Between bites of raspberry cake at her graduation party, her grandmothers happily recalled her decision a few months back to learn to repair Humvees in the Army.

And she happily recalls her efforts to cook a rattlesnake.

"The first time here, my wife spent one night in the governor's mansion, then had to be rushed to the maternity ward," the governor happily recalled.

At lunch after the news conference, Mr. Almodóvar happily recalled an early assessment from the American press: "sometimes in bad taste, but never boring."

"Our generation was 'Tarzan-ized,' " he recalled happily.

He happily recalls playing pickup basketball with "Spanish, blacks, Pakistanis and Indians" in Brooklyn.

The sophistication of antiquers has been increasing, added the fashion editor, who happily recalls being carted to innumerable distant fairs and sales as a small child.

The three self-professed comic-book junkies happily recall many an afternoon spent at their favorite local comic-book stores.

Liam still happily recalls playing the Playboy Clubs and later "chasing the bunnies at Hefner's."

Ms. Wedding happily recalls one such instance.