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Skriven 2007-07-30 21:33:19 av Josh Hill (2741.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: Reports from Comic-Con
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On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:59:48 GMT, Amy Guskin <aisling@fjordstone.com>
wrote:

>>> On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:21:24 -0400, Josh Hill wrote
>(in article <duhsa398mbcf6e8nqfgrvgg2n30djqvdg0@4ax.com>):
>
>> On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:00:02 -0400, "Mac Breck"
>> <macthevorlon@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> "Amy Guskin" <aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote in message
>>> news:0001HW.C2D3B51800DAE79FF0182648@news.verizon.net...
>> 
>>>> I've got a house that's falling apart around my ears.
>>> 
>>> Same here.  ;-)
>> 
>> Your house is falling apart around Amy's ears? My house isn't falling
>> apart around Amy's ears -- it's falling apart around mine.<<
>
>Bwah!  Nice one, Josh.  Actually, I should say that the house itself isn't in 
>bad shape -- most of the things that need doing are outside (sidewalk and 
>driveway issues, some problematic landscaping and drainage stuff, we need to 
>replace the pool pump...).  But still, it's one big money pit, even the 
>little things add up...

>One interesting thing is that they're filming a major, major feature film in 
>our neighborhood -- on my very own block, in fact -- starting in October, and 
>there's a chance they'll need a swimming pool for a scene.  The film's time 
>period is early 70s, and we're the only pool in the neighborhood that's 
>'original recipe' -- it was built in the late 60s, and is concrete, plus it's 
>that very dated sort of Moroccan window shape.  Everybody else here has a 
>modern or upgraded pool, fiberglass liner variety.  So if they _do_ decide to 
>film in our backyard, that'll mean some $$$, which I'm ready to sink back 
>into the house via some repairs.  And there's always the chance that they'll 
>paint the back of the house if they're filming in our yard (they're going to 
>be making a lot of changes to the houses where they're already sure that 
>they're filming)...which is like getting a free repair.  So, everyone cross 
>fingers for me that the location manager falls in love with our vintage pool 
>and raves to the designer about it!  :-)

Hey, cool. Ask them if they'll leave the dead body floating face-down,
streaming blood. Or the sharks, if it's a Bond flick.

What I'm thinking is that maybe it would be a good idea to have them
shoot a feature here. I'd be open to something appropriate --
Nosferatu's lair, say, or a nuclear holocaust flick, or the house in a
zombie movie the day after the zombies attack. On the other hand,
perhaps it would make more sense to do something that would call for
repairs and, ah, modifications. I mean, they could do something set
in, oh, say, a 2000-acre ducal estate. Thwackbodget, call it. The
great house at Thwackbodget has 200 rooms, so the new wing would only
need 188, and the ballroom could do double duty as the chapel if you
redressed it. Then all you'd have to do is knock down a few hundred
houses to make the park. And set out man traps.

-- 
Josh

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