From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V5 #46 Reply-To: lucy-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk lucy-list-digest Friday, February 28 2003 Volume 05 : Number 046 In this issue: [lucy-list] Cavities [lucy-list] cavities...and brush(ing) with fame ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 02:46:54 GMT From: traylor@juno.com Subject: [lucy-list] Cavities Benay, I have only two cavities. Filled at age 19 and 20. My older sister has none. No one has ever considered either of us a tooth and gums idol before (except my dental hygenist who just appreciates that my appointments are short and easy). Becky ________________________________________________________________ Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today Only $9.95 per month! Visit www.juno.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 23:33:12 -0500 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] cavities...and brush(ing) with fame > I have only two cavities. Filled at age 19 and 20. My older sister has none. OK, Becky, even if you haven't quite reached Lucy's stratospheric heights of dental health, you too can be my dental idol. (I see it now, the next reality TV show: "Dental Idol." And honestly, while I have not been inclined to tune in even once to "Are You Hot?", I might be compulsively attracted to a show entitled "Are You Cavity Free?" because that seems like a much greater achievement. Hope those Nielsen ratings folks are paying attention!) Speaking of television...all right, HERE is a segue I could live to regret...it is somewhat possible (though not yet certain) that yours truly could be making her national TV debut sometime soon. I hesitate to admit why...but OK, ONLY because this is the Lucy-list and I've embarrassed myself here before and probably haven't got too much further to sink, here goes: When one works in the minor ranks of a national magazine that sometimes cross-pollinates with other media to create little television pieces based on its stories, one runs the occasional risk of being...um...recruited. And, especially if one is exhausted and coming down with a horrendous cold at the time of the...um...recruiting attempt, one can VERY occasionally find oneself agreeing to do something that, upon later reflection, one would NEVER agree to do if one were in one's right mind. Like, for instance, be filmed putting highlights in one's hair as part of a hair products segment for Good Morning America. Notice I did not say "HAVING highlights put in one's hair"...this is no "sit in a salon and politely showcase the results afterward" sort of deal. This is a HOME hair highlighting kit demonstration. Which means that one does it ONESELF at home...and even though thankfully they are not coming to film me in my apartment, hence diluting the "home" aspect, they seem quite keen on maintaining the "do-it-yourself" aspect. Which, if you don't know me personally, might not immediately strike you as such a horrifying prospect. But let me just say, for those of you who have not had the dubious benefit of becoming personally acquainted with me, that the amount I know about even moderately complex hair-care rituals (that is, anything much beyond washing it and brushing it) probably couldn't even fill one of those SMALL Post-It notes...and that my ideal hair-care regimen, if I thought I could carry it off successfully, would probably be something like that of Ben Wittman (and if you haven't seen HIM in person...YES, he is bald). Even if I am not somehow disqualified before the filming next week, I cannot really imagine that this piece will ever see the light of the TV screen...not least because it will be hard for the cameraman/woman to hold still enough to capture a usable piece of film given how hard he/she is likely to be laughing at my attempts to DO the Highlighting of the Hair---involving some sort of "wand," I am told. (Incidentally, I don't think I am supposed to speak, but I have been trying to come up with ways to make myself look nonchalant about the whole deal rather than petrified...as if highlighting my hair is ROUTINE for me...and I decided that I could perhaps achieve this, while also accomplishing some other important objectives, if I could only get them to let me intone in a conversational manner: "While highlighting my hair, I often enjoy listening to Lucy Kaplansky. In fact, sometimes I do it Every Single Day.") Well, should any of this come to pass, and should it become public, at least I will have the consolation of having something in common with Lucy: We will both have been on national television stressing about our hair! (Though SHE didn't really have to worry...) And even if this experience doesn't find its way to the small screen after all...which would actually be no great sorrow for me...well, I suppose it could still give me a story to tell. (Not to mention potentially an appearance I'll have to live with for...well, hmmm, guess I really should've inquired how long these things take to wash out...) Benay ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V5 #46 ****************************** This has been a posting from the Lucy Kaplansky mail list digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe lucy-list-digest" in the body of the message