Why Troop Beverly Hills?
You know, it wasn’t like I had been sitting around wondering which movie I should pick to do an “Experience” with. I was away for a weekend in a cabin snowed in with a bunch of friends. My only DVD contribution for the weekend was one of 5 that I owned: Troop Beverly Hills. As I watched with a friend who grew up thousands of miles from me I noticed that we quoted the movie with the same fervor, laughed with the same intensity at scenes we’d seen hundreds of times. And it hit me, we probably weren’t alone in our love for this movie. I picked up the DVD case and saw it was made in 1989 and literally like a bolt of lightning I said “This movie is 20 years old we have to do SOMETHING!” Then I went to figure out what that SOMETHING was. I’ve jokingly said during the planning of this whole thing that this is what I was put on this Earth this year to do. Why do you think so many girls our age can relate to this movie? That’s a tough one. I mean, I know why I liked it as a kid, but to dissect
