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You know that scene in Zoolander when they introduce David Bowie to judge the walk-off, and they freeze-frame on him with a subtitle reading “David Bowie” and a chord from “Let’s Dance”? This is kind of what happens in my head every time Michael Beach is on a show I watch. “Sweet, it’s Michael Beach! [Wow-wuh-wow-wow-wuh-wow.]”
I’ve (re-)discovered a few things over the course of the recent Days Of Rage. Some of them are great!
I found it while researching a murder (…this is a sentence I have more frequent use for than most), the true story of a neighborhood legend from my childhood. I grew up in a leafy, …
“Furthermore, 1) it worked, and 2) he’s hot.”
And 3) Joe’s not.
He’s really not, is he. And he just missed, too, which somehow makes it even more pronounced.
That moment in Zoolander always irritates me: Bowie needs no introduction! Who needed to be told it was him?
Am I just old?
Just read the recap and it was like watching it all over again, though I have to confess, I don’t get the Michael Beach love. *Adam* Beach, sure, but Doc was such an ass on Third Watch I guess I got permanently turned off.
However, I actually teared up at the part about what you’d do to keep Mr. Stupidhead from enlisting. Me too.