Where Did That Name Come From?

Yesterday I begin my blog with my first blog entry-- a recipe I thought up on the fly—Radicchio pasta. I hope this will be a common occurrence on How To Be Toni because it is a common occurrence in my life.  So you might be thinking "I like Toni, all right, but I don’t need to learn how to be her".  Put your mind at ease, the name is merely a nod to a musical number in one of my favorite films: Funny Face staring Audrey Hepburn (another favorite). 

In the film Audrey Hepburn’s character, Jo is a beatnik working in a small Greenwich Village bookstore whose world is taken over by a magazine editor and a photographer. Jo is persuaded to go to Paris for a fashion show and photo shoot, but really to she wants to spend her time in café’s talking philosophy and hoped to meet the philosopher and father of Infantilism theory Prof. Emile Fostre.  Much to the chagrin of the magazine reps Jo wants to while away the hours sipping wine in grungy beatnik cafes talking about the philosophies she holds dear.  In a musical number called “How To Be Lovely” Jo gets a lesson in being “lovely” for a question and answer session with the press.  The song is catchy and perhaps one of my favorite scenes in the film.  It is common for me to walk around the house singing this song.  This blog is not exactly a guide on how to be me, but more of a venue to share fun things, stuff that I hope will make you smile, and remind you to be true to yourself just as Jo unrelenting does in the film throughout most of Funny Face.  They do have a Hollywood ending, but you know, that tends to happen in film.