Clowning, physical comedy, puppetry, music, environmental issues, parrots (we have two -- a red-bellied parrot, indiginous to east Africa, and an Umbrella cockatoo), our beagle/lab X which looks like large a black Snoopy; only she's not too cool to chase rabbits (never catches any); art, travel, clown conventions, and of course, our child-geared newspaper, The Waldo Tribune.
I'd like to meet:
Other clowns who take their craft (but not themselves!) seriously; other puppeteers, other performers, artists (preferably other than the BS type) Robin Williams, Dr. Dougherty Hunter "Patch" Adams; the cast of "That 70's Show"; Miss Piggy, Greg the Bunny, Alec Baldwin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the painter Jane Freilicher, sculptor Nikki de Saint Phalle, puppeteer and writer Betty Paraskevas, Maya Angelou (LOVE her poetry), Robert Rauschenberg, rodeo clowns (both active and inactive/retired), and several others I could name, but they are either deceased, or I would be too scared and wouldn't know what to say to them.
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Music:
My musical tastes are very eclectic; they run all over the map. To name but a few, they include Mozart, Bach, Chopin, Debussy, The Ramones, The Smiths, The Beatles, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Toni Braxton, Hank Williams, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Dionne Warwick, Elvis Costello, the early Pretenders, the Smithereens, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Gladys Knight and the Pips, The Clash, Marvin Gaye, early Jackson 5, lots of Motown, Siouxsie and the Banshees, REM, the Talking Heads, Queen (with Freddie Mercury), and of course, Tulip likes circus music and calliope music! "Barnum's Favorite" is also one of her faves.
Movies:
Movies: "A Beautiful Mind", "Capote", "The Pianist", "American Beauty", "Miracle on 34th Street", "Gone With the Wind", "The Maltese Falcon", "Dances with Wolves", "Fried Green Tomatoes", the made-for-tv movie "My Sister's Keeper", "Silence of the Labs", Hitchcock's "Psycho", "Patch Adams", "I Am Sam", "Forrest Gump", "The Shawshank Redemption", "The Songcatcher", "La Strada", "The Clowns", "Fitzcorraldo" (sp?), "Raise the Red Lantern", "The Greatest Show on Earth", "South Park; The Movie", "High Anxiety", "Blazing Saddles", the original "Producers" from the 1960s.Fave Directors: Federico Fellini, A. Hitchcock, Ron Howard, Cecil DeMille, Mel Brooks
Television:
"That 70s Show" of course, "Law & Order", "The Practice", "Judge Judy", the news, "South Park", "The Cheap Show", "I Love Lucy", SNL back in the mid to late 1970s.
Books:
"The Notebook" by Nicholas Sparks; "The Sense of Being Stared At"; "Parrots of the World"; "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"; "Naked Lunch" by William Burroughs; "I Search of The Silk King" by Maya Sekulich, and books on clowning.
Heroes:
My late mother-in-law, who went into a burning building several times to escort five people out of her house after it caught on fire. She returned to the burning building to help a sixth person to escape, but unfortunately, neither her nor that sixth person made it out alive. Larger than life, several people have commented that it was fitting that she go out in such a dramatic way. Also included are the FDNY on 9-11-01, as well as the heroes in many other firehouses who made the ultimate sacrifice; Rosa Parks; Rigoberta Manchu; Golda Meir; Nelson Mandela; Dr. Silvano Arieti; Lounah Starr, folk/mystical painter and Holocaust survivor; my late step-father-in-law; my mother and late father; Oprah Winfrey; Doctors without Borders, Greenpeace sailors, Roy Lichtenstein, the woman who runs Echo's Haven, a parrot sanctuary for homeless psitticines; MLK.
