Whatever happened to

Justin Shenkarow? The kid from Eerie, Indiana and Picket Fences?

To my surprise and delight, he is going to be featured on current favorite show on Bravo, The Millionaire Matchmaker, next Tuesday at 10/9 Central. Excitement!

If only we could discover whatever happened to Austin O'Brien.

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Girls on Film

How come guys talk so much when they have nothing to say, and girls have plenty to say, but no-one will listen?

Where's Our Stand By Me?, by hortense, Jezebel.

I have always loved My Girl 2. It was set in LA, the city I was obsessed with as a teenager. It starred Austin O'Brien, who was no Macaulay Culkin, but still carried his own in the movie. And it had a self-possessed young female protagonist who made enlightened statements like this:

I don't think anybody should change their names [when they get married]. That way you can always find them when you need them.

Yet now, the supposedly clever, edgy girls we get in movies think that embryos have fingernails and when sparkly vampires tell you to stay away from them, they really like you.

So disappointing and sad. And by "sad", I mean horribly distasteful considering the exponential growth of the number of poverty-stricken people in the United States and across the world.

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