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Castaway
1 appearance
Actress, entertainer, writer and traveller known for a versatile career.
On the island
Eight records
Nat King Cole with the George Shearing Quintet
Well, it's a love song that has to do with sort of the um Conglomeration of thinking of fantasy and Reality. In other words, when you're really in love, you are. Flung to the stars.
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23
Vladimir Ashkenazy with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Lorin Maazel
Of the Russian soul. Played by a five-foot-three Russian who's very handsome with lots of hair, Roy.
And I like it because of the social consciousness it has underneath the song, that there is something in the wind of change and how much longer Will we have to go on destroying ourselves, but that the winds of change are blowing?
This is Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song and Dance, and it's the second part called Variations, which I absolutely adore.
It's been one of my favorite songs because of the mello-ness of his voice since I was about uh Early teens, and I love what it says.
since I'm so interested in. The feeling of uh Where one fits in the cosmos, this has always appealed to me, and it's a very uh Comfortingly sad yet haunting. Lyric. I love the lyric.
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky
It uh reminds me of my classical hard work, education, dedication, beauty, romanticism, discipline, lyricness. Sweat and my childhood of physical expression.
If My Friends Could See Me NowFavourite
Well, my last record is my own. I love my song, my theme song, If My Friends Could See Me Now,'cause that's about the way I feel every time I think about what I'm doing now and what my friends might think about it.
In conversation
Presenter asks
2:31How did you seek your escape from [your quiet home life] as a child?
Uh, mostly through dancing. I loved uh music. I loved getting on the bus and looking at people. It was a form of physical expression that I could use my body with. I felt very adept at doing it from a very, very early age.
Presenter asks
7:28What was your first appearance on Broadway itself?
And the first full-fledged Broadway show was, um Rogers and Hammerstein's Me and Juliet.
Presenter asks
12:28Which movie was the turning point?
Some came running.
Presenter asks
16:27Did you really get the right feel of it [when researching the professional life of tarts in Paris]?
I enjoyed the research so much I nearly gave up the acting.
The keepsakes
The book
Peter Mark Roget
I would take correctly. I would have a dictionary with Roger's thesaurus so that I could fill up the ton of blank pages with help with cross-references in English. But I would like the thesaurus to be translated into every language, so I would make plans before I went.
The luxury
Presenter asks
27:01Would you try to escape [from the desert island]?
Yeah. … I try to keep everyone who tried to land out. It's my idea of paradise.
“I really applied my first application of mind over matter. I was about twelve.”
“I was used to being a soldier, which is what a chorus person is. I got very embarrassed and I didn't know what to do. And I said, come back, come back. Don't leave me alone out here. I thought, hmm, maybe I'm not ready to be a star.”
“I feel comfortable everywhere, because everywhere I go I almost feel I've been there. And I think it began seriously in India, when I felt, oh, this is just too familiar for words. I know I have been here before.”