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Archive for October, 2007

Making Movie Magic #5

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

6am and the phone rang. Uurrggh, hua wha? I answered in my best Swahili. Can you be in Johnstown by 7? Eh, no. A little after maybe. Can you dress as a country type? Well I live in the country and I can type. Like in a tweed or wax jacket and flat cap. Wear [...]

Making Movie Magic #4

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Lunch time. A time to relax. A time to chill out. Not that we weren’t relaxed and chilled out already, but we could have a chat with the hot Russians from the previous shoot. But they didn’t show. Hold on a minute – none of the women are here. Okay, we could live with that. [...]

Making Movie Magic #3

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Leaving the greyhound stadium late the night before I got my instructions: Tomorrow morning, be at St. Bodecia’s Home for Bewildered Bloggers at 7. Bring two changes – one casual and one you’d wear going on the pull. I explained on-the-pull to me meant stopping a horse winning and if they meant clubbing attire, I [...]

Making Movie Magic Suspended

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

My last two posts, Making Movie Magic #1 & 2, have been taken down temporarily. (They will be reposted when the time is right). One of the three main actors in that movie, Tom Murphy, died the day before I wrote the first instalment. I didn’t know. Sorry, Tom. I really didn’t know. He was [...]

Movie making magic #2

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Day 2 came and I was glued to my bed. Not literally. The lovely Jules hadn’t carried out her threat. I was just plain exhausted from 14 hours of doing bugger all the previous day. And I still had leg cramps from supporting Joe’s Greyhound Feeds. But I made it back to the stadium on [...]

Movie making magic #1

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

There was to be an open casting. So exciting. Would they give me lines to say? What would I wear? I thought about it for a split second and the answers came to me: no and clothes. Movie extras are like those extra lines of code Microsoft Word adds in when a Word doc is [...]

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