I had another screen test after that with Tom Cruise, and I remember I was the tallest of all the young girls. He had to pick each one of us up, and carry us around. Just to see how we looked against Tom, and who looked the most childlike, I guess. And I remember Tom whispering to me, like, ‘Tuck your legs under’ so I’d look as tiny as possible because I was the tallest girl. So I knew he was kind of rooting for me. And we were both from New Jersey, and I think, you know, he was like, ‘Let this Jersey girl have it.’
Kirsten Dunst, on auditioning for Interview With the Vampire
Gregory Peck spent his first summer in New York as a barker at the World's Fair. Later, he got a job as a guide at Radio City. His father and stepmother visited him and got a special guided tour.
Hog Heaven was a band of some renown that Archie theoretically could have booked in 1972. I do not think they would have been interested in playing to a high school dance, and I guess in this narrative they weren't. New form of an old band, The Shondells minus Tommy James. In terms of the charts they were "bubbling under", so there are bigger acts to get. Or maybe there aren't.
According to wikipedia, 1972 is the year Poison Ivy met the future members of The Cramps -- and they started playing in 1974. Here, "top group" has to be redefined anyways -- sure, they are a "top group" for their "cult following", and supposedly Big in Europe. But, I would say a big get nonetheless. I mean, the best my high school could do was a group made up of a few former students from a few years ago, who had a rejected demo tape to their name.
Midvale High gets the bigger names.
1965. We are a year off from the prefab band's debut. Surely the wheels are in motion.