'I dedicate this house to the Griswold Family Christmas.'
Clark Griswold
So, I should have really featured this movie years ago, but I just half-watched it for the first time last week. Sure, I'd seen scenes before, Clark plugging in the lights, and caught a few seconds when I flipped channels, but I was never really that interested in watching. I'm not really a Chevy Chase fan, and hadn't watched any of the Vacation films this viewing of 1989's Christmas Vacation.
It wasn't Chevy that drew me in, or the fact that it seems (for some odd reason) to be a popular Christmas film. I watched, as I only just discovered that actor Johnny Galecki played the son Rusty in the film. Having not watched any movies from the series, I sort of just assumed the son was always played by Anthony Michael Hall, who I knew was in the original. A little Google search let me know that Hall passed on the sequel, instead, choosing to film Weird Science.
Now I wasn't a big fan of The Big Bang Theory. I liked Galecki, and the women on the show, but I wasn't a huge fan of Jim Parson who became the focus of the sit-com. I found his character annoying, more so as the series went on. That being said, The Big Bang Theory, at least where I live, seems to be on some channel almost 24/7, so it's often on as background as I do other things.
I did however really like Galecki on Roseanne, and it was the arrival of Galecki's David and his brother Mark (Glenn Quinn) that had me start to watch the sit-com when I was a teenager. Although I was more a 'Becky' fan than a 'Darlene' fan, I did enjoy David and Darlene as couple and really any scenes and stories that didn't involve Roseanne.
Most Johnny Galecki fans know that although he hasn't done any on-screen nudity, he did take it all off in the 2006 play Little Dog Laughed. In the play, Johnny played Alex, a gay for pay hustler who get's involved with actor Mitchell. Mitchell's agent Diane becomes concerned about the relationship, and how Michell's 'slight recurring case of homosexuality' might impact his career.
Johnny Galecki (Alex) and actress Julie White (Diane) began the play Off-Broadway in January of 2006 with Neal Huff playing Mitchell. When the play opened on Broadway later that year, actor Tom Everett Scott took over the role of Mitchell. Everett Scott was also replaced by his understudy Brian Henderson at the end of the run.
Viewers of the play know there is a nude scene between Alex and Mitchell that is interrupted by Diane. Although I thought I'd seen a video featuring Tom Everett Scott playing Mitchell, the video which circulated on the net a few years ago featured Neal Huff as Mitchell from the Off-Broadway production.
1 comment:
Wow, Johnny is packing!
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