tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post2526700198908387858..comments2024-03-29T08:22:54.756-04:00Comments on Jungle Red Writers: Stars in Our EyesJungle Red Writershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16646429819267618412noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-91074154574693405822008-03-19T15:42:00.000-04:002008-03-19T15:42:00.000-04:00Hank, I remember the Pinsky thing. We were doing t...Hank, I remember the Pinsky thing. We were doing that poetry scam story for 7-News and I called BU PR to find a real poet type to comment on it. Came back to you like, "Uh, some guy named Pinsky? A poet Laureate or something? Think he'll be ok to interview?" I'll never forget your face! :) <BR/><BR/>My "I'm not worthy" moment was when Liz Maverick and I got to hang out and have lunch with Sherrilyn Kenyon at Comic Con after the whole RWA costume controversy. She is not only a talented writer, but an amazing, wonderful, sweet person. <BR/><BR/>The one I most want to meet is Bret Easton Ellis. I keep hoping I'll see him wandering through Manhattan...Mari Mancusihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13836247014927417229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-71220527889472783752008-03-18T20:05:00.000-04:002008-03-18T20:05:00.000-04:00Woot! I gotta find that author and buy her lunch. ...Woot! I gotta find that author and buy her lunch. };><BR/><BR/>One of my more weird parallel-universe experiences was standing in the Harvard COOP in November 2005, flipping through a newish biography of Fonteyn that spared none of the often grim, sometimes tragic details of her life she did not include in her own autobiography.<BR/><BR/>Strange it was, too, to stand there reading about her in almost exactly the same place (albeit much-changed) that I'd met her some 24 years before.<BR/><BR/>Bless you, Margot, your like will not come again.<BR/><BR/>Thanks making that connection to the other site, Hank!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-33634646201621622542008-03-18T15:37:00.000-04:002008-03-18T15:37:00.000-04:00Look what I found on the always-interesting Review...Look what I found on the always-interesting Reviewing the Evidence website! In light of our conversation, read this mini-interview with (the divine) Sara Paretsky..<BR/><BR/><BR/>RTE: Describe yourself in a sentence? <BR/><BR/>Paretsky: My friends call me Dr Demento. <BR/><BR/>RTE: What's the one record you'd take to a desert island? <BR/><BR/>Paretsky: Don Giovanni. <BR/><BR/>RTE: What did you want to be when you were growing up? <BR/><BR/>Paretsky: I wanted to be Margot Fonteyn.Hank Phillippi Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17420701704169428286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-9596084481640915032008-03-17T13:38:00.000-04:002008-03-17T13:38:00.000-04:00Oh, Alicia Alonso was beautiful. I remember her h...Oh, Alicia Alonso was beautiful. I remember her having very neat, fast, light feet.<BR/><BR/>Lucky you to be guest to her hostess!<BR/><BR/>When I was a kid, I read biographies or autobiographies of a whole host of famous dancers, but Fonteyn is the only one I ever met.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-34865727560622840652008-03-17T12:15:00.000-04:002008-03-17T12:15:00.000-04:00Jan,Not crazy. There is so much tripe out there, t...Jan,<BR/><BR/>Not crazy. There is so much tripe out there, to have someone like Jim Henson creating truly funny and truly honest characters for me and my son made those years much better.<BR/><BR/>Of course, now that Cookie Monster is Fruits & Vegetable Monster, we don't go there a whole lot! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-42517185397399657382008-03-17T11:39:00.000-04:002008-03-17T11:39:00.000-04:00Thanks Becky,Glad to find a fellow Sesame Street m...Thanks Becky,<BR/>Glad to find a fellow Sesame Street music groupie out there. I know it sounds crazy, but it was really an awesome, not to mention, influential album in my young-mother life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-81406164150205575882008-03-17T10:47:00.000-04:002008-03-17T10:47:00.000-04:00Susannah, you have the most interesting life! YOu ...Susannah, you have the most interesting life! YOu met Margot Fonteyn? I would have been speechless, too. (I'm a miserably failed ballerina. We're talking age 9 here. With longings to be Giselle...and ability more like Shrek.)<BR/><BR/> When I worked in Atlanta, I went to a party hosted by Alicia Alonso (1975? 76?) And in her bathroom, all glittery and mirrors, she had a huge glass container, sparkling, filled to overflowing with those little perfume samples.<BR/><BR/>It was so luxurious.Hank Phillippi Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17420701704169428286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-65353455183690617752008-03-17T10:22:00.000-04:002008-03-17T10:22:00.000-04:00Put Down the Duckie?! Okay, yes, of all the folks ...Put Down the Duckie?! Okay, yes, of all the folks you guys mentioned, that one got me the most. We LOVE that song. That would be the person I'd want to be stuck in the elevator with. :)<BR/><BR/>It's so hard not to giggle at times like this. I go to book signings at the local kids' bookstore, ostensibly for my son, but really to meet my favorite authors. And it's so hard to act mature. My son manages much better than I do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-91670356687686899452008-03-17T09:29:00.000-04:002008-03-17T09:29:00.000-04:00At the first (and only) Romance Writers national c...At the first (and only) Romance Writers national conference I attended, Nora Roberts was signing, and there was no line in front of her table, so I went up and introduced myself and we talked a bit about Irish genealogy. And all the while I kept thinking, this woman made sixty million dollars from writing last year, and she looks so normal.<BR/><BR/>More personally, I encountered cozy writer Deborah Donnelly through a loop, and we met and had dinner at that same conference, three years ago. I was touched that she treated me like a "real" writer, although I had little to prove it at that point.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1001156153899984046.post-45278771797870793122008-03-16T23:53:00.000-04:002008-03-16T23:53:00.000-04:00I'm pretty darn proud to meet any writer whose muc...I'm pretty darn proud to meet any writer whose much-loved book sits on my shelves (I don't keep books I don't love), and I'll happily take 'em to dinner if they'll let me -- AHEM! -- but for whatever reason the only writer I've ever hyperventilated over wasn't a writer at all, but a prima ballerina who had written a couple of books:<BR/><BR/>Margot Fonteyn<BR/><BR/>My favorite dancer of all time, who said to me, when she signed her book at the Harvard COOP in the early 80s, "Do you dance?", and I squeaked "Yes ma'am, but how I ...I ...I ... wish I had your <I>Rose Adagio</I>."<BR/><BR/>To which a man behind me said, "Honey, we all do."<BR/><BR/>And she laughed, and signed a very sweet postscript to her autograph,<BR/>and if my house catches fire I'm getting out my dogs and cats and grabbing that book on the way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com