People is always surprise to learn that one of us is an atheist. And by the way, I am also smart and cool!?

I wonder why she is surprised? I'm not.

I've always loved her. She is so classy. If I remember she graduated from an Ivy League school with honors.

She "visited" the VLA again -- of Contact fame -- to record a lovely tribute to this iconic telescope.
[vimeo.com]

I met her briefly while I was first at Meremac Caverns and they filmed the "Tom Sawyer" movie there. She was too young to remember me, but I was on a break and got to watch them do several takes of a scene for the film then. I also met Warren Oates (now deceased) who was in that same movie. In honor of Oates the local drive-in was playing his film "Chandler" at the time. This was around 1973.

As a teenager I had a crush on her but it turned out that we were playing for the same team. All good, it's not like we were actually going to meet and hit it off anyway. lol

It's very hard to be smart and cool without being an Atheist.

I didn’t know this....! Always loved her as an actress, now even more, and for letting it be known that she is an atheist.

how did you meet her?

Thank You!