There is this list I keep in my head of names that I consider my "dream interviews." This is a list, of course, of interviews that I hope to be able to do someday and so far I've been lucky enough to check off a lot of those names...this includes my latest interview with actress Kitten Natividad.

I first saw Kitten on a show I shouldn't have been watching when I was a little kid that was on the Playboy channel. It was an English show called "Electric Blue" and in this episode there were segments featuring Kitten as an airline stewardess trying her best to calm down a randy crew and it's passengers during some turbulence which was caused by the captain of the plane dealing with another stewardess. Ok, so I was a weird kid watching this weird TV show, but it was my first introduction to this chestular performer. (It's my magazine, I can make up my own words.)

In reality, I later found out that I've seen her work in a lot of films, but I never realized it. She's been in "Airplane!", "Another 48 Hours", and many many others. I finally saw her in starring roles when I rented the Russ Meyer films "Up!" and what many thought would be his final film (until he released "Pandora Peaks" this year,) "Beneath The Valley Of The Ultravixens". (In case you don't know, Russ Meyer is the director of the cult favorites "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!," "The Immoral Mr. Teas," and the epic "Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls" which he co-wrote with a young Roger Ebert before he became a film critic.)

Doing some graphic work for Mondo Family Films, I found myself invited to join their posse at the Russ Meyer film festival at the world famous Egyptian Theatre in 2000. They introduced me to Kitten, who was so charming it was impossible to be shy around her. As we took our seats in the theatre I found myself sitting right between her AND the man who not only inspired Quentin Tarantino, but Fellini himself...Russ Meyer! There I am sitting right next to two of my screen idols and one of them, Kitten, is eating my popcorn.

So after the films, we all say our goodbyes and I tell Kitten I would love to interview her sometime and I was astonished that she said that she would love to. Of course this ran into last year when all I did no-fi "magazine-wise was a couple so-far unpublished interviews and I posted a few pictures. I would e-mail her every once in a while to basically let her know that I still wanted to do the interview. In between all this time, Kitten has gone through some well publicized health problems and has even quit drinking and has been a member of AA for 2 and a half years. After getting the "magazine" restarted earlier this year, I was able to actually set up the interview a couple weeks ago and here we are now.

This interview took place at El Compadré which is my favorite Mexican restaurant in Hollywood. Knowing that she loves Mexican food I thought she would like it too. We did the interview over dinner and it was certainly interesting...especially considering the setting and all.

C: When you first met Russ was he able to stand up right away or did it take him a few minutes?

C: Yeah... Mind you that we're dealing with the internet here so they could have misquoted you.

and I remember that we could buy a bathtub of beer and we'd only pay like 50 dollars so we'd buy it every Friday and get everybody smashed. And then we'd start dancing and they were all German and they spoke German all the time so I don't know what the hell they were talking about, but I kept saying, "Yah Yah."

K: Look at you! You know...Ooooh Baby!