Rolling Out the Red Carpet
When Julia London, Kathleen O'Reilly and I were in New York City for the Romance Writers of America conference, we attended the red carpet event for the Transformers 3 premiere. No big deal. Shia was there. Director Michael Bay. We even got up close and personal with Patrick Dempsey…[image error]
[image error]Well, okay, from 25 stories up. But hey, we were there! We had an amazing room at the Marriott Marquis hotel that overlooked the big Coca Cola sign (among other big blinking well-lit signs that doubled as nightlights even through thick curtains) and TKTS booth.
Julia kept wondering "Why are there seats there? What are those people doing in the seats?" We never came to a definitive answer, besides sitting there to watch people and be amazed. The area is apparently Duffy Square, named for the most decorated cleric in the history of the US Army, Father Francis Duffy.
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Photo from the official Times Square website.
But one afternoon, Julia looked down and said "Now there's a red carpet." And I looked and saw the Transformers props and Kathleen O'Reilly (our esteemed visitor) and I figured out that it must be the star-studded premiere of Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon. So then, of course, we studied the dots and tried to guess which one was Shia LeBeouf and was that a woman in a gown? His date? His costar? Who knew from way up there. But hey, we were at the premiere.
And I still don't want to see the movie. How about you? Do you love action flicks? Transformers? Did you play with Transformers when you were a kid? Or maybe your kids had Transformers? I preferred ThunderCats and Jem (and the Holograms). Oh and He-man and She-ra. Yes, I was too old for them, too, but I watched with my kid sister (who had the entire She-ra Crystal Castle playset, and Jem and all the Holograms). Fun times. How about a ThunderCats movie? Live action. Starring Matthew McConaughey as Lion-O and Blake Lively as Cheetara?
* A special thank you to the readers who showed up to support us at all our RWA book signings, to the large (trust me, huge) crowd who showed up for Rise and Whine: A Conversation with the Whine Sisters, and very very special thanks to Panel Moderator Extraordinaire Molly Harper (author of fantastic books like And One Last Thing, and How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf) who kept her cool no matter how we acted up, rabble roused, and refused to follow simple orders (like please repeat the questions before answering). Molly is awesome. Please read her books. And ours! But, you know, hers too.
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