# I've Been . . . **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 20, 2001, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been/73196 "2001-07-20T15:29:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2001, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been/73196/21 "2001-07-20T21:46:27Z")
Good to hear from you Eve. How did the book event go; the one you signed the book plates for? When you mentioned your rival, I thought about sending you a copy of Clive James’ classic poem, “The Book of My Enemy has been Remaindered,” but I couldn’t find a copy. The thread on silent actresses was fun. **Cartooniverse** wanted names [for his Steadicam batteries.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=78012) Good luck on the book. If you have your author photo taken while lying down (with the photog standing over you), it’ll take care of the double chin. Otherwise, just keep looking up! Pesch PS: Katharine just has a urinary tract infection. Stand down to code blue. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2001, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been/73196/22 "2001-07-20T22:02:41Z")
hi eve, just the same old stuff here…except for… the day the jpeterman catalog arrived!!! did you get one? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been/73196/23 "2001-07-21T00:30:30Z")
Great to see you back, **Eve**! My best to your mom. Good luck with your new book. (Not that you need it.) ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been/73196/24 "2001-07-21T02:17:07Z")
Welcome back, **Eve**! Your inimitable presence has been _missed_. And FTR, you always remind me MUCH more of Roz Russell enchanting Cary Grant in “His Gal Friday”: just as bright, just as charming, just as tough and a helluva writer to boot. Veb P.S. Was Kay Kendall the one who married Rex Harrison and lived to regret it? ---
**Author:** ![Redboss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@Redboss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redboss)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been/73196/25 "2001-07-21T06:43:40Z")
[sub]jumping in quickly[/sub] **Everyone** who married Rex Harrison lived to regret it! Eve would have said (and probably will say) the same thing better. Redboss ---
**Author:** ![Redboss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@Redboss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redboss)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been/73196/26 "2001-07-21T06:46:45Z")
But I remember her as a slender charming woman with high cheekbones and an unpretentious lady-like quality, and - oh, read the book! ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been/73196/27 "2001-07-21T07:17:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Redboss \* > \*\*Everyone who married Rex Harrison lived to regret it \*\* Yes! ::veers happily off topic:: The man was a charmless Noel Coward wannabe whose impeccable tailoring couldn’t disguise the fact that he left slime trails. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2001, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been/73196/28 "2001-07-21T14:13:57Z")
You women! So catty! So cliquish! So unforgiving! …Why can’t a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square Eternally noble, historically fair Who when you win will always give your back a pat Why can’t a woman be like that? Why does ev’ryone do what the others do? Can’t a woman learn to use her head? Why do they do everything their mothers do? Why don’t they grow up like their father instead? Why can’t a woman take after a man? Men are so pleasant, so easy to please Whenever you’re with them, you’re always at ease Why can’t a woman… Be like ME? ---
**Author:** ![Redboss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@Redboss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redboss)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2001, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been/73196/29 "2001-07-22T08:42:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > **You women! > So catty! So cliquish! So unforgiving!** Thanks Ike. (scratches balls, strokes luxurious moustache, takes out penis) [Julie Andrews] Just you wait **Ukele** , just you wait![/Julie Andrews] Redboss [sub]hmmm. Julie Andrews might not have been the best choice to prove how masculine I am[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2001, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been/73196/30 "2001-07-23T13:27:49Z")
[trying mightily to bring the conversation back up to a higher level] Yes indeedy, Kay Kendall was that elegantly equine beauty who married Rex Harrison (“the bastard of all time,” as Kay’s sister calls him). The one and only noble thing Rex ever did was marry Kay when he found out she had leukemia and take care of her till she died—his way of making up for egging Carole Landis to kill herself back in '48. I got the rough draft done this weekend! Now (if the goddam photocopier at work ever gets fixed!) I’ll send it off to Kay’s sister, and to some British friends who will comb it over for “American mistakes.” Chair—I did get a wee little Peterman catalog, but it didn’t have any of those luscious suits and skirts I loved so much. Poor schmoe, I doubt he’ll be able to resurrect his company. Pesch—Dunno how the book event went; I should call to find out. I did appear on a radio show Saturday night to plug that same book, which was fun. Had people calling in with questions and everything! —“The Sweetheart of the Airwaves” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been/73196/31 "2001-07-24T11:58:55Z")
Welsome Back. You might want to check last week’s messages – someone was asking about female silent movie stars and we were tripping over each other to try and make up for your absence. But now I realize the futility of it all. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been/73196/32 "2001-07-24T13:43:17Z")
Kay Kendall. hmmmmmm, Kay Kendall, rings a little tiny bell. Didn’t I once read someone’s comment that she looked Pretty Darn Good in “Quentin Durward”? Intrigued me enough that I’ve kinda been keeping an eye out for the movie… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been/73196.md?page=1)