On Monday night I saw a show called "White's Lies." Just as a review I read described it, it's like a situation comedy without the laugh track. It was mildly amusing and had a great cast: Peter Scolari, Tuc Watkins and Betty Buckley.
So the big interview was yesterday at 6 pm. We got to the Javits Center at about 11 am and were in line (in two different areas) until 4 pm or so. Then we got to sit down and wait!
The interview was conducted by Gayle King. Barbra's book is called "My Passion for Design." It's about the houses she's designed over the last 15 or more years. The fans had already heard a lot of the stories before but there were some new ones. There was talk of color (she hates orange and yellow), mattresses (a queen size is too small , a king is too big, so Barbra has designed one that's in-between), contractors try to take advantage of her because she's wealthy (it's "reverse discrimination"), if a beam is off by 3/8 " she'll notice. Gayle asked if she would name a favorite song--the reply was that that was a terrible question and she couldn't answer it because she "didn't want to offend the songs!"
Needless to say, there was no interaction with the audience. The posters pointed out that there would be : "no photos, no recording devices, no autographs."
The interview lasted about an hour. It was an interesting thing to do , but I'm not sure I would do it again (don't tell my fan-friends!). Waiting all those hours, hearing the same stories (she had a water-bottle as a doll when she was child, she never had a couch until her mother remarried) ----and it was all over in an hour!
DR elmore and I tried to get together but it didn't work out. I hope the next time I'm in the city, I'll be able to be part of a get-together with the New Yorkers!
