our next guest is a star of film and a tv you perhaps remember her from little women
or her critically acclaimed television show my so-called life it's our pleasure to welcome
claire danes how do you do oh i'm fine welcome to the show you look lovely in person as as you
do on on film that's very nice you know you and i have something in common you must know
about this by now we have the same birthday we share our birthday that's right april 12th
april 12th we're both aries it's a good sign you think so fire signs
what what do you know of the uh attributes of aries the astrological sign that applied to your
life actually quite a bit on my so-called life that makeup and hair people were avid
astrological guru they have to be really for that line of work right so aries well [Applause]
it goes along with the territory i think so but no we're we're strong we're f we're uh quick
witted but we have a bit of a temper but you know what do you mean by that
let's try another little joke we're leaders david cassidy
however is awesome david cassidy is in aries yeah wait wait wait wait good company can i
ask you how old you are when were you born i'm 16 1979. i just missed 1980. now wait a minute
wait a minute what how old are you 16. 16. i'm a youngin you know you're 16 years old
[Applause]
you know i don't i don't think you're old enough to be in here [Laughter] call
me in a few years my goodness this is amazing to me because
you you you certainly look uh youthful but you have a great deal of poise and presence that
i wouldn't normally associate with a 16 year old next year when i'm 17 who knows yeah well
it's gonna be scary
uh you know i'm nervous now because i had no idea you were 16. aries aren't supposed to
get nervous all right i'll see what i can do but that's uh tell us tell us what uh
life is like for a very successful actress who happens to be 16. what kind of things do you do
well we uh we we go out we date we get boy crazy
you actually go out on dates it's okay to go out on dates when you're 16. well
uh well sure really what kind of dates do you want i have a boyfriend now what's his name andrew oh
andrew what kind of guy how old is andrew's 18. oh man all of it only two years everybody gets
all excited i'm not excited about that i just i i'm 48. i know well you know oh actually i
didn't know you didn't know but you could tell by looking at me that's what you're thinking
god help me so what kind of things do you and andrew do is he a nice guy decent fellow or is he
is he a punk he's not a punk no no no people think he is he dresses i think he is kind of punkish
does he get good grades andrew is he in school well he just graduated from
high school is going to go on to college well he's being a musician
he's gonna he's gonna take a year off he's gonna take a year off
and he's thinking about it but right now it takes a year to think that that's what he's
gonna do these kids today tell you are doesn't need to go to college he thinks uh but you get
along pretty well it's a nice happy more or less oh it's great it's fabulous you uh you spent some
time surfing do you do that i went to surf camp for a week in baltimore in baltimore no i know
wayamaya bay the bonsai pipeline it's the other day
guyaneemi hermosa beach no we're going to baltimore
no no i'm sorry no you've hyped up baltimore but it's there's no surf in baltimore delaware
there is surface big surf country very little but enough to for us beginners all right and what was
that like did you enjoy the experience great i went with my best friend or one of them who
was an avid surfer sleeps with her surfboard and she dragged me to this camp she looked
it up in the back of her magazine and we went there and the guy who ran it was uh born again
and was trying very hard to convert all of us born again christian wanted to convert you all
to christianity or to become reborn wow that's faith yeah meanwhile he was teaching us how to
surf apparently but he gave us a bible surf in the sun s-o-m ha ha oh surf in the sun well that's
not that's sort of cute it's rather clever yeah yeah but uh no i did fairly well you know i got
a little frightened because i didn't really know what i was doing are these the big boards or the
short boards i had the longest board possible they start out on the longer boards yeah nine
feet which is long you know who was the greatest surfer of them all no they weren't at my camp
the greatest surfers don't serve these delaware duke kahanamoko [Laughter]
but you know he was apparently the first surfer he surfed over from japan or something yeah uh
are you are i you know i'm sorry about getting this thing screwed up with clueless you're not in
that movie no it's okay but you don't want to do this if you'd been in that movie to be 100 better
well i don't know i haven't seen the movie yet i'm actually excited yeah they're going to be
pretty good amy heckerling does nice work she probably didn't direct it i have no idea what
i'm talking about uh so what are you going to do next what what's uh what's a well you know
will you ever be older apparently yeah i guess i'm working very hard what are you working on next
well i just finished a movie called i love you i love you not who's in that jean she's an old very
yes so that was great but no i'm i'm
jews and jim come on uh no so i don't know i'm waiting to
hear about everything waiting is very painful can you come back every night
oh we may have to adjust the music budget i'm sorry it's all right uh yeah
you you couldn't be more delightful what a wonderful young person you uh turned out
to be and i like to think i had something to do with that oh but we do have the same
birthday yeah we do it's a pleasure meeting you claire thank you very much [Applause] [Music]