Comments on: Oh, Ann. http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2007/12/04/oh-ann/ the best friends you'll never have Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:10:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Kylie90210 http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2007/12/04/oh-ann/#comment-2951 Kylie90210 Wed, 28 May 2008 06:07:44 +0000 http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2007/12/04/oh-ann/#comment-2951 Ann is gay and Paula dead? The things you never knew... Ann is gay and Paula dead? The things you never knew…

]]> By: annfan http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2007/12/04/oh-ann/#comment-2738 annfan Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:22:37 +0000 http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2007/12/04/oh-ann/#comment-2738 I read that biography cover to cover when I was 12 and dammit, the chapter on Ann's experience at college made an impression on me because 8 years later, I became a student at Ann's alma mater, Smith. I do believe I got suckered in Ann's description of Smith as one big slumber party. Ann was at Smith during a tumultuous time in the college's history. She was hiding in the library studying while the women of color (highest number enrolled in the college's history even to the present) were very militant and aggressive in advancing the rights of women and minorities. Her biography is super sanitized and omits any reference to this. Also when I was 12, I thought it was funny how the biography didn't mention anything about Ann and starting a family. She was obviously crazy about kids. But there were no references to boyfriends (just a prom date who was very shy). I finally dug it up somewhere that Ann is openly gay last year. Imagine what discussion about homosexuality would've done to the BSC world!! I read that biography cover to cover when I was 12 and dammit, the chapter on Ann’s experience at college made an impression on me because 8 years later, I became a student at Ann’s alma mater, Smith. I do believe I got suckered in Ann’s description of Smith as one big slumber party. Ann was at Smith during a tumultuous time in the college’s history. She was hiding in the library studying while the women of color (highest number enrolled in the college’s history even to the present) were very militant and aggressive in advancing the rights of women and minorities. Her biography is super sanitized and omits any reference to this.

Also when I was 12, I thought it was funny how the biography didn’t mention anything about Ann and starting a family. She was obviously crazy about kids. But there were no references to boyfriends (just a prom date who was very shy). I finally dug it up somewhere that Ann is openly gay last year. Imagine what discussion about homosexuality would’ve done to the BSC world!!

]]> By: greer http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2007/12/04/oh-ann/#comment-1428 greer Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:18:27 +0000 http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2007/12/04/oh-ann/#comment-1428 @Penny: yeah, I know. I was majorly bummed when I found out. She died in 2004. @Penny: yeah, I know. I was majorly bummed when I found out. She died in 2004.

]]> By: myu http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2007/12/04/oh-ann/#comment-1421 myu Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:38:19 +0000 http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2007/12/04/oh-ann/#comment-1421 "Thus, for Ann a wild night of partying during her college days was a half gallon of ice cream from Friendly’s and the Exorcist on the tv." I'm laughing in a rather smug, superior manner. I'm also remembering that Sheila and Co.'s catchphrase was changed to 'nine-nine-nine' in the UK books. The US version still sounds odd to me, even though I know it's the original. “Thus, for Ann a wild night of partying during her college days was a half gallon of ice cream from Friendly’s and the Exorcist on the tv.”

I’m laughing in a rather smug, superior manner. I’m also remembering that Sheila and Co.’s catchphrase was changed to ‘nine-nine-nine’ in the UK books. The US version still sounds odd to me, even though I know it’s the original.

]]> By: Penny http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2007/12/04/oh-ann/#comment-1400 Penny Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:26:46 +0000 http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2007/12/04/oh-ann/#comment-1400 I have it. I have not yet read either copy. I did not purposely buy two copies. Margot Kidder - wasn't she Lois Lane? LoL. And WHAT?? Paula Danziger DIED?? That's so sad :( I have it. I have not yet read either copy. I did not purposely buy two copies.

Margot Kidder - wasn’t she Lois Lane? LoL.

And WHAT?? Paula Danziger DIED?? That’s so sad :(

]]> By: bbb http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2007/12/04/oh-ann/#comment-1395 bbb Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:53:14 +0000 http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2007/12/04/oh-ann/#comment-1395 Margot Kidder R. Hehe. :) Margot Kidder R. Hehe. :)

]]> By: chicken_queen http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2007/12/04/oh-ann/#comment-1394 chicken_queen Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:26:46 +0000 http://blog.stoneybrookite.org/2007/12/04/oh-ann/#comment-1394 I have it, and have never bothered to pick it up and read it. Hmm. I have it, and have never bothered to pick it up and read it. Hmm.

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