Message Board Celebrity Of The Day (Part I) - papalovesmambo- Page 78

[Plum]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:08am

Okay, I'm going to go out of order...

If you could live any time in history, what age would you choose?

I'm pretty happy where I am, but if I had to change...I think being 20 in 1968 or so would be really interesting. Or, as a less minor change, I would have liked to be about 10 years older, so I could graduate college to a country filled with employment opportunities and promise. The world outside campus right now looks like a pretty glum place. Mostly, though, I'm fine with where- or when- I am. Being Jewish and being a woman only get tougher the farther back you go.

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

Selfishly, I'd pay off my tuition first, then make a trust for the tuition of younger relatives, because tuition's just evil. I'd probably invest some of it conservatively, if I could actually make some sense of financial jargon. And I'd get subscriptions to theaters like the Public, and lots and lots of CDs and theater tickets. :) I'd also buy myself a viola so I wouldn't have to rent anymore. That should leave a few thousand dollars for Habitat for Humanity.

[Craig]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:10am

Plum - not only are you honored today - but Manhattan is scented with maple syrup on your day!

[Plum]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:11am

Maple syrup in Manhattan and two mice in my room instead of the usual one. This is a special day. :)

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:11am

sweets for the sweet?

Personable and altruistic, Plum. Bravi, bravi, bravissimi...

[shameless]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:14am

I don't think you can call paying for your relatives tuition selfish, but I'm glad that you'd, at least, spend some of it on yourself.

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[NYadgal]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:14am

Plum, what was your favorite part of your time in London/Europe?

[Plum]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:16am

What person has influenced you most in life?

My parents. I mean, it can't really be helped can it? :P But really, they're both incredible people. They work hard as hell, they raised themselves up a few economic classes through industry, and they raised their kids pretty well, all told. :) They're truly bilingual, and they had the guts to move to America and raise a family without any support net of uncles, aunts, grandparents, etc. They carted me and my siblings to music lessons, rehearsals, concerts, practices, and awards ceremonies for years without complaint. My mom went to get her second graduate degree just a few years ago, and became a teacher. She got better grades in grad school in her second language than I do in college in my best language. That's just amazing.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:18am

They sound like wonderful people, Plum.

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, methinks...

[shameless]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:22am

Or in this case the plum.

Sorry, did I mention that I'm exhausted?

[Plum]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:23am

Plum, what was your favorite part of your time in London/Europe?

Oh, I had a lot of good times, but some highlights:

Just walking around Tottenham Court Road, right where there's 4 or 5 huge bookstores in a row. Sure, I didn't find the book I wanted, but I love bookstores. :)

Seeing Sunday in the Park With George. This is probably the highlight of my theatergoing life- only Caroline, or Change and the current Sweeney Todd match it.

An obscenity-laced, drunken game of marathon Monopoly with my hallmates.

Going out for a hallmates birthday- we went on the London Eye, then to a Lebanese restaurant, which is exactly my kind of food. We got him a gorgeous birthday cake, sang the birthday song...and after coffee, a guy came over and introduced himself as Uri Geller. (He was a famous Israeli "paranormalist" in the 70s, who now evidently lives in England.) Anyway, he bent a spoon with his "special powers" for the birthday boy, and autographed it. It was brilliant. Then we spent a while in a shisha bar before going hom very, very late.

Going to what my companion and I thought was a preview of the Edward Scissorhands ballet, and finding out that it was actually Opening Night. We got free souvenir programs and saw Matthes Bourne take a bow in the end.

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:23am

As an addendum to Addy's question, what was your favorite part of Paris?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:25am

Lovely thoughtful answers. Thank you, Plum.

[Plum]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:27am

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

My laptop and the teddy bear I've had since birth.

As an addendum to Addy's question, what was your favorite part of Paris?

Hmm...that's a toughie. I loved the Orsay, but I think the highlight might have been going to a great creperie after a disheartening trip to the Centre Pompidou. I even managed to pass myself off as a French speaker. :P The tourists got an English menu.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:29am

Uri Geller?!?! Wow... there's a name I haven't heard in years! That must have been marvelous!

By the way, I lived across the street from the Orsay when I was in Paris. Imagine my sheer delight at having that collection mere yards from my home...

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:30am

I have not read ANY of this thread.
But I just have to say:

I am fairly obsessed with Plum.
And because I missed her day, I *heart* you, emcee.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:32am

aw, honey, I heart you, too.

And more cheers for Plum!

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:32am

Oh, where was this creperie, Plum? It wouldn't happened to have been this little blue creperie on the Left Bank just a few hundred feet from Ile de la Cite and Ile de Notre Dame, right around the corner from the Place de St. Michel, would it?

[Plum]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:32am

Addy, I'm nuts about that museum. It's smallish, especially when you go to it the day after going to the Louvre, but the art!

I forgot another highlight of my trip because it was spread out- I got to see 2 of Seurat's major canvases: Bathing at Asniers in London and the unfinished Circus at the Orsay. Now if only I can get to Chicago to see Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte. I mean, Bathing alone almost made me cry because of its association with a certain musical; I can't imagine how seeing the painting at that show's center will affect me.

ETA- cookie, I wish I remember, but my sense of direction is truly abysmal. You could spin my around 3 times in front of my own house and I wouldn't know where I was.
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[kissmycookie]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:35am

Do you remember facing the Seine? Did you have to go down a few steps?

[NYadgal]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:35am

Cookie - I know that creperie!

Plum, I know every square inch of that museum! The art collection is extraordinary!

I hope you get to Chicago soon to see the painting, Plum. It's very special.

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:35am

Plum...I never got on line long enough today to congratulate you until now. Hope your day was excellent!

[shameless]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:36am

Plum, all of the Celebrities of the Day have been fantastic and you’re definitely no exception.

Addy, I want you to know that I blame you for turning me into complete online sap!

On that note, goodnight all!

[Plum]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:37am

Thank you, iflit and shameless. And you too, Priest! *waves*

cookie- strangely, I remember going up a few steps. It could be my mind playing games, though.
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[NYadgal]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:40am

Shameless, I've been told I do that to people.

Plum, the next time you're in Paris you'll have to go to Restaurant 404. It's a Moroccan restaurant which is out of this world. I think you'd like it.

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 1/27/06 at 12:43am

Bidding Plum adieu and bon nuit on her celebrity day!