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Survival Kit Archive
July 2003
Marget Cho
Sunday, July 27, 2003
Margaret Cho spent much of her childhood in her parents’ bookstore in the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco, before beginning her career as a stand-up comic, and she likes to say that instead of being raised by wolves, she “was raised by drag queens.” In the mid-1990’s, she starred in the first Asian-American sitcom, All-American Girl, and followed that up with two popular solo shows, I’m The One That I Want and Notorious C.H.O., which have also been made into films, books and CDs. In an attempt to fill in the gaps in her education, we’re sending her out to wolf country; let’s ask her what she’s packing in her survival kit.
Kinky Friedman
Sunday, July 20, 2003
Kinky Friedman has made a career out of offending people. With his band, the Texas Jewboys, he toured the country performing classics like “They Ain’t Makin Jews Like Jesus Anymore” and “Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed,” before turning his hand to writing bestselling novels like Elvis, Jesus and Coca-Cola, Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned, and Roadkill. His mysteries feature a country-singer-turned-detective named (surprise!) Kinky Friedman, who seems to spend more time drinking, doing drugs and chasing women than solving crimes. Let’s find out what outrageous items jump out of his Survival Kit.
Rhea Perlman
Sunday, July 13, 2003
Rhea Perlman spent 11 years as the feisty barmaid Carla Tortelli on Cheers, the TV show set in a Boston bar “where everybody knows your name.” She won four Emmys for that role, and she’s appeared in dozens of films (including Canadian Bacon, Carpool, Matilda) and other TV shows, including her own sitcom, Pearl. Now I’ve asked her to go to a place where no one will know her name, since there won’t be anyone else there. Let’s see what she wants to bring along in her survival kit.
Christopher Buckley
Sunday, July 06, 2003
Christopher Buckley has travelled down the Amazon with Malcolm Forbes, done a stint in the merchant marine, put in time as a speechwriter in the Reagan White House for Vice President George Bush, visited a UFO convention, and then went on to turn these experiences into satiric novels and memoirs like Steaming to Bamboola, Washington Schlepped Here,The White House Mess, No Way to Treat A First Lady, Wet Work and Little Green Men. He’s also served as editor for Forbes FYI Magazine and written for the New Yorker, Esquire and other publications. Let’s find out what he’s put in his Survival Kit for another trip into the wild.
