Wade Montage

A Wade montage. As is probably not surprising – since my last Diary Friday – I’ve been determined to find him again. I know he’s here in New York, and I just love him. He was in the HBO movie Hysterical Blindness – had a small part, played Justin Chambers’ best friend – but he’s visible in almost every scene in that pool hall … Jen and I, watching, were like: WADE!!! We called him immediately and left him a joint message, screaming about how great he was, and how much we loved and missed him.

He and I were such freaks together. Grad school can be an overly serious atmosphere. But as long as we were in the same classes, we were never in danger of taking things too seriously.

The photos below are either ones I took of Wade – or ones Wade took of me.

That’s a picture Wade took of my friend Jen and me – at a party. On a beanbag chair.

Okay, so this one has been making me laugh every time I look at it.
We are IN CLASS. Notice the serious grad school conferences going on behind us. Yet we have a Polaroid camera. And this is what we are doing over in our corner. I am shaking with laughter right now.

Wade and I are on the subway here – and it’s gotta be 3 o’clock in the morning. I am being an emphatic asshole.

Okay, so this one below needs some context but I am crying with laughter looking at it. There was a woman in our program who considered herself to be the Grande Dame of theatre, Helen Hayes reincarnated, whatever. She actually was very talented – and she and I got on very well – but man, she could be obnoxious. So she was standing up in some workshop, pontificating on something – and I glanced behind her and saw this:

He was creeping up behind her but looking at me. Like that! I can’t stand it!!

This is me, in class. I lived on those Energy Bars. I tried to pretend they were a valid food group.

I took this picture of Wade at some party we were at. I love it. The rings, the sideburns, the ‘stache … He was the most interesting mix of wild boy, staunch upstanding citizen, hippie, and artist. I always felt safe with him – he had that gentlemanly thing, too. No double standard, either. He treated women with friendliness. A babe magnet, as you can imagine. Amazing actor, too.