4 May 2019
Welcome to Saturday 9. What we've committed to our readers is that we will
post 9 questions every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and
at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do
"random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other
participants' posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it
is your choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today's
meme!
Saturday 9: Don't Envy Me (1963)
Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it
here.
1) What is it about you that you believe your friends and
acquaintances envy?
If anything, it's probably the fact that we've been able to
travel so much.
2) Do you have a friend or acquaintance that you envy?
Well, "envy" is a bit strong, but am glad that my friend Char
has made so many friends in the Adult Living facility where she lives and is
involved in so many things. It's the only thing that makes adult
living appealing to me.
3) This song was not a hit, even though it was written and produced by
the super successful team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Tell us about a
project you had great confidence in at the beginning, but didn't turn out as
well as you'd hoped.
We wrote two books about
The Lamplighters, a theater company in San Francisco. One to
commemorate their 25th anniversary and another a 10 year follow-up.
They wanted a third volume, since it has been more than 20 years since book
2 I agreed to "help" with it and then ended up being in charge, but
there were so many obstacles to overcome that after a year of planning, and
some interviewing, I finally gave it up. I'm sorry the project never
got done, but I was the wrong person to do that book.
4) George Hamilton is better known as an actor. He is proud of his
performance in the 1960 movie Light in the Piazza. He played an Italian who
romances an American girl on holiday in Florence. Did you ever find love
while vacationing?
No...my husband insists on going on vacation with me.
But we did get to Florence (I went twice) and enjoyed exploring.
5) George had a small part in Godfather III. How many of the Godfather
movies have you seen? Have you read the book?
I can't remember if I read the book or not, but I have
seen all three movies. My son Paul was passionate about it because he
was such a huge Robert DeNiro fan.
6) He's gotten a lot of publicity over the years for his personal life,
including his 1966 romance with First Daughter Lynda Bird Johnson. At the
time, she was living in the White House. Tell us about a memorable
experience you had "meeting the parents."
Walt took me back to Maryland to visit his mother. She
had a refrigerator that had one of those 'eggs in the door' things, where
you tilt the door down to get the eggs. I remember thinking once that
I wondered if anybody ever forgot to tilt the door back up again....and then
a day or two later, I DID, and all the eggs fell on the floor. Walt's
mother was cool. She just handed me towels to clean the mess up.
7) George is also known for his year-round tan. Have you ever used a
tanning bed? Or self tanner?
No. I have never had a tan. I'm Irish -- I burn
easily.
8) In 1963, when this record was released, President Kennedy made a
historic trip to Ireland. Have you ever visited the land of your ancestors?
Ireland IS the land of my ancestors. We've been there
three times, I think. The first time we went by ferry from Wales to
Ireland and I had the strongest feeling, as the country began to come into
view, that I was making the trip for my great-great grandmother. I
just feel at home in Ireland, though I understand it has changed quite a bit
since I was last there (in 1996, I think)
9) Random question -- The last of a batch of delicious chocolate chip
cookies just fell on your kitchen floor. Would you eat it?
Of course!! If the dog doesn't get to them first.
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