Subject: Re: Fake ID
From: Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Date: Tue Jun 27 2000 - 19:56:29 GMT
Scottie should feel free to have a hey-day (hay-day?, Eh?-day?) with the
following....
The reason I LOVE the name Zooey, Zoe (mit ein umlaut), Zoey, or whatever,
is almost precisely because of its gender ambivalence. One of the very
greatest Shakespearean performances that I've ever had the pleasure of
witnessing was the stunning Australian (where's Camille when I need her?)
actor Zoe (mit umlaut) Caudwell playing Cleopatra opposite Christopher
Plummer (unfortunately, but CanCon) at Stratford, Ontario, in 1967.... Oh my
god... 1967.... Before most of the bananafish were spawned.... But
Shakespeare was probably still alive!.....
I was a wee lad at the time... And I fell in love with Cleopa.. er, with Ms.
Caudwell....
A few years later, when I was still unbelieveably innocent, and STILL in
love with Ms. Caudwell, I found myself in New York, where she was starring
in the WONDERFUL stage production of THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE (for
which, I think, she won a Tony).... She was the toast of Broadway, and she'd
just married Robert Whitehead.... TIME Magazine did a story about how he
kept the press from her door.... AFTER the performance, I knocked on the
stage door.... A janitor let me in, and I stumbled into Whitehead while
circumnavigating some sort of furnace... I told him that I wanted to see Zoe
(umlaut!) Caudwell...
I probably wasn't quite (sorry, Matt) shaving at the time, so I likely
didn't look like much of a threat. He led me to her dressing room....
Actually, he led me to the anteroom of her dressing room.... He
disappeared into some inner sanctum... A few moments later, wearing--I
SWEAR!--one of the robes she'd worn as Cleopatra at Stratford, ZOE
(UMLAUT!!!!) CAUDWELL swept into my presence....
That was about the same time that I was reading FRANNY & ZOOEY.... I
employed the laws of "conservation of pronunciation"... I fully understood
that Zooey Glass was a guy, and that Zoe (umlaut) Caudwell was a girl....
But I also liked the way that both names were sonically androgenous.... Like
Cian and Sean, or Shawn.....
Right, Scottie?
Cheers,
Paul
PS--I tried to name a daughter "EMMA" after Emma Goldman (although I
pretended it was after some sort of Jane Austen character....) The IN-LAWS
nixed it instantly... Now I've got a golden retriever named Emma Gold-dog...
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