Melissa was lonely in
Sayville.
Melissa Joan Hart was born 1976 in a hospital in Smithtown, Long Island. Her mother was named Paula, and her father was Bill. The family lived in a modest house in West Sayville on Long Island. Her father was a hard worker, and did not have much time for the family. Bill Hart’s brother is a boat builder, and money got tight that, according to Newsday, “"At this pace, I think I can continue for only another year," said Hart, who plans to get a job at a boat yard soon to supplement his income. "But unfortunately it looks like it is actually getting worse.” Mr. and Mrs. Hart were known as a hippie couple in the village of Sayville. Melissa’s parents got her name from an Allman Brothers song, and her confirmation name is Catherine. She did her confirmation at the St. Lawrence Catholic Parish. MacKenzie Mosca of Sayville said, “They (Harts) are wonderful people.” Melissa loved her siblings, and would visit the library. After school she would take her brothers and sisters to Dr. Panati's house to feed his ducks and geese. Dr. Panati is a scientist and he wrote books about the supernatural, including the Geller Papers about his friend psychic Uri Geller.
Melissa is an avid reader. Her favorite children’s book was “James and the Giant Peach,” which was about the saddest and loneliest boy you could find. As an adult her favorite book is “Bastard Out of Carolina” which is about a girl that suffered abuse by the people in her town and had a tormented youth. "People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead."
Melissa got her start in acting at a very young age; she made her first commercial before she even started kindergarten, and even picked to act in the movie Crocodile Dundee. She was a child prodigy as well as a genius.
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Melissa dreamed of a life outside Sayville. |
Unfortunately there was trouble during the next 10 years of her life as there would have some torment. In Sayville, what happens is that in each grade a certain small number of students are selected to be hated. Melissa was one of them. "I had a lot of frustration when I was a teenager," said Melissa Joan Hart. 1 Matt said, “Sayville wasn’t the easiest town to live in.” One former classmate, Ben C. said. "As for the kids in Sayville, they were spoiled , selfish , arrogant and the worst bunch of kids anyone could ask for. I only hope adulthood has changed them. As for me, I'm happy in California and have no plans of seeing anybody from Sayville schools again. Melissa's revenge is her success. I hope she keeps on getting her revenge too."
Melissa enjoyed reading. She is intelligent AND beautiful.
In an interview, Melissa said that the character Sabrina was like her." Everyone else (in Sayville) was so cool and knew what to wear," she says, remembering life as an outsider in Sayville. "I just had no clue. I didn't know what was wrong with me. I think a lot of that was also true of Sabrina."1 The reason for my interest is that to a great extent the school and town shown in Sabrina was based on Melissa’s experiences in Sayville. For example, in Sabrina, she is an outsider, and she is friends with the little people, and was an outcast. The bad person in the show was a cheerleader that enjoyed being cruel to people, just like the football players and cheerleaders in Sayville. Her social position as Sabrina was exactly like in real life, as the one outsider of the most hated group that dared to fight back. Melissa said that kids were "cruel" 2 and she was "lonely."3 The reason why Melissa was able to be so biographical was because she and her mother actually own the production company. Since Melissa is so smart, she even writes and produces her shows! This is why the show is so much like her own experiences in Sayville.
Here is an example of how her life influenced her work. Below is are some lines from one of the first episodes,
Jenny - Libby’s not popular, she’s (Head Cheerleader) powerful.
Sabrina- Well how did she get the power?
Jenny- She seized it and as long as there are people backing her up she’ll keep it, it’s all very Stalin.
The word “popular” and “unpopular” in the Sayville schools does not have a normal meaning. “Popular” means to be liked, but I found that some of the most “popular” kids were popular for no any other reason than they were good at threatening other kids.
According to CBS news, Head Cheerleader Michelle Young (Fisher) was in from "...Sayville, Long Island, N.Y., where she went to high school and is remembered as a popular cheerleader." 5 Michelle Young was beaten to death so brutally that weeks later a tooth was found by the family laying around the house. 6 Apparently she was not so "popular" with everybody. In the Sayville Novel about the Sayville Class of 1995, the author spoke about how the "cool" kids mistreated others. 7 Michelle Young Fisher was the coolest of the cool.
Many of the cheerleaders in Sayville were extremely jealous of Melissa for many reasons. One of them was because she was so much more beautiful than them. Although the Sayville Cheerleaders were as cruel as they were beautiful, none were as beautiful as Melissa. There were reports that cheerleaders that would plot to cause trouble for her and try to make her life miserable. The goal was to make it hell on Earth. Many of the cheerleaders were like the Cinderella's evil stepsisters. This is played out in Melissa's TV show.
Melissa said she was an “outsider” and an “outcast.” According to fellow student Rich “she got picked on due to her height, and because she dressed like ‘Blossom.’" Jimmy exclaimed, “She just wasn't considered one of the ‘cool kids.’” and “People got tired of hearing… how well she was doing.”
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Just like Cinderella had little animal friends, Melissa Joan Hart was friends with animals like Flipper the duck. |
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Sayville is filled with old houses like the one Sabrina lived in. |
Compare the color scheme of Sabrina to the purple and gold of Sayville. |
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Dr. Panati is a Sayville author that writes books about the supernatural. He was Melissa Joan Hart's neighbor and is a friend of psychic Uri Geller. Dr. Panati was the owner of Flipper. |
The rotten kids
made Melissa sad.
She got support from Sarah.
One of the few people that were kind to Melissa was a girl called Nicole Mills., whose father was Mr. Mill’s, one of the few nice teachers in Sayville. One person, Matt, who was called “very unpopular” by most of the other kids said, “Nicole was a friend to many people. A shy sweet all round intelligent, wonderful person, would be a great friend to anyone.” Nicole was known as someone that was a friend to the friendless. Melissa said about her childhood, "trying to fit in but feeling somehow ... different" and "I had a lot of frustration when I was a teen-ager." Furthermore, school “was pretty bad.”
According to Kimberly, who sat at her lunch table, “No, people did not make fun of her, she's (Hart) full of it. However, in a later email she said, “We were the honors students. Melissa was too. We had a very nice, down to earth circle of friends,” and “Lots of kids were mean to all of us at various times growing up.” Also “She wasn't Miss Popular.” Kimberly said that she was not per se singled out of her group, and it was because she kept talking about her acting which got people mad at her. Many kids from this town think that this type of cruel behavior is normal. Doesn’t people act like this everywhere? Well, no.
Not everyone was mean to everyone else. What happened was a group would be singled out for torment. Every single person that was treated badly was treated that way because “it was his own fault.” For example, Melissa was proud of her acting, another person was fat, someone else was new, or just because everyone hated that person, it made it alright. It was always somehow the fault of the victim. Reasons given by schoolmates why they tormented her every day were: she was short, one of her eyes did not open all the way, her teeth next to her two middle front teeth were missing (This was later surgically corrected) and she was overweight. What infuriated the kids in Sayville the most was she would actually fight back. She would say she does have friends, important actors like Sarah Michelle Geller, and she was not what they said she was, and they were just a bunch of Suffolk County bumpkins. In Sayville, the chosen few that was picked for abuse are not suppose to fight back.
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Sarah Michelle Geller told Melissa to fight for her rights.
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The Sayville Cheerleaders when
Melissa Joan Hart was a child.
Pictured is popular Head Cheerleader Michelle Young. She was horribly murdered. |
For this small percentage life was not so good. The boys would be hit, and the girls would be touched inappropriately. One boy remembers, “being held back while others pounded me,” and I still bear a scar on my forehead from when a bully named Reland B. slammed into me from behind and drove me into a trophy case.” This is something written by a girl meant as an open letter to those girls who were not “unpopular": “Your body is valued more. People are concerned with how you feel. People are afraid to hurt you because they know everyone would be more outraged that they are touching you. People don't care what they do to me.”
According to Sayville student Jennifer M., “Everyone hated her; she was… rude,” and she “was ostracized by almost everyone else.” What happened was she decided to fight back and tell the snotty people off. That is why she was called a “bitch.” It has been proven more than once that there were parties that she was not invited to. What Melissa used was her wit and her acting talents to defend herself. When people lose, they get mad, which is why she was so hated. But not hated by everyone. A student that was described by the others as being a loser said, “She was always nice to me.” Something that she had on the others was that after school she was in the world of Broadway and T.V. Constantly people ridiculed her because she was short, her lazy eye, and she was seen as an easy target because she was shy. In this village, it was determined that she was at the bottom. It had nothing to do with jealousy. On a web site put up by a former Sayville student he said, "You tell people you went to school with Melissa Joan Hart and then realize that's not really something to be proud of." However, Melissa did not think this way and she was a fighter and did her best to tell them off.
Here is a testimonial from one of Melissa’s few friends, Matt, “She definitely felt like an outsider and outcast. She was a little proud of her accomplishments but deservedly so for all her hard work, she totally deserves the credit. She wasn’t a happy child and was always teased especially for her height. She was the shortest girl by far in school and always was. She was an outcast, for sure. The kids that liked her were at the same level she was, outcasts, unpopular, not in the right social group and could see her position in the social hierarchy and could understand what she was going through. She had no chance to defend herself against the social masses against her, she was a lone solider in a fight very many, a fruitless fight.” and “definitely one of the most unpopular and disliked kids in school.”
Movie about the nice kids versus the
rotten kids in Sayville. Nice kids, who are vandals, win!
When she was antagonized, and for example, someone would say, “Everyone hates you,” she would respond by saying, “Actor William Hurt and Martin Sheen doesn’t hate me, maybe its only nobodies like you that hate me.” This is what turned mere contempt and disrespect into pure hatred. She would not play by their rules, which was shut up and just accept it. Sarah Michelle Gellar recognized her as a “Chosen One.” In Sayville, they choose who will be the most hated for each grade. But the reason why Sarah called her the “Chosen One” was because she was the one whose fate was to fight back for the ½ dozen students that would be ridiculed, spit on, and hit every day.
If you watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you will remember Buffy was the “Chosen One.” Sarah was also a lonely child, but not because of a town full of mean kids, but because she was a full time child star from age 4. Sarah’s friendship with Melissa goes back the furthest, and for a long time Melissa was her only friend in the world. Each time Sarah heard how Melissa was treated, she was very upset. As Sarah did not go to anything approaching a normal school, she would always want to hear all the details about Sayville, and imagine what it would be like to be a real student there. For very long periods of time Sarah would be around only adults and she would pretend she was with Melissa in Sayville playing in the schoolyard. For Melissa’s bravery, the town that Buffy lived would be changed to Sunnydale (SHS), which is a play on Sayville. For Melissa was the “Chosen One” who led the fight against evil in the town.
Melissa also was a vandal in the school district where she was mistreated. According to the Chicago Tribune, Sunday 12th May 1996, Melissa said, "In 5th grade I broke a thermometer and didn't tell the teacher..." She had a right to do this, as she was mistreated. Her favorite cartoon was "Ren and Stimpy." The Sayville cartoonist was one top artists on that cartoon, and he wrote the "Happy Happy Joy Joy" song. He was one of the hated outcasts of Sayville also. They both did shows for Nickelodeon at the same time.
In Sayville there is always a kid that leads the fight against the rotten kids. In Melissa’s day it was her time. She stood in the same position that the other had years earlier. After Melissa came Mathew G.
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The kindly Nicole Mill who befriended Melissa Joan Hart. She was a good person who was a friend to all. |
Melissa was pushed around in school, and Sarah’s attitude was give em’ hell. This was part of the reason why Melissa dared to fight back. Sarah would tell Melissa that if people are mean to her, fight back, and fight back hard. After all, Melissa knew many famous people and was constantly on TV, and the kids that ran the school in Sayville were nothing than a bunch of nobodies. So tell them off!
According to Bikini, 1999 issue, Melissa said, "My dad's not really been in my life. He works like crazy, and I never really get to see him. But he didn't abandon us, ... And my mom, she became a big club queen in New York, went out at all hours, and I had to stay home with the kids, babysitting. And if she wasn't home the next day, I had to get them up and get them ready for school." Melissa as a child had to do all the important work in the house, as well as do her school work and put up with the rotten Sayville kids in school. She had a very difficult life that she faced with bravery and determination.
Paula hart, Melissa's mother would often stay out all night in Manhattan. According eyewitnesses, there was alcohol served at these parties. This eventually led to the divorce of Melissa's parents. Her mother said, "This is not what I want to do with my life. And my children, mainly just Melissa, reacted badly." Melissa remembered, "I did get angry when she divorced my dad, but now, when I look back on it, I realize it was the best thing that ever happened to me."
Melissa eventually felt the divorce was in some ways good, because it finally got her out of Sayville. "It took about two weeks to get used to New York, and then I just loved it. Suddenly, I've got a subway. I can go to the zoo, I can go to the park, walk the dog, meet boys. I met a lot of my best friends on the street. Basically, we got out of a small town, and I learned a lot about life and cities and about what I want to do. It gave me ambition, it showed me there's a whole world opening." 4
About this time, she got the starring role in the show Clarissa. Melissa’s last two years of High School was at a special school in Manhattan. As her father and other family still lived in Sayville, she still to a great extent lived there and was often seen around town. And eventually she made it big in "Sabrina the Teenage Witch." Her early life was just like Cinderella's.
After contacting students and teachers, my conclusion is that Melissa Joan Hart was telling the truth. She was tormented, but did have a few friends. It was not true that she was totally alone, as she sat at a lunch table with her few friends like Kimberly, but there was not much closeness with each other. I found in general that the more hated the other students had for a student, the more that student liked Melissa, and the more “popular” (powerful) a student was, the more likely the student hated Melissa.
The "Chosen One"
She even looks like Cinderella.
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2 NY Times TV Section, 1996. http://www.personal.u-net.com/~ezz/sabrev9.html
3 Hart embraces her bewitching acting career By Frazier Moore, Associated Press, 1996 http://www.s-t.com/daily/04-96/04-07-96/2hart.htm
4 Bikini Magazine, October 1999 isengrim.com/melbiki.html
5 Young, Pregnant Mother Slain At Home cbsnews.com Nov. 13, 2006 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/13/earlyshow/main2175238.shtml
6 Michelle Young Murder Case Update By Ed Crump 11/30/06 http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=local&id=4811361
7 Panarese, Tom, Sayville iUniverse 2003 P. 149
This is a biography of Melissa Joan Hart. She was born in Smithtown in 1975 and grew up in Sayville. She started her career early. Her early life was spent doing commercials and plays, but she also spent time in school in her hometown where she grew up. Much of her childhood she spent acting and performing, including on Broadway. Her father Bill Harts owns Hart Lobster. Her sister is Emily Hart who did the voice of Sabrina in the cartoon. Her and her mother Paula Hart own Hartbreak Films and her sister Emily Hart did the cartoon, animated version of Sabrina that was on the Disney Channel. This is a Melissa Joan Hart fan site, and many would like to join her fan club. Perhaps a Sayville Real Estate Agent can show you her home town to see the beautiful Sayville waterfront property. The colors of the schools is purple and gold and they are called the Sayville Golden Flashes. Popular kids and unpopular kids. Information about bullies, bullied, dealing with bullies and how to stop a bully. The case of bullycide. School and schools must deal with the problem of Columbine. Children picking on kids and how to prevent it. How to fight bullies. Mean kids. Safe schools and how to crate them. Hints on dealing with problems between students for teachers and school administrators. Law and lawyers that specialize in education law for students and educators. Melissa Joan hart Unauthorized biography and bio. Official fan club information. and unofficial fan club West Sayville
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Sent 12/26/06 - My Space Sayville History Website: Sayville's Cinderella - Article
I write for the Sayville History website, which is about
different important people in Sayville such as Marlon Brando, George Washington,
etc.
I wrote a biography about your early life in Sayville called "Sayville
Cinderella" a few years ago with information from Dr. Pananti, Kimberly that sat
at your lunch table, Matt, Gregg, and others. I even have a picture of Flipper
the duck.
I have a few questions for you, please that I would like ask, mainly general
questions such as any interesting stories, etc.
Although it is about Sayville, it is meant for people from all over the world to
read.
I realize you are very busy, but I would like to hear from you or maybe a
publicity person, please
Direct Email: timmlimm@yahoo.co.uk
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Article about Sayville, I have some questions please.
I saw you listed at your sister's my space site, so I decided
it would not hurt to send an email to you also.
I write for the Sayville History website on the truelegends domain, along with
the more popular Amityville history site. It is a website about historical
people in Sayville, such as Marlon Brando, George Washingon, etc.
I wrote an article about your sister a few years ago called "Sayville's
Cinderella" with information from people such as Dr. Charles Pananti (There is a
page about him) and it even has a picture of Flipper the Duck. I am updating the
article.
I am interested in your sister's early life in Sayville before 1988.
Since you are also a famous person from Sayville, I would also like to write an
article about you.
I would like to ask general questions such as interesting stories and memories
of Sayville, if possible please, or be referred to your publicity department.
My direct email: timmlimm@yahoo.co.uk
Thanks!