You must have an amazing person in your life that handles your schedule! I do have help that’s for sure. It’s a lot sometimes,
but it’s all such great stuff. A great deal of it is tied in with my social life too, even the podcasts. Most of them are with people who I have already known and have been friends with for a long time. It’s a really good thing for me and a way to stay connected with them. Any favorite stories from this tour so far that you’d like to share? My assistant just turned 30 and she got a body
piercing called the “Marilyn Monroe.” It’s a facial piercing to accentuate the area where she had her beauty mark. I’ve been around body modification and piercing for a long time and I am glad that I was able to go with her. She was so excited and I watched it get done, it was really a trip. Your ink is beautiful, by the way. There’s an amazing photo of you with your back exposed featuring your tattoos it is really stunning. Thank you. I do have a lot of tattoos and they all
represent something that I was influenced by, people I grew up with. They are all heavily influence by primi- tives, that kind of imagery. It’s a tattooing and body art style that I find really cool. I’ve never taken the plunge, I’m still considering it, but it’s such a difficult thing to choose the imagery. That, and it’s painful too! (Laughs) I don’t re-
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ally choose the specific images, I let the tattoo artist decide what is best. I have good friends in that com- munity who have done my work, from all over the country, some in San Francisco, some in L.A. or New York. I’ve been fortunate, they’re some of the best in the world so I trust them with the process. How’s the season coming with Drop Dead Diva? I have to tell you, it’s one of my guilty pleasures! We just had our season finale. The show has
been such a pleasant process over the years. I never expected it to go for such an extended period; in this business you rarely get to play the same character for that long. It’s been five years now, the cast and I have all become very close and have a really great time when we’re together. Now we’re just waiting to hear if we get to do it again next year! (October 25 News Flash: Lifetime renewedDrop Dead Diva for Season 6!) Tell me a little about your experience with Dancing With The Stars—I hear that it’s intense and so physically demanding. It was very demanding and totally hard. I think it’s
hard for anyone to do something that athletic and I’m not really that kind of a person. I’m not somebody who has put that much importance in that type of stuff. It’s all about timing and agility, so to involve my- self in that world was like dropping into the middle of a sporting event. Normally I’m not that kind of physical, when I do
exercise it’s usually only for an hour or so. WithDWTS it’s like seven or eight hours a day continuously,
learning all the steps, it is really intense. I was right in the middle of my last tour to so my partner Louis Van Amstel came with me and we actually ended up practicing at venues before shows, on the bus, which was really difficult and crazy. It was great to do but let me tell you, it was really tough too! Anything else coming up that you want our readers to know about? I have an album coming up, well it’s actually two
records that I’m combining into one. It’s recorded and all finished, I just have to mix it and figure out what it’s going to be. There are comedy songs and others from different genres. I recorded a lot of it in El Paso and some in Austin also; it’s really kind of Texas meets L.A. I’ll get back to it probably once I’m done with this tour… which may not be ‘til next year… (laughs). Thanks so much for doing this, Margaret, it’s been great. I can’t wait to see you in San Diego! Please come, it will be great!
Nothing is Sacred: Least Of All This Mother is playing in Downtown San Diego at the Balboa Theatre, 668 Fourth Avenue on Thurs- day, December 5 at 7:30 p.m. For tickets and more information call 619.570.1100 or go to
sandiegotheatres.org.
She will also be at the Wiltern, 3790 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles on Friday, December 6 at 7 p.m. For tickets and more information go to
wilterntheatertickets.com.
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