Some people are actors. Some people live their lives as if all the world were a stage. Some people are characters or icons. In Austin, there are many people who fit one or two of those categories. Karen Kuykendall is all that and more. Sunday was a busy day for us. Besides the Ballet Bash downtown and a private party, we joined Karen and several hundred of her friends and family to kick off fund-raising to name a stage at the planned Zach Scott theater. Karen is a dear friend and in spite of being in a battle with health problems she continues to have perfect timing. A few syllables from her gravelly voice are all that's required to attract your attention so that she can deliver a perfectly-timed zinger or burst into a little Cole Porter number. Here she does a Carol Channing-like mug for my camera while posing with FFP. The event was at Green Pastures, which is a restaurant and event space but was Karen's childhood home. Two of the many, many roles Karen shouldered in Austin theater were Andy Warhol and Ann Richards. Think about that!
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
The Incomparable Mrs. K
Some people are actors. Some people live their lives as if all the world were a stage. Some people are characters or icons. In Austin, there are many people who fit one or two of those categories. Karen Kuykendall is all that and more. Sunday was a busy day for us. Besides the Ballet Bash downtown and a private party, we joined Karen and several hundred of her friends and family to kick off fund-raising to name a stage at the planned Zach Scott theater. Karen is a dear friend and in spite of being in a battle with health problems she continues to have perfect timing. A few syllables from her gravelly voice are all that's required to attract your attention so that she can deliver a perfectly-timed zinger or burst into a little Cole Porter number. Here she does a Carol Channing-like mug for my camera while posing with FFP. The event was at Green Pastures, which is a restaurant and event space but was Karen's childhood home. Two of the many, many roles Karen shouldered in Austin theater were Andy Warhol and Ann Richards. Think about that!
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I've seen Karen Kuykendall on stage, and heard her on the radio and agree she is incomparable, Linda. The photo is fun - livened up even more by that wonderful shirt on FFP.
ReplyDeleteWasn't there a newspaper article a while ago in the food section? Something about a cookbook Karen Kykendall wrote or co-wrote?
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
Karen took great interest in promoting the re-release of a cookbook her mother (Mary Faulk Koock) had written in the sixties. Here is an article about that by my dear friend Virgina Wood at the Austin Chronicle.
ReplyDeleteOh...and I forgot to say that FFP got the shirt from a friend who was giving away clothes he could no longer use. Reduce, Recycle, Reusue and all that.
ReplyDeleteShe looks like a kick! A live out loud kind of gal, I love it
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