In a rare moving moment in 2020, “Weird Al” Yankovic reconnected with his passion in elementary school after almost 50 years – and she still has the portrait he gave her when she sat behind him in ninth math class series.
The parody singer shared the story of how he found his long-lost tail on Twitter, all these years later, bringing him a rare moment of joy in a year that was otherwise “very bad”.
“I was 12 in 9th grade – younger than my classmates and (as you can imagine) very strange, shy and nerdy. And I had a crush on Patrice Y., the girl who sat right in front of me in math class (because the seats were all arranged in alphabetical order for some arbitrary reason). Of course, Patrice would never, in a million years, have suspected that I had a crush on her, because as I explained … extremely shy. But one day I decided that I would make my big move – I decided to draw a picture of her and present it ”, explained Yankovic in a Facebook post on Tuesday.
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But Yankovic didn’t want Patrice to know that he liked her, so he decided to draw a portrait of everyone else in his class, “just to get her out of the smell”. Soft.
“Everyone seemed to like your drawings and, as you may have predicted, my love life remained completely asleep for the next few years,” he continued. Okay, go on almost half a century later … I’m checking my Twitter feed and I see a woman talking about how she used to sit in front of me during 9th grade math class. “
This is where the story gets interesting – Yankovic sent a DM on Twitter to see if it was really Patrice she remembered.
“It was her – my passion for 9th grade. So I went on and asked, ‘Hey, do you happen to remember that time I made drawings of everyone in the class?’ A minute later, she sent me this photo. She saved him all these years, ”he wrote.
“I wanted to tell this story because, well … 2020 was certainly a very bad year overall, but there were some real moments of joy spread here and there – and for me, this was definitely one of them.”
See the very good picture below. Seriously, ‘Weird’ Al was very good at drawing.
‘Strange’ Al Yankovic on Facebook
George Clooney’s hair evolution – From mullet to whiskers and Flowbee (Photos)
George Clooney’s career has evolved from playing a hot, charismatic handyman to a hot, charismatic Oscar-winning actor and producer. But your resume isn’t all that has changed in those four decades – your hair, too. Here is the summary of that.
As a child growing up in Kentucky, little George Timothy Clooney sported tousled bangs. The hair doesn’t scream “George Clooney”, but the eyes and the smile do.
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1985 • Right in building an acting career, Clooney sat down for a typical Hollywood-style photo shoot showing off his gorgeous wavy hair and trendy mullet (at the time).
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1988 • A show on “Roseanne” brought Clooney some notoriety … both for him and for that fabulous hair.
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1989 • Clooney hit the road to promote his new movie “Red Surf” (watch the poster behind him) playing a – you guessed it – surfer who likes the lifestyle that drug money brings him. His girlfriend, played by Dede Pfeiffer, is not so crazy about it. But, oh, that hair, I have to love it.
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1994 • Five years later, “ER” arrives and, poof, he’s pediatrician Dr. Doug Ross. The sophisticated and sexy look made women around the world want him to accept adult patients.
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1998 • During his more than five years on “ER”, Clooney let his hair go gray. And we were totally fine with that.
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2000 • His role as the fugitive from the Ulysses gang Everett McGill in the Coen brothers’ adventure comedy “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” left him a little more misaligned. OK, much more scruffy.
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2001 • Clooney has gotten a lot ready to join Matt Damon and Andy Garcia at the Los Angeles premiere of “Ocean’s Eleven”.
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2005 • Clooney posed for photos at the 62nd Venice Film Festival, where he premiered the historical drama he directed, co-wrote and played a supporting role in “Good Night and Good Luck”. This became the look of Clooney’s signature, which he credits to Flowbee.
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2005 • And here is the opening night. Perfection.
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2009 • Clooney took another comedic turn on the screen, this time in “The Men Who Stare at Goats”, which he also produced. The hair is not bad, but the mustache … nah.
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2006 • The look that Clooney established during his “emergency” years was a timeless “Caesar haircut”. But in his second film with the Coen brothers, “Hail, Caesar!”, He played an actor playing Caesar with a cut from Caesar. Did you follow all this?
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2019 • Clooney became a military man in another satirical black humor comedy, this time in the Hulu miniseries, “Catch-22”, which he also executive produced and directed. He played a parade-obsessed former ROTC graduate who worked his way through the Army until he became Brigadier-General. And all the way, his hair was standing at attention.
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2020 • In stark contrast to that curly-haired, shaved rookie 35 years earlier, Clooney’s look in his latest film, Netflix’s “Midnight Sky”, is a short cut and a shaggy gray beard. Fortunately, he still has those Clooney eyes.
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His most recent film, Netflix’s “Midnight Sky”, shows a very different-looking Clooney
George Clooney’s career has evolved from playing a yummy handyman full of charisma to a yummy, charismatic Oscar-winning actor and producer. But your resume isn’t all that has changed in those four decades – your hair, too. Here is the summary of that.
