Ron Ferguson

Ron Ferguson - Trumpet

Ron Ferguson (yes, a relation) not only plays trumpet in the Big Band, but is also the Dorothy Parker of the outfit, cleverly scribing away with tablet and pen in the corner of the bus. We are none of us fooled by his references to “paperwork”, knowing full well that it is only a matter of time before our guilty secrets are played out in the pages of The Tatler and Vanity Fair. Dominick Dunne will play him in the movie.

1. If you were not a musician what would you be?

Unhappy.

2. If you could have a dinner party with any four figures from history whom would you invite?

Ghandi, Winston Churchill, Sir Francis Drake, and Marilyn Monroe

3. If you could live during any time period at all what would it be?

The sixties.

4. If you could have one movie prop for your very own what would you choose?

Scarlet's dress that she made out of the drapes

5. Favourite movie?

The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacobs

6. Favourite book or author?

"On Writing Well" by William Zinsser

7. What is your most treasured possession?

My flugelhorn

8. What is your motto?

I'm sorry, I can't help it

9. Favourite word?

Love

10. What is your most marked characteristic?

My short attention span

11. Which historical or fictional figure do you most identify with?

Inspector Clouseau

12. What is your favourite indulgence?

Music

13.If you could have personally witnessed any one event in history what would you like it to have been?

The first moon walk (and I don't mean Michael Jackson)

14. If you could possess one supernatural ability what would it be?

X-ray vision

15. If you were to cast any actor, living or dead, to play you in a film, who would you select?

I wouldn't cast a dead actor in the role. I'd select George Clooney

16. What would the title of your autobiography be?

I Could Have Been a Contender

17. If you could eat as much as you want of any one food with absolutely no ill effect, what food would you choose?

Chocolate

18. Favourite season?

Summer

19. If you could have a jam session with any three musicians in history who would you choose?

Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, and Ray Brown (I'd play tamborine)

20. If you were to have a family crest what symbols would it bear?

A rose, a sea gull, a bicycle, and an outboard motor

21. What television show, past or present, best represents your life?

The Fugitive

22. If you could be on the cover of any magazine, which one would it be and what would the headline be?

Time Magazine

Ottawa Man Donates Billions to Charity

23. What is your best childhood memory?

A sunny day at the cottage

24. Pet peeve?

Aggressive drivers

25. If you were to fill a time capsule the size of a shoe box, to be opened hundreds of years from now, what would you put inside it to represent your life?

A pen, a pork chop, a flugelhorn, and a brass lizard