Advice from expert Valentines
Valentine’s Day is a time for lovers. What the young types are doing, I know — so here’s what the older ones who have done it and are maybe still doing it know:
Faye Dunaway: “When you’re 20 and pretty, you’re like Switzerland — beautiful but dull.”
Michael Douglas told this to Cigar Aficionado: “Nice about getting older is you make decisions without desperation.”
Sinead O’Connor: “I’ve lots of men friends and I may have slept with them all. I’m always extremely interested in sex and I now know what they mean when they say ‘women hit their sexual prime at 30.’ ”
Jacqueline Bisset: “I’m not a sex kitten anymore. Perhaps you could describe me as a sex cat.”
Might not mean much to you, but Fidel Castro was known to keep his boots on during it. What he did with the rest of his wardrobe, I don’t know.
Drew Barrymore: “His name was Breckin Meyer. My first kiss. He was 11. I was 10. It was OK.”
Carrie Fisher about her outfits as Princess Leia in “Star Wars”: “George Lucas treated us like puppets — only directing our heads, like we were talking meat. Also I didn’t like the sexy outfits. Not only were they revealing but they didn’t go where I had to go. If you stood behind me you could see all the way to Florida.”
Bernadette Peters: “In Showtime’s ‘Bobbie’s Girl’ I played a lesbian with Rachel Ward. To me kissing Rachel was the same as kissing a man.”
Leonardo DiCaprio got dumped after his first kiss. He dated Cecilia Garcia at the LA Center for Enriched Studies. “We were 14 and totally in love,” he has said. However, she has said, “He put his arm around me and kissed me on the lips. It was a short dry peck. Felt like a worm. Like weird. I was expecting more.” Listen, give him time. I hear he’s doing much better.
Theaters are alive with ‘Music’
ONTO higher classier things. Coming is a first-ever collaboration. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music” — mixed with the Library of Congress. The new traveling display is called “Inside the Vault.” It’s to preserve and show to the new younger audience who never saw it a rare look at one of the world’s most successful musicals.
A tour of America, accompanied by original archival material. It includes how the show’s legendary songs — like “The Sound of Music,” “So Long, Farewell,” “Edelweiss” — were created. This week they’re in Chattanooga, Tenn.
These resources will be available online to theaters, schools and libraries in the USA. Items will also be displayed in theater lobbies as the musical tours the country. All courtesy of the world’s largest library, the Library of Congress, also the main research arm of the US Copyright Office.
WHO knows but next could be another first and greatest. Someone like the one-of-a-kind Muhammad Ali bragging about being the best and greatest.
He once said: “I always mentioned that because it was good for the box office. In late years I became less show-offy. Don’t misunderstand — I’m still the greatest — but I have become more modest about it.”