Byline: STEPHANIE EARLS - Staff Writer
The double-stretch black limousine is sacrosanct and spotless, despite the salty, slushy gore that splatters every other car on this wintry street in Schenectady. It slides up to a curb near Union College, as inconspicuously as an absurdly huge luxury car can.
Passers-by slow down and gawk, trying to defy the tinted windows to identify the car's occupants. Important people sit behind tinted windows.
But not yet. Here comes the important movie star now, stepping carefully on the icy sidewalk, heading toward the limo. It's Shawn Minarik, who plays Lucas, one of the child leads in "eScape."
Tonight is Sunday, January 20, and in about an hour or so, the first season of the "eScape" mini-miniseries which consists of six episodes of roughly 10-minutes each will premiere in its entirety before what's expected to be a packed house at Proctors' GE Theatre.
The series, based loosely on the ABC show "Lost," follows a group of young wilderness campers who must fend for themselves, use life skills they learned at home, and work together to unravel an increasingly bizarre mystery after all their camp counselors suddenly disappear.
"You're kidding me," breathes Shawn as the chauffeur opens the door and the eighth-grader gets his first glimpse ever inside a limo.
His limo.
Shawn is 13, freckled, with longish-short hair he could spike up if he wanted. But not tonight. He's dressed in a classy black jacket, dress slacks and white shirt, an outfit his sister Becca, an extra in the series, helped him put together.
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