Mere and I were talking with good old Chris W. I didn’t recognize him at first, without the blonde RINGLETS he had in high school – now he’s a big beefy man – but the second we started talking, I thought: Yes. There is Chris W! From high school: funny, goofy, nice, football player, a big brash guy – and yet, he had these Shirley Temple curls. So cute!! It was good to see him.
But anyway:
He told a story about taking his mom to see War of the Worlds. His mother hadn’t been to the movies in quite some time, so she was very excited. She talked to him throughout the movie. Making comments, asides … at one point, the people behind them SHUSHED them!!
At one point, Tom Cruise (quiet, peanut gallery) is trying to bond with his estranged son – and invites him to play catch in the back yard. Cruise is wearing a New York Yankees hat. The son is angry with his father, so when he comes out into the back yard to play catch, he is wearing a Red Sox hat. Cruise notices the hat, and says grimly to his son, “So that’s how it’s gonna be, huh?”
At that moment, Chris W’s mother leaned over to him and kindly informed him: “The Yankees and the Red Sox have a really old rivalry …”
We were howling. Like: thanks, Mom, I KNOW.
