Often, while indulging my magazine and online reading habits, I come across celebrities who pique my blogular interest (Yes, I think I made up the word blogular).
While we’ve featured many amazing women on this blog, here are some actresses I dream of interviewing on Drinking Diaries:
Helen Mirren: As quoted in Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire: What do you most value in your friends? Their ability to open a bottle of wine.
Emma Thompson. As quoted in the Telegraph, UK: “Oh lord, I don’t know. I’ve got so much on at the moment and I’ve got to stay off the wine if I’m going to remain alive. Besides, wine really shouldn’t be taken that seriously, but just seriously enough.”
Thompson knows more about wine than she admits. In fact, I had heard that she was hoping to become a Master of Wine. This qualification is notoriously tough – only about a third of each year’s students gain the right to use the initials MW after their name. Indeed, there are just 278 successful graduates worldwide (one of whom we interviewed on Drinking Diaries, Jennifer Simonetti-Bryan).
“All I really want to be able to do is identify certain wines and be able to remember them as well as matching them with food,” she says.
Brooke Shields, whose mother was an alcoholic. Shields told LIFE magazine that her mother’s alcoholism “affects everything.” How? I’d love her to elaborate on that. 
I’d also love to interview Meg Ryan and Sandra Bullock, about how they prepared for their roles as alcoholics in “When a Man Loves a Woman” and “28 Days,” respectively.
And okay, Meryl Streep, because I’d like to ask her about the drinking in “It’s Complicated,” and if she could hold her own at the bar with the character she plays in that movie.
Finally, I’d like to interview Lindsay Lohan about what it’s like to hit rock bottom, and how she plans to pull herself out of the abyss.
Who would you like to see interviewed on Drinking Diaries?
Photo Credits: Emma Thompson, Brooke Shields
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Drew Barrymore– she was in rehab as a teenager, and I don’t think she is abstinent now. Still, she doesn’t appear to be a falling down drunk.
Jada Pinkett Smith–hasn’t had a drink in 20 years or so.
Robert Downey, Jr. – how drinking impacted his creativity as an artist/actor – before and after recovery.
Aerosmith – I’d like to hear the whole story on addiction and recovery for the band – as well as what they do with Stephen Tyler’s continued struggles.