From: owner-basia-digest To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V1 #16 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org basia-digest Wednesday, 24 January 1996 Volume 01 : Number 016 Today's Subjects: ----------------- New additions to Basia web page What the...?!? Re: What the...?!? Basia w/ Lauren Hutton Gluttons for Hutton Re: What the...?!? Re: Gluttons for Hutton Re: basia-digest V1 #15 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: combee@techwood.org (Ben Combee) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 01:00:44 -0600 (CST) Subject: New additions to Basia web page Well, I just finished taping the Lauren Hutton interview with Basia. A few notes: 1) My terrible cable company puts out substandard signals, so the Fox station airing the interview appeared fuzzy. I did grab a few pictures from the interview, and they are up on my Basia web page at http://www.yak.net/basia/. I grabbed 7 of them, each is around 30K as a 320x240 JPEG. They aren't the best quality, but they will give those who missed the show a taste of the visual design. 2) Shocking relevations: Basia has a teenage son! I never remember reading that in the press, but it might be old hand to you all. 3) It wasn't Miss T's idea originally to do Basia on Broadway, and she doesn't like the title. Her manager convinced her to do it, and she doesn't think she'll have a chance to do it again. 4) She did mention that if the public didn't buy her album, she would just have to write a bunch of new songs and put out another album. So, everyone go and return your copy of BOB. We want new stuff! 5) The interview was Copyright 1995, so this was a rerun from when BOB was brand new. Not a bad interview at all. Basia didn't get to perform, but considering that she suddenly would have done "Half a Minute" if she had performed, that was no loss. The conversation was very interesting. I'm disappointed she never mentioned Matt Bianco or Danny White, but she did say that she wants another baby! Yow! Talk to y'all later! - -- Benjamin L. Combee (combee@techwood.org) that public-access-TV-making, video-game-collecting, cryptography-pushing, World-Wide-Web-explaining, fem-music-loving, bad-pun-creating guy in Austin ------------------------------ From: "J.S. Lohr" Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 03:12:26 -0500 (EST) Subject: What the...?!? Looks like Ben beat me to the punch, though I was going to add all kinds of neat spoiler space as not to shock any of you who may be reading this before they watch their taped copies... I've been a Basia fan for over eight years now and I'm dead sure that in all the interviews I've ever read/seen/heard that NOT ONCE has she ever mentioned having a son. I could understand if this "Nicholas" were a newborn because a lot can happen during a four year gap between albums and we as fans had no choice but to live in ignorance, but if I heard her correctly, this kid's a teenager. And not only a teenager, but an OLDER teenager. I'm assuming that Basia has probably tried to keep him out of the spotlight, as most celebrity moms apparently do with their children. But this whole thing is intriguing because this suggests that Basia herself was a teenage mother and that there's probably a hell of an interesting story lying somewhere between the years 1974 and 1981. Not only that, but with her obvious Roman Catholic upbringing there had to be a marriage (which she also mentioned in this interview that there is, indeed, a husband lurking somewhere in her past)...this is really interesting. I mean, this is the sort of story that bestsellers are made of...and maybe that's why she's always shyed away from it until now. Another good topic covered in this interview (which is almost never mentioned in the interviews I've seen) was what was it like for Basia to grow up in communist Poland. Previous interviews that I've seen have never been this in-depth when it came to things like her childhood, her father, the Trzetrzelewski family and how they sound very typically slavic (drinking vodka to unconsciousness and complaining about the way things are in the country). This was a wonderful interview. If that alone doesn't make you want to call in to work sick to stay home and watch this interview than I don't know what would! This was one of if not the best interview with Basia the woman (as opposed to Basia the musician) that I've ever seen. This one makes all the Arsenios and Sweetest Interviews and magazine articles pale in comparison. Lauren Hutton did a fabulous job by keeping her mouth shut where it counted and by asking all the right questions. If you missed out, all I can say is get a copy, 'cause this one was a doozy. Oh, and in a previous message, Ben wrote: > but she did say that she wants another baby! Yow! That Kevin Robinson's one lucky guy, wouldn't ya say? :) Just sorta makes you want to walk up to him in the street, shake his hand and say, "Keep up the good work, son! Do us all proud!" :) Toodles! ------------------------------ From: gerald@cyber-hawaii.com (Jay Johnson) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 23:15:43 -1000 (HST) Subject: Re: What the...?!? Now did she say it was her baby?! maybe Kenny Robinson has a kid and since basia and kenny are like very happy togeather she would call his teenage boy to be hers. since they would share everything.. I dint see the interview i am in hawaii and hmm we dont get cool shows like that. just wondering.. >correctly, this kid's a teenager. And not only a teenager, but an OLDER >teenager. I'm assuming that Basia has probably tried to keep him out of >the spotlight, as most celebrity moms apparently do with their children. >But this whole thing is intriguing because this suggests that Basia >herself was a teenage mother and that there's probably a hell of an >interesting story lying somewhere between the years 1974 and 1981. GErald :) ------------------------------ From: TJGG54A@prodigy.com ( RICHARD DECASTRO) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 07:38:20 EST Subject: Basia w/ Lauren Hutton After hearing the same basic Basia information over again came the jaw-dropping revelation of the interview: Basia has an *18 YEAR OLD* son from a pre-Matt Bianco marriage?! Where and why's she been hiding him all these years? Roach, you're not really Nicholas Treztrezlewska, are you? ;) - --Rick P.S. Tom, thanks for the notice about this show! ------------------------------ From: balmond@bcm.tmc.edu (B.J. Almond) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 08:46:44 -0600 Subject: Gluttons for Hutton I too found the interview very informative, but I was amused by Hutton's inconsistency in pronouncing "Basia." During the first half of the program, she used the "a" sound in "bah humbug," but later in the show she changed to the "a" sound in "bashful." BTW, after reading all the notes about "Half a Minute" yesterday, that song played in my mind for half an hour. Apparently the only thing harder to find than that promo CD single is an unopened pint of the now defunct Treztrezlewska Ice Cream! ------------------------------ From: "J.S. Lohr" Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 13:00:57 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: What the...?!? On Mon, 22 Jan 1996, Jay Johnson wrote: > Now did she say it was her baby?! maybe Kenny Robinson has a kid > and since basia and kenny are like very happy togeather she would > call his teenage boy to be hers. since they would share everything.. No no no...it was hers. She wasn't too clear about (and she DID say that he was 18, didn't she - that part didn't sound too clear) the whole situation but she did mention that the father was a musician and that, in typical Roman Catholic style, she had to marry him. I'm assuming he was Polish, which leads me to my next point: You guys are going to have to check on this, because all my CDs are still up in Towson and I don't have the "Time and Tide" linear notes in front of me, but if I remember correctly, beneath the "Special Thanks to:" category there's a credit to a Nicolas Gorecki (I think that's how it was spelled)...could this be her son? Since there was indeed a marriage, he might've very well kept the father's name. The thing that baffles me is that in 8 years of publicity, why has she never mentioned having a son, only to go into a fairly detailed discussion about him with Lauren Hutton. Who knows? Toodles! ------------------------------ From: "J.S. Lohr" Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 13:15:59 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Gluttons for Hutton On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, B.J. Almond wrote: > I too found the interview very informative, but I was amused by Hutton's > inconsistency in pronouncing "Basia." During the first half of the program, > she used the "a" sound in "bah humbug," but later in the show she changed to > the "a" sound in "bashful." Still, she was better with interviewing than she had been...when I saw the show before, she always kept on interrupting the guest to give her own view or opinion on whatever that person was talking about. She kept quiet for Basia. > BTW, after reading all the notes about "Half a Minute" yesterday, that song > played in my mind for half an hour. Apparently the only thing harder to > find than that promo CD single is an unopened pint of the now defunct > Treztrezlewska Ice Cream! Actually, its apparently Trzetrzelewski and, as I've suspected, Basia's been using the feminine version by changing the "i" to an "a." The Russians do it too, ie "Mr. Ivanov" and his wife "Mrs. Ivanova" Just my $.02 worth, as always. Toodles! ------------------------------ From: sew_n_quilt@usa.pipeline.com (Sew_N_Quilt) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 18:23:18 -0500 Subject: Re: basia-digest V1 #15 I second the vote for Samba in Your Casa! My favorite song is True Love. Matt Bianco's remake of What a Fool Believes is also well worth the $$$'s. There are some equally as appealing photos on the inside as that back cover one. I love the centerfold one...he looks soo cool/sleezy. - -- Sew_N_Quilt ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V1 #16 **************************