If my class president hadn’t been too retarded to organize a high school reunion, I’m sure I would have been jealous of this story. 31-year-old ‘LA’nese Comedy writer Andrea Wachner hated the idea of going to her 10-year high school reunion so much that she concocted an elaborate hoax, rented out a hotel room across the street, hired a film crew and created a 40-minute documentary of the experiment.
Wachner graduated from Palos Verdes Peninsula High School in 1995 from an upscale Los Angeles-area which she loathed entirely. She received the invitation to attend her 10-year reunion and didn’t even consider attending, but she did want to see how people would react if the self-described “drama geek” showed up a changed woman — a stripper, no less. So, she hired Amy Bernadette “Cricket” Russell, whom she met at a 
Los Angeles strip club, to impersonate her. Cricket showed up in a slinky dress, fishnet hose and spike heels.
As cocktails were consumed, Cricket’s clothes came off while a tickled Wachner watched on, linked to her stunt double via a wireless radio, TV cameras and a monitor. Wachner coached Cricket throughout the night, telling her names of people she met and providing info only she and her former classmates would know.
Wachner is naturally pretty stoked about the footage and Hollywood has already approached her, but some of her classmates aren’t too thrilled (which kinda makes the whole thing worth it). “There have been a few people that were pretty vitriolic, and I have received some angry letters,” she reported. Survey says? Mission accomplished!
Click here to check out the film’s promotional trailer.
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