Saturday 9: Where You Lead

Saturday 9: Where You Lead (1971)

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

1) This is the theme of The Gilmore Girls, a TV show that ran  from 2000 to 2007. It recently enjoyed renewed popularity as a reboot. Were you a fan?

A. I have never seen this show.

2) The show is about thirtysomething Lorelai Gilmore, her teenage daughterRory, and her parents, Richard and Emily. The four of them had dinner together every Friday night. Who did you have dinner with on Friday? What was on the menu?

A. I had dinner by myself. My husband was working. I ate a sandwich.

3) Lorelai is outgoing and talkative. How about you? Are you seldom at a loss for words?

A. I am not the most talkative person. Someone once described me like this: "She's very quiet, but if she says something you should listen because she only speaks after she's thought about what needs to be said." I think if you're someone I know, I talk more. I'm rather quiet in public.

4) Rory dreamed of going to an Ivy League school and then becoming a broadcast journalist. When you were in high school, what were your ambitions?

A. To be a writer. I wanted to be a ghost writer, really, and write Nancy Drew books, or something like that. A good steady job of writing that would pay the bills and keep me happy and intellectually stimulated. I became a news reporter instead. Close enough, I guess.

5) Rory's grandfather (and Lorelai's dad) went to Yale and performed with the Whiffenpoofs, Yale's famous a cappella group. Have you ever sung in front of an audience?

A. Yes, I have. I used to play guitar and sing in a band when I was in high school. I've a picture here someplace.
 

6) Rory's grandmother (and Lorelai's mother) Emily was very active in civic organizations and worked hard on the Hartford Zoological Society'sAnnual Silent Auction. Have you ever attended an auction?

A. Yes. Auctions are popular past times in rural areas. I don't go much anymore because someone always has a cigarette going, and I can't take the smoke because of my asthma. I used to go to them more frequently when I was younger. I once bought my husband a lot of tools at an auction. We also once bought a big bucket of hammers at an auction. Apparently we mostly buy tools at auctions.

7) Alexis Bledel, who played Rory, went on to appear in Mad Men and The Handmaid's Tale. Of these three shows -- Gilmore Girls, Mad Men and The Handmaid's Tale -- which would you prefer to binge watch?

A. The Handmaid's Tale. I haven't see any of these shows.

8) Carole King originally wrote this week's song, "Where You Lead," for her Tapestry album. Do you have a favorite Carole King song?

A. Probably "So Far Away," but she wrote "You've Got a Friend," and I love that song, too.

9) Random question: If zoo animals could talk, which animal do you imagine would be the rudest?

A. That's quite an intriguing question. I've been watching Serenghti on Discovery - great show if you're into watching lions, monkeys, etc. in their natural habitat. On that show, anyway, the baboons come off as being the rudest. Or maybe it's a tie with the hyenas.

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