KEY POINTS:
Claire Chitham
Outrageous Fortune actor
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What was top of your Christmas wish list this year - excluding world peace?
That The Raconteurs would be coming to the Big Day Out (please Santa!) and for our beautiful summer weather that usually starts mid-January to actually start mid-December this year. And yes, I do realise this wish is as hopeful as world peace. I'm an idealistic optimist.
As a wee'un, what was the one present you always wanted but never got?
A Cabbage Patch doll, because my Mum thought they were really ugly and un-doll like. I applaud her now for her taste! Clever Mummy ...
Do you still want it?
Hell no.
Personal defining moment of 2006
Our wedding. (Chitham married radio personality Mikey Havoc) The entire weekend was a summation of love, happiness and all that is important in my life and it showed me I'm one very lucky lady. And then going to India for our honeymoon put it all into perspective for me and continues to do so.
Most overrated thing/person/topic of the year
I think most things in our media are over-rated and over-hyped. We often get told an awful lot of information about unimportant things such as our politicians' love lives, and not enough about the most important stuff like the meningococcal B immunisation campaign. This was the most expensive healthcare initiative our country has ever undertaken, and we still know very little about the results, dangers and effects this vaccine will have on our country's children.
Album of the year
The Raconteurs
Movie/DVD of the year
The Constant Gardener and An Inconvenient Truth for must-see viewing, and Borat for the future of comedy.
Person of the year
My husband.
The most important lesson you learned this year was ...
That it is a much braver and stronger thing to be able to look at all the things you have in life as blessings enough, instead of constantly wanting more of them. It's an easy thing to know but quite a hard one to implement. I'm trying ...
New Year's resolution
To continue as I started. My life is a constant work in progress.
Your prediction for 2007's next big thing
My prediction is based on the theory that if you want it badly enough then it will be so. So I think that 2007 is going to be the year that our local television, film and theatre industries flourish and fly because the creative people working their undervalued butts off will finally be given the funding and support they deserve. I realise that this is also as optimistic as wanting world peace but you can't blame a girl for wishing ...
* Outrageous Fortune: The Movie screens on TV3 at 8.30 tonight.
