A Nod to the Nottie

Curtains lovers and non curtains lovers alike will want to check this one out. After all, it makes reference to blog perennial PARIS HILTON!!

But before we get to P.H., let me wax on a little bit about Christine Lakin.

The former kid star of TV's sickly sweet family comedy "Step by Step" (You don't remember it? Good.), Lakin's been polishing her stage act a bit as part of the Garry Marshall and Troubadour Theater Co repertory company. You see, the Falcon Theatre is the regular home of the madcap Troubies (which recently closed "A Charlie James Brown Christmas") and Lakin has been seen in several Troubadour shows including "JACKson Frost" and the title role in "Alice in One-Hit Wonderland." She played Joanie in the world premiere of Marshall's "Happy Days: the Musical" and had a role in Marshall's "Georgia Rule."

The lady can act. And choreograph. And take a joke. If you take the stage with the Troubies, you need to check your dignity in the next county (I mean that in a nice way).

Although, I suspect dignity will take an even more severe thrashing in "The Hottie and the Nottie" which will star Lakin as the ugly duckling best friend who is barring the course of true love between Nate Cooper (played by Joel David Moore) and Christabel Abbott. Christabel, of course, is played by none other than Paris Hilton who also produces this, ahem!, movie. And while it's probably not fair to prejudge anything before I've seen it, this one looks, well, awful.

Ms. Lakin's character, June Phigg, has bad hair, bad teeth, bad style, bad everything. Given the tone of the film and that Lakin is not even remotely a "nottie," her character will probably clean up and turn out to be a looker.

Expect this one on the DVD shelves very soon. And let's hope Lakin returns to Troubie land with all dispatch.