kottke.org home archives + xml about kottke.org contact me
kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products

Getting the gist of life

Many 21 year-olds think they have the world all figured out, but few make the mistake of writing it all down for public consumption (or perhaps many do these days). Debra Pickett interviews first time author and The Sopranos actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler about her book Wise Girl:

"Sigler just moved in with her boyfriend of one year, 31-year-old A.J. Discala. In addition to sharing her Trump Tower apartment, Discala is also Sigler's manager.

"'A manager controls so much of your life,' Sigler says, her brown eyes sparkling, 'that it's just wonderful to know the person has nothing but good intentions for you.'

"I ask if it makes her nervous, the old Hollywood stereotype of the manager dating the starlet and, well, you know, not exactly doing what's in her best interest.

"'Oh, no,' she says. 'We just look at it as a wonderful thing.'

"Besides, she says, they're not like other show business couples.

"An awkward pause descends on our table, hovering just over our half-eaten lunches. She is pitying my cynical singledom, and I am worrying about her future.

"Then I notice she's wearing really cute sandals, and we decide to talk about those instead."

More about this page

This entry was published on August 28, 2002 at 11:01 pm.

kottke.org is a weblog about the liberal arts 2.0 edited by Jason Kottke since March 1998. You can read about me and kottke.org here. If you've got questions, concerns, or an interesting link for me, send them along. Here's the kottke.org RSS feed kottke.org RSS feed.

Advertisement

dot dot dot

Advertise on kottke.org via The Deck.

Looking for work? Tags, tags, tags!

Many posts on kottke.org have been "tagged" with keywords, which activity results in collections of related posts like sports, infoviz, or bestof.

Recently popular tags (last 3 weeks)

2008election   barackobama   video   politics   photography   movies   design   books   nyc   music   maps   remix   sports   finance   food

All-time popular tags

movies   photography   books   nyc   science   food   lists   design   business   sports   video   weblogs   music   bestof   art

Some of my favorite tags

photography   economics   lists   bestof   infoviz   food   nyc   firstworldproblems   cities   restaurants   video   timelapse   interviews   language   maps   fashion   nsfw   remix  

Random tags

sunshine   prison   cities   barcade   marypoppins   lifeafterpeople   realestate   cars   fundraising   hosseinderakhshan   fridakahlo   sony   pentagram   movies   im

kottke.org

You're visiting kottke.org. All content by Jason Kottke (contact me) unless otherwise noted, with some restrictions on its use. Good luck will come to those who dig around in the archives. If you've reached this point by accident, I suggest panic. In memory of DFW, rest in peace. Thanks for everything.