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I loved the PRO Retreat. Very inspriational. I left about half-way through to help set up the luncheon. I like setting up the luncheons, because I can snag a table near the front and wait for the rest of the attendees to be admitted.
Meg Cabot, who wrote the book The Princess Diaries that became a Disney movie, was due to speak. Our chairs were back to back, and she came in with a friend to sit. Now, we'd put copies of a special edition of The Princess Diaries as well as her new work, Size 12 Is Not Fat, on every chair.
Including Meg Cabot's. **L**
She turned to me and held out the books. "Would you like another set of these? I've read them already."
I grabbed a pen and asked her to sign them, which she graciously did.
She was fun to hear speak, and her experience while Disney was making the Princess Diaries movie were a bit of an eye-opener to how the film industry works. They ruthlessly killed off Mia's father (he's alive and well in the book) in order to woo Julie Andrews to play the part of the queen/grandma. I keep wondering how I'd feel about it all, but then again, I think I might have Meg Cabot's reaction, which was as follows:
Disney: We want to kill off Mia's father.
MC: What did he do?
Disney: We have a well-established actress we would like to have play the queen, but the queen doesn't have many lines. We thought, if we killed off Mia's father, we could give his good lines to the queen.
MC: Who's the actress?
Disney: Julie Andrews.
MC: Kill him!
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