Confessions of a Hollywood Star
“I had news I couldn’t wait to tell.“Hooray for Hollywood!” I sang as I flashed through the leafy, anodyne streets of suburbia. I was going to be in a movie. Obviously I knew I wasn’t going to get a major part, but I’d been so totally helpful, charming and entertaining to Leslie and Shona that I felt confident that some small but not insignificant role would be mine. You know, they’d say to the director, we met this amazing girl in the secondhand clothes store … you’ve really got to meet her … s...he has so much star potential!The lawn sprinklers waved at me like fans at the Oscars as I sped towards home. “Hooray for Hollywood!” Tinsel Town may have crushed the dreams of millions of starving would-be stars, but it was going to make at least one of my dreams come true: the one where Carla Santini ate sand.My mother and the twins were in the kitchen when I arrived. I would have ignored them and gone straight to the phone to call Ella, since she’s far more interested in my life than any of my relatives, but the domestic tableau that greeted me made me stop in surprise.MoreLess
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