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appleton king's avatar

ohh jesus....and maureen dowd watching "shane"

maybe rfk jr. right

something in the water 🤔😜

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linda stasi's avatar

Hi Joyce...You are as funny as you were when we were idiots at Seventeen Mag. But you weren't an idiot. When Nixon opened up China to trade and we did some racist issue about Chinese fashion or something you wrote the greatest headline of our entire generation: YOUR FACE IS YOUR FORTUNE, COOKIE! (it's much better than any line in OKLAHOMA! ) Let's go drink one night soon. xo Linda Stasi lindastasi@me.com

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Joyce Wadler's avatar

Linda, thank you! Seventeen Magazine -- I never really fit in there. But they hired me directly from Screw Magazine, proving either than I had an extraordinary range or that I would take anybody's money.

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Nancy E. Holroyd, RN's avatar

😂😂😂 I'm so glad I read this years after my oldest daughter was cast in this school musical. I never did quite view Jud the same way as you. But now, Ado Annie, now there was a naughty chick😉

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Kevin Sessums's avatar

I just yesterday told Patrick Vaille who is playing Orestes in Elektra right now now on the West End how much I liked him in it but I really wanted to tell him I'd have fucked him as Jud Fry when he played that role in the deconstructed productions of Oklahoma!

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Joyce Wadler's avatar

That St. Ann's production? My God, they were all hot. And the flirting with the audience was delicious.

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Robert  Basler's avatar

This is one of your very best, but you should have pointed out the flip side. I'll take Ado Annie over Laurey any day. Or any night.

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Joyce Wadler's avatar

And I'm sure you could have.

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Sylvia Rabiner's avatar

Kansas City and stuffed Derma. Hilarious.

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Joyce Wadler's avatar

Sylvia, Have you noticed it is impossible to find derma anymore?

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Sylvia Rabiner's avatar

Still on the menu at Katz''s:

Kishka (Stuffed Derma) with Gravy

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Michael Quint's avatar

I reckon you still got a hankerin' for Bad Boys, ma'am.

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Ellen's avatar

You had me at treif. I never did find Rod Steiger sexy but he was a damn fine actor. I enjoyed reading and look forward to more tzimmes.

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Joyce Wadler's avatar

I didn't taste bacon until I was twelve or thirteen and it tasted exactly like a forbidden food should -- delicious!

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Lewis Grossberger's avatar

And of Ali Hakim you say nothing? Here's the only guy in the entire state with any ambition, and he ended up owning the biggest department store in Oklahoma City and was vice president of the Rotary Club!

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Lucian K. Truscott IV's avatar

Rod Steiger was a Lion's Head guy, lived straight across Sheridan Square park in the building above the bank. Arrogant ptick every time I saw him in there. And he was nowhere near as famous as some others who managed not to have their heads up their asses in the Head.

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judith sokoloff's avatar

Yeah, but poor Jud Fry is dead.

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Joyce Wadler's avatar

So are half the men I dated.

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judith sokoloff's avatar

That's a lot.

My exs are alive. Even the one in his 90s.

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Amy Abbott's avatar

I'm partial to Will myself. He had me at the Oklahoma hello.

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Charlotte Kneidl's avatar

I was thinking the same. Hope I can find it on some streaming sites. Are we still talking about Oklahoma? I don’t remember anything sexy about that movie. Maybe I was too young. 🤷‍♀️

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Jennifer Giddy's avatar

Gotta watch Oklahoma again - for Valentine’s Day, as you’ve made it sound so — umm, romantic? Thanks Joyce! Nice to have the distraction during these dark days.

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gretchen's avatar

Your bedroom scene with the addition of the calf was very moooooving.

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Joyce Wadler's avatar

I supposed I milked it..

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