You have a new album, a new video, a new movie. You also have an old role in a hit TV series.
Now comes the key question: What will you be for Halloween?
"I'll be an old-fashioned girl," says Mary-Kate Olsen, "from the wild West."
Ashley Olsen, her sister, added: "I'll be Jasmine from 'Aladdin."'
No, the 7-year-old twins won't be crafting these costumes. "There's a catalog that they picked them from," reports their teacher, Adria Later.
When you're this big and this busy, life needs short-cuts.
How hot are the Olsen twins now?
They're Q-score, the networks' subjective way of measuring popularity and attractiveness, is up at the Bill Cosby level; this month, they:
- Released their second album, "I Am the Cute One." It's filled with quirky little songs. "The people at Zoom (Records) are good at that," says Dave Olsen, their dad. "They're very creative."
- Released their first video. To no one's surprise, it's: "Mary-Kate and Ashley: Our First Video."
- Starred in their second TV movie, this time with a Halloween theme. "Double, Double, Toil and Trouble" premieres at 8 p.m. EDT Saturday on ABC.
- Continue to alternate as Michelle in "Full House," at 8 p.m. EDT Tuesday on ABC. This week, Michelle insists she doesn't want to be treated like a kid any more.
Let's hope she doesn't push it too hard. Being a kid has been very good for the Olsen twins.
Right now, these two have most things kids want, with one exception: "I want a cat and a bunny," Mary-Kate says.
They can't have one, the girls say, because of their mother's allergies.
"That isn't the main reason," Dave Olsen counters. "We could get a dog, but I'm not sure who would take care of it. It just seems like it would end up being me."
Time has been short at home, since the girls started catching on.
Their parents - a mortgage banker and a former ballet dancer - had read that a show was looking for twin babies, to alternate in a role. Soon, the girls were "Full House" regulars.
The next step snuck up on them, Olsen says. "Barbara Cameron said, 'You know, the girls are very popular. You'd better prepare."'
She knew the turf. Her son, Kirk, was a teen idol; her daughter, Candace, plays the twins' older sister.
So Olsen began considering the possibility that the girls were becoming very big.
"We had an agent who was sending them out for ordinary commercial auditions," he says. "I'm thinking, 'Why are we doing all these little things?"'
He switched agents and raised his sights. The albums, movies and video have followed.
And how are the girls bearing up in all this. Interviewed by phone, not their usual style, the girls talk enthusiastically.
Mary-Kate talks mostly about animals. She wants a cat and bunny and maybe a cheetah. She also has a weekly club that lets kids do some real riding. "I love my horse," she says.
By comparison, Ashley comes closer to her mother's interest. The girls have been dancing at home for as long as she can remember. She talks fondly of musicals - "Oklahoma," "Guys and Dolls" - and rock music.
"I like the Beach Boys," Ashley said. "I like to dance to them."
More importantly, their dad says, each focuses on her twin.
"They have the ability to block out everyone except each other," he says. They play with each other, ignoring everything around them."
There's plenty around.
That includes waves of fans; "they still get 2,000-3,000 letters a week," their dad says. And it includes the work.
The twins need that double bubble, to shut out the world. It lets them concentrate on just being little kids - Jasmine and an old-fashioned cowgirl - going out for Halloween.
