I’ve been thinking about who this post should be about. Lucy March and Jennifer Crusie come to mind, I think Friday night at Chez Crusie would be a blast. But I get to meet Lucy next April at the NECRWA Writer’s Conference that I happen to be the chair of, so I can’t include her in a list of people I’m not likely to ever meet, can I? And I perceive Jenny as someone who values her privacy and not so much a celebrity that she would appreciate me gushing about her. I doubt she wants a fan-girl stalking her either. I could be wrong about this but that’s the impression I have. With a little luck I’ll get to take a writing class from her one day. So, you see, it is possible that I’ll meet her too so she can’t go on the list.
So then I was thinking about Oprah. Isn’t Oprah like the Dali Lama of celebrity? Touch her hand and you’ll sell a million books. That mind set doesn’t seem very fair. Oprah has accomplished a lot in her life and I’m positive it would be inspiring to meet her. The trouble is I’d probably be so shy that I’d clam right up and make a fool o f myself. Not that I wouldn’t make a fool of myself with any celeb I might meet. I’m afraid that’s just a given. How a normally bright and articulate person (me), can clam up and become positively stupid is beyond me. But it happens. A lot.
Maybe what I should do is find my inner diva, touch my own hand and sell a million books.
I think I’ll talk about Richard Gere on my next people I’d like to meet post. Now there’s a guy worth getting stupid over!
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Oh, Hugh Jackman. *sigh* Yep add him to my list. Well, at least my list of people I’d like to gaze at!
I’m afraid I’m a geeky fangirl – normally I’m sane and articulate but put me in next to someone famous and I’m sure I’ll get all tongue tied.
First off, I’m glad to be able to comment on this post. I didn’t see the ability to do so with your Drew Barrymore entry.
It’s not that I don’t enjoy Oprah, but she’s always seemed so “other worldly” to me – as if she were some computer-generated-too-good-to-be-true person. She seems to be able to accomplish everything, and oh-so-perfectly too!
Richard Gere. He’s another person I have a specific ‘feeling’ for. All those “pretty boys” just irk me with all the hype. Then I saw Primal Fear. It’s one of those movies that you see and, at the end, it feels as if the theater’s been picked up and turned askew when you weren’t looking. Now I like him. Now I can consider him a “serious” actor.
And Divabetty? I truly feel in my gut that if Hugh Jackman were anywhere in my proximity, I’d throw caution to the wind and jump him.
I have a feeling that I’d make a spectacular fool of myself if I ever met Lucy March or Jennifer Crusie because I read the blogs but that does NOT mean I know them. Yet I would *think* that I did and probably get escorted outside by security at a writer’s conference.
Meeting celebrities would make me horribly nervous. I think I’m cut out for obscurity myself.
I wouldn’t mind gazing at Hugh Jackman from an awed distance though.