Melissa Explains It All: Tales From My Abnormally Normal Life (32 page)

All My Children

American Music Awards

Anderson, Loni

Angels in America

Another World

Archie Comics:

Melissa’s
Maxim
cover and

Sabrina the Teenage Witch

Arenas, Javier

Arnold Bread

Auburn Tigers

Ayn (friend of Melissa’s mother)

Backstreet Boys

Bakay, Nick

Ballard, Alimi

Ballas, Mark

Banff National Park

Barbie

Barbie-themed party

Barrymore, Drew

Basic Instinct

Beaudoin, Michelle

Beetlejuice’s GraveYard Review

Belushi, Jim

Beside Herself

Beverly Hills, 90210

Bill (director of photography)

Black, Jack

Blossom

Bones

Boy Meets World

Brady, Wayne

Brandon (studio worker)

Brandy

Bridesmaids

Broderick, Beth

Bruce (friend)

Bruce, Susan

Bryant, Paul “Bear”

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Bundy, Laura Bell

Cabo San Lucas

Caddyshack Charity Golf Tournament

Caesar, Sid

Canyon (nanny)

Carpenter, Gabriel

Carter, Nick

Cathy (animal trainer)

Chabert, Lacey

Chasez, JC

Cheers

Cheesecake Factory, The

Chicago

Child Star

Chris (first kiss)

Chris (“gay uncle”)

Christian, Keith

Christine (friend)

Christine (guardian)

Christmas

Christmas Eve

Christmas Snow, A

Chrysler

Circle Repertory Company

Clarissa Explains It All

crew on

Melissa’s auditions for

Melissa’s clothing in

Melissa’s first on-screen kiss in

season finales of

shooting and travel schedule for

shooting style of

Clarissa Now

Clarke, Caitlin

Clooney, George

Close, Glenn

clothing

on
Clarissa

Club Cherry

Clueless

Colleen (friend)

Comic-Con

Connecticut

Connecticut Natural Gas

cooking

Coolio

Cosby, Bill

Cosby Show, The

Cosmo Girl

Cougar Town

Coughlin, Natalie

Course of Nature

Crocodile Dundee

Crossing Jordan

Crucible, The

Culkin, Kieran

Culkin, Macaulay

Culkin, Shane

Crystal, Billy

Daffy’s

Dancing with the Stars

Danielle (friend)

Dan in Real Life

Daughtry, Chris

David (friend)

David (set designer)

Davis, Bette

Davis, Clive

Davis, Viola

Dawson’s Creek

De la Hoya, Oscar

Dempsey, Patrick

Deschanel, Emily

Desperately Seeking Susan

Details

Dick, Andy

Different World, A

Directors Guild of America (DGA)

Dirtbags

Disney Company

Disneyland

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Dole, Bob

Donovan, Elisa

Doogie Howser, M.D.

Dorough, Howie (Howie D)

Double Dare

Drive Me Crazy

Dublin’s

Dufourg, Laurent (Laurent D)

Duritz, Adam

Durst, Fred

Eber, José

Eden, Barbara

Elena (friend)

Elf

Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

Elvis (alligator)

Ensler, Eve

Enterprise Wildcats

Entertainment Weekly

Entourage

Equalizer, The

Eryn (friend)

party for

E.T.

Everybody Loves Raymond

Ewing, Patrick

Facts of Life, The

Faison, Donald “Shun”

Fallon, Jimmy

Family Matters

Family Reunion: A Relative Nightmare

Family Ties

Fatone, Joey

Fawcett, Farrah

Feig, Paul

Fell, Norman

Ferguson, Jesse Tyler

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Fever Pitch

Field, Patricia

Finch, Peter

Firestarter

Fischer, Steve

Flockhart, Calista

Florida

Florida Bay

Fondacaro, Phil

football

Foster, Ben

Fox, Rick

Freaks and Geeks

Friends of the Family

Fritos

Frye, Soleil Moon

Garcia, JoAnna

Garland, Judy

gay club scene

Gellar, Sarah Michelle

Getty, Balthazar

Gilliams, Alexandra “Ali” (sister)

birth of

and Melissa’s marriage to Mark

Gilliams, Leslie (Paula’s second husband)

Paula’s marriage to

Paula’s meeting of

Gilliams, Paula (mother)

Allan (Broadway singer) and

brain tumor of

career and family balanced by

on cruises

divorce from William Hart

drug advice of

Englewood house of

finances and

Flockhart and

football and

as grandmother

Hartbreak Films and

Mark and

marriage to Leslie Gilliams

marriage to William Hart

Melissa’s
Clarissa
auditions and

as Melissa’s manager

Melissa’s parties and

mother of

moves of

Sabrina
and

Gilliams, Samantha (sister)

Mark and

Gilligan’s Island
party

Gladwell, Malcolm

Glee

Goldberg, Jason

Golden Girls

Goodman, John

Goodman, Len

Goo Goo Dolls

Gossip Girl

Grand Hotel Villa Cora

Greek Orgy party

Green, Brian Austin

Green, Jenna Leigh

Grenier, Adrian

Grey’s Anatomy

Gross, Mary

Gymboree

hair styling

Hammer, MC

Hannigan, Alyson

Hanson

Hard Day’s Night, A

Hargitay, Mariska

Harris, Neil Patrick

Harry, Debbie

Hart, Brian (brother)

Hart, Charlie (uncle)

Hart, Elizabeth (sister)

Hart, Emily (sister)

in
Mute

Hart, Ethel (aunt)