Focus On: Heather Frank

'The Screen Savers' resident scooter-driving Francophile tells all.
By TSS Staff

Name: Heather Frank

Job Title: Associate Producer

Homepage: Nuh-uh

Hometown: Yuppietown, Los Gatos, California

College/University: Humboldt State University and the University of Paris

Former Life: Artist, muse, dancer in the crazy 1920's of bohemian Paris

Favorite website: TheSimpsons.com

First computer: Mac II

Favorite technology: Corkscrew

Favorite author and book: David Sedaris, "Frankenstein"

Favorite movies: "Boogie Nights," "Blade," "Bonnie and Clyde"

Favorite quote: "When the moon is a cold chiseled dagger..." -- Tom Waits

Motto: "Where is my mind?" -- Pixies

The Proust Questions

What is your most marked characteristic? Big eyes

What do you consider your greatest achievement? Getting through Turkey alive

When and where were you happiest? Basking in the sunshine outside a cabin on a mountain overlooking the ocean in Corsica, drinking wine, laughing hard, and wearing a flower laurel my friend made me.

What is your greatest regret? Can't think of any.

What is your idea of perfect happiness? Laughter, friends, sunshine, cocktails, and great music all together.

What is your most treasured possession? My motor scooter

Where would you like to live? Manhattan, Tokyo

What is your greatest fear? Mediocrity

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Being unproductive and indecisive

What is the trait you most deplore in others? Insincerity

What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Beauty

What is your greatest extravagance? My motor scooter

What is your favorite journey? On a train from France through the Alps to Switzerland

What is it that you most dislike? Gross, heavy perfume and greasy glasses

What is the quality you most like in a woman? Charm and spice

What is the quality you most like in a man? Charm and ability to make me laugh

What do you most value in your friends? Sincerity

If you were to come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be? Me again with a higher consciousness

If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be? A genius

How would you like to die? Wise

Posted February 6, 2002