Synchronicity

I recently went to see the movie "Black Christmas". I knew it would be lousy when I went, but I've got a high tolerance for crappy horror movies. One possible bright side is that the cast includes the lovely Michelle Trachtenberg, and the movie's content advisory included "brief nudity". Would that the twain should meet! So, I headed off to see the film, hoping that the failed promise from Eurotrip of a topless Michelle Trachtenberg fleeing in horror from a sadistic killer could possibly come true.

Alas, it was not to be. The movie was abysmal, as expected, and save for a brief shower scene there was no gratuitous nudity, much less of the Michelle variety. That's how it goes.

A week or so went by and I was watching some old Law & Order episodes, including a second-season episode called "God Bless the Child". The story involved a couple with religious beliefs that forbid them from taking their child to a doctor. In the opening scene, the child is taken to the hospital and dies on the table while her parents plead with the doctors not to treat her.

Before this happens, we see the doctors trying to bring the kid back to life, and who should be playing the child but...




Voila, Michelle Trachtenberg. And topless, no less. Too bad she happens to be FIVE YEARS OLD in the scene. For believers in synchronicity, this just goes to show that you should be extremely specific with what you wish for! The fates can be mischievious.

Jeff

UPDATE: Apparently she was four years old, not five:

Speaking of Law and Order, Michelle recently did a guest stint on the show, appearing opposite Chris Noth (a.k.a. Mr. Big of Sex and the City fame). “I told him that he had seen me topless before,” she said. “He looked kind of embarrassed, like he was trying to figure out how. And then I explained that I had done an episode of the original Law and Order with him when I was four years old!” (Ouch-way to make the guy feel old.)