Writer/filmmaker hires stripper to impersonate her at 10 year high school reunion-makes documentary

[underpants]

Fear a high school reunion? Hire a stripper
http://ca.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idCATRE53O1J920090425?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0
Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:29am EDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedy writer Andrea Wachner hated the idea of going to her 10-year high school reunion so much that she hired a stripper to go instead, and what followed, she says, was a comical study in human nature.

Her story is detailed in a nearly 40-minute documentary directed by Wachner that, because of issues surrounding its length and getting approval to show it from former classmates, may never be seen -- not even by her parents.

She has written a feature film script based on her story, is trying to sell a reality TV show from it, has appeared on cable news channel CNN, and is scheduled to be on ABC's morning chat show "Good Morning America" next week.

Wachner didn't want to go back to all that, but she did want to see how people would react if the self-described "drama geek" showed up a changed woman -- a stripper, no less.

So, she hired Amy Bernadette "Cricket" Russell, whom she met at a Los Angeles strip club, to impersonate her. Cricket showed up in a slinky dress, fishnet hose and spike heels.

As the drinks flowed, Cricket's clothes came off, and Wachner watched from a hotel room above the event, linked to her impersonator via wireless radio, TV cameras and a monitor.

Wachner coached Cricket through the night, telling her the names of people she met and providing her with little secrets that only Wachner and her former classmates would know.

Judging from the film's promotional trailer, which can be seen here a few people may have been fooled and a few were not. Andrea -- make that Cricket -- got one invitation for a private performance.

[teach1st]

1. Correct link to the trailer

The article give a bad link to the promotional trailer. Here's a correct one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koMfGtScROw

[underpants]

2. Thanks

:stripper:

[underpants]

6. I was expecting a much hotter stripper

the whole thing seems more juvenile than the people she thinks she is making fun of

The visual first impression should have been more stark-but then I am not in show bidness so what do I know

[seabeyond]

3. she played people for her own entertainment. what is there to say

it was stupid

[msongs]

4. since she is a liar and deceiver, no wonder she wouldn't go as her real self nt

[Marr]

5. It's funny- she seemed to expose herself as the exact thing she claims to hate about that scene.

Childish, phony, self-obsessed, huge need for attention, not-so-subtle class snob etc.

The way she thinks her class will be so shocked that she's become a *gasp* stripper, as if that's so far below anyone of her set. Meh- it's hard for me to root for anyone there.