Sorry to hear it, ma'am. Have a nice cup of tea with lemon and honey. It must have lemon and honey.

Lemon and honey, and ginger root and cardamom pods. That's my Rx.

Lemon and honey and ginger and cardamom and bourbon. That's my great-grandmother's Rx.

(Well, ok, she really skipped everything but the honey and the bourbon. But ginger and cardamom sounds awesome.)

I was so sick last week, I dreamt I actually knew whew Tallulah Bankhead is/was.

The one dispatched by her scarf?

Ah no, that was Isadora Duncan apparently.

You guys know the most infamous tale about Tallulah, yes?

Tallulah once observed: “My daddy warned me about men and liquor, but he never mentioned women and cocaine.”

Unlike Paris, Britney and Lindsay, Tallulah knew from irony and wit. But like them, Tallulah was a shameless flasher of the pink to EVERYONE. While making the Oscar winning Alfred Hitchcock movie, Lifeboat, she never wore panties and loved to shock the cast and crew by climbing up a ladder to the boat, skirt purposely hiked up to publicly expose her privates. When 20th Century Fox head Darryl Zanuck demanded that Hitchcock do something, the director contemptuously replied: “It’s not my department.” The studio chief demanded: “Well, whose department is it?”

Hitchcock pondered for a moment, then answered: “Wardrobe or … perhaps hairdressing.” [PDF Link]

I guess the same bon mot couldn't be used about too many actresses today, eh?

I love that story, taz. (Also, any of y'all out there who haven't seen Lifeboat, do so! BRILLIANT movie.)

My latte is now on my monitor. Thanks, taz!

I acted in a stage adaptation of Lifeboat, playing Tallulah's character. WAY fun.

My mom's ex-boyfriend's grandma's cold cure, from the old country. (Not sure which old country.) It seems to work.

1)Cut an organic grapefruit in quarters.
2)Boil it, skin and all.
3)Mash it up pretty good once it starts getting mash-able.
4) While the water's still hot, add LOTS of honey. Enough so that you can stand to drink the (rather bitter) broth you just made.
5) Take out the grapefruit chunks
6) Drink the broth, preferably hot, but cold's okay, too.