Recharger wants to reassure Sandra Oh that although he worships at her shrine, he has a spot—a teensy weensy spot—in his heart for the immortal Hilary Duff. And yet, despite his great love and respect for this spectacularly-talented American artiste, Recharger is dubious about her latest cries for help. To whit: that a slightly demented, 19-year-old Russian immigrant named Max Moyasevsky has been stalking her.
Aside from Duff and her boyfriend, Good Charlotte frontman Joel Madden, no one believes that Moyasevsky is a serious threat. He has, for example, also claimed that he is going to build a wall around Staten Island and create an empire where everyone will obey him (a claim, oddly enough, made by Recharger’s ex-wife about Brooklyn).
The 19-year-old Duff, best known for her role as Disney Channel fave Lizzy McGuire, filed for a restraining order against Max and his roommate, 50-year-old photographer David Joseph Klein (Thrilled by this scenario, we imagine their conversation: “Yo, roomie, ya wanna fly to California and stalk Hilary Duff?” “Hilary who?”). Now she wants to extend this order to include Madden, his twin brother Benji, and her sister Haylie, claiming that the two Staten Islanders have been following them.
Moyasevsky’s astonished former classmates at Staten Island’s Totenville High School claim he is “not all there,” but they never took his wild claims seriously. Because we live in an age when people who do nothing more than sending friendly letters to ex lovers are accused of stalking, neither does Recharger.
Here’s our fervent wish for Moyasevsky’s court appearance scheduled for November 15: he agrees to stay away from Duff and her friends if she promises to stop telling journalists stuff like “Virginity is definitely something I like about myself. It doesn’t mean I haven’t thought about sex, because everyone I know has had it and you want to fit in,” and if she also promises not to later claim that sex is “definitely not something that I would talk about” to a journalist.
-- Nina Markasyan