2006-03-02
one minute story #341
My second attempt at indeterminacy's one minute story. 
Christine had kept the pitcure from her childhood. Only recently her husband came across it wondering what it was all about. He was perplexed, since he believed she had never left Southern California until she had been in her mid-tweinties. She chuckled when seeing it, and it brought back memories of the occasion.
She had been trying out for a role in what had been described as a "madcap" adventure about a set of identical twin cousins which would be shot mostly in studio but might have required her to travel for some location shots later on.
This was one of the scenes the studio bosses had whipped up as part of her screen test.
She remembered the smell of powder being used to create the illustion of snow as so pungent that it made Christine want to sneeze. She couldn't believe that so much soap would be wasted on a series of demo photos just to see how people would appear as if they were in the snow.
At the time, she thought this was all pretty stupid. For that matter, so was the idea of the show. Who could imagine a show about twin cousins ever making it to television? This was all her mom's idea anyway; to make Christine a child star. So she didn't do the audition well at all. She even wore her socks on the set, which isn't what the director asked for.
But the event was not without it's bittersweet memories. The girl doing the screen test after her was someone named Patty; Patty Duke.
THE STORY GETS POSTED AT: The Indeterminacies of Synchronicity |
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