RIP Patricia Neil

Academy Award Winning actress Patricia Neil passed away yesterday due to lung cancer, she was 84.
Two things of note.
One: I’m looking at pictures of her and before I associate myself with who she is I hear her voice in my head. Which is really a very weird sensation. I don’t recognize your face really, but I know exactly what you sound like. Then the voice becomes clearer and it says “I do believe love has found Andy Hardy. Let’s see…a waitress? A salesgirl?” Tada! She’s the “john” (really?) in Breakfast at Tiffany’s! 2-E to be exact (which stands for Emily Eustace, which literally didn’t make sense to me until right now when I read it on Wikipedia). I know she was in other things, but I absolutely loved her in Breakfast at Tiffany’s and it’s pretty cool that she was alive until now. B@T’s seems so far away and romantic, with the obvious exception of the immortal Mickey Rooney it’s pretty cool that Patricia was alive well into the 2000s.

Two: This next tid-bit LITERALLY BLOWS MY MIND. Sit down. Nothing will make sense after this. Patricia Neil, star of my favorite movie… was married to… wait for it… ROALD DAHL!! You heard me. The Big Friendly Giant, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, possible Sex Spy himself! Which also means that Patricia Neil is the grandmother of inexplicably famous for writing a cook book and being a model at the same time British sensation Sophie Dahl.

I love when wildly famous and creative people get together (even if I don’t make the connection until it’s too late).

Note to self: Be More Glamorous

RIP Patricia! I’ll find someone the same size so I won’t even have to shorten the sleeves!