

3. What was the happiest, most secure moment in your life?

1. Generally speaking my workday is quite busy, and there aren't enough hours in the day for me to accomplish all that I should. There are times, like today, when I am hardly ever in my office because I spend the day in meetings over one thing or another. There are other times when things quiet down and I am able to sit in my office and be somewhat proactive. I love my position because it allows me to interact with people at all levels within our organization, and because it allows me to listen to the music that I love at anytime during my work day (when I happen to be in my office). On top of that I get to meet very interesting, and celebrated, individuals who pass through our halls and stages.

2. My earliest memory is playing in a sandbox which I subsequently learned was handbuilt by my great-grandfather, a cigar-maker (Don't ask me for any correlation. All I can think of is that they both required that he worked with his hands.)

3. The happiest, most secure moment in my life. Well. I have to say that except for my life as it is today, it would be the night I was sitting in the Palace Theatre with the guy who was my first partner. (It was a very short-term thing, a few years at most.) He had come to NYC and took me to a performance of Les Ballets Trocodero. I was sitting there, and after what then seemed a lifetime of bemoaning to myself because our relationship didn't work out, I suddenly realized that I didn't want to be with him at all. I wanted to be with Charles, and I wanted to spend the rest of my life with Charles by my side. Accepting Charles into my life was the single, most secure and all the days that have followed in the decades since then remain the happiest days in my life. [Gawd that is so hooky, but so true.]

[Kitzarina]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 9:14pm

In the spirit of all that is pompus and overblown, I bring you a questionare which has been answered by many a celebrity here at the Actor's Studio. Created by Bernard Pivot, they are probably the most important questions ever posed by humanity.

1. What is your favorite word?
2. What is your least favorite word?
3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
4. What turns you off?
5. What is your favorite curse word?
6. What sound or noise do you love?
7. What sound or noise do you hate?
8. What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
9. What profession would you not like to do?
10. If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?

Posted: 3/6/06 at 9:16pm

Boobs:
Yes Jose'....when are WE seeing Into the Woods?...

Just pick a date you sexy thing, and we'll go.
I'll email the performance dates to you.

[Mamie]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 9:19pm

Thank you, Jose. That answer made me cry! You and Charles are so blessed to have found each other.

When you have the time, maybe you can try one more for me? It's my standard:

We are each the architects of our own heaven. What's yours going to be like when you get there?

[DAME]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 9:21pm

Jose'
No se porque me ignoras. Pero de todas maners.. felicidades.

Posted: 3/6/06 at 9:21pm

papalovesmambo:
what is one story from your childhood that you tend to tell over and over again?

The one story that I've told on several occasions to a few of my closest confidents is this: I once bought two goldfish at the local 5 and 10 cents store (Kress). I must have been about 8 years old. I brought them home and named them. When my father came home he asked me their names and I told him. "Dorothy and Lorelei." My father just rolled his eyes and walked away.

Do you think he guessed?

Posted: 3/6/06 at 9:32pm

[Dame, Many thanks for your good wishes. I'm not ignoring you. I'm trying to answer these questions in the order they were posed to me. I will answer your questions, well, all except one. lol]

pattifan2>
which has been your favourite birthday?

My favorite birthday. Well I have two. The first was when I turned 18. It was my first semester away from home at university, and while I was in a city where I had many family members I was living on campus and it was tough being away from my mother and sister and I was pretty homesick. On my 18th birthday, all of my immediate family came up from my hometown and I was given a surprise birthday party. It included with my very large extended family including my great-grandmother, 6 great-aunts, and many cousins. There are moments of that night I still remember.

The second favorite was somewhat recent. I turned 50 at the time and Charles and I were in London. We had a fabulous day and topped it off by going to dinner at La Tante Claire, which at the time was one of the highest rated restuarants in London. We had a spectacular meal and walked through the late-night streets of Belgravia back to our hotel. [The public recollections end here.]

[DAME]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 9:36pm

Gracias papi. I was getting all paranoid.

Posted: 3/6/06 at 9:36pm

wexy:
So when is the next quiz?

I'm so bad, wexy. I had meant to send a new one in to Rob this past weekend but the time got away from me. It will be posted before the weekend is over. Along with a new cd review, too.
I'm still debating about the theme of the quiz, but I've narrowed it down. I trying to steer away from musical quizzes for variety, but people don't seem to want those, and prefer I stick with musicals.

[beacon1]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 9:37pm

*dances around waiting for answers to her questions*

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 3/6/06 at 9:44pm

Jose - I've been at a workshop all day and am just playing catch up here. Sorry to have missed your day. Love the answers so far! Isn't this hard sometimes? Enjoy the rest of your reign and you know to give Charles a huge hug for me. See you later this spring!

Posted: 3/6/06 at 9:55pm

shameless:
If you were recuperating in a hospital, who would you want in the bed next to you, excluding relatives?

What has given you the most (non-sexual and non-criminal) pleasure in the last year?

If you could be anyone you wanted to be today, who would you be, and what would you do?

If someone gave you a million dollars, how would you spend it?

If your house were on fire, what would you grab on the way out?

If we asked an important person in your life to describe you, what would he or she say? How accurate would it be?

What’s something that you’ve never done, but have always wanted to try?


Charles. We're not related by blood. If I can't have him in that bed then I'd want King Louis XIV of France. I would love to hear directly from him his passion for Versailles (a place I lvoe, too.)

The most pleasure I've had in the past year, so far, was learning that one of Charles' musicals was optioned by a noted Broadway producer to develop for a future Broadway production.

If I could be anyone today, I would want to be someone who was responsible for bringing two people togther: whether they were relative strangers who decided to join their life together, or estranged relatives who realized that blood is thicker than water and no matter what anyone of them did to one another is always someone who loves us just as we are.

If I was given a million dollars to spend any way I wanted I would set aside a portion to fully fund the education of two underprivileged children through their college years. I'd assist my sister in resettling. I would invest in real estate. And if there were anything left over Charles and I would take my mother on an extended trip to Europe.

If my apt were on fire, I would grab Charles on my way out, dragging him from his work, along with the cd that holds his work.

I believe that person (my mother, for example) would accurately say that I was affectionate, loyal, dedicated, arrogant, sometimes a snob, extremely generous, often moody, outspoken, a pain in the ass, a fussy eater, independent, funny when I want to be, jealous at times, a fabulous cook, and all-in-all a very caring guy. She'd be right, too.

I would love to be a rugby player. Unfortunately I'm a bit old and my joints creak. But you should see how I handle those pom poms from the sidelines, and in the changing room.