{"id":550,"date":"2011-05-28T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2011\/05\/28\/mean-girls-2\/"},"modified":"2011-05-28T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T03:06:00","slug":"mean-girls-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2011\/05\/28\/mean-girls-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mean Girls 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My two key takeaways from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1679235\/\">this movie<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ettejnahgaem\">Meaghan Martin<\/a> is unreasonably cute and talented.<\/li>\n<li>Her character&#8217;s father was played by the same actor who played Johnny Cage in the <i>Mortal Kombat<\/i> movie.*<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Anyway.  I did not watch <i>Mean Girls 2<\/i> because <a href=\"http:\/\/hotsheet.snout.org\/2008\/02\/i-am-twelve-year-old-girl.html\">I am a twelve-year-old girl<\/a>; I watched it because it was written by <a href=\"http:\/\/johnaugust.com\/2011\/allison-schoeder-first-person\">Allison Schroeder<\/a>, the other winner of this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/hotsheet.snout.org\/2011\/05\/i-am-prize-winning-screenwriter.html\">SIE script competition<\/a>, and I was curious about her previous work.<\/p>\n<p>Allison&#8217;s winning script, an hourlong drama titled &#8220;Atomic,&#8221; is described thusly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scientists and their wives struggle with the gravity of their top secret work in Los Alamos and Hanford on the Manhattan Project in the 1940s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Science in wartime?  YES.  I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing that at the June 15th table reading almost as much as my own script.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"CKL\" title=\"CKL\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>*<\/b> <small>Is it weird that I wanted to announce &#8220;Johnny Cage!&#8221; every time <a href=\"http:\/\/mortalkombat.wikia.com\/wiki\/Linden_Ashby\">Linden Ashby<\/a> appeared on screen?  Don&#8217;t answer that.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My two key takeaways from this movie: Meaghan Martin is unreasonably cute and talented. Her character&#8217;s father was played by the same actor who played Johnny Cage in the Mortal Kombat movie.* Anyway. I did not watch Mean Girls 2&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[13,85,56,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-stanford","category-tv","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}