I adore fashion, desserts and other people's business. I refuse to eat food anymore unless it is dessert. No more meat, fruit and especially vegetables for Miss Gardenia. They are insipid and have no business on any table! Cakes, pies and all sorts of confections are the delights I crave. They give me the much-needed sugar rush I need at my advanced age.My mantra is: SUGAR, it's the breakfast, lunch and dinner of champions!
Well, I've already met everyone worth meeting from 1909 to 2008. That's more people than Carter had liver pills! Many of them I slept with several times and sometimes we even had sex too.I began my entertainment career in theaters and underground bars long before World War One. In fact, I was such a bombshell, it was rumored I became one of our country's secret weapons! In my lifetime I've gone from oil lamps for light and chamber pots for crap to now, MySpace for enlighting crap. Don't ya just love technology and what they call progress?With all that prattle said, I'm always open to meeting new people and making new friends. I just adore my MySpace friends...they are fabulous, diverse and all originals in their own beautiful way! Feel free to look them over and then beg for their friendship...they might be kind to you and agree. Hehehehe!!
I love all kinds of music and so does Julep. We lay here in bed and jam to hundreds of tunes...many from my MySpace friends. Check them out, they are great. I also enjoy ragtime, swing, Broadway show tunes, big band and I'd be lying like a scatter rug if I didn't say Disco too. Hell, even Ethel Merman made a disco album. I was contracted once with Capitol Records to cut a disco album too back then, until I heard Ethel's. The next day I had my lawyers break the contract! You understand.
I was selected to play the part of Scarlett O'Hara in 1937 before filming started on "Gone With The Wind". I figured the hoop skirt and crenolines would conceal my "gardenia stem"...but the studio executives disagreed. Vivien Leigh got the part. It is not true that I'm still bitter or that I caught the soundstage on fire out of anger, causing them to have to film the burning of Atlanta earlier than planned. It is also not true that I threw a fried chicken leg at Vivien Leigh at the premiere of GWTW. All were just bold-face lies, Sugar Lumps!
I had the first reality show on TV in 1954 called "Wake Up With Miss Gardenia". A simple talk show plot where I would interview a different guest as we ate breakfast in bed. Of course, when the network found out with whom I was waking up the show was cancelled.
My first choice would be "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" by my friend Bill and why? Because I'm featured in the prose of this snappy comedic romance. The book is Bill's first novel. Once he finds a publisher I'll be even more famous. Which I doubt at my age my poor heart can handle, but I'll give it a shot! Bill has also just completed his second novel, "Ginger Ale" and is working on two more; "Satin Doll" and "Staying Alive".
Lawd, the list is long. It starts with my mother and finds people like FDR, Jackie Kennedy, The Queen Mother, Pope John Paul II, the Planter's Peanut Man, Joe DiMaggio and Mother Teresa for starters because they all were examples, in their own way, of how great our world can be. Also, high on the list is Myself of course!