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Getting Lucky It’s St. Patrick’s Day and that has me thinking about – what else – Jennifer Aniston in The Leprechaun!  I just re-watched the trailer for that film and it was approximately .0002% as terrifying as I remembered it being.  I mean, it co-stars Mark Holton (the actor who played the adorable Chubby in Teen Wolf AND the adult Stilwell in A League of Their Own) – this man’s chipmunk cheeks could make starring down the four horsemen of the apocalypse slightly less terrifying… why he was cast in a horror film is a mystery to me!  Anyhoo, I’m also thinking about pots of gold, four leaf clovers, green beer and Hoboken.  I don’t think I’ve ever even been to Hoboken – have been to Ireland, though! – but I’m thinking about it nonetheless.  I’m also thinking about how lucky I am and how you don’t need to be Irish to catch a break.  Deep down I think luck is something that you have to hunt down on your own and create for yourself, but there have definitely been a few moments in my life that were closer to divine intervention than just mere coincidence.  Like that time I didn’t marry the Grade-A loser I was dating (YES I AM TALKING ABOUT YOU, MARK).  Or that time I had a loose tooth in first grade and couldn’t take a bite of the apple that ended up giving my sister the weirdest case of food poisoning ever, moments before taking off on a transatlantic flight.  Seriously.  Or that time I found out that the self-diagnosed TMJ I was suffering from was really just the result of trying to gnaw my way through too many frozen PowerBars.  What can I say?  I love a fad diet as much as the next girl… Then I got all Sliding-Doors-y and thought about how many films are built completely around these random moments of sheer luck - a chance meeting at the local coffee shop, being mistaken for a millionaire when you’re actually broke, sitting next to a guy on the bus who looks a lot like Keanu Reeves and handles emergencies well, physically running into a stranger and both of you throwing a pile of papers into the air that then get entwined and you have to sort through them together (and he’s cute!), your daughter’s murderers accidentally wandering into your retaliation-ready home, accidentally creating the perfect combination of beer and a hot tub to create a time machine, randomly seeing a girl you think is cool and deciding to take over her life – you know, chance encounters like that.  So, what are your favorite movies where Luck is the star?  And can you guess which one’s I’m talking about above?  Spoiler-alert: click-through and it will ruin the guessing game.  Leave a comment below and let me know what you think! And one more thing before I go – I practically have to say it – be sure to celebrate this holiest of holidays by sitting down and watching Ice-T and Coolio in Leprechaun 5: In the Hood.  There… I said it.  Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Erin Go Bragh, L.T.

Getting Lucky

It’s St. Patrick’s Day and that has me thinking about – what else – Jennifer Aniston in The Leprechaun!  I just re-watched the trailer for that film and it was approximately .0002% as terrifying as I remembered it being.  I mean, it co-stars Mark Holton (the actor who played the adorable Chubby in Teen Wolf AND the adult Stilwell in A League of Their Own) – this man’s chipmunk cheeks could make starring down the four horsemen of the apocalypse slightly less terrifying… why he was cast in a horror film is a mystery to me!  Anyhoo, I’m also thinking about pots of gold, four leaf clovers, green beer and Hoboken.  I don’t think I’ve ever even been to Hoboken – have been to Ireland, though! – but I’m thinking about it nonetheless. 

I’m also thinking about how lucky I am and how you don’t need to be Irish to catch a break.  Deep down I think luck is something that you have to hunt down on your own and create for yourself, but there have definitely been a few moments in my life that were closer to divine intervention than just mere coincidence.  Like that time I didn’t marry the Grade-A loser I was dating (YES I AM TALKING ABOUT YOU, MARK).  Or that time I had a loose tooth in first grade and couldn’t take a bite of the apple that ended up giving my sister the weirdest case of food poisoning ever, moments before taking off on a transatlantic flight.  Seriously.  Or that time I found out that the self-diagnosed TMJ I was suffering from was really just the result of trying to gnaw my way through too many frozen PowerBars.  What can I say?  I love a fad diet as much as the next girl…

Then I got all Sliding-Doors-y and thought about how many films are built completely around these random moments of sheer luck - a chance meeting at the local coffee shop, being mistaken for a millionaire when you’re actually broke, sitting next to a guy on the bus who looks a lot like Keanu Reeves and handles emergencies well, physically running into a stranger and both of you throwing a pile of papers into the air that then get entwined and you have to sort through them together (and he’s cute!), your daughter’s murderers accidentally wandering into your retaliation-ready home, accidentally creating the perfect combination of beer and a hot tub to create a time machine, randomly seeing a girl you think is cool and deciding to take over her life – you know, chance encounters like that. 

So, what are your favorite movies where Luck is the star?  And can you guess which one’s I’m talking about above?  Spoiler-alert: click-through and it will ruin the guessing game.  Leave a comment below and let me know what you think!

And one more thing before I go – I practically have to say it – be sure to celebrate this holiest of holidays by sitting down and watching Ice-T and Coolio in Leprechaun 5: In the Hood.  There… I said it.  Happy St. Patrick’s Day.

Erin Go Bragh,

L.T.