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News / Messages from Annabeth / Archive (October - December 2003)
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December 9, 2003 A
couple of messages from Annabeth ... First,
a thank you to all those who participated in the Book of Wedding Greetings/Well-Wishes:
"Thank you everyone for the beautiful messages and art you sent to us for our wedding. Again, it is an honor to receive
such warm wishes from all over the world - quite an amazing thing! We send back to you in kind all of the support and
good faith and happiness that was contained in the pages of the book and wish everyone the experience of true love that
we have come to know. Happy Holidays." - Annabeth and Wade
|| Secondly, she has sent along her answers for the questions submitted for the month of
December. Enjoy!
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Name: Tess
Question: What do you typically like to do at this time of year to celebrate the holidays? Any family
traditions that you have carried with you on your own, or that you and your family still do?
Annabeth's Answer:
Wade and I just celebrated our first Thanksgiving as a married couple. It was my inauguration into the preparation of
the traditional Thanksgiving Turkey meal. Thank God everything went fabulously! (I'm still learning to cook!)
We find that we are excited to establish our own holiday traditions, but of course that means bringing with us the
particular ones we treasure from our childhood. For me, the day after Thanksgiving is the time to get out the
Johnny Mathis Christmas album/CD and play it repeatedly for instant holiday spirit. It was a staple for my family.
Last year, Wade put up lights around the house as a surprise for me and it made me gleefully happy to see our home so
bright and inviting. They are already up again this year. Somehow they symbolize for me what Christmas is about
- the warmth and joy of house and home. Family and friends gathering to share the brightness within, to give thanks
for the blessings in our lives, and to spread it around to everyone we might possibly meet.
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Name: Amy
Question: If the tables were turned, and you could ask us (your fans) a question, what would you ask?
Annabeth's Answer:
Being that each fan is an individual and unique, it would be hard to ask just one general question to fit everyone.
The questioning would most certainly be about you guys and not about me or my career ... I would start with wanting to
know who you are, what you do and what your lives are like ... How about this question: What inspires you? I'll
leave it at that and will await your responses.
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November 24, 2003 Annabeth
has sent along her answers for the questions submitted for the month of
November. Enjoy!
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Name: Sarah M.
Question: What has been the most rewarding part of your career so far?
Annabeth's Answer:
The most rewarding part of my career is the exposure I have to the variety of human experience there is in this
world. Whether it be a character and her life or a crew member and his life, the stories, the details I have
learned from living a creative life amongst people who collaborate to make movies and television shows is quite
amazing. For instance, to play the role of a young woman of the Texas plains in the 1800's, to ride horses and
shoot rifles and wear corsets was a living history lesson to be sure, but not of facts only. The range of
emotions in that historical context was enlightening and surely changed me by searching to find and play them ....
But just as much a part of that lesson was the time I spent off camera with the horse wranglers on the movie,
rehearsing my horsewoman skills, learning from their particular excellence and absorbing the story of their
lives - the path they took (or the path that took them) to provide horses to do the job for a
t.v. movie.
Or how about the physicists I met while working on X-Files, the art director who knew how to build sets that are so
realistic but are made from Styrofoam ... It’s amazing the gypsy lot of people who are called to this kind of work and
the amount of information each of their stories has to share. That's what I love the absolute most about working in
the movies.
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Name: Wendy (UK)
Question: Would you consider doing a play in London’s West End, or Broadway? If so, what would be your ideal
play/character?
Annabeth's Answer:
I would love one day to play Chekov’s Hedda Gabler. Hedda is a kind of wretched heroine who is trapped and
suffocated in her own life - I find the play fascinating, dramatic and rich in its text.
So many great acting moments. The challenge of bringing her to life and finding her humanity and also the beast in her would be an opportunity for
an actress to find her own greatness. I believe it is one of the definitive female roles on stage for any actress.
I would love to come to London and do a play but I'd better make damn sure I'm ready for it, and damn sure I've got
the chops, shouldn't I ... your theater is the best of the best and doesn't suffer fools gladly. Maybe I'll be ready
in my next decade! But it will be my highest goal, alright?!
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November 14, 2003
Exchanged short correspondence with Annabeth to confirm a new project on
which she is working: a television mini-series slated for 2004 called, The
Detective.
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October 21, 2003 Fresh
off her honeymoon, Annabeth
has sent along her answers for the questions submitted for the month of
October. Enjoy!
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Name: Debbie
Question: What is your all time favorite song, and what does this song
mean to you?
Annabeth's Answer:
As usual, I cannot choose just one favorite song ... typical Piscean
trait, but there isn’t just one of anything in any category that I can
exclusively pick to represent my favorite. Whether it's Music,
Literature, Film, Food, etc. I just can't make an exclusive choice.
However, there are songs that particularly move me: "Bridge Over
Troubled Water" by Simon & Garfunkel and "Fragile" by Sting are two
that always affect me deeply. They both work to hook me into my
emotional life. Anything by Sarah McLachlan always expresses
something for me -- her lyrics are poetry. I like songs that make me
yearn for something ... or songs with such a strong bass beat that it
makes me want to dance my ass off!!!
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Name: Sarah T.
Question: As a child, what was your favorite thing to do (and why)?
Annabeth's Answer:
Another something favorite? This one might actually be easier.
I loved reading books. I was always reading as a kid. I especially
loved both the Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden series -- the female
sleuths! In between rollerskating and playing Barbies, my childhood
friends and I would then act out the mysteries we'd just read about,
finding imaginary clues and solving crimes around the garages and
basements in our neighborhood. Maybe that was when the acting bug set
in ...
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October 16, 2003
Received a message today from Annabeth to let everyone know that she is one happily married lady:
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"Wade and I are on our honeymoon - yes, that’s right. We’re married. Our wedding was last Saturday, October 11th at the
Sea Ranch Lodge in Northern California. It was the most beautiful day of my life. Everything was perfect .... We are
blissfully happy."
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