Oh Annelle, lighten up — Page 2

I swear, the older you get, the dumber you get

And the older YOU get the uglier!

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All gay men are named Mark, Rick or Steve...

And all gay men have track lighting...

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I always get tickled when I see non-southerners talking about STEEL MAGNOLIAS -- or for that matter, CRIMES OF THE HEART. What non-southerners don't know is that all the characters in those two plays are so ON-POINT, so EXACT, etc. Baby, those aren't caricatures at ALL -- there are people like that in every southern town. I know women (and men, in the case of CRIMES) that ARE those people. My mother, for example, is "M'Lynn" -- no doubt about it.

I'll never forget the first time I saw STEEL at the Lucille Lortel. Within the first two minutes of the play, I sat there with my mouth open -- they had it so right, even down to the hair and the costuming. It was strange, being so far removed from the south in the middle of the Village, and to sit there and watch that show. It remains a favorite memory of mine.

The cadence of southern is a form unto its own. I remember seeing an interview with Annie Potts, talking about doing Designing Women. Potts is from Franklin, KY, as you know. Anyway, she said she leaped at the chance to do the series because, after doing a bunch of movies where she played weirdos and such, it was such a relief to get back to her roots. She said she knew instinctively how to do a joke, or dialogue, "southern".

Okay, enough lecture. I'll stop.

Updated On: 3/4/05 at 09:45 AM

Shamrock, can I borrow a few of these back issues of Southern Hair?

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Oh, Lord -- I almost threw in a reference to Paula Deen in my post, but thought it might be too obscure. I absolutely love her show -- I even Tivo it just for the entertainment value. That, my dears, is true "southern cookin'".

"That makes m'pie hole real happy"

I bet it does, Paula...I bet it does.

I tape her show, own all her books, and have two letters from her, and will probably end up going to Savannah to meet her by year's end.

(And you thought people got obsessed with Idina...HAH!)

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"The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize".

however if i hear one more Wannabe Witty Witch say "love you more than my luggage"....well, it's just unChristian.

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"It's a cuppa flour, a cuppa sugar, a cuppa fruit cocktail with the juice, mix and bake 'til gold and bubbly."
"Sounds awfully rich."
"It is, so I serve it with ice cream to cut the sweetness."

My sisters actually tried the Cuppa Cuppa Cuppa recipe. I didn't really work that well.

Shelby: My signature colors are 'blush' an' 'bashful'.

M'Lynn: Her colors are pink and pink!

Shelby: My colors are blush and bashful. I've picked two shades of pink. One is much deeper than the other...

Shamrock - now that this is back on thread...I don't trust anyboy who does their own hair - I don't think it's normal.

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Josh, I can usually spot a bottle job at twenty paces

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