Archive for June 28th, 2001

Jun 28 2001

Made my day

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My friend Mary-Lou just made my day! She is one of my oldest and dearest friends — we went to high school together and she was my bridesmaid, along with my sister Megan. (Note to brides-to-be: don’t make the mistake I did and have bridesmaids who are cuter than you are.)

Although we don’t call or write that often, our bond is unbreakable, and when we do talk, it’s like we only saw each other yesterday. So what a wonderful surprise to pick up the phone and hear her voice. Half an hour later, my bad mood (caused by our administrative assistant’s enduring incompetence) has completely vanished. Who needs a therapist when you have a really good friend? Someone who knows how stupid you looked in high school (during the 80’s, too!) and still loves you? That’s truly special.

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Jun 28 2001

It goes in threes…

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They say these things come in threes, and the third to join Carroll O’Connor and John Lee Hooker is Jack Lemmon. If there is an after-life, it’s much more entertaining now! However, it does mean that we on the earthly plain are getting seriously short of real movie stars. There aren’t too many left at this point of the old, glamorous Hollywood: Katharine Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Elizabeth Taylor, Lauren Bacall, Paul Newman, Jane Russell, Catherine Deneuve, Sophia Loren, Olivia de Havilland…that’s all I can think of off the top of my head, our remaining links to the elegant past.

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