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 Two's Company Who wants to be a Doublemint twin?
"Oh, hi! Did you want to interview the twins?"
Which twins? I'm surrounded by pairs of people on a sliding scale of
identicalness; some are indistinguishable from their partners, while
others share little more than the same hair color. Twins of all flavors
have turned up on Michigan Avenue to audition for the chance to be in a
Wrigley's Doublemint ad and become $10,000 richer. There are old twins,
kid twins, twins who match and twins who don't. There are twins on
tandem bicycles and twins in seizure-green jackets plastered with the
Wrigley logo, handing out packs of gum to vaguely curious passersby. But
the chief twins, the stars of the show, are Nicole and Natalie Garza,
the official Doublemint twins. Dressed in green and white dresses that
manage to be incredibly wholesome and awesomely mod all at once, the
22-year-old blondes watch with gum-cracking aplomb as their potential
colleagues are paraded in front of them. Duet after duet ascends to the
stage and preens as the judges make notes. What does it take to be a
member of the twin gum spokesperson community? "You have to be someone
who's vibrant," say Nicole and Natalie (yes, they speak together and
finish each other's sentences). "You have to be yourself. You can't
ever hold back." They shuffle their pearly white tennis shoes and
smile. On stage, a mirror-image twosome from Kentucky does some kind of
bizarre combination cartwheel and recites Doublemint slogans. Nicole and
Natalie regard them approvingly. "Yep," says Nicole (or Natalie... I
can't pretend to tell them apart), "we're excited to add to the
family."
Also by Eve L. Ewing Viva la lucha libre
Love is...
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