Saturday 9: Secret Love

Saturday 9: Secret Love (1953)

Unfamiliar with this week's song. Hear it here.

Rest in peace, Doris Day (1922-2019)

1) In this song Doris admits she's spoken to the stars, "the way dreamers often do." Do you often daydream?

A. All the time. Staring out the window and losing myself is a constant past time.

2) What's the last secret you kept? (It doesn't have to be romantic.)

A. If I put it out here for the world to read, it wouldn't be a secret anymore.

3) While "Secret Love" was one of Miss Day's best-selling records, and the song won an Oscar, she did not perform it at the Academy Awards Ceremony. She said she was just too nervous to sing it live before an international television audience and an auditorium full of entertainment professionals. When did you last suffer an attack of nerves?

A. When I went to a supervisors' meeting after having sent them a Freedom of Information Act concern because they'd messed up and I caught it. I wasn't sure of my reception.

4) Doris' well-publicized attack of Oscar stage fright was unexpected because she began her career as a band singer, performing before live audiences every night. But she reportedly did develop more phobias over the years, including a fear of flying. Is there anything that scares you now, as an adult, that didn't frighten you as a child?

A. White evangelical males with big egos frighten me more now than anything ever has.

5) Doris Day made 39 movies between 1948 and 1968. She said one of her favorite things about filmmaking was working with costume designers on her wardrobe. Do you enjoy shopping for clothes?

A. Not particularly.

6) Doris confessed that when she had to lose weight for a role, she gave up ice cream. If we checked your freezer, would we find any ice cream?

A. No. You might find frozen yogurt, though.

7) In 1985, she hosted a cable show called Doris Day's Best Friends. She used the show as a platform to promote pet adoptions and animal welfare. Most of the guests were  celebrity friends who reportedly donated their salaries for appearing on the show to Doris' pet foundation. Did you more recently ask a friend for a favor, or perform a favor for a friend?

A. I have halfway performed a favor; I found the paperwork a friend asked about but I haven't taken it to her yet.

8) For more than 20 years, Doris co-owned the Cypress Inn in Carmel, CA. The Inn expects to continue on without her, and maintain the pet-friendly policies she introduced. Have you ever traveled with your dog or cat?

A. No, nor would I, and I do not believe people need to be traveling with their pets. I am highly allergic to all of them and this love-affair thing about pets has made the world a very unfriendly place for me. If I end up in a nursing home I will probably die of asthma complications brought on by someone's dog.

9) Random question: What's the last thing you complained about?

A. I went to the drugstore to pick up my medications and they gave me the generic of a drug that I only take name-brand of. They wouldn't give me the name brand (even though that was what I last had) because my doctor had sent in a new prescription and for whatever reason I ended up with the generic. Even though I said I would pay for the name brand they wouldn't give it to me. I was pissed. I might change drugstores. And this has nothing to do with the ACA; I'm on private insurance. This was some stupid insurance rule or some deal the drugstore had made with the insurer or some such bull crap. Then I came home and discovered they'd substituted generics for another one of my medications, and that doesn't always work out well for me.

Stupid capitalism. Values a stupid dollar bill over my life and well being. Fuck that.

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