Words known by their salient point — “Wear Sunscreen” – became known as the alleged MIT commencement speech given by author Kurt Vonnegut. Made famous by that internet hoax a decade ago, it’s actually an essay titled “Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young” written by Mary Schmich and published in her Chicago Tribune column in 1997. “It was quite witty, but not my wittiness,” Vonnegut generously said to Mary. Not only is it indeed witty but I quite agree with her! 
This musical form of the essay is a successful remix of Quindon Tarver’s “Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good),” from the 1996 film “William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet.” Utilizing his ‘Romeo + Juliet’ soundtrack, Baz Luhrmann orchestrated the melding of media that is “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen).” He released it on the 1998 album “Baz Luhrmann Presents: Something For Everybody.” Its first video, which was directed and animated by Bill Barminski, uses a “1999” edit of the song. The most recent video venture to be inspired by the song as well as Mary’s spot on advice is the Sunscreen Movie.
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“Here’s my advice: Go ahead and be wacky. Get into a crazy frame of mind and ask what’s funny about what you’re doing.”
~ Roger Von Oech ~
