Kirsten and Me
It happened that (one of several) serendipitous events for me this year was the interview, via Skype, with one Kirsten Dunst on Friday afternoon. Yes, THE Kirsten Dunst. It began with her friendship with Leith Clark the editor-in-chief of Lula: Girl of My Dreams the International very hip fashion magazine (out of the UK). Leith and Kirsten discovered that they both loved the early childhood toy, Strawberry Shortcake and friends on which, as most of you know already, I was the concept artist, creating no less than 32 characters for the line. It must have been Leith that found me through the internet and then she contacted me for a possible interview. I said yes, because that’s what I do, especially if it the publication is a brain child of the Strawberry and Care Bear generation. It wasn’t until a few months later that she said Kirsten Dunst was to be my interviewer. And I responded “which Kirsten Dunst?” I had in fact seen her in a few movies but it never occurred to me that it would be THE Kirsten Dunst but I came to find out that Kirsten is also a writer.
And so it came to pass yesterday, she at her office and me at home in my easy chair, dogs at my feet, Skyping from my Macbook. The interview, from this side of the screen, went great other than both of us energetically wandering off topic. Nonetheless a great connection personally though the digital connection had a few hiccups. Kirsten had me laughing and talking as if we just had not just walked or talked into each other lives.
I will only say that I was completely smitten by Kirsten. And I will be listening to some of the music she recommended and watching some more of her performances on DVD. She suggested watch her in the “Virgin Suicides”. So I’m off now to the Hastings Video to pick up a copy.
…. I am back. Hastings does NOT have a computer base with searches other than by title. Nuts right! So they hand me this big telephone book sized reference that has movies listed by performers. The young man assisting me was dumbfounded to find Kirstin Dunst had 2 columns of movies to her credit. I was able to snap up Spiderman 1 (used) for $2 and the Virgin Suicides (new) for $8.
Would you like to know what we talked about? Well, you will just have to wait and read the article when it comes out, stay tuned. Oh yes, for all you Shortcake fans their will be a wonderful treats in store in the next Lula edition. Lula is a gorgeously put together magazine with a very creative edge.
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