Oh Steve Martin

If you only knew what you did to me growing up. Everybody, I'd give Steve Martin 93% of the credit for my decision to become an actor. Being a very smart person he'd probably wince at that, but actually he made my childhood infinitely more interesting. Especially when I would recite his routines from "Let's Get Small" to adults. Bahahahahaha. I would say words that shocked them. SHOCKED, I say! I read all his books as soon as they came out, and by some miracle, my mom got him to sign my copy of Pure Drivel (a masterpiece!) via mail, which apparently never happens. So just in case he's reading this he should know that when his publisher or whoever it was said: "There's some little girl in Philadelphia who wants you to sign her book. Her mom sent us like 5 letters about it", and he signed it "Hi Kate!", it was for ME!!! MEEEE!! Isn't that so awesome. Yes.

I'm on this topic because I'm re-reading Shopgirl. It reads totally differently to me now that I live in LA. If you haven't read it, do so. And if you haven't read Pure Drivel, REALLY do so. Claire Danes is perfect for Mirabelle. I can't think of anyone better. I saw her once at a flea market and boy, she is a tiny person. But everyone seems to be. In Philly I was normal looking, but here with all these itty bitty actors it's like I'm on GI Joe scale in Barbie Mart. Insane. My head is gigantic, I don't know if anyone has noticed, and it dwarfs anyone else in a scene I happen to be in. Maybe it's calmed down over the years but in Raising Dad it was particularly apparent. For instance, I recently found some tapes from the show and in an episode where I had a little kissing bit with Ben Indra (skilled in making amazing things out of wood, betcha didn't know that) I had to rewind and look again because my BIG GIANT HEAD COMPLETELY sucked the life out of the entire scene, totally upstaging Ben's performance, and frankly made me a little nauseous and confused. Because believe me, there's really no way to be objective about your head size when you're alone looking in the mirror. It's balanced with the rest of me, but when I'm next to little tiny people (not that Ben's tiny, he just has a normal head) it becomes like a big huge convention center head. Now, I think it's getting better because in Raise your voice I didn't notice it that much, but I did notice that my face is like a big moon face. It's like a table and my features (nose, eyes, mouth, etc.) are like silverware. Sigh. I'm probably too critical. I bet nobody really notices, but they will now. Oh, crapbasket. It's almost 3am. Good grief. I'll probably regret publishing this post tomorrow, so don't be surprised if it goes away.

Love,
Kat