Saturday, March 31, 2007
Marla, backstage at the Whirled News show.
A while back, Marla gave a monologue in one of our shows about the time she worked as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. One article she wrote focused on kindergarten students and what they wanted to be when they grow up.
Marla: We got these surveys back from all these schools around the country. The teachers must have all written the answers down in the order the students gave them. They would start with the kind of things that the kids' parents probably did. Nurse. Office Manager. Accountant. But then you could tell that one of the kids said something, and suddenly all the kids wanted to be that too. So it would go, "Nurse. Teacher. Spiderman. Spiderman. Spiderman. Spiderman. Princess. Princess. Spiderman. Green Goblin. Spiderman." The first Spiderman movie had just come out that year. But they were all like that. Every single survey.
