Here is a little quiz to get us all started. Send me an email if you would like me to send them to you and you can post your answers.
Suzanne Broughton:
Favorite Apple: Pink Lady.
Elvis, Costello or Presley? Costello.
Last time you sent a letter (actually had to have stamp sent through the mail): 1 month ago to Karen
Combine 3 men to make the perfect man (don’t list your spouse and make us all look bad): Neil Finn, Jeff Corwin, and Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig in Pride of the Yankees.
If you had a horse, what would you name it? Charlotte
What time in the past do you think you should have lived? The 40’s, though I would miss my iPod.
One place you would like to visit before you die? The Bronte Parsonage in England.
I wish I would have written that: When Harry Met Sally
If you HAD to BE a character from a Drew Barrymore movie, who would it be: The Girl from Never Been Kissed (because she was a working journalist and I would love to be able to go back to High School now.)
What did you want to be when you were 10 years old: A stewardess.
Favorite line or scene from a movie: I have two; one) This scene from Say Anything, and two) This scene from Pride and Prejudice
What are your signatures colors? Pink and Blue. Ever since I was sixteen. Why you ask? Joe Jackson, “Steppn’ Out”
If the talent Fairy came to your house tonight, what talent would you like her to bestow? Musical talent.
Favorite Apple: Granny Smith…tart!
Elvis, Costello or Presley? Neither, actually.
Costello if I have to choose.
Last time you sent a letter (actually had to have
stamp sent through the mail): Yesterday! I write
letters on paper now and then to all my special, long-distance, mostly elderly friends
Combine 3 men to make the perfect man (don’t list your spouse and make us all look bad): Ralph Covert (sings kids’ music, called “Ralph’s World,” from Chicago, wrote a play, wrote a kid’s book, sings adult music with his adult band, “The Bad Examples”), Clint Eastwood, and Ronald
Reagan
If you had a horse, what would you name it? Freedom
What time in the past do you think you should have lived? Roaring Twenties….sounded like fun before it all came crashing down
One place you would like to visit before you die?
Ireland
I wish I would have wrote that: The Mitford series
by Jan Karon…I love those books.
What would you autobiography be titled: In Silence There is Strength because sometimes I use every bit of strength I have to keep my mouth shut and I’m always glad I did.
What did you want to be when you were 10 years old: Gymnast (I won a gold medal when I was 14 at the junior high school meet and it was the highlight of my career, which crashed and burned shortly after that
Favorite line or scene from a movie: “I’ll shoot you
in yer dang eye! Yer dadgum eye!” from Night at the Museum. I love that movie and Rachel (my
two-year-old) quotes it all the time.
What are your signatures colors? Pink and dark pink? Not sure.
If the Talent Fairy came to your house tonight, what talent would you like her to bestow? A good singing voice! It’s so frustrating to not be able to sing.
Favorite Apple: Fuji
Elvis, Costello or Presley? Presley
Last time you sent a letter (actually had to have
stamp sent through the mail): October 9, 2005 (that does not inc. cards sent)
Combine 3 men to make the perfect man (don’t list your
spouse and make us all look bad): Cary Grant because he is so graceful and smooth, clint eastwood, because he is a stud, & Elvis because he was a babe
If you had a horse, what would you name it? George
What time in the past do you think you should have
lived? Biblical times so I could lay around drinking wine and eating cheese and break with no guilt
One place you would like to visit before you die? italy
I wish I would have wrote that: “The way we Were”
What would you autobiography be titled: “Who Cares”
What did you want to be when you were 10 years old: A dolphin trainer
Favorite line or scene from a movie: The hospital scence from ‘The Way we Were”.
What are your signatures colors? Black because I am deep and mysterious…..
If the Talent Fairy came to your house tonight, what
talent would you like her to bestow? The gift to play piano by ear
Favorite Apple: Winter Banana
Elvis, Costello or Presley? Costello.
Last time you sent a letter (actually had to have stamp sent through the mail): Today to my sister!
Combine 3 men to make the perfect man: Steve Martin, Jimmy Stewart, and Jon Stewart.
If you had a horse, what would you name it? Winter Banana.
What time in the past do you think you should have lived? In Jane Austen’s England, as a comfortably well-off country lady.
One place you would like to visit before you die? Angkor Wat in Cambodia
I wish I would have written that: The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss.
If you HAD to BE a character from a Drew Barrymore movie, who would it be: Holly from “Boys on the Side”
What did you want to be when you were 10 years old: A scientist
Favorite line or scene from a movie: From my most frequently quoted move. “Broadcast News”:
Paul: “It must be nice to always believe you know better, to always think you’re the smartest person in the room.”
Jane: “No. It’s awful.”
What are your signatures colors? green and blue
If the talent Fairy came to your house tonight, what talent would you like her to bestow? Oh I would LOVE to be able to sing.