I thought that some of you Vinnie fans might enjoy this! This is an article from the August 1996 issue of Bop, and all of this is in Vinnie's own words. Enjoy!


A Day in The Life Of...Vincent Kartheiser

Seventeen-year-old Vinnie, whom you last saw in The Indian in The Cupboard, has the unique abilty to turn a regular old day in Minnesota into one that's majorly entertaining. Read about a recent day in his life now, and later this summer, see him in his next movie, Alaska.

"I woke up at about 11:00 and stumbled out of bed. Then I crawled into the bathroom, got in the bathtub and fell asleep for another hour. By the time I woke up, it was noon and I was freezing because the water was cold and someone had opened the window.

So, I got out of the bathtub and [my skin] was all wrinkly. I dried off, went back in my bedroom and picked up the same pair of jeans that were on the floor from the night before and threw on a dirty white t-shirt and an overshirt.

Then I stumbled downstairs, had some cinnamon toast and hot chocolate, which my mommy [Janet] makes for me every morning, and started doing chemistry on the floor of the livingroom. Then I took a break to play Monopoly with my sisters, Colette and Elise. We played for about a half an hour until the bank ran out of money.

At 1:00 my sister Elise went to work, and I called the driver [training] school to see if I could go in that day. They said to show up at 2:30, so around 2:00 my sister Colette and I got in the car and we kind of sped on over there. I went in and sat with a whole bunch of people. I had Burger King while I was in class and a Mountain Dew. Three girls behind me talked about their tanning booths and their nails for three hours and I almost threw up for five days.

At about 5:35, my sister picked me up from class and we went to the toy store to pick up more Monopoly money--$6.00 worth. We went home and I told my mom and dad [Jim] about my driver's class. Then my buddy Aaron swung on by and we went out to Perkins, which is a restaurant chain kind of like Denny's.

We stayed at Perkins for about two and a half hours. I just had coffee. We talked about our problems, about life and our goals--Aaron told me that he wanted to be a cop--and things that we had to change in ourselves and in one another.

We stayed there until about 10:00. Then when I got home, I played Monopoly with my sister for an hour--until about 11:00. By this time I had a bad headache, I mean scorching bad, so we watched TV. I heard that Natalie Portman was going to be on the Conan O'Brien show, so I watched Conan--the God of all late night--but she wasn't on because she was snowed in on Long Island. So, then I went to my room, listened to The Doors for about an hour and then went to bed at about 3:00."

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