Babysitting the other night, I saw High School Musical for the first time, probably the 100th time these kids have seen it. There is a scene in which the lead boy, Zac Efron, speaks to his girlfriend, whose name may or may not be Vanessa Hudgens (?), from her backyard, while she is on her balcony. Instead of shouting to each other, they speak via cell phone. Two things struck me:
1. Parents are screwed with cell phones. Look how free these kids are! They can talk and plan and plot and scheme all without waking anyone up.
2. I am quite certain that the Romeo and Juliet reference evaded all of the children for whom I was babysitting – fine, totally acceptable, etc, they won’t read Shakespeare for years. But when they finally DO, will William Shakespeare’s tragedy be forever tied to Zac Efron’s beaming moon face? That hardly seems fair.
Third thing. How much makeup do they put on that boy?
