Me Me Me

I am sad that David Duchovny and Tea Leoni are breaking up. I got this news from Perez Hilton, the Edward R. Murrow of celebrity goings-on. They were my favorite New York City private school couple (he went to Collegiate, she went to Brearley), and they were so great-looking and seemed so crazy about each other. Okay, David has just gotten out of rehab for sex addiction, and now Tea (or David, I’m unclear which) is cheating (sez Perez), so it’s a mess. No wonder David looks ‘rough’ on those subway-station billboards for Californication, a show I cannot imagine watching.

Now I must pause and offer a heartfelt tribute to The X-Files, my favorite TV show of the 1990s and one of the greatest series of all time, at least in its first five seasons. We used to hustle the kids off to bed (whether they were ready or not!) in order to get the first glass of red wine poured before that creepy theme music began. Dear Fox Mulder, so young, so handsome, so glum. Hey, you’d be glum too if you’d seen your sister carted off by aliens when you were a child!

Glum Fox met his match in deadpan Dana Scully, the youngest doctor in the history of the FBI. Gillian Anderson was 25 when that show started, and stunningly beautiful. Thank god the celebrity rags weren’t ruling the newsstand back then or we would have been subjected to weekly items about her weight. I loved, loved, loved the fact that she looked like a real working woman with boxy suits and helmet hair, pursing those gorgeous lips at Mulder’s latest nutty crusade.

Someday, when my grandchildren sort through my personal effects, they will find my carefully preserved Scully and Mulder dolls — a Barbie and Ken dressed like the characters, complete with a cross necklace around Scully Barbie’s neck! What will the grandkids think of this treasure? I won’t be around to find out.

Finally, a confession: We did not go to the movie theater this past summer to see the latest X-Files film on the big screen. We got busy with college graduation, and by the time we got un-busy, the movie had sunk without a trace. Forgive us, Fox and Dana! We will catch up with it on DVD, where we expect to see Mulder/David still looking glum and Scully/Gillian skinnier but still stunning.