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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2008 13:45:07 GMT -4
Actually I was glad to see the cross-outs. I was relieved to see that at times, he thoughts are a bit jumbled and he rethinks his words. All of us who write know that editing process so well. He does that very well.
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Post by mooncove on Sept 18, 2008 2:29:27 GMT -4
Yes, he is. I was surprised and puzzled when I heard how respectful and kind he is; He sounded like a dream too good to be true because I've seen adults around his age who weren't nice at all. I was told, heard, and read that people his age were hit by their parents and teachers in the 1950's, that that was considered okay and normal, so I thought that all older adults agree with that, too. That's odd, I haven't had the same experience with people his age, but then I'm only eight years younger than him, so maybe I'm not very nice? Actually, he would only have been five years old when the 1960s started, so I hope he escaped without being hit by his teachers. My sister and I got hit by our parents, and I don't think it hurt us as much as some of the mental punishment. My sister has two kids, and she doesn't believe in hitting them. I've thought he could take pictures of his artwork and send them to Edith the next time she sends him a package or show them the next time someone interviews him or a T.V crew comes over to his house. Ha! It'd be funny if he brought pictures of them to the Emmys and showed them to us on the red carpet or during his acceptance speech! It'd be great if he did that and sent them to Edith. ...I'm dying to know what he meant by the "healing power of language" Maybe that language (reading) helps people realize that other people go through the same things they do, so they feel less lonely. Ahhh, that makes sense! Although there are other forms of language, like speech; I wonder if he would include those. Edith said, "Basically he reacts to fans by the way he reacts to them." That makes sense, but I'm still trying to tie it to the Chautauqua experience ... Hmm  I can make out the words "No one can read unnatural scrutiny" There's a letter in between read and unnatural that I can't make out. I think you're right except that where you said "read," I see "bear." ("No one can bear unnatural scrutiny.") So much for his crossing it out, huh? BTW, are we unnaturally scrutinizing his answer? (Does my question contain its own answer? Am I being overly analytical? Or am I just being rhetorical?)  |
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Post by michele on Sept 18, 2008 6:55:03 GMT -4
I was so busy this summer off and on, that I didn't even know you where sending out questions to him? I hope if you do it again I can ask a few myself.
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Post by truthful on Sept 18, 2008 10:10:42 GMT -4
I can make out the words "No one can read unnatural scrutiny" There's a letter in between read and unnatural that I can't make out. thanks bobdoc!!...and i think also "read" is "bear"....it makes sense  I think he handle with all the public stuff ( fans, interviews, paparazzi?...very good .. i mean,....i have not the faintest idea how it is to be a famous person....for sure it is a huge change in the life!!! |
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Post by Edith S. Baker on Sept 18, 2008 11:04:33 GMT -4
Edith said, "Basically he reacts to fans by the way he reacts to them." That makes sense, but I'm still trying to tie it to the Chautauqua experience ... Hmm Actually, I said, Basically he says that he reacts to fans by the way they react to him. |
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Post by tigerlily on Sept 18, 2008 14:15:44 GMT -4
My comments, as I catch up on his incredible letter: 1. "If they do Pajama Game at the Huntington" That just cracks me up!!! There are just too many gems to count here!!  2. I really love his answer to the role model question, too: "Kind men, poets, articulate men." Describes him to a T, no??? 3. Do you think he meant to say "inconspicuous" in his answer to Crystal's question (no. 8)? I can't seem to make much sense of his sentence otherwise... |
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Post by Edith S. Baker on Sept 18, 2008 16:48:26 GMT -4
My comments, as I catch up on his incredible letter: 1. "If they do Pajama Game at the Huntington" That just cracks me up!!! There are just too many gems to count here!! 2. I really love his answer to the role model question, too: "Kind men, poets, articulate men." Describes him to a T, no??? 3. Do you think he meant to say "inconspicuous" in his answer to Crystal's question (no. 8)? I can't seem to make much sense of his sentence otherwise... The pajama game was a hint to us that he sleeps in pjs--wonder whether they are blue stripped like Ben's. |
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Post by bobdoc on Sept 18, 2008 17:56:20 GMT -4
Bet many people now wish they had the chance to include that question beforehand.
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Post by foldslinus on Sept 18, 2008 18:09:30 GMT -4
My comments, as I catch up on his incredible letter: 1. "If they do Pajama Game at the Huntington" That just cracks me up!!! There are just too many gems to count here!! 2. I really love his answer to the role model question, too: "Kind men, poets, articulate men." Describes him to a T, no??? 3. Do you think he meant to say "inconspicuous" in his answer to Crystal's question (no. 8)? I can't seem to make much sense of his sentence otherwise... The pajama game was a hint to us that he sleeps in pjs--wonder whether they are blue stripped like Ben's. One of the books I'm reading just mentioned The Pajama Game! It's funny, because I'd never heard of it before. |
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Post by tigerlily on Sept 18, 2008 19:22:21 GMT -4
Well when he comes to Boston to star in it we'll have to go together!! |
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Post by foldslinus on Sept 18, 2008 19:31:48 GMT -4
Of course!
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Post by snivellusfriend on Sept 18, 2008 20:59:31 GMT -4
The pajama game was a hint to us that he sleeps in pjs--wonder whether they are blue stripped like Ben's. One of the books I'm reading just mentioned The Pajama Game! It's funny, because I'd never heard of it before. I looked up 'The Pajama Game' and found out that it's a play; It seems funny. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pajama_GameI think you're right except that where you said "read," I see "bear." ("No one can bear unnatural scrutiny.") Thank you! I think it is "bear!" I thought Michael wrote, "read," too, but I was confused at what he meant by that because that didn't make sense to me. Yes, he is. I was surprised and puzzled when I heard how respectful and kind he is; He sounded like a dream too good to be true because I've seen adults around his age who weren't nice at all. I was told, heard, and read that people his age were hit by their parents and teachers in the 1950's, that that was considered okay and normal, so I thought that all older adults agree with that, too. That's odd, I haven't had the same experience with people his age, but then I'm only eight years younger than him, so maybe I'm not very nice? Actually, he would only have been five years old when the 1960s started, so I hope he escaped without being hit by his teachers. My sister and I got hit by our parents, and I don't think it hurt us as much as some of the mental punishment. I'm outraged whenever I see parents shouting, spanking, and/or grabbing their kids by the arm; There's no need for that and they acted far worse than their children, in my opinion. Their behavior and hippocrisy disgusts me; They expect their children to act a certain way, to be perfect, yet they think it's okay for them to shout and hit their kids. I'm worried that I unconciously pick out or attract abusive people to me; I've tried being helpful and friendly, making small talk with older adults, but a few of them have spoken to me or looked at me as though they'd rather I had not bothered them. I'm afraid that everyone sees me as a doormat. I've read or heard actors from England and the U.S, especially the older ones, say that they had a dark, unpleasant childhood, where they had abusive or divorced parents, (in the case of older actors, teachers who would hit them) or were bullied, shy, or felt lonely in school. I've been wondering whether it's a bad thing to want to become an actor at all, whether or not it's heathly or means a person is messed up and that if actors were loved and had a happy childhood, they wouldn't have wanted to become actors at all, that if everyone had a good life, there wouldn't be a need for actors, plays, etc. I don't know; I'm very puzzled. |
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Post by mooncove on Sept 19, 2008 2:27:46 GMT -4
Actually, I said, Basically he says that he reacts to fans by the way they react to him. Oops, that's what I meant. I thought that was what I said, but it was so late, I guess I was going cross-eyed! Thanks for figuring it out. Anyway, what I meant is I'm trying to relate that statement to how reacted to the crowd at Chautauqua. Like how he seemed so "surprised" (?) at the beginning but then settled right into autograph and picture-posing mode, joking around and all. Guess it depended on who he was talking to at that moment then. (??) (I know I would be slightly bewildered if I was confronted by a crowd that large blocking the doorway, snapping pictures and wanting my autograph. I just wonder how often he encounters clusters of fans like that all at once, or whether he mostly bumps into them one at a time. It seems to me from interviews and the other accounts that have been posted that it's more of the latter. Maybe that'd be a good question to ask him in a future interrogation--I mean questionnaire. ) I remember the Pajama Game--it was one of our high school plays ... many, many eons ago. (Wasn't it a musical?) Hey, do you suppose he just wears his own pajamas on the show? Snivellusfriend, I've had all that done to me as a kid. I thought it was normal, like I deserved it. Probably legally, the policeman was correct, that parents have a right to discipline their children (hard to say exactly where the line between discipline and abuse lies), but, well, let's just say police officers aren't always the most compassionate people in the world. Maybe it depends on where you live too. My cousin's kid fell on the playground once and went to school the next day with a bruise, and the next day the teacher had sent child-protective services to her house to investigate! (I know she's not the type to hit her kids; she can't even tell them "no"!) Anyway, I hope you don't think all older people are mean. And I've gone out with guys who were born before 1950, and I thought they were very nice--more gentlemanly and considerate than most of the younger guys I dated, including my own age. (It's kind of nice to have someone hold a door for you instead of letting it slam in your face as he rushes ahead of you.) So it's not Michael's age that makes it surprising to me that he's so nice, it's that his celebrity hasn't seemed to affect him the way it does so many other people in show business. I hope he never changes from the way he is. Anyway, it's great that you're attracted to someone like Michael Emerson. I'm sure he'd never treat you like a doormat! BTW everybody, remember our favorite "provocateur"'s answer in the last "questionnaire" about his favorite color? Look what I just found (purely by accident, among this week's movie listings at the British Film Institute): "The Romance of Astrea and Celadon "A brilliantly perverse and original reworking of themes close to his heart, Eric Rohmer's funny, touching film is fearless and magical. "Eric Rohmer's most recent, perhaps final feature is a triumph: a witty, elegant tale of love, faith, jealousy, desire... and cross-dressing. "Adapting a text written in 1607 but set in the 5th century, Rohmer creates a half-Christian, half-pagan pastoral Gaul as a product of the 17th-century imagination. A shepherd, Céladon, is accused of infidelity by his beloved Astrée and attempts suicide, only to be saved by three clearly interested nymphs. Meanwhile a guilt-ridden Astrée searches for the missing shepherd who, ironically, is determined to respect her command that she never see him again... A brilliantly perverse and original reworking of themes dear to his heart, Rohmer's funny, touching film is altogether fearless, altogether magical." |
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Post by greenleaf on Sept 19, 2008 11:14:00 GMT -4
He wrote that he likes " mystery" in people. What kind of mystery? I always thought that any behaviour of the person has a rational explanation. The main thing - to have complete information about the person. Very much frequently the "mystery" is just a covering of soul's emptiness of some people.
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Post by tigerlily on Sept 19, 2008 11:47:01 GMT -4
I don't know..I enjoy a bit of mystery in people as well. It's intriguing when you don't discover everything about a person upfront - you have to dig a little deeper to find out what's inside.
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