![]() So we’re planning on it when Mulan goes to college. I should forget about the hobbies because I’m making my life frantic trying to do all this, but I love the nesting thing.”įUTURE PLANS “I love it here, but it’s important for me to think I’m moving back to L.A. I’m writing a book and a screenplay and trying to spend several hours a day writing, but that is now a herculean task. HOW THE HOME HAS CHANGED HER LIFE “I have a two-room office now but have developed all these hobbies since buying the house, like sewing, quilting, and knitting. My husband inherited his aunt’s fancy swivel set, and we play every Wednesday night with Mulan. Julia Sweeney looks back at her controversial SNL character Pat and. I love how it looks, and we don’t open the blinds anyway because we’re too close to the house next door. Former Saturday Night Live cast member Julia Sweeney and writer/actor Abby. My big brilliant stroke was to hang this painting I had by Enrique Chagoya over the windows. And the dining room, which has the prettiest ceiling in the house. I love to turn on NPR, crank it up, and iron. So we call that the grandma room.”įAVORITE ROOM “The laundry room, because I love to iron. Julia Sweeney is currently performing a one-woman show called 'Letting Go of God' at the off-off-Broadway theater Ars Nova in Manhattan. Keeper in the animated film Stuart Little and voiced Brittany in Father of the Pride. She is known for her role as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and for her autobiographical solo shows. In the 1990s, Pat, the sexually inscrutable Saturday Night Live. nicely to a year in the life of Julia Sweeney, the likably bubbly Saturday Night Live alumna famous for creating the androgynous Pat character. Julia Anne Sweeney (born October 10, 1959) is an American actress, comedian, and author. The one on the bed in the guest room won a contest at Macy’s in the 1930s and hung in their Manhattan window for weeks. Every day, even in the wind and snow, Julia Sweeney walks half an hour from her. We also have a huge collection of handmade quilts and throws, many that were made by his grandmother. Michael and I both have eclectic taste and love mixing things together, and we both collect Mexican and South American art. I always think about all the effort it must have taken to make those curves. I always worry about fresh water, but now I rest assured because 20 percent of the planet’s supply is right here in the Great Lakes.”īESIDES THE LOCATION “I love all the curved, high ceilings, which make the walls really tall and the rooms so airy. In L.A., I lived ten miles from the ocean and never got there, but now I walk my dog to the beach every day. ![]() It’s across the street from the Metra station, post office, and library, and near the lake. You still have to date around, so we looked for two more months, then gave in.” But it’s like meeting someone you know you’re going to marry a little too soon. WHY THIS HOUSE? “It was the first one we saw, and I immediately knew we were going to move here. OTHER RESIDENCE A house in Los Angeles, which she ceded to her mother-in-law when she moved here in December 2008 HOME An 1874 Queen Anne Victorian in Wilmette bought two years ago when Sweeney decided to relocate here after marrying the local biophysicist Michael Blum ![]()
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