A-ha!

I hate it when something has been on my mind but I can’t really remember all the details, like a movie I saw and maybe I forgot the title.  I continue to think about it and think about it and more details come into the light, and finally after thinking about it so much I finally remember the whole thing or the missing part is finally revealed.  I love it when that happens.

That recently happened to me when I was thinking about a trailer I saw for a spooky Halloween movie that looked really good but I couldn’t remember the name.  I could only remember bits and pieces of the clip, but I wanted to look it up and see if it was out.  I tried Google, but had no luck.  So I resorted to putting a post on Facebook and someone else replied right away with the name.  Trick R Treat! I was so happy and I immediately added the movie, which came out last week, to my Netflix Que.

Well, for years there’s been something on my mind which I just could not figure out.  It was a summer miniseries that played on TV back in the 80s.  The details I could remember were blurry and skewed. But anytime a group got to talking about old TV shows, I always brought it up to see if anyone else could remember it.  It was about 3 guys (maybe 4) who had just graduated from high school (or college) and were going to go celebrate in an Uncle’s cabin in the woods.  On the way there, they pick up a girl who is hitchhiking.  One of them rapes her and they end up burying her in the wood when they think she is dead.  It’s a secret they keep the rest of their lives.  They go their own ways and the movie follows each of their different lives.  Here’s where my memories got really sketchy because I couldn’t remember anything else except for how it ended.  But no one had ever heard of it or could remember seeing it no matter how many times I had described it over the years.

Yesterday at work, a coworker and I were talking about V, the sci fi miniseries that also played in the 80s and has recently been redone and starts on November 3rd. I saw this as another opportunity to mention that other miniseries and while she didn’t remember it, she said it sounded a lot like a book she’d read a long long time ago called Celebrity.

I immediately looked it up and found it was written in the late 70s-early80s by Thomas Thompson and sure enough, the details of the book sounded a lot like my miniseries I’d been obsessing over.  With the help of Google, I found out it was indeed the book my miniseries was based upon which had been later released on VHS. It was indeed about 3 boys graduating from high school, committing a crime that night that they keep secret, then going on with their lives and each becoming famous in their own way, and then in the end one gets tried for murder.

You don’t know how happy I was to have the pieces of this puzzle come together after all of these years.  I immediately bought a copy of the book to read and I’m thinking seriously in investing in a copy of the VHS.  It was like a huge sigh of relief to finally have this weight lifted from my mind.  That A-ha! moment that brings it all to completion!