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Griffin family watches home
become part of Hollywood
“Quiet please, okay let’s have
the first rehersal.” And finally
as the cameras began to shoot
the first takes of the morning,
the director’s message was
relayed even to the outside of
the Donald Segars’ two-story
brick home at 666 East College
Street.
The Segars were watching for
a second day their home being
turned into a movie set as
Hollywood film makers shot
scenes from a film ten
tatively called “California
Dreaming.”
Mrs. Segars said she is pretty
relaxed about the film crew
taking over her home.
“Its interesting, it doesn’t
bother me,” Mrs. Segars said.
The Hollywood film crew will
have scenes for the movie in her
living room, the 2 bedrooms,
dining room and the kitchen.
She said everybody was very
nice and made everything much
easier.
Segars, quieting his voice in
his front yard, said he could not
remember why he said yes to
the filming but now that its
being done he thinks its very
interesting.
He is intrigued with the
management which has
everything under control,
however, he is even more in
trigued with the filming
schedule. The crew filmed the
day shots at night on Wed
nesday and Thursday they
filmed a sight scene. The home
was flooded with light but the
front door and another window
were covered to keep the
daylight out. The movie
sequence takes place in
springtime.
“Sounds like the government
to ine,” Segars said.
He said the whole thing of
having his home in a movie is of
little interest to his first grade
son, Craig. The Griffin High
sophomore, Doug, oldest son,
thinks differently and is en
joying the excitement of the
filming.
The Segars haven’t had to
change their lifestyle but
Wednesday night Mrs. Segars
couldn’t get the back door to
close because there was a cord
in it. She removed it and went
up stairs to bed. Upon telling
Segars what she had done, she
learned the movie crew was
recharging batteries on their
camera truck.
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She made a hasty retreat to
plug the truck up again.
The Hollywood filming crew
totals some 65 persons. One
crewman, in particular,
however, has ties in Griffin.
Local boy
Ed Bagby, Jr., is an assistant
to the head of the Wardrobe
department and it just so
happens his parents live in
Griffin. They own the Bagby Art
Parlor in the Dovedown Center.
Bagby said his job entails
researching what the
characters in a particular scene
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Scott Jacoby, male lead, describes a scene that involves
motorists playing “chicken.”
wore during a specified time.
“California Dreaming” meant
wardrobe director, Jimmy
George, and Bagby had to outfit
the cast in clothing indicative of
1967.
This is Bagby’s first film. He
previously worked with the
Nashville Bam Theatre.
The star
“California Dreaming" lead
male, Scott Jacoby, joked in
between shooting scenes for the
movie being filmed in Griffin.
He said he and the other
fellows in the takes were get-
Expelled
for chewing
MOUNTLAKE TERRACE,
Wash. (AP) - Scott Blaine, 18,
thinks it’s “dumb” that chewing
tobacco got him suspended
from Mountlake Terrace High
School.
“I didn’t hurt nothing," he
said.
Principal Jim Fox said chew
ing tobacco poses a sanitation
problem. Or, as Assistant Prin
cipal Ray Stevenson put it,
“You cannot chew tobacco un
less you spit.”
ting into character for the jovial
time he was to have when the
cameras began to roll.
Playing a sprinter who
always comes in second, Jacoby
and his friends enter the Segars’
home in a happy mood. Their
gang, the Spartans, had just out
chickened the rivals, the
Gladiators, in an automobile
chicken race. The Gladiators
have turned off to avoid a head
on collison and the car runs
through a drive-in movie
screen.
The time is 1967 and the boys
decide to celebrate their victory
when one of the boys introduces,
them to their first marijuana.
Their new found highs are
brought to a low, low when they
learn of the death of a friend
who was serving in the military
in Vietnam.
Jacoby said the movie will
have something in it for
everyone because it touches on
a dedicated young athlete’s
attitudes toward his track, his
relationship with girls and even
attitudes in general toward the
war in Vietnam.
Jacoby, a 20-year-old actor,
has always been interested in
acting and got his first lead
role in a play in London with
Patricia Neil and Britt Ekland
in “Baxter.”
He has played on Broadway in
New York and has done several
television plays.
He won an Emmy for his part
in the movie made in television,
“That Certain Summer."
Just recently, Jacoby played
in the last two nights of a novel
made for television, “79 Park
Avenue” which showed over a
period of three nights on prime
time.
Jacoby also had a role in the
movie, “The Anderson Tapes.”
He said the movie industry
was an insecure type of
business to be in but ideally one
day he would like to become a
director.
“You have to be durable and
felexible to survive. The acting
sometimes gets demanding, but
I enjoy it,” the young actor
said.
In his spare time he likes to go
to the mountains and he loves to
ski.
Jacoby said he learns his lines
in about 10-15 minutes and he
dressed them up with whatever
he feels is natural and right for
the situation during filming.
“Quiet please, okay let’s have
the first rehearsal,” the
director’s voice carried
throughout the house.
Jacoby was ready and was in
character.
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Donald Segars, Joe Ellis, production manager, and Mrs. Segars discuss filming at the Segars’ home.
People
Author Mario Puzo
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mario Puzo, author of “The
Godfather," has filed a $3.6 million libel suit against a
grocery industry trade magazine over an article he says
falsely called him a childhood thief.
The suit, filed Thursday, says an article in the June
issue of Progressive Grocer titled “Confessions of a
Former Supermarket Thief" carried Puzo’s byline.
But, the suit says, Puzo never wrote the article, did not
consent to his name being used and was not contacted by
the publication.
Pierre Salinger
PARIS (AP) — Pierre Salinger is still telling France
what America is like.
Salinger, President John F. Kennedy’s press secretary
14 years ago, is now the man most often asked by the
media to explain America.
He is a frequent television and radio commentator and
writes a weekly column on U.S. affairs for L’Express.
Why Salinger?
“It was kind of an accident that I got to where I am,"
Salinger said Thursday. “My calling card was that I was
associated with the Kennedys. And the French loved the
Kennedys.
Salinger returns to the United States about once every
six weeks to keep it that way.
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