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Survival Kit Archive
March 2004
Marsha Mason
Sunday, March 28, 2004
Marsha Mason has been nominated for 4 Academy Awards -- for her work in The Goodbye Girl, Only When I Laugh, Chapter Two and Cinderella Liberty. She’s appeared in dozens of plays, movies and TV shows, including a regular stint on Frasier, and she’s won two Golden Globe Awards. Yet in 1993, she fled her movie star life to start a medicinal herb farm called Resting in the River, outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and she now divides her time between acting and developing herbal products. Let’s see what this very talented woman would want to include in her survival kit.
Michael Palin
Sunday, March 21, 2004
Michael Palin helped change the face of comedy as a member of the Monty Python troupe. Since then he’s acted in films (winning a British Academy Award for his performance in A Fish Called Wanda), written fiction, screenplays and children’s books. But he’s also made a name for himself as an explorer and adventurer, documenting his travels in a series of books and TV series, including Around The World in 80 Days, Pole to Pole, Full Circle, Hemingway Adventure and Sahara. I’m wondering how to get this peripatetic wanderer to stay in one place for several months, and what his survival kit would have to contain to keep him from going stir crazy.
Christopher Buckley
Sunday, March 14, 2004
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.
Eileen Atkins
Sunday, March 07, 2004
Dame Eileen Atkins is one of the theatre’s leading ladies, both in Britain and the U.S. She’s played everything from Medea and St. Joan to Major Barbara and The Duchess of Malfi, and appeared as Virginia Woolf at least twice, in the one-woman show A Room of One’s Own, and her play Vita and Virginia. Her recent films include Gosford Park, The Hours, and Cold Mountain. As a writer, she co-created the BBC epics Upstairs, Downstairs and House of Elliott (with Jean Marsh), and wrote the screenplay for the film Mrs. Dalloway. Well, we’ve offered her an entire cabin of her own for an extended stay. Let’s ask her what she would put in her personal survival kit.
