O...M...G!!! I am like totally gripped! My first acting job! Here I am, 4:30 in the morning and I'm standing in a casting call line about a zillion and a half miles long. Well, actually, it's a casting call to appear in a casting call. You've heard about the movie George Clooney -- excuse me, did you read that right, yes, GEORGE CLOONEY!! is actually coming to St. Louis to make. And they're having these casting calls for extras and it’s like everybody in St. Louis is showing up because like, how much better could life get than to be one of those people walking by in the background through a mall while George Clooney is in a scene?
Okay, so here's the thing: there were so many people showing up for the casting call and of course all the TV stations in town had to come out to cover it and interview people about what it was like and all -- because like, what is going on in St. Louis that is bigger than this, am I right? I mean, it's totally natural that the media in a city the size of St. Louis would have like a ka-jillion stories about George Clooney -- YES! THE George Clooney!! -- coming here to make a movie. It's only about the biggest thing that’s happened here since that slave Dredd dude thing got decided back when? Like around the Vietnam War or something, wasn't it? So anyway, the media were getting in the way, clogging up the casting call lines with their interviews and stuff and so the movie company put out a call for people to show up to appear in another line that was going to be where the TV guys could go to get their interviews without interrupting the actual casting line. So we’re in line and these reporters are asking us what it's like to be in a casting call line for a George Clooney movie and we’re all, like, "Well, it's totally awesome" and stuff. Even though we're just really playing the roles of people who are really in the casting lines. But everybody's got to start someplace, am I right?
So anyway, by the time this thing is done it's like 7:00 am and boy, acting can give a person an appetite! But where to go at that hour? Fortunately, another aspiring actress told me about City Diner. It's open at that hour -- and all night on the weekends. And get this: a meatloaf omelet. With mashed potatoes and gravy and wheat toast. Meatloaf combined with an omelet. It's like pairing Kate Winslet and Leo DeCaprio in a movie -- only one where Leo doesn't drown or freeze to death. What a combination! You've got this incredible meatloaf wrapped in an omelet with melted Cheddar cheese in it and all covered with milk gravy. Is this not the greatest idea in breakfast history?
I'm thinking that somebody ought to go up to George while he's here and tell him about this. 'Cause I think if George Clooney tries one of those meatloaf omelet breakfasts, word's going to get out and my career's going to take off and before long, I'm in a casting call line for a casting call line for a Brad Pitt movie. And would that be like awesome, or what? -- Amanda Wilkes, Comfort Food Intern Editor
