The Return of the Geek
The Return of the Geek: My phone rings earlier this week. Me: "Hello?" The caller: "Hi, is Kim there?" Me: "This is Kim," I cleverly reply. The caller: "Hi, Kim, this is Anthony Michael Hall." Oh! My! God! Okay, no matter what he's done since, or what he ever will do, Anthony Michael Hall, aka Ted the Geek in Sixteen Candles and Brian "the Geek" Johnson in The Breakfast Club, has earned a permanent place of awe and respect among those of us who love those classic '80s teen films. And if you're someone who has seen those flicks and other A.M.H. starrers like Weird Science and Vacation and can quote pretty much the entire movies verbatim, and you say you wouldn't be just as psyched as I was to chat with him, then I say you lie like a rug!
Anyhoo, A.M.H., or Michael, as he says people now call him, is, it seems, working on other projects these days, including this week's premiere of VH1's Hysteria: The Def Leppard Story (Wednesday, 9 p.m.), in which he does a great turn as Oscar-nominated, Grammy-winning music producer (and Mr. Shania Twain) Mutt Lange.