Birthday - Blonde - Yahoo Issues - Crushes

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Elf Amy wrote:

> It's Jeralyn the Voicelady's birthday! 

Happy Birthday, Voicelady! Wishing you movie star roles and more fun 
villain cameos!

Hella wrote:

> Isn't she blonde? Or does she have red hair, dyed blonde? I've
> seen pictures of her both ways and am now confused. Does anyone
> know for sure what her hair colour is?

All the pictures of JKR that I saw before the GoF publicity 
deluge showed her with medium brown hair. Pictures I've seen since 
then show blonde hair and generally more of a 'babe' appearance. My 
first theory was that Bloomsbury had sent her to have a make-over in 
preparation for the book tour and my second theory was that spending 
some of her new wealth on a make-over was her own idea. Just now it 
occured to me that she might have been trying to prove that 
Hermione's makeover for the Yule Ball was plausible or at least 
possible.

Joanne wrote:

> I have a new email [bennmatt] due to some Yahoo issues

I am an idiot: which Joanne did you used to be? ProfessorPhlash?

> (they deleted my account because I set up my fan fiction lists in 
> the adult category and it's part of the crackdown on porn. Not that
> it was porn, but because I put it in adult, it was deemed porn).

What horrible things will Yahell do when they find that there IS porn 
in some of the fic files of some other groups?

> So-o...who *did* you all dote on as a teen and how do they compare
> on the Lockhart-embarrassment scale?

I was ten during most of 1968. I remember a few pre-teen crushes: one 
I remember only because of LOTR discussion on this familiy of lists: 
while reading LOTR at age 10, I not only understood it better than 
during my previous reading at age 8 or so, but had something of a 
crush on a Prince of Rohan about whom I now can remember nothing, not 
even his name. More memorable, I had a crush on Richard the 
Lion-hearted (the heroic Richard of fiction e.g. IVANHOE, not the 
unwashed jock of real history). I read as much about him as 
I possibly could.  A couple of biographies asserted that he was gay 
(the word in those days was 'homosexual') and at least one said that 
his loyal troubador (Blondel?) who searched and found him when he was 
held captive was his lover, which I thought was very sweet. This 
persuaded me that if I was going to have the desired great romance 
with him, I would have to not only go back in time several centuries 
but turn into a boy. I had certain daydreams on the subject, which I 
could pretend were my first slash fanfic writing.

I was twelve during most of 1970. I had a big crush on a 14 year old 
boy in my school who never even noticed me! Me and all my girl 
friends were big Star Trek fans (the original series, not yet in 
re-runs). I liked McCoy best, Spock enough that I started watching 
Mission:Impossible to follow Nimoy, and Kirk NOT AT ALL. I fancied 
Nimoy's character on Mission:Impossible more than I had Spock. I 
can't remember any crushes on movie actors at that time, except going 
crazy for Mikhail Baryshnikov's legs when he danced Jeremy Fisher in 
the Beatrix Potter ballet movie. 

Here's the shame-making part: I am reluctant to admit that I even 
WATCHED the TV show Hogan's Heroes, let alone fancied any of the 
actors... but it is, sadly, true. Besides the star, I fancied the 
actor who played the English character enough that I looked in TV 
GUIDE for shows where he guest-starred.... just call me a helpless 
victim of English accents....