Just moved from studio city in the l.a. area to a modern condo/flat in the industrial area ("the gulch") of downtown Nashville.  Does that count as "city"?  It is pretty cool, though, I have to say.  Very loud trains go right through my "backyard" at night. 

I love this, as I am starting to feel this in my life.  I love the "doing" part.  I’m somewhat in a leadership position at this time - working with a friend’s new company, being responsible for budgets and the doling out of people’s hours.  I’d rather just do it all myself to make sure it gets done, and it saves us from hiring contractors.  Not that this is beginning to make sense to anyone.  I think my point is:  I love that it’s ok to say "leadership is not for me."  Thanks Judith.

Since most of us are not actually talking to these men, interviewing them and meeting them at parties, its surely difficult for us to comment on public personalities that make us drool without it being more so about the physicality of the person. 

With that said:  Mark Ruffalo.  He appears so sensitive, married to his wife with three children, and such tragedy already in his life.  I think it would be so interesting to see what he’s like.  Physically, I think he’s brilliantly sexy - doesn’t have perfect teeth, that tousled hair, and just always comes across so sensitive on screen, even in more intense movies.  Just an absolute dream.

(I’m new to wowOwow, and am just catching up on all these old posts.)

Her spiritual beliefs were Atheism.  She was blunt about it at times, it seems, with the public - my how she seemed to love reporters and interviews. ;) (sense the sarcasm).  I sometimes actually feel cheated that I didn’t have an opportunity like Cynthia to know her.  I was born in ‘75, in the deep South, never to be at the "right place at the right time", and just in the little bit I’ve watched of her and read - I’ve learned so much.  Our spirits seem to be of the same mold, so independent, speaking our minds, confident, and I too am a quintessential tomboy. The way she was raised, encouraged to question things, and one thing she had said about her parents giving her the greatest gift - no fear. My father is a Baptist minister, and sometimes my brother and I just feel like black sheep with our views of the world.  I miss her and I never even knew her.  Too little too late for me.

I’ve decided to start taking tennis lessons, too.  It’s about time.

Thanks, Cynthia, for your remembrance.

No surprise that yet another person (myself) agrees with everyone here about Meryl.  Simply one of the best.  The kind of actor that makes me realize that we can all leave that caliber of actor to do what they do best, while the rest of us enjoy.  K. Hepburn has the same quality.  I wonder if Cynthia McFadden could account for this, but… I had read about actors and actresses that the late Katharine Hepburn had said she really loved and ones she didn’t… Meryl Streep was noted as one she didn’t.  Something about "click-click-click, you can see the wheels turning in her head."  I was sort of astounded by this.

Wondering if anyone has ever noted a striking resemblance to my Gen X’s version of Kate - Parker Posey, another one of my favorites.  Not just a physical resemblance, but even a similar physicality in how they act.  

Katharine, Meryl, and Parker for me, in order of generations.