Oh Get a Clue!

I was pointed yesterday to a show called "High School Musical" by one of my old Thespian Friends. In fact, many of the characters in the movie we could associate with one of the old characters from our theater troupe.

It's in that spirit that I recall the favored movie of myself, a bat-crazy thespian overlord called "Jenne" and our little buddy Samir - Clue. Anyone who is prone to being over dramatic probably loves this movie. I fancied myself a Miss Scarlett but I was, in truth, Mrs. White. Samir and I especially loved the movie and would quote it frequently - he would coach me excessively on my Madeline Kahn impersonations. We had a great idea to document the screenplay and convert it into a live theater script. Being 15 and 14 years old, we obviously never got around to doing that.

Incidentally, both of these dramatic overlords entered the entertainment industry. Jenne is in the Chicago Symph Choir and does as lot of small operatic theater I believe. And Samir is now "Sam" and has been a stylist on Extreme Makeover and has some book out. I'm happy for Samir's success of course and am glad to know that I was the predecessor to Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt in terms of getting styled and coiffed. Their stylish beauty is clearly a direct result of the sacrifice I and many other 'Burgers had to make (which included devices of torture such as ubiquitous amounts of Aqua Net and layers of stage make up).

Cleverly, my quote also pertains to another person who is on my mind this morning.

Mrs White: "Harry was always a stupidly optimstic man. I mean I'm sure it came as a great shock to him when he died. But he was found dead. His head had been cut off and his..you know."

Wordsworth: "But that was your first husband. Your second husband also disappeared!"

Mrs. White: "That was his job..He was an illusionist."

Wordsworth: "But he never reappeared!"

Mrs. White: "He wasn't a very good illusionist."