Arts & Entertainment
The Most Interesting Person in Laguna Beach?
OC Weekly hangs with glassblower and former golf pro Muffin Spencer-Devlin.
You know that beer commercial? The one with the burly, bearded Hemingwayesque character who's supposedly The Most Interesting Man In The World?
If our town had its own real-life version of that, the tag line would be something like ... The Most Interesting Manic-Depressive Glassblowing Golfing Lesbian in Laguna Beach.
Or, you know, the world. That works too. I mean, how many manic-depressive glassblowing golfing lesbians are there?
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This would be Muffin Spencer-Devlin, whose life would be interesting enough if all you knew about her was that she won a million bucks during her career on the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour.
But then there's all that other interesting stuff. Coming out in a Sports Illustrated profile. Being committed to mental hospitals when her mania spiraled out of control. And her new life as a Laguna Canyon glassblower.
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Also on her life resume: parachuting, fox hunting, and guest appearances on Star Trek!
OC Weekly's Joel Beers has the full-on cover story profile on Muffin right here—a great read, which (shameless plug) jogged my memories of the profile I wrote on Muffin for Orange Coast in 1996.
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