Man in motion

St. Elmo's Fire is on tv now. Demi Moore just locked herself in her bedroom with the window open so that she could freeze to death, I think. (I've seen this part of the movie a dozen times and I still don't know for sure.) Rob Lowe is summoned from his gas station job to rescue her.

*SPOILERS*

He rescues her!

*END SPOILERS*

And while Demi is pouting away, Rob Lowe is telling some story about "St. Elmo's Fire ... electric flashes of light that appear in dark skies out of nowhere. Sailors would guide entire journeys by it, but the joke was on them ... there was no fire. There wasn't even a St. Elmo." [quote cribbed from imdb] As he tells this story, he flicks on his lighter and sprays hairspray into it to make a big fiery WHOOSH ... and I'm thinking, He works at a gas station. He's still in his oily coveralls, which no doubt are bathed in gasoline fumes; is playing with fire and aerosols really such a good idea? I started laughing out loud at the idea of Rob Lowe setting himself on fire and running around the room, screaming.

I bet it'd have cheered up Demi Moore, though.

Ooo, or even better -- through a freak accident, Rob Lowe sets himself on fire and the flames never subside, but he doesn't die, either. So for the rest of his life Rob Lowe is on fire and screaming in agony, but he's still a semi-successful actor. I totally would have watched West Wing regularly if that happened.