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But I just had to point out something amusing I noticed when I made a quick stop at North Riverside Mall yesterday afternoon.
I was walking past the store that sells music and DVDs (I think it's called FYE?) and in their window they had a big cardboard stand-up of Jason Priestley. Someone had rigged up a word balloon to make it look like he was saying, "Buy me." I thought this was kind of strange, because I figured no one aside from 90210 geeks such as myself would even know who he was anymore.
I was trying to figure this out, and in looking at the cardboard stand-up more closely, I realized that it wasn't Jason Priestley after all. It was Robert Pattinson, the dude who plays Edward in the Twilight movies! Up until that point, it never occurred to me that EVERYTHING about him...the much-talked-about hair, the brooding stare, the pale skin, all of it is totally recycled!
In hindsight, it makes perfect sense. I mean, it's not as if entertainment execs are exactly known for being original right? So why not take a page from the 90210 book, and capitalize on the proven success of the James Dean-inspired heartthrob formula?
I'm just surprised I didn't notice this earlier. And I find it absolutely HI-LARIOUS that the object of lust for the current teenage generation is no different from the one from my own adolescent years.
I guess beautiful boys have a universal appeal! :)
I was walking past the store that sells music and DVDs (I think it's called FYE?) and in their window they had a big cardboard stand-up of Jason Priestley. Someone had rigged up a word balloon to make it look like he was saying, "Buy me." I thought this was kind of strange, because I figured no one aside from 90210 geeks such as myself would even know who he was anymore.
I was trying to figure this out, and in looking at the cardboard stand-up more closely, I realized that it wasn't Jason Priestley after all. It was Robert Pattinson, the dude who plays Edward in the Twilight movies! Up until that point, it never occurred to me that EVERYTHING about him...the much-talked-about hair, the brooding stare, the pale skin, all of it is totally recycled!
In hindsight, it makes perfect sense. I mean, it's not as if entertainment execs are exactly known for being original right? So why not take a page from the 90210 book, and capitalize on the proven success of the James Dean-inspired heartthrob formula?
I'm just surprised I didn't notice this earlier. And I find it absolutely HI-LARIOUS that the object of lust for the current teenage generation is no different from the one from my own adolescent years.
I guess beautiful boys have a universal appeal! :)
