美国国家公共电台 NPR Actress And Broadway Star Kristin Chenoweth Plays Not My Job
时间:2019-01-16 作者:英语课 分类:2016年NPR美国国家公共电台9月
Actress And Broadway Star Kristin Chenoweth Plays Not My Job
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And now the game where we ask really interesting people to answer questions about things that simply do not interest them. It's called Not My Job. Kristin Chenoweth is what they used to call a triple threat. She can sing, as she did on Broadway, most notably 2 in "Wicked." She can act in TV shows like "Pushing Daisies" and "The West Wing," and she can kill you with just her bare hands. We're a little wary 3 but still delighted to talk to her. Kristin Chenoweth, welcome to WAIT WAIT... DON'T TELL ME.
KRISTIN CHENOWETH: Oh, wow, everybody sounds amazing there.
SAGAL: They are amazing here, Kristin. I'm sorry you can't be with us in person. You strike me - and we've never met, but I've seen you in many, many films and shows and soundtracks - as somebody who must have, like, emerged from the womb performing. Were you one of those kids?
CHENOWETH: Of course. I came out doing a split and wearing a crown.
SAGAL: Of course you did.
LUKE BURBANK: God, that must have been painful for your mother.
SAGAL: Do you imagine - do you remember your stage debut 4?
CHENOWETH: Yeah, I do. It was "The Nutcracker." I played one of the mice.
SAGAL: You were a mouse?
CHENOWETH: Yeah. I know it seems inappropriate, but yeah.
SAGAL: Yeah. Did you somehow shine as the mouse in a way that made people go, that mouse is going places?
CHENOWETH: Of course. Have we met?
SAGAL: Right. And you were also involved in beauty pageants 6. I've read that your beauty pageant 5 career actually helped you out, got you an actual scholarship, helped you with your education. Is that true?
CHENOWETH: It did. I won the talent portion and I did win Miss Congeniality, never mind that I carry a knife with me but, yeah, I...
SAGAL: You strike me - maybe because of the performances I've seen - as someone - or maybe because of your appearance - of someone who seems always very cheerful. Is that a burden? Do you ever, like, I want to go out and swear at people?
CHENOWETH: Oh, my gosh, I have those days. I, for sure, have those days. They mostly happen inside my head, but for sure I have those days.
SAGAL: On - if I'm not mistaken, on the TV show, "Glee," you played a very troubled, unhappy person. Is that right?
CHENOWETH: Yeah, I'm not really sure why Ryan Murphy wanted me to play that sort of drunk, has-been character, but...
SAGAL: Yeah.
CHENOWETH: And for some reason, it rang true for me (laughter).
SAGAL: (Laughter).
CHENOWETH: It actually was really fun. It was really fun.
SAGAL: When you played that, that was, for example, very different from the role of Glinda in "Wicked." Did you go to your agent and say I want more dark, miserable 7 people. I want to kill something?
CHENOWETH: (Laughter) No, but that's a really good idea. Thanks.
SAGAL: All right.
ADAM FELBER: Kristin, I have a question for you because I'm married to an Oklahoma girl, and she's as relentlessly 8 cheery as you are. And so tell me something, when you say something truly terrible about a person, do you always follow it up with the phrase bless her heart?
CHENOWETH: Yes.
CHENOWETH: First of all, I'd like to congratulate you for getting a girl from the best state in the union. B, we always, always, follow it with bless your heart because then it's like, void, that you said anything nasty. It's sort of like having a doughnut and a Diet Coke.
SAGAL: Right.
CHENOWETH: If you follow a doughnut up with a Diet Coke, it's void. It never happened.
FAITH SALIE: (Laughter).
SAGAL: Is - is the...
CHENOWETH: Thank you, Faith.
SAGAL: Is the power of that phrase unlimited 9? Can it cancel anything, like, I want her dead, bless her heart? You can do that.
CHENOWETH: No, I believe I've even said, she's so ugly she's been beat with an ugly stick, bless her heart.
SAGAL: Whoa.
FELBER: Yeah, that's how it's done.
SAGAL: Yeah.
CHENOWETH: I want to be very, very clear here. I don't say that anymore, OK?
SAGAL: No.
SAGAL: Absolutely not. Well, Kristin Chenoweth, we are delighted to talk to you. We've asked you here to play a game today we're calling...
BILL KURTIS: You're Brigitte Nielsen.
SAGAL: So you, Kristin, are physically 10 small with an outsized talent. So we were wondering, what would be the opposite of that?
SAGAL: And we went with Brigitte Nielsen, the 6-foot-1 formal model and actress, perhaps most famous for her very brief marriage to Sylvester Stallone back in the '80s.
CHENOWETH: (Laughter).
CHENOWETH: That's funny.
FELBER: Bless her heart.
SAGAL: That was the intent.
SAGAL: We're going to ask you three questions about Ms. Nielsen, and if you can get two right, you'll win our prize for one of our listeners - Carl Kasell's voice on their voicemail. Bill, who is Kristin Chenoweth playing for?
KURTIS: Sam Van Camp (ph) of Brooklyn, N.Y.
SAGAL: All right. Here's your first question about Brigitte Nielsen. Ms. Nielsen made her movie debut at the age of 21 in the title role of "Red Sonja." That was the 1985 sword-and-sorcery epic 11 also starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. How did Ms. Nielsen nail the audition 12? A, she just shouted out what she said was an ancient magical curse but was really just the phrase what's your sign in Danish; B, she put on the costume, stood there, shrugged 13 and said, I'm sorry, I cannot remember the script. I am not an actress; or C, she sent the director a semi-nude 14 photograph of herself with a note saying, I would love to meet you.
CHENOWETH: I'm going to say B.
SAGAL: You're going to say B?
CHENOWETH: Yeah, B as in boy.
SAGAL: You are right. That's what she did.
SAGAL: She put on the costume. She put on the costume, which, if you haven't seen "Red Sonja," is sort of like a tin bra, and she stood there and was like, I don't know, and they said, you're hired.
SAGAL: By the way, the option C, she attached a note to a semi-nude photograph of herself, was not how she got that part. That's how she got Sylvester Stallone.
CHENOWETH: (Laughter) That's hilarious 15, too.
SAGAL: It's true. She sent Sylvester Stallone that note, he responded, they fell in love.
FELBER: Oh, somebody read this to me.
SAGAL: Yeah.
SAGAL: So they met, they fell in love, they divorced their respective spouses 16 and they married soon thereafter. How did Sylvester Stallone express his enduring love for his new bride? A, he got heel implants 17 so he could be as tall as she was; B, he commissioned nude statues of the pair of them for his courtyard; or C, he wrote for her a 400-stanza epic poem about the romance called "The Brigittiad" (ph).
CHENOWETH: Oh, that's hard. I really don't like to lose. I'm probably going to lose on this, so I'm going to say C.
SAGAL: You're going to say C, the 400-stanza epic poem?
CHENOWETH: (Laughter) Yeah.
SAGAL: Well, as you know, he is a writer, but he didn't write that. No, what he did was he commissioned the nude statues. But - this is true - their marriage lasted so briefly 18 that by the time they got divorced - they got divorced, rather, before the statues could be finished. And then - this is true - the sculptor 19 took the clay he was working with for her figure and he just took it and made his nude figure bigger.
SAGAL: That's true.
CHENOWETH: (Laughter) Oh, my gosh, that's hilarious.
SAGAL: You know, you still have one more chance here. This is - the third question, if you get this right, you still win. So after divorce from Sylvester Stallone, Ms. Nielsen went on to some more romances and some harder times. But then in 1999, she wrote and starred in a comeback movie which frankly 20 addressed her own struggles. What is that movie called? Is it called, A, "She Is Too Tall;" is it called B, "She Had A Thing With Flavor Flav;" or C, "Her Nude Statue Got Melted Down To Make Her Ex-Husband's Bigger?"
CHENOWETH: Oh, man. I wish my Google was faster.
FELBER: That's not supposed to be out loud.
SAGAL: Yeah. Most people just think that, Kristin. They don't say it.
CHENOWETH: I'm going to say that one.
SAGAL: You're going to say "She's Too Tall?"
CHENOWETH: Yeah, I'm going to say that one.
SAGAL: You're right.
SAGAL: That's the name of the movie.
SAGAL: The movie is about a very tall woman who struggles with the challenges of being too tall. Bill, how did Kristin Chenoweth do on our quiz?
KURTIS: She is Oklahoma strong. She's a winner at two and 0.
SAGAL: Congratulations, Kristin.
CHENOWETH: Yay.
FELBER: (Singing) There she is, she got two questions right.
SAGAL: As a pageant winner, are you obligated to cry now?
CHENOWETH: Yes, hold on, Pete. I'm going to see if I can work it up. I'd like to thank the judges and the live audience.
CHENOWETH: Thank you so much, and I'm currently making a donation to all the tall people in the world. God bless you.
SAGAL: Kristin Chenoweth, her new album, "The Art Of Elegance," is out later this month. She's also starring in the new TV series based on Neil Gaiman's "American Gods." Kristin Chenoweth, thank you so much for being with us. Great to talk to you.
CHENOWETH: You, too. (Unintelligible). Bless your heart.
CHENOWETH: (As Glinda, singing) Popular, I'll help you be popular. You'll hang with the right cohorts, you'll be good at sports, know the slang you've got to know. So let's start 'cause you've got an awfully 21 long way to go. Don't be offended by my frank analysis. Think of it as personality dialysis. Now that I've chosen to become a pal 22...
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- View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
- I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。
- Many students were absent,notably the monitor.许多学生缺席,特别是连班长也没来。
- A notably short,silver-haired man,he plays basketball with his staff several times a week.他个子明显较为矮小,一头银发,每周都会和他的员工一起打几次篮球。
- He is wary of telling secrets to others.他谨防向他人泄露秘密。
- Paula frowned,suddenly wary.宝拉皱了皱眉头,突然警惕起来。
- That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里,他初次在百老汇登台,扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
- The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。
- Our pageant represented scenes from history.我们的露天历史剧上演一幕幕的历史事件。
- The inauguration ceremony of the new President was a splendid pageant.新主席的就职典礼的开始是极其壮观的。
- It is young people who favor holding Beauty pageants. 赞成举办选美的是年轻人。 来自互联网
- Others say that there's a fine line between the pageants and sexual exploitation. 其他人说,选美和性剥削之间只有非常细微的界线。 来自互联网
- It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他,这是可耻的。
- Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。
- The African sun beat relentlessly down on his aching head. 非洲的太阳无情地照射在他那发痛的头上。
- He pursued her relentlessly, refusing to take 'no' for an answer. 他锲而不舍地追求她,拒不接受“不”的回答。
- They flew over the unlimited reaches of the Arctic.他们飞过了茫茫无边的北极上空。
- There is no safety in unlimited technological hubris.在技术方面自以为是会很危险。
- He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服,心绪也很乱。
- Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。
- I gave up my epic and wrote this little tale instead.我放弃了写叙事诗,而写了这个小故事。
- They held a banquet of epic proportions.他们举行了盛大的宴会。
- I'm going to the audition but I don't expect I'll get a part.我去试音,可并不指望会给我个角色演出。
- At first,they said he was too young,but later they called him for an audition.起初,他们说他太小,但后来他们叫他去试听。
- Sam shrugged and said nothing. 萨姆耸耸肩膀,什么也没说。
- She shrugged, feigning nonchalance. 她耸耸肩,装出一副无所谓的样子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- It's a painting of the Duchess of Alba in the nude.这是一幅阿尔巴公爵夫人的裸体肖像画。
- She doesn't like nude swimming.她不喜欢裸泳。
- The party got quite hilarious after they brought more wine.在他们又拿来更多的酒之后,派对变得更加热闹起来。
- We stop laughing because the show was so hilarious.我们笑个不停,因为那个节目太搞笑了。
- Jobs are available for spouses on campus and in the community. 校园里和社区里有配偶可做的工作。 来自辞典例句
- An astonishing number of spouses-most particularly in the upper-income brackets-have no close notion of their husbands'paychecks. 相当大一部分妇女——特别在高收入阶层——并不很了解他们丈夫的薪金。 来自辞典例句
- Hormone implants are used as growth boosters. 激素植入物被用作生长辅助剂。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Perhaps the most far-reaching project is an initiative called Living Implants From Engineering (LIFE). 也许最具深远意义的项目,是刚刚启动的建造活体移植工程 (LIFE)。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 医学的第四次革命
- I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
- He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。
- A sculptor forms her material.雕塑家把材料塑造成雕塑品。
- The sculptor rounded the clay into a sphere.那位雕塑家把黏土做成了一个球状。
- To speak frankly, I don't like the idea at all.老实说,我一点也不赞成这个主意。
- Frankly speaking, I'm not opposed to reform.坦率地说,我不反对改革。
- Agriculture was awfully neglected in the past.过去农业遭到严重忽视。
- I've been feeling awfully bad about it.对这我一直感到很难受。
- He is a pal of mine.他是我的一个朋友。
- Listen,pal,I don't want you talking to my sister any more.听着,小子,我不让你再和我妹妹说话了。