The unnervingly lovely Renée Fleming releases her newest album next week, and combing through her press materials to promote it, I stumbled upon this:
Master
Chef Daniel Boulud has created the dessert “La Diva Renée” (1999) in
her honor, and she has inspired the “Renée Fleming Iris” (2004), which
has been replicated in porcelain by Boehm.
She also has a Coty (synonym for “fancy”) perfume coming out if/when The Metropolitan Opera Gift Shop reopens this winter called “La Voce“. My Coty perfume, “Life’s a Spritz” (2008), will be coming out around the same time, and will be exclusive to The Metropolitan Opera marketing department offices. You’ll have to submit a proposal and go in for a meeting to design their banner ads or whatever to buy it.
Anyway, the iris, etc. got me thinking: Stephen Colbert prides himself on his many namesakes, but Renée Fleming, a mere opera star, is a surprisingly strong competitor:
Renée:
- Daniel Boulud dessert
- Iris
- Porcelain Iris copy
- Perfume
Stephen:
- Flavor of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream
- Bald Eagle
- Aptostichus stephencolberti (a “trapdoor” spider)
- Leatherback Turtle
- Ontario Hockey League mascot
Both Renée and Stephen have their own desserts, but while Renée-influenced species seem to stem (…zing!) from the flora arena, Stephen has focused his efforts on fauna. If interested, her fauna solicitation efforts would involve birds, one presumes, because they…sing. Insofar as hockey team possibilities for Ms. Fleming, might I suggest approaching the Potsdam Bears or the Potsdam Junior Hockey Association, since SUNY Potsdam is her alma mater. The Aria Readies, perhaps?
It’s really too bad Stephen Colbert isn’t popular enough to have his own flower or cologne. He’s young, though. There’s still time.