BEST
SUMMER
EVER
HUFFINGTON
05.26.13
ABOUT THIS ISSUE
Potato
Chips in
Champagne
SPENT MY FIRST two
summers in New York
resisting the urge to buy
an air conditioning unit,
and walking around my apartment
holding a small fan inches from my
face. In retrospect, I’m not sure why
I made that choice, though it was
probably some combination of being young, lazy and wanting to be
like Marilyn Monroe in The Seven
Year Itch. But I’ll always look back
fondly on those summers, when it
seemed time stood still in the thick
humid air, and every moment felt
longer than the one before it. Pain-
WENDY GEORGE
I
fully hotter maybe... but longer!
The Seven Year Itch really gets
the feeling of time standing still.
There’s this moment in the film,
one of many when Marilyn walks
downstairs to Tom Ewell’s apartment to leech off his air conditioner. She looks up at Ewell while he’s
in the middle of one his deluded
fantasies about her and snaps him
out of it: “Hey, did you ever try
dunking a potato chip in champagne?” she asks. “It’s real crazy!”
As a kid, I thought this was just
wild, and couldn’t wait to try it
when I grew up and turned into
Gazelle
Emami is the
managing
editor of
Huffington.