So I was watching the new episode of Medium last night – in case you’ve never seen it’s a show on NBC based on the real life of Alison Dubois, an “I see dead people” psychic who helps the District Attorney’s office solve murders, kidnappings, etc. The character of Alison is played by Patricia Arquette – my husband likes Rosanna the best of the Arquette dynasty, but I’ve always preferred Patricia… even if she did marry my fantasy man, Thomas Jane.
Before I get to the six degrees - there was an interesting little side connection from last night’s episode. In the show, Alison gets most of her messages from the dead in her dreams. The crime was a kidnapping of a 12 year old girl who is profoundly deaf. The show opens up in a dream as it usually does, with Alison dreaming of a little girl watching Godzilla on TV (in mute of course). The little girls gets up to get a drink or something and sees a funny shadow at her feet. She looks up and realizes the kitchen window is broken. Inevitably you get the scare-jump when she looks to her left and sees a big man with a ski mask standing there ready to grab her…
The dream ends there and Alison wakes up – except now she’s deaf too - a completely aural black out. When I saw this last night I laughed, because the first movie I ever saw Arquette in was a 1991 Lifetime movie called “Wildflower”. I don’t know if anyone remembers this – it actually had a pretty big cast. I remembered Beau Bridges was in it, but I just looked at imdb.com and saw that Reese Witherspoon played the little sister…that’s funny, I don’t even remember her. Anyway, I digress.
In the movie Wildflower, Patricia plays a teenage girl in the 1930’s South who is locked away in a chicken coop or something because she is deaf and epileptic and her abusive, redneck father thinks she’s crazy. When this movie premiered I was around 13 years old I think and had never seen P. Arquette in anything before. She was so convincing I thought she really was deaf for a long time after that…
So – back to Six Degrees
1. Watched Medium last night with Patricia Arquette
2. Patricia Arquette is married to my fantasy man (I guess she can have him), Thomas Jane
3. Thomas Jane once played Neal Cassady in the movie, The Last Time I Committed Suicide. (Really good, rent it)
I likey – super hottie
4. Neal Cassady was Jack Kerouac’s inspiration for the essential character of Dean Moriarty.
5. Neal Cassady’s love interest in the movie was a character named Cherry Mary who was played by Gretchen Mol.
6. Gretchen Mol went to my high school in Deep River, Connecticut. I used to ride bikes with her in the parking lot across from my house. She was about 4 or 5 years ahead of me in school, and I was in a community play with her in Ivoryton, CT. Much to my surprise, the next time I saw her was in a Monroe-esque, booby-baring pose on the cover of the Sept. 1998 issue of Vanity Fair.
Whoa.
Okay, so the 6 degrees is a little clunky – oh well.
Wow, so that makes you a celebrity…. and I know you… so that makes me….. oh well!
I love, love,love your writing style!
Gretchen Mol… Hubba Bubba… That picture on the magazine cover is, uh, ummm… Hubba Bubba!