Six years ago, I set two real rules for this column. The first and most obvious was that the person I was writing about had to be alive.The other rule was that the person had to be older than I was. This seemed reasonable. After all, I was in my thirties at the time, and to really be someone you’d want to cover in this sort of thing, you needed to be a certain age. But time has passed. I turned 45 last week. We’ve reached the point where it’s not surprising when Oscar winners in major categories are younger than I am and Oscar winners my age are considered “due.” So the policy is now changing, and you have to be no more than five years younger than I am.
Lindsay Price is an actress who may or may not be younger than I am. She’s also the first celebrity I’ve almost certainly been in a room with. This is because where I actually think of her first is having been born on the same day as I was in the same city as I was. We were both born on December 6, 1976, in Arcadia, California. There is only one hospital in Arcadia. That means she and I were probably in the nursery at Arcadia Methodist Hospital together as babies. I’m sure she doesn’t remember this, either.
Our lives have gone very different directions since then. In 1982, she did a commercial with fellow Celebrity Whose Path Tangentially Approaches Mine Jaleel White, a week and a half older than she is, for Toys R Us. She’s been working steadily over the years, mostly in stuff that doesn’t interest me much, I’ll admit, but still. Working. Commercials, TV, and movies. She’s done any number of shows that make her memorable to people, though. Just because I myself didn’t watch Beverly Hills, 90210 doesn’t mean she isn’t someone remembered by our generation.
What’s funniest to me is the one show of hers that I went out of my way to watch, though. Because she was in Eastwick. A Witches of Eastwick TV adaptation wasn’t necessarily going to be good, and I knew that. However, I’ve been open for years about the fact that I’ll give anything starring Paul Gross (discovers I haven’t done Paul Gross; adds him to the calendar) a shot, so I went out of my way to watch it. And . . . it’s not good. She and Paul Gross are both fine; they’re let down by the script. It happens.
I’d like to see Lindsay Price in more things I enjoy. What would actually be enormously funny to me is if she did something that filmed at the Santa Anita Race Track, because it’s across the street from Arcadia Methodist. (I should note here that I don’t know for sure she was born in the hospital; she might’ve been born at home or something, instead. But if she was a hospital birth, it was Arcadia Methodist.) Price is a lovely woman and seems to be a talented actress, and she deserves a better career. Even if the main reason I’m writing about her here is our shared birthday.
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