Have you been in a movie?

[rabid_nerd]

I figured we've asked what position people play in the party or if there are any elected officials here many times..

Let's see if we have any movie stars...

I've only been on National TV, after I drank a beer and flubbed a question about Al Gore. They asked me if I thought he could win with a beard and I answered, "Sure, we all need a beer"

I heard it made MSNBC and FNC.. Sigh.. (Feb. 02)

[Don_G]

1. Me???

I'd crack the camera lens....

[eyesroll]

2. No movies, but I did get to say

"Let's have a good laugh for this cartoon" on the Bozo Show (WGN) when I was 8.

[Interrobang]

3. No, but an acquaintance of mine wrote me into one...

...or at least what she *thinks* I'm like, based on our correspondence. I'm told that the character was much louder, brasher, and better-looking than I am in real life. The acquaintance? Megan Ward. She really *does* make movies...

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

4. Yes as an extra

on several movies

[GOPisEvil]

5. Why am I not shocked?

:-)

[CanuckAmok]

21. I was an extra in Cronenberg's "The Dead Zone".

I got fired for getting Martin Sheen's autograph! I still have it--it's on a prop brochure from his "presidential" campaign.

Sooo worth it.

[SiobhanClancy]

6. Yes...

under my stage name of Bambi"Bubbles"O'Brien:)

[zizzer]

7. Forest Gump

I was an extra for all the hippy seens in DC.

$150 for three days work ... ha ...work my ass! We sat around for three days and ate donuts.

You can't see me. Oh well.

Zizzer

[markbark]

13. A Fellwo hippy

I was there too... I can be seen in the extreme left of frame near the stage in the speech scene.... and in the background during the night scenes near the White House.


My 15 minutes is over :)



--MAB

[mitchum]

20. a friend (and former employer) was "the fat man on the bench"

[SaveElmer]

8. Extra in "Gettysburg"

Back in my Civil War Reenacting days. It was pretty damn boring most of the time, but it was interesting seeing how things worked. Unfortunately I didn't get to meet Martin Sheen, but did meet Tom Berenger.

[Astarho]

24. So was a friend of mine

He was also in Gettysburg and met Martin Sheen. A good friend in HS, he wore a "Killer Angels" shirt around a lot afterwards. Wasn't that going to be the original title of the movie?

I myself never really made much more then "bystander" on the local news.

[Ivory_Tower]

9. No, but my dad was (sorta)

He was an extra in the Woody Harrelson film "Kingpin" (he dressed as a farmer at a bowling alley for one of the scenes), but I rented the movie and didn't see him, so I suspect he ended up on the cutting room floor.

But he *did* teach Woody how to pick up a fake "7-10 split" (an old trick my dad used to do for us when we were kids).

[matcom]

10. Yes

was in a production of "Maggie Girl of the Streets" when i was a kid. played her brother who got beat on by his poor, destitute parents.

Based on the novel by someone(?)

was shown in high schools and colleges.

got PAID too! :P

[Lydia Leftcoast]

17. ..the novel by someone(?)

Stephen Crane

[Harrumph]

11. Funny you should ask.....

I just got back from a 2 week location shoot. Glad to be back home in good ol' Mexico and playing catch-up on DU.

[soleft]

12. I'm in 4 movies you've never seen

Blond Fury
Chicken of the Sea
Bloodscape
and Fear Anxiety and Depression, which you may have seen if you're a fan of Todd Solondz, but i'm just an extra.

[Rick Myers]

14. In Mall Rats

Myself and two friends are shoppers walking away from the camera, so you see our butts!

[KamaAina]

15. Sure have. It's a documentary. I was interviewed in it.

It's called "George", and it's about the life of the director's son, whose name escapes my memory for the moment... oh right, it's the same as Bush*'s. :-)

It aired on HBO a few years ago. George himself, who has autism, did some camera work on it. He was doing jerky, out-of-frame stuff a year or two before "The Blair Witch Project"!

If any of you saw it, or can find it to rent, see if you can guess which one is me...

[TrogL]

16. Enough home movies to shake a stick at

I grew up near a tourist area.

Japanese tourists will shoot movies of literally anything.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

18. No, but people I knew

were extras in The Heartbreak Kid and the first Airport, both of which were filmed in the Twin Cities in the 1970s.

I auditioned to be an extra in a film in Portland, and I even got a call to report, but they cancelled the offer when they found out I didn't have a car. They were worried about whether I would be able to make it to a 7:00AM call without a car.

I tried to convince them that since the shoot was on one of the busiest and most dependable bus lines in Portland, I would be less likely to be late than someone who had to drive in from the burbs, but I guess they were out-of-towners and didn't understand. :-(

[mitchum]

19. Several industrial safety films...very easy $$$ (doesn't even require...

the "acting" chops of porn)
And I just found out last week that an upcoming performance of mine will be filmed (along w/an interview) for a documentary about the current Athens music scene.

[Wickerman]

22. I used to be a trainer in training movies

part of the job. Beat traveling everywhere to train folks - do it by video.

[regnaD kciN]

23. Yes

I had a brief speaking role in Miracle, the first film I directed, and which was shown on Continental Cablevision of New Hampshire in the spring of 1974.

[disgruntella]

25. two scenes in a movie shot in my town

Speaking part too! (pats self on back)

I don't know if it'll ever come out. I guess it's still in production.

[greekspeak]

26. Funny you ask! I have not been but my residence has

A film was shot in my home town, and the apartment building in which I lived at the time was in it. The back porch of my very apartment is apparently the front porch of an apartment in the movie.

[battleknight24]

27. No... but if you watch "Dazed and Confused"...

... and at some point in the movie you see a little statue of a hand... that belongs to a friend of mine...


BTW... in the movie "Desperado," the Mexican guy with no front teeth is from San Diego, Texas... he is a friend of my sisters ex-boyfriend...

[RebelOne]

28. No, but my car has

Mean Streets made in Miami in the '80s.

[baldguy]

29. I was in a commercial.

At least my ass & legs were. I worked at a liquor store and my employer got it made for cable tv. I was in the background as a "customer".

[NashVegas]

30. As an Extra

In this indie vampire flick:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/630484820X/imdb-adbox/104-8851583-7662319

[Lady President]

31. No, but my clothes have

Steven King's "Dark Half" college scenes were filmed at my school. I was rejected as an extra because I at the time I had very long, very blond hair which is a no-no in movies. Apparently, blonds and redheads don't blend into the scenery well enough. :( But, half my wardrobe was in the movie. Several of my friends were extras and everyone borrowed my clothes because I own tons of stuff that is brown, green, or orange. So, if you ever want to be an extra wear fall colored clothes, but don't have the coloring of people who normally wear it. It was fun to watch the filming at our little school though.

[Cheswick2.0]

32. That Championship Season

I was an extra at the political rally, so was my son who was in a stroller then.
When I was in the nearby museum theater why I worked at the time, these bratty teenage boys were running around. I heard they were the sons of one of the actors, Martin Sheen.

[CanuckAmok]

33. Our old loft was used in Schwarzennegger's "Sixth Day"

It was the apartment where his friend the technogeek kept his "virtual girlfriend".

Yes, we met Aaahnold!

[Generic Other]

34. My father was in the first movie ever made in Alaska

The Cheechakas. 1924. He was in the Army at the time. The made him carry a barberchair over the Chilkoot Pass recreating the famous Yukon Goldrush. The movie has just been released in DVD. Dad was 17 at the time (and smoking!).