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I’M NOT CLINT
Through luck or the accrual of frequent-flyer miles at The
Globe, I got a call asking if I would be an extra in a movie
scene to be shot at the bar. The movie is Trouble With the
Curve, and as you know by now, Clint Eastwood plays an aging
baseball scout whose eyesight is failing to the point that he
can't realty spot the talent anymore. He takes his daughter
(Amy Adams, Junebug) along on a last recruiting trip, and in
our scene she gets to know a young man (Justin Timbertake,
The Social Network) in a bar. John Goodman (everything) is in
the film somewhere, too. I was supposed to sign a confidenti
ality agreement that I wouldn't ''spoil" the suspense by reveal
ing what happens in that bar in that brief scene. I think I onty
signed the pay voucher ($8 an hour plus overtime), but I'm not
the kind of guy who would ruin your fun, anyway. Suffice it to
say that the bar scene involves Justin and Amy (no Clint), a
bluegrass band from Atlanta, some doggers from all over and
a bar full of people dressed in plaid and denim, camouflaging
almost the entire Globe staff, all of the owner's family, some
longtime Globe customers, a popular ex-mayor, a local invest
ment counselor, a bunch of musicians and perhaps some of The
Globe's creditors.
As the week went on, and shooting progressed at vari
ous downtown locations, being on the inside became a much
appredated perk. I guess I have pretty much worked through
my guilt at being there instead of Flagpole editor and Rim
Notebook writer Dave Mar, who would have savored every
nuance of. what was going on in that room and would have rec
ognized all the famous talent
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THIS WEEK’S ISSUE:
•NEWS & FEATURES
City Dope 4
Athens News and Views
The hounds of the national media were unleashed on the Banner-Herald* Jim
Thompson last week; how bad can the Dope’s bite be?
Athens Rising .6
What’s Up in Nfew Development
Reports of the abandonment of New Urbanism by Duarry are greatly exaggerated.
ARTS & EVENTS
Theatre Notes 10
Fairies, Mummies and Mozart
Dark Ride, Amadeus, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and a donkey!
Movie Pick 13
Paradise Lost
The Descendants is a career-best for George Clooney and director Alexander Payne.
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It is amazing that
an industry as
glamorous as movies
can be so tedious.
operating behind the camera
as well as in front of it.
That Wednesday, an hour
after we got signed in around
4:30 p.m. and got our plaid
shirts, they called "Lunch,"
and fed us a smorgasbord
of New York strip, chicken
breast, blackened fish, fried jumbo shrimp, andouilie-sausage
pasta, a medley of vegetables, salads, pie, cake, bread pud
ding, ke cream. Fortified, we headed up to the holding area
in the Georgia Theatre lobby. Eventually, I found myself at my
favorite window table in The Globe, sitting across from one
of the owner's sisters. The Globe played its favorite role—a
bar full of people. Their waitfolks circulated, replenishing the
water in our beer bottles as we mouthed make-believe conver
sations, and between takes we hung out, discreetly watching
the stars.
It is amazing that an industry as glamorous as movies can
be so tedious. It is also a pleasure to watch people doing
something they know how to do, even if you don't know what
they're doing or Why they're doing it What was going on inside
The Globe just looked like very assured, competent low-key
people concentrating on their work. And that included Amy
Adams and Justin Timbertake. They were working, and they
focused on it with zero histrionics: two actors creating char
acters and hanging out between takes. You could see how
much of their working life must involve just waiting with other
actors and the occasional hair touchup.
The crew shot the whole scene with one camera. When
from time to time they halted proceedings to move the setup,
they'd send us back to the Georgia Theatre. As we came out
of The Globe, there were crowds on the sidewalk, held back
by the hardworking police. Everybody was watching the bar,
hoping for a glimpse of one of the stars. I realized that a wiry,
hardbitten older guy leaving The Globe could cause some false
anticipation, but fortunately nobody mistook me for Clint.
Well it was a lot of fun and very interesting, being on
the inside, especially watching the cameraman dance tire
Steadicam in amongst the doggers, which by then included
Adams and Timbertake. (She's a pretty good dogger.) She prob
ably strolled around downtown the next day unnoticed in spite
of her incredible acting chops. Poor Justin, unfortunately, got
barricaded inside Wuxtiy by a pursuing gang of teenage girls.
Inside The Globe, though, everybody was cool.
The crew wrapped it up at The Globe around 11:30 p.m.,
just before overtime. We turned in our shirts and our pay
vouchers and headed out for a real beer, sure that we'd pay
more attention to the extras next time we're at the movies.
Pete McCommons edilor@flagpole.com
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Changing Together in Changing Times
Unique South Carolina artists’ collective spreads its wings in Athens.
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LETTERS 4
CITY DOPE 4
CAPITOL IMPACT 5
ATHENS RISING 6
C06BL0VIATE 7
MISCELLANY 7
SEUG MEETINGS 8
THEATRE NOTES 10
ECOFOCUS 11
FILM NOTEBOOK ..11
MOVIE DOPE 12
MOVIE PICK \ .13
THREATS & PROMISES 14
POST-ECHO 14
SXSW RECAP 15
THE HEAD AND THE HEART... 17
BREASTFEST 18
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