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There's a new show premiering tomorrow called Celebrity Circus, which, based on this clip of Blu Cantrell chickening out on the trapeze, promises to live up to its name. Except for that "celebrity" part, of course. Maybe good ol' Blu had a valid reason for shying away from fulfilling her duties — fellow "celeb" co-star Stacy Dash cracked three ribs during a stunt gone wrong. Actually, this whole show can be described as a stunt gone wrong.

I was preparing to enter high school the summer that Clueless came out, making me the part of the film's original core demographic. I might have seen it five times that summer, and, oh, I don't know…. 100 times on video in the following two years. I don't know if I fully recognized it then, but I very much appreciated Amy Heckerling's inclusion of Dionne and Murray (Stacy Dash and Donald Faison). As annoying as they might be to watch now, they were the lone black faces in a sea of whites. I could relate!