LOVE
Livin’ la vida Lola
By
Lisa Clark
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FADE IN:
Camera flashes pop and crowds cheer as Lola Love, scriptwriter, director and leading lady of the fantastically fabulous and now, Oscar-winning movie, Livin’ la vida Lola! works the raspberry pink, sparkle dust carpet in a customised sequinned vest and tutu combo, sparkly-pink pumps and what have now become her signature pink-tinted shades.
It’s a look that could easily of made her a muse for Andy Warhol. Fact.
She flashes a mega-watt grin at the cameras, holds up the gold statue with fit-to-bursting pride and works a few practised poses for the camera. Lola smiled to herself, thinking how it was good to know that the entire weekends she had spent watching back-to-back re-runs of America’s Next Top Model had not gone to waste.
“Lola! Lola Love! You look awesome!”
The super-hot Americano entertainment TV presenter, Brad Bradston, is calling her name.
“So Lola, how does it feel to be the first ever 14 year old to win an Oscar for writing, directing and starring in your own movie?”
“Brad,” Lola replied, flicking her pink hair and causing a killer breeze with a single blink of her long, fake eyelashes, “it feels blimmin’ brilliant! Can I just say a big, huge thank you to Eva Satine and the Negative Ninas, because without them… well, this would never, ever have been possible!”
Lola turns to the crowd and signals to her pink-jacket wearing girlfriends to come join her on the raspberry pink sparkle-dust carpet. The feisty, fun, fearless and fabulous Pink Ladies walk towards the camera arm in arm, working the carpet like one long fashion-week catwalk.
CUT TO: Evil Eva Satine and her gum smackin’ clique.
Eva is mid-manicure and the Negative Ninas are grooming themselves each other like monkeys in the zoo. Their petite bee-hinds are perched on Eva’s over-sized princess bed and they are all staring at the TV.
At the Oscars.
At Lola Love…
They’re watching Lola on the TV screen.
Open-mouthed.
Eva is shocked and stunned and lets out an ear-piercing, glass shattering wail.
“No WAY!”
FADE OUT.
I heart movies.
My top 5 favourites are:
Breakfast at Tiffany’s–Audrey Hepburn is a goddess-girl. Fact.
Amelie–she’s a total Ooh-la-la magic girl. J’adore.
Ghost World–this film makes me feel just that little bit less alone in the world.
Pretty in Pink–I heart the colour pink. I heart Molly RIngwald. I especially heart her 80s wardrobe, it’s the stuff of retro-girl dreams.
Any movie starring Marilyn Monroe–it would be rude to pick just one, and as I’m not a rude girl, I won’t.
Now, while it maybe true that I have a touch of the drama queen about me, I am absolutely not over-reacting when I say that, right now, if my life were a movie, it would be the straight-to-DVD kind.
It would be called Welcome to Sucksville, there would be absolutely no drama/suspense/romance or even comedy it would lack any amount of drama, the supporting cast would