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posted by
benzinha
on September 20, 2005 at 12:54 PM
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cynthia, spinach, killer spinach. Tucson's last film crew experience was of
a VietNamese fake street front downtown. People were all around there for days and then, something caught fire and our Community Center, a concert going on, had to be evacuated. It was next to the fake Viet Namese street...mucho damage in stupid smoke and a failed concert to recompense, but we all look forward to the film coming out.
posted by
benzinha
on September 20, 2005 at 12:54 PM
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Does Cynthia wonder why California growers must place portapotties?
No-no-no!
posted by
majroj
on September 18, 2005 at 12:07 PM
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Benzinha, they just wraped
some Scorsese flick they were shooting in downtown Boston. It's always fun for the locals when a film crew is in town. Also ironically, I feel for your reaction to the soup. Last Sunday I ate raw spinich as I cleaned it for RG and me for dinner. His was cooked. Next morning I was dying. All the symptoms of something like e-coli. Thought I was going to die. Spent the day in bed. Can't remember the last time I felt so bad...
posted by
Cynthia
on September 17, 2005 at 3:27 PM
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maj, I remember cooking up a buffet meal for Mexican relatives in the 60s,
they just kept asking, ??Que' es esto?? and wrinkling their noses. I think that they put one thing on their plates and then left the whole table full of food there. I had that food for weeks afterwards. Can't remember if it was good, but it was too Americano for them.
I don't think that I gave them the trots, however, and that ....is a good thing.
posted by
benzinha
on September 17, 2005 at 3:11 PM
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The first time my new wife and I entertained my folks for supper
I made crockpot potroast and gave us all the trots. I didn't wash the vegetables enough, I guess.
posted by
majroj
on September 16, 2005 at 7:22 AM
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You ARE dreaming...musta been the food, little lady..
uhHUH.
No, wait, that's John Wayne.
posted by
majroj
on September 16, 2005 at 7:15 AM
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Whacky, there have been lots of movies made in Tucson and you see
lots of stars either filming here or hiding out here. When I was a child, Dad was a reporter and we were often invited to Old Tucson for some filming there and met John Wayne and Dean Martin and Lorne Greene and the cast of Bonanza and then that film with Liz Taylor and George Hamilton, I knew an extra in that one and hung out on the set a few days.
We had a legal television series done here in the 70's, too, can't remember the name....hung out with some extras on that one, too.
My oldest son was in catering and dining at the Arizona Inn here in town, the old actor's hangout, and he would tell everyone about each new star....I've never been one to search them out nor ask for their signature when introduced or when I see them, I just say hi and that's it.
I got tons of back stage passes in the 80's when my best friend's hubby was THE concert promoter here in town back then. The guys always looked at our daughters and their friends and not us, sigh......
posted by
benzinha
on September 15, 2005 at 11:31 PM
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maj, I had roasted the meat two days before, a small loin for two hours, I
have a pork fear. Then I cut itup and put it into the hard peas in a regualr pot on the stove. I threw in a half a bag of shredded frozen carrot pieces. Then, tons of exotic spices. I think that it was the peas, but who knows.
Today I ate a cup of the soup and felt okay until I read your comments, now my tummy hurts again. Going to go take some Imodium. I either have a death wish or am so used to being like this when living overseas, that it seems normal to eat what is in the fridge, even if it might kill me.
I will have the artist in the market scene that I make for them and then will put real life experiences of hippie art festival booth sales, into the mix. Only, everyone will be Indian and Mexican.
I had a dream the other night and everything was insane, out of my control and I just stood there. You took over and said something very Hopalong Cassidy and everything was then fine. Funny dream. Short, but I was quickly rescued and that's what I like in bad dreams.
posted by
benzinha
on September 15, 2005 at 11:24 PM
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telynor, quietly lively. I stay home and only calls and visitors get me
up and away from my worktable. My friend was going through her final boxes from her now empty paid storage shed, and dividing them into Salvation Army, Winter travel via Tucson, Suitcases to leave behind for future delivery, things to go into suitcases right now for Hilo and then (my favorite) the pile of things she cannot keep and which just might fit me. We have the same sized feet and she left many shoes, she likes hers prettier than I do, mine are practical Converse Hightops, low heeled boots and my son's huge slippers.
And a huge bag or two of clothing for me to go through someday soon. Fun...leftovers go to the donation dumpster just up the road from here.
Otherwise, I am making Inupiat Joseph, Mary, Shepherd and Angel. The Shepherd shall be a dog wrangler, as there are few sheep herders in Alaska and Artic Canada, no? Heheheheh. I'll have dogs trying to grab a seal being pulled into the scene by Joseph while the Shepherd wrangles them over to their stakes and chains in the snow. I'm making this scene very lively.
My Joseph is in his parka and he has a spear under his elbows the spear resting lengthwise across his waist, two packs on his back, one of cut up walrus meat, and then a rope with a seal attached and being pulled. He has his snowshoes and small seat attached to his outfit and a gun case, too. That's it for today. I'm working much too slowly. So much research into new Indian groups that I know nothing about. I've consulted Inuit friends today and hope for some answers before going on with the scene and making idiotic mistakes.
posted by
benzinha
on September 15, 2005 at 11:14 PM
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You wouldn'treally want anybody to eat that soup
would you? Funny thing about location movies in the southwest. They have been doing them forever. My dentist is from Gallup NM and was telling me about a movie that filmed up there when he was in highschool. Seems Robert Taylor was in the movie and Doc met him at the local diner eating pie and a glass of milk. (I was getting a filling and was a captive audience...I also thought it was interesting) Take care.
posted by
Whacky
on September 15, 2005 at 9:28 PM
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Turn the crockpot to HIGH!
Or the "crock" in crockpot will mean the urn you're in.
That was sort of alliaterative wasn't it?
Give 'em a shot of the artist at the wheel hard at work, in rouge, mascara, jewelry and a long-sleeved Navajo top! They'll never know the difference...
posted by
majroj
on September 15, 2005 at 4:46 PM
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Oh dear about the soup. Sounds like life is very lively for you right now.
posted by
telynor
on September 15, 2005 at 2:33 PM
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