Hollywood Squares

My brush with the stars of the seventies

Photo by Narain Jashanmal on Unsplash

It was 1986 /my thoughts were short / my hair was also — as it turned out — too short.

I was standing in a long line in the parking lot of Novi Mall with my classmates, when suddenly there was a tap on my shoulder. A man holding a clipboard swung around, dropping in front of me. “Would you like to be on TV? We’re doing a hair segment. I…