Comments on: Cast y’all’s votes, y’all.

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:13:12 +0000

Pamela, not only can you do my hair, but you can be ‘the Oprah’ for at least one episode of “The ‘New’ ‘Oprah’ ‘Show’ “! Once I am Oprah, any friend or extended family member who wishes can be ‘the Oprah’ for a day!

And Rick Neece can be ‘the Oprah’ as many times as he pleases.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:41:32 +0000

“I know you are Oprah, but what am I?” What a great tag for the show!

Can I do your hair??

But what, Sheila, about your photophobia (that you share, I think, with me)??

On second thought, you did say that you’d gotten past that. That’s very good; you’re going to have cameras trained on you all the time.

Oy.

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:46:54 +0000

Truly Rick does deserve to be ‘the Oprah’ twice. At least.

By: Cindy Scroggins

Cindy Scroggins — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:58:16 +0000

That prediction being (for those of you who haven’t bothered to memorize the film): “It’s gonna be cold. It’s gonna be gray. And it’s gonna last you for the rest of your life.”

Daryl and I say this all the time. I’m thinkin’ we’re glass half-empty kind of people.

By: Daryl Scroggins

Daryl Scroggins — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:41:36 +0000

Rick you dear man. I am thankful for you–your kindness and imagination always lift me, even when I’m feeling like Bill Murray giving his “prediction” in Groundhog Day.

By: Cindy Scroggins

Cindy Scroggins — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:21:31 +0000

Hell, Rick, I want to be in the audience for that one.

By: Rick Neece

Rick Neece — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:47:48 +0000

And, of course, above, I meant to say “Scroggins’s.” Also, when Mr. Scroggins and Mr. Soderbergh are talking I will gently suggest Mr. Scroggins’s book might be a perfect vehicle for George Clooney and Rene Zelleweger who might appear as the couple in the story about the horse with the secret note in the antique store. Then as a surprise, I will bring them out onstage to rip-roaring applause. The audience will not believe their eyes. They will squeal and weep. They will think that this is the best day of their lives and that nothing could make it better. Until, of course, I reveal the Quattroportes for all.

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:30:36 +0000

I will recommend “Mosefolket”, a collection of poems by one Cooper Esteban.

I hope to interview the poet and to entice him into droning at least one of his Ivor Cutleresque ditties.

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We are all Oprah.

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Mary Jeys would make an especially fine Oprah, though, don’t you think?

By: Sheila Ryan

Sheila Ryan — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:18:37 +0000

“When I am the Oprah . . . “

By: Rick Neece

Rick Neece — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:50:43 +0000

When I am the Oprah I will recommend Daryl Scroggin’s “This Is Not The Way We Came In.” And I will have Mr. Scroggins on my show along with Steven Soderbergh. I will save the dispensing of the Maserati’s for last.